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Matthew DeFour / host.madison.com:
On Politics: Brett Hulsey plans to hand out KKK hoods at Republican convention — Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, said Thursday he plans to hand out Ku Klux Klan hoods at the state Republican convention this weekend. — Hulsey, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate whose bizarre antics …
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Wisconsin's GOP Secession Panic — Wisconsin Republicans are set to vote on a measure this weekend that would affirm the state's right to secede from the union. Goodbye, U.S. of A., Hello U.S. of Cheese. — Fear not, America. There will be no import taxes on Leinenkugel.
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Nina Teicholz / Wall Street Journal:
Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you? The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade — “Saturated fat does not cause heart disease”—or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be?
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Power Line
Dave Bartkowiak Jr. / WDIV-TV:
Wayne County Clerk: John Conyers not qualified for Aug. 5 ballot — Congressman may have filed insufficient number of valid signatures to qualify for ballot … DETROIT - — Veteran U.S. Congressman John Conyers does not have enough signatures to get on the Aug. 5 primary ballot, according to Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner to appoint select committee on Benghazi attack — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday he would appoint a select House committee to expand the Republican investigation into the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. — Boehner had resisted a push …
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Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
The appalling Obama foreign policy team: The case of Tommy Vietor
The appalling Obama foreign policy team: The case of Tommy Vietor
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Power Line, Ed Driscoll, The Heritage Foundation and Washington Free Beacon
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Benghazi Lies — In response to a Freedom of Information Act …
Benghazi Lies — In response to a Freedom of Information Act …
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Mediaite and American Power
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Heritage urges ‘no’ vote on energy efficiency bill — The conservative group Heritage Action is urging lawmakers to vote “no” on the energy efficiency bill set to hit the Senate floor next week. — Heritage charges that the bill, which promotes energy saving in industrial and commercial buildings …
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Hullabaloo
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
V. Stiviano: Donald Sterling Is Not a Racist, Should Apologize for Remarks … Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's confidante V. Stiviano today told ABC's Barbara Walters that she thinks the embattled NBA basketball owner should apologize for his racist remarks. — “Yes.
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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Man Who Set A Trap To Kill 17-Year-Old Intruder Invokes Stand Your Ground-Like Defense — Seventeen-year-old Diren Dede lost his life Sunday, while in Missoula, Montana on a high school exchange program from Germany. He was shot dead at the home of Markus Kaarma, after Kaarma set a trap …
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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Democratic Group to Return Donations — MIAMI — The Democratic National Committee, faced with the possibility that it had accepted illegal campaign contributions from straw donors, decided Thursday to return sizable donations made last fall in the names of the children of a Florida cardiologist …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Inequality Has Been Going On Forever . . . But That Doesn't Mean It's Inevitable — We have been living with rising income inequality for so long — in good times and bad, under Republican presidents and Democratic ones — that it has come to seem inevitable.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A journalist writes an advice column for Mrs. Clinton. — Tina Brown doesn't think Hillary Clinton should run for president. In a column for the Daily Beast, the website's founder and former editor lays out her rationale. — Does Brown disagree with Mrs. Clinton on matters of policy or doubt she would be a good president?
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Sky Dancing, Althouse, Mediaite, Washington Post and The Daily Beast
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Damn Right I Taped Kerry's ‘Apartheid’ Talk — And if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it in the exact same way. — Ten years ago, when I was a rookie reporter for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, I looked up to Joseph Nye as a sacred figure, the preeminent American expert on Japan.
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