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Yitz Jordan / Quartz:
Mozilla only made things worse by letting CEO Brandon Eich go — This has been a rough week for the open web. — Last week, Mozilla Corporation, makers of the ever-popular Firefox web browser, appointed co-founder Brendan Eich to CEO. The move was not surprising—Eich, after all …
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Maher: “There Is A Gay Mafia — If You Cross Them, You Do Get Whacked” — In the online-only “Overtime” portion of his HBO show Real Time, host Bill Maher weighed in on the Mozilla controversy, and did not react in a way that you would think. Maher seemed to disagree with gay rights activists …
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24Ahead, Mediaite, Althouse and JustOneMinute
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Why Mozilla's Chief Had to Resign — What conclusions should we draw about Silicon Valley from what happened at Mozilla? — Two weeks ago, Brendan Eich was appointed as chief executive of the open-source software company that makes the Firefox Web browser, among other products.
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Currency, Hot Air, NewsBusters, The Raw Story, National Review, Bloomberg View and Fox News
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Brendan Eich And Hillary Clinton
Brendan Eich And Hillary Clinton
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Weasel Zippers and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide — A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA. — CIA spokesman Christopher White confirmed the death and said the incident …
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Jose A. Rodriguez Jr / Washington Post:
I ran the CIA interrogation program. No matter what the Senate report says, I know it worked.
I ran the CIA interrogation program. No matter what the Senate report says, I know it worked.
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Booman Tribune
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Is Obamacare too big to fail? — Enrollment success ends debate on repeal but opens it on fixes. — President Barack Obama is accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden as he delivers a statement on the Affordable Care Act at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.
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New York Times:
To Strike at Kochs, Democrats Revive Tactic That Hurt Romney — WASHINGTON — After months of wincing in the face of negative ads funded by the industrialists David and Charles Koch, Democrats believe they have finally found a way to fight back: attacking the brothers' sprawling business conglomerate …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Greediest family on earth: Proof Koch brothers have just one political principle
Greediest family on earth: Proof Koch brothers have just one political principle
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PoliticusUSA, Americans Against the … and The Huffington Post
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Report: Rep. Nick Rahall considered retirement — Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) was talked out of retiring by Democratic leadership who promised him more campaign funds, according to a report. — Rahall “was about to retire a couple of weeks ago,” CNN's John King said Sunday morning on “Inside Politics.”
Wall Street Journal:
Oppressed by the Ivy League — What Dartmouth's president should have told bullying students. — Academia has been obsessed over identity politics for two generations, so there's some justice in the newest addition to the matrix of oppression: an Ivy League education …
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National Review, American Power and Dartblog
Jenna Portnoy / New Jersey Online:
Rendell: Chris Christie ‘not a factor’ in 2016 presidential race — TRENTON — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is dismissing Gov. Chris Christie as a non-factor in the presidential race because of the controversial closing of lanes to the George Washington Bridge. He named Jeb Bush as his favorite GOP contender.
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The Moderate Voice, The Reaction, ABC News and Booman Tribune
Reggie Aqui / KGW-TV:
Westmoreland grocer wants to clear up gay rights controversy — PORTLAND — A new Westmoreland grocery isn't even open yet and already its owner has created a controversy with statements she made online. But the owner told KGW Thursday she wants to make amends.
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Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Report: Chinese ship hears pulse signal in south Indian Ocean — (CNN) — A Chinese patrol ship searching for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean discovered Saturday the pulse signal used by so-called black boxes, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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Mediaite, Gawker, Scared Monkeys and Liberaland
Glenn Hubbard / Wall Street Journal:
The Unemployment Puzzle: Where Have All the Workers Gone? — The U.S. unemployment rate is down, but rising numbers of Americans have dropped out of the labor force entirely — A big puzzle looms over the U.S. economy: Friday's jobs report tells us that the unemployment rate has fallen …
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Marginal REVOLUTION and News Desk