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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Dinesh D'Souza Is Charged With Using Straw Donors — Dinesh D'Souza, a best-selling conservative author and filmmaker, was indicted on Thursday on charges that he used straw donors to illegally donate to a 2012 Senate campaign. — Mr. D'Souza is an outspoken political commentator who directed …
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The United States Department of Justice:
Former College President Indicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Campaign Finance Fraud — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Is the prosecution of Dinesh d'Souza politically motivated?
Is the prosecution of Dinesh d'Souza politically motivated?
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Conservative Author Dinesh D'Souza Charged With Campaign Finance Fraud
Conservative Author Dinesh D'Souza Charged With Campaign Finance Fraud
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susiemadrak.com, Hinterland Gazette and Balloon Juice
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Dinesh D'Souza Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud
Dinesh D'Souza Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
'2016: Obama's America' Filmmaker Indicted for Violating Campaign Finance Laws
'2016: Obama's America' Filmmaker Indicted for Violating Campaign Finance Laws
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dinesh D'Souza indicted for campaign finance fraud
Dinesh D'Souza indicted for campaign finance fraud
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Dinesh D'Souza indicted for violating U.S. election law
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Planet Hillary — Hillary Clinton was nodding solemnly to the mother of a 9/11 victim when Huma Abedin, standing across the room, called out, “Let's load!” to the staff members and bodyguards. The former secretary of state had yet to pick up her award from the Voices of September 11th …
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Arem Duplessis / The 6th Floor:
How Our Hillary Clinton Cover Came About
How Our Hillary Clinton Cover Came About
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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Boehner on ‘Tonight Show’: Shutdown was a ‘predictable disaster’ — House Speaker John A. Boehner speaks with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.” (Paul Drinkwater / NBC / January 23, 2014) — House Speaker John A. Boehner called last fall's government shutdown a “very predictable disaster” …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
John Boehner: Sometimes I'm ‘Gestapo’ — House Speaker John Boehner says in his job, he has to be many things, from a father figure to the Gestapo. — “People think, all right, you're the speaker, you're the leader,” Boehner told Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” on Thursday night.
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Boehner likes Bush for 2016 but not endorsing
Boehner likes Bush for 2016 but not endorsing
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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Mike Huckabee Raises Specter of Holocaust In Warning Tea Party To Back Off Purity Tests — WASHINGTON — Whether or not Mike Huckabee is at all serious when he says he's thinking about another presidential run in 2016, what he says still matters to the conservative evangelical wing of the Republican party.
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Cotton outraises Pryor in Ark. …
Cotton outraises Pryor in Ark. …
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The Arkansas Project, National Review and Hot Air
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee: Gov't Shouldn't Help Women Who Can't Control Libidos
Huckabee: Gov't Shouldn't Help Women Who Can't Control Libidos
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
NBC, CNN Reporters Pounce on Huckabee's ‘Libido’ Comments; Forced to Issue Corrections
NBC, CNN Reporters Pounce on Huckabee's ‘Libido’ Comments; Forced to Issue Corrections
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American Power, Hot Air and Weekly Standard
Jonathan Dienst / nbcnewyork.com:
Exclusive: Federal Probe into New Jersey Sen. Menendez Is Widening — The Justice Department is investigating Menendez's efforts on behalf of two businessmen from Ecuador — The federal criminal investigation into New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is broader than previously known, NBC 4 New York has learned.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Populist Imperative — “The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.” — John Maynard Keynes wrote that in 1936, but it applies to our own time, too.
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Jenny Hope / Daily Mail:
Too old to be given cancer treatment: NHS is ‘writing off’ patients who are over 75 — Young lung cancer sufferers are only 10 per cent more likely to die within five years than their continental counterparts — Pensioners with cancer are being written off as too old to treat, campaigners said yesterday.
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Yahoo! News:
Watch what happens when Obama picks a top donor as ambassador — This is why a future president might finally do away with the practice of nominating a top political donor to be an ambassador. — Here's how the White House described wealthy executive George Tsunis when President Barack Obama nominated …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
RNC moves toward 2016 changes despite conservative outrage — A Republican National Committee meeting to compress the 2016 primary schedule grew heated Thursday, as supporters of rule changes beat back repeated attempts by a handful of conservative activists to torpedo them.
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Kolten Parker / Houston Chronicle:
Gov. Rick Perry for decriminalization of pot — SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Rick Perry signaled Thursday that he's for the decriminalization of marijuana use — not legalization, but the softening of punishment for pot users in the border state. — “As governor, I have begun to implement policies …
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Hannity for public office? — Sean Hannity's threat this week to bolt New York is sparking speculation he will someday run for office. — A source who was on Hannity's Fox News show last fall told The Hill the conservative commentator mentioned the possibility — off camera — of running in Florida.
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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Bolton 2016? There May Be Opportunity for Hawk in GOP Debate — A strange thing happened Tuesday night at a Los Angeles dinner packed with well-heeled businesspeople and Republican donors. — A conservative, best known for his hawkish views on foreign policy, got a rousing ovation when he said he was …
Gallup:
Record Low Say Own Representative Deserves Re-Election — Less than a fifth of registered voters say most in Congress deserve re-election — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The enduring unpopularity of Congress appears to have seeped into the nation's 435 congressional districts …
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