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EXCLUSIVE: Politicians at cockfighting rally caught on video — LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - It's part of Kentucky's landscape, even when it's not readily visible. This part is hidden in a Henry County valley behind the trees by Lake Jericho. — It features sprawling farms that raise chickens, but not the kind you eat.
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Talking Points Memo, Courier-Journal, ABC News, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Mitch McConnell: Matt Bevin lied on cockfighting — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused his primary challenger Friday of lying about his participation at a cockfighting rally, citing a local news report that shows Bevin being asked directly about cockfighting.
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Conservative Intelligence …


Hannity Disgusted With Bundy: Race Comments ‘Beyond Repugnant’ — Conservative media titan Sean Hannity, formerly one of Nevada rancher Clive Bundy's strongest advocates, expressed his vehement disgust Thursday with the latter's remarks on slavery — Bundy's comments “are beyond repugnant to me.
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Rancher defends comments
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, New Day, Sky Dancing, TruthRevolt.org and New York Times

Prior to slavery comments, Bundy said minority groups are ‘against us’
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The Week, The Daily Caller, News Desk, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, The Other McCain, Hot Air and ThinkProgress

Fox News Host Sean Hannity Calls Cliven Bundy's Remarks ‘Racist’ And ‘Beyond Repugnant’
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, TruthRevolt.org, Patterico's Pontifications, Mediaite, The Week and NewsBusters

Bundy Has A Surprisingly Nice Take On Undocumented Immigrants
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Hot Air, The Right Scoop, CNN and New York Magazine

Al Gore is not giving up — A rare, frank conversation with the former vice president and climate-change activist. — Al Gore is richer and skinnier than ever, 14 years out of the White House, a tech titan with elder statesman clout, whose disdain for politics in the capital where he lived …
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TruthRevolt.org and Taylor Marsh


Boehner mocks colleagues on Congress over immigration reform — House Speaker John Boehner theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday before the Middletown Rotary Club. — CONNECT


Emails show Emanuel aides, producers coordinated CNN ‘Chicagoland’ scenes — If it seemed as though some scenes of CNN's documentary series “Chicagoland” were coordinated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Hall and the show's producers, that's because they were.

The Piketty Panic — “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon. Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty's contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren't.
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CalWatchDog, Capitol Report, Prairie Weather, CNN, TheBlaze.com and This Is Brad DeLong's …

Why Elizabeth Warren should run for president — BARACK OBAMA JOE BIDEN HILLARY CLINTON 2016 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS ELIZABETH WARREN — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is starting a publicity tour for her new campaign-style book, A Fighting Chance. As she talks to the press …


American Empires: The Bushes and the Clintons — Washington (CNN) — Two families, two political parties — one family business. — It's hard to understate the depth of the Bush-Clinton impact on American politics. Think of it this way: For 32 years, there was either a Bush or a Clinton in the White House or the Cabinet.
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OnPolitics
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FLOTUS gets résumé from girl with jobless dad — Michelle Obama's annual question-and-answer session with the children of Executive Office employees took a serious turn Thursday when a 10-year-old girl in the front row told the first lady that her dad had been out of work for three years.
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Mediaite
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Michelle Obama scraps graduation speech
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Scared Monkeys, BizPac Review and National Review


What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking About Race — Deep inside the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision lies a fight about how we speak about race in America. — Is it OK if we talk about race for a minute? — The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this week in Schuette v. Coalition …
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Althouse, SCOTUSblog, The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and BizPac Review


Rand Paul and Wealthy Libertarians Connect as He Weighs Running — Frayda Levin, a New Jersey libertarian activist and former small-business owner, is a woman of many passions: promoting liberty, ending marijuana prohibition and opposing her state's recent minimum-wage increase.
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National Review and In-A-Gist


Holder cancels appearance in OKC amid angry protests — Attorney General Eric Holder canceled his appearance before the Oklahoma City Police Department's graduating cadet class Thursday amid angry protests over his scheduled visit. — Mr. Holder was scheduled to deliver remarks …
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Fox News, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller and American Spectator

Lindsey Graham foe: Children-loving women cause divorces — Det Bowers, a pastor challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, once blamed women for causing most divorces — even when husbands are unfaithful to their wives. — During a sermon on the Book of Peter delivered …
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The Raw Story


Millionaire Tech CEO filmed hitting and kicking his girlfriend 117 times in brutal 30-minute attack sentenced to just 25 hours community service — A multi-millionaire tech-entrepreneur, who was once named one of America's ‘most eligible bachelors’, has avoided jail time despite allegedly beating …
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NewsBusters, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review and The Huffington Post

Obama administration prepares to take over Oregon's broken health insurance exchange — The Obama administration is poised to take over Oregon's broken insurance exchange, according to officials familiar with the decision, who say that it reflects federal officials' conclusion …
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bizjournals, Firedoglake, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, Mediaite and The Week
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Cover Oregon health insurance exchange recommendation: move to federal exchange
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The Heritage Foundation and Talking Points Memo


Dorm storming at NYU targets Jewish students (Updates) — “Dorm Storming” is a tactic used by anti-Israel activists at many campuses to slide mock eviction notices under student bedroom doors in the middle of the night, allegedly to let students know how Palestinians feel when served …
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TruthRevolt.org and The Jawa Report
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NYU Jewish Students the Target of Latest SJP Propaganda Attacks
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The Other McCain, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs and National Review