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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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American Spectator, Hinterland Gazette and Liberaland
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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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Outside the Beltway, Gawker, Gothamist and Althouse
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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Scared Monkeys and Hit & Run
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos
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
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.
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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The Huffington Post, Informed Comment and Mediaite
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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The PJ Tatler and Weekly Standard
Reuters:
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
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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The College Fix, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, Liberaland and Mediaite
Ashley Killough / CNN:
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