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Man Allegedly Shoots And Kills 15-Year-Old Girl For Egging A Car — Adrian Broadway. — CREDIT: Fox 16 — An Arkansas man faces a murder charge for allegedly gunning down a car filled with teenagers who had wanted to play a prank on his son. One of the passengers, 15-year-old Adrian Broadway …
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Liberaland and Little Rock News
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Arkansas man guns down 15-year-old girl for egging son's car as a prank — An Arkansas man is facing first degree murder charges after he allegedly shot a 15-year-old girl to death over the weekend because she was participating in a prank on his 16-year-old son.
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ArkansasMatters.com, Hullabaloo and Hinterland Gazette

In first, Minnesota poll finds Obama unpopular — Half of the residents of Minnesota now disapprove of President Obama's performance, according to a new poll. — Results of The Star Tribune survey represent the first time that his approval rating has turned negative in the state since the president took office in 2009.
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The Moderate Voice, CNN, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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Obama: Signing Up for Obamacare Is ‘Just Part of Growing Up’
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Hot Air

GOP slams stimulus on fifth anniversary — Washington (CNN) - Five years after the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into law, the measure, which is better known as the Stimulus or Recovery Act, was roundly criticized once again by Republicans.
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Daily Kos
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5 Years After Stimulus, Obama Says It Worked
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USA Today, White House.gov Blog, ThinkProgress and OnPolitics


Bill Nye Scolds GOP Congresswoman on Global Warming — “We need you to change things, not deny what's happening,” he told Representative Marsha Blackburn on Meet the Press — Bill Nye “The Science Guy” told Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee to stop questioning …
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New ‘climate change’ tack: It's the economy, stupid
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Questions and Observations


President's Day: University textbook claims Reagan was sexist, conservatives view people as incapable of ‘charity,’ ‘lazy’ — Mandated reading claims wealthy people “find that having a social class of poor people is useful,” it “allows them to look down on classes below them.”
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Independent Journal Review, BizPac Review and The PJ Tatler


Abba admit outrageous outfits were worn to avoid tax — New book reveals band's style was influenced by Swedish laws that allowed cost of outfits to be deducted against tax — The glittering hotpants, sequined jumpsuits and platform heels that Abba wore at the peak of their fame were designed …
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Scared Monkeys and Althouse

Why Lewinsky Shouldn't Be a GOP Talking Point — Clinton-bashing makes the Republican Party look desperate and out of control. — Bill Clinton uses a car-racing metaphor to explain the difference between rash and calm decision-making in politics. “The great drivers, when the cars get close …
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Hot Air, The Week, The Moderate Voice, NBC News and Talking Points Memo

LIU ANNOUNCES 2013 GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM — Winners include four reporters who broke the story on secret NSA surveillance. — Brooklyn, N.Y. - Four reporters who revealed the extent of secret surveillance and massive data collected by the National Security Agency are winners …
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Riptide 2.0, Politico, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Poynter and Mashable
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Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian receive George Polk Awards
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Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh, Liberaland and Prairie Weather, more at Mediagazer »


EXCLUSIVE: National clown shortage may be approaching, trade organizations fear — As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to Brooklyn Thursday, membership at the country's largest clown organizations has plunged over the past decade amid declining interest, old age and higher standards for the jokesters.
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Power Line, Liberaland and Gothamist


Dems' new 2014 plan: Neutralize Obamacare — Democrats know their biggest problem in this year's midterm election is Obamacare. So top party operatives have settled on a strategy to try blunting the GOP's advantage: Tell voters Republicans would make the problem worse …
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, RedState, Firedoglake, americanthinker.com and New York Times

Microaggression Mania: McGill U. student leader apologizes for .gif of Obama kicking open door — “Microagression” is the latest craze in racial grievance, something we highlighted when a UCLA professor was accused of the transgression for correcting grammar on minority students' papers.
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The Daily Caller, protein wisdom, BizPac Review, Althouse and Mediaite


Failing Liberals Turn To Oppression To Hold On To Power — If you're a conservative, you don't need to silence the opposition. — In fact, we conservatives want liberals to talk, to make buffoons of themselves, to prove their folly. We want liberals to expound upon their ridiculous ideas …
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Ed Driscoll


Common Core Curriculum Now Has Critics on the Left — The Common Core has been applauded by education leaders and promoted by the Obama administration as a way to replace a hodgepodge of state standards with one set of rigorous learning goals. Though 45 states and the District of Columbia …
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Capitol Confidential, The Hugh Hewitt Show and VodkaPundit


Ken Buck, the presumed front-runner for the GOP Senate nomination in Colorado, is fighting back against the “war on women” narrative that helped doom his Senate campaign in 2010. And the opening salvo in the battle to reclaim his name is coming in the form of a two-minute video entitled, Stephanie's Story.
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Talking Points Memo


Miami Artist Destroyed $1M Ai Weiwei Vase Because PAMM “Only Displays International Artists” — Yesterday, art lovers around the world were shocked when someone strolled into the Pérez Art Museum Miami and destroyed a $1 million vase by Ai Weiwei. — Well, the story gets even more shocking.
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Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story


Trump fires top advisor & political consultant Sam Nunberg — Donald Trump couldn't pass up the opportunity to say, “You're fired” to an underling — even when the man offered to resign. — Furious over a snarky Buzzfeed article about his political aspirations, the developer took a page …
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Liberaland, The PJ Tatler, TheBlaze.com and The Daily Caller


Groupon gaffe: Alexander Hamilton was president — The folks at Groupon might be in need of a history lesson this Presidents Day. — In a news release promoting a holiday special, the discount gift certificate business referred to Alexander Hamilton as “undeniably one of our greatest presidents …
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Mashable