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Washington Post:
Rep. Michael Grimm, facing federal charges, surrenders to FBI — NEW YORK — Rep. Michael G. Grimm (R-N.Y.) surrendered Monday morning to federal authorities in New York as he faces multiple charges connected to a restaurant business he operated before entering Congress in 2011 …
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New York Times, Hot Air, WNYC News and NPR
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Reuters:
New York Rep. Grimm arrested, facing federal charges
New York Rep. Grimm arrested, facing federal charges
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Hinterland Gazette and The Right Scoop
Jonathan Dienst / nbcnewyork.com:
Rep. Michael Grimm Expected to Surrender to FBI on Monday: Sources
Rep. Michael Grimm Expected to Surrender to FBI on Monday: Sources
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Talking Points Memo, Gothamist, Staten Island Advance, Liberaland and Mediaite
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
No, Sarah Palin, Baptism Isn't A Good Punchline For A Terrorist Joke — Sarah Palin gave a speech to members of the National Rifle Association, gathered in Indianapolis this weekend. She said something that struck me as sacrilegious. I've long defended Palin against the offensive treatment she's received …
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Mediaite, The Raw Story and Joe For America
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Palin: ‘Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists’ (VIDEO) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) says she wouldn't be afraid to torture terrorists if she were president. — “C'mon! Enemies who would utterly annihilate America, they would obviously have information on plots. They carry out jihad.
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The Daily Banter, Balloon Juice, The Dish, The Huffington Post and CBS News
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin soldiers on as a diminished figure in the Republican Party
Sarah Palin soldiers on as a diminished figure in the Republican Party
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PoliticusUSA and Taylor Marsh
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Palin at NRA meeting: ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists’
Palin at NRA meeting: ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists’
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The Raw Story, The Moderate Voice, CNN, BobCesca.com, The Reality-Based Community, Joe. My. God. and Washington Monthly
WATE-TV:
Sheriff's office fires deputy in Ft. Sanders party incident — KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The Knox County Sheriff's Office says they have fired the deputy involved in Saturday night's block party in Fort Sanders. — Frank Phillips, 47, has been with the Knox County Sheriff's Office since 1992.
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The Raw Story
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Alex Greig / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Shocking moment a Tennessee police officer choked an unresisting college student until he fell UNCONSCIOUS — Deputies were called to a University of Tennessee student party that spilled out onto a residential street — A photographer on the scene took a series of photos …
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The Daily Caller
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State’ — The secretary of state said that if Israel doesn't make peace soon, it could become ‘an apartheid state,’ like the old South Africa. Jewish leaders are fuming over the comparison. — If there's no two-state solution …
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ThinkProgress, “The Lid”, Guardian, Weekly Standard, J Street, Hot Air, CBS DC, Betsy's Page, Informed Comment, The PJ Tatler, The Lonely Conservative, The Week and American Spectator
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Donald Sterling and the Neverending Fantasy of ‘Democrat’ Racism — Oh, how eager the conservative press is to call Donald Sterling a Democrat! It's all part of their larger fantasy narrative about conservatism and race. — My Twitter feed yesterday was full of clucking conservatives challenging …
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Althouse, Politico, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and NewsBusters
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Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:
Exclusive: The Extended Donald Sterling Tape
Exclusive: The Extended Donald Sterling Tape
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TMZ.com, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CBS Los Angeles, New York Times, Solomon Jones, The New Republic, The Point Forward, American Power, The Moderate Voice, HardballTalk, CBSSports.com, Politico, Here & Now, Talking Points Memo, Feministing, NY Daily News, ThinkProgress, Hinterland Gazette, Sportsnet.ca, ESPN, Mediaite, Liberaland, PoliticusUSA, Guardian, Forbes, Mercury News, ABC News, Crooks and Liars, Heat Check and Bloomberg View
CNN:
Obama responds to alleged racist comments by Clippers' Don Sterling
Obama responds to alleged racist comments by Clippers' Don Sterling
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Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Times, CBSSports.com Sports News … and BobCesca.com
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama: Alleged Sterling comments ‘incredibly offensive’
Obama: Alleged Sterling comments ‘incredibly offensive’
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Power Line, thenation.com/blogs/163256, AMERICAblog News, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, CBS DC, The Raw Story and Deadspin
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
High Plains Moochers — It is, in a way, too bad that Cliven Bundy — the rancher who became a right-wing hero after refusing to pay fees for grazing his animals on federal land, and bringing in armed men to support his defiance — has turned out to be a crude racist. Why?
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Heartland Institute Edits George Carlin's Words For Cheap Facebook Hits — The billionaire funded think tank's stunt proves it's less interested in scholarship than it is in scoring points. — [Caution: It's George Carlin, and NSFW] — Did the idiots running social media …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP has a demographic problem, and it looks like it could get even worse — It's no secret that Republicans have a demographic problem when it comes to national elections. But what many people don't realize is that the GOP's issues will be worse in 2020 than in 2016 — unless things change dramatically.
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Prairie Weather
Fox News:
Straight talk about gay Republican Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio — FILE — August 19, 2013: Carl DeMaio, an ex-city councilman who lost the San Diego mayoral race to Bob Filner in 2012, speaks in support of the recall effort against the embattled mayor at City Hall in San Diego, California.Reuters
Examiner:
Women-only self-defense classes are challenged as discriminatory against men — Five government-sponsored self-defense classes to be held in the San Fernando Valley next month are being challenged as discriminatory to men and boys. — The women-only classes are advertised as free …
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The Gateway Pundit and Patterico's Pontifications
Los Angeles Times:
Toyota to move jobs and marketing headquarters from Torrance to Texas — Toyota's move to suburban Dallas would put management of Toyota's U.S. business close to where it builds most cars for the American market. — About 5,300 people work at Toyota's North American sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance.
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Business Insider and protein wisdom
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bill Clinton to head CAP fundraiser — Former President Bill Clinton is set to headline next month's annual Center for American Progress fundraiser, putting him in front of a key group of Democratic constituencies and officials as the party heads into the midterms.
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Poll Shows Problems for Obama, Peril for Senate Democrats — President Obama's approval rating remains ominously weak among the constituencies that could tip the battle for control of the Senate in November, the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll has found.
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Hot Air and Real Clear Politics
Politico:
Wall Street Republicans' dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016 — NEW YORK — The biggest parlor game on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms these days is guessing whether former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president and save the GOP's old establishment base from its rising populist wing.
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Liberaland, Capitol Report and The Week
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan's Inner City Education — The men begin filing into the Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis around 5:30 a.m. They are ex-convicts and reformed drug dealers, recovering addicts and at-risk youth: a proud brotherhood of the city's undesirables.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show