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Associated Press:
Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter dies at 76 — TORONTO — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice, died Sunday at 76. — John Artis, a longtime friend and caregiver, told The Canadian Press that Carter died in his sleep Sunday.
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Selwyn Raab / New York Times:
Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, Boxer Whose Murder Convictions Were Overturned, Dies at 76 — Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, a fearsome prizefighter, became an international cause célèbre while he was imprisoned for 19 years on flawed charges of murder. He was 76. — Taking On Adam Smith (and Karl Marx)
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CNN:
Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, boxer wrongly convicted of murder, dies — (CNN) — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the middleweight boxing contender who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder, has died in Toronto, according to Win Wahrer, the director of client services …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Taking On Adam Smith (and Karl Marx) — PARIS — Thomas Piketty turned 18 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, so he was spared the tortured, decades-long French intellectual debate about the virtues and vices of communism. Even more telling, he remembers, was a trip he took with a close friend …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Marx Rises Again — IN the season of resurrection, it's fitting that he's with us once again — bearded, prophetic, moralistic, promising to exalt the humble and cast down the mighty from their thrones. — Yes, that's right: Karl Marx is back from the dead.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Roberts Challenges Ralph Reed on Same-Sex Adoption: You'd Rather Leave Kids in Orphanages? — A comment by Reverend Franklin Graham, in which he alleged gay parents are “recruiting” when they adopt children and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was right to prohibit same-sex adoption …
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Joe. My. God. and Back2Stonewall
ThinkProgress:
New York Times' David Brooks Says Obama Has ‘A Manhood Problem In The Middle East’ — New York Times columnist David Brooks on Sunday claimed that President Obama's foreign policy isn't “tough” and that he has a “manhood problem” in the Middle East. — Pivoting off Sen. Bob Corker's …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer — Billionaire hedge fund operator and “green” energy magnate Tom Steyer has pledged $100 million in the 2014 election cycle to help Democratic candidates who oppose the Keystone pipeline and who favor “green” energy over fossil fuels.
Tom Phillips / Telegraph:
China on course to become 'world's most Christian nation' within 15 years — The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America — It is said to be China's biggest church and on Easter Sunday thousands of worshippers …
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Caleb Howe / The Right Scoop:
This Clip Of Chris Hayes Vs. Bundy Supporter Assemblywoman Michele Fiore Is Awesome — Last night, Chris Hayes face off against Assemblywoman Michele Fiore over the ongoing saga of the Bundy Ranch. Fiore reminds us why we love TV. — Fiore for the win!
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Ashley Fantz / CNN:
A new way for the KKK? — Roots of the Ku Klux Klan — (CNN) — Pointy hats, white robes, crosses burning, bodies hanging from trees. — The images of the Ku Klux Klan are reminders of the nation's ugliest moments from the Civil War through the struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.
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Bfearnowcbs / CBS DC:
Scalia To Student: If Taxes Go Too High ‘Perhaps You Should Revolt’ — Knoxville, Tenn. (CBS DC) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a crowd of law school students that if taxes in the U.S. become too high then people “should revolt.” — Speaking at the University of Tennessee College …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats seek to reshape midterm electorate along lines of a presidential year — Democrats have a problem and everyone knows it. President Obama calls it a “congenital disease.” If they can't control it, Obama could spend the final years of his presidency battling not only a Republican House but also a Republican Senate.
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