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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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American Spectator, Hinterland Gazette and Liberaland
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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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Outside the Beltway, Gawker, Gothamist and Althouse


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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Scared Monkeys and Hit & Run


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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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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos


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


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.


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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The Huffington Post, Informed Comment and Mediaite


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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The PJ Tatler and Weekly Standard


Ukraine rabbi calls anti-Semitic leaflet a political hoax — Chief rabbi of Donetsk says while anti-Semitic leaflet was initially shocking, he now believes it was fake. — DONETSK/ KIEV - A Ukrainian rabbi whose congregation was the target of an anti-Semitic leaflet that drew global media interest …
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CANNONFIRE, Mediaite and Israel Matzav


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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The College Fix, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, Liberaland and Mediaite

Warren repeats she's ‘not running for president’ — (CNN) - Days before the release of her new book, Sen. Elizabeth Warren reiterated that she's not angling for a White House bid. — “I'm not running for president,” the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's “Sunday Morning.”
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CBS News and Outside the Beltway