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Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky Writes About Her Affair with President Clinton — Monica Lewinsky writes in Vanity Fair for the first time about her affair with President Clinton: “It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” She also says: “I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair: Time to burn beret — Monica Lewinsky is taking to the pages of Vanity Fair to address her affair with former President Bill Clinton, writing that she avoided the spotlight for fear of becoming an issue during Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Hillary Clinton pushes gun control, Obamacare
Hillary Clinton pushes gun control, Obamacare
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican senators turning against their own in 2016 — Fearful of a third successive Democratic triumph, concerned Senate Republicans are turning against 2016 presidential bids by upstart hopefuls within their own ranks. — In forceful comments to The Hill, GOP senators made it plain …
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Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, The Moderate Voice and Prairie Weather
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Jeb Bush edges up, Hillary Clinton slightly slides, in CNN 2016 poll
Jeb Bush edges up, Hillary Clinton slightly slides, in CNN 2016 poll
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Washington Post, Bloomberg View, Politico and Shakesville
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Rand Paul Wants Hillary Clinton Subpoenaed By Benghazi Committee (VIDEO)
Rand Paul Wants Hillary Clinton Subpoenaed By Benghazi Committee (VIDEO)
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Just 7 percent of journalists are Republicans. That's far fewer than even a decade ago. — A majority of American journalists identify themselves as political independents although among those who choose a side Democrats outnumber Republicans four to one, according to a new study …
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The Gateway Pundit, Instapundit, Mediaite and National Review
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
House candidate: I'd ‘rather see’ terror attack than TSA screening — A candidate for Congress in Georgia said earlier this year that he'd rather see another terrorist attack on the United States than have Transportation Security Agency screenings at airports.
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Cornelius Swart / KGW-TV:
Gov. Kitzhaber helps save woman's life — PORTLAND — Oregon's governor performed CPR on an unconscious woman in downtown Portland Monday, providing her medical assistance and helping to keep her alive until paramedics could arrive. — Gov. John Kitzhaber was traveling by car through downtown Portland …
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Gov. John Kitzhaber / Oregonian:
Gov. John Kitzhaber performs CPR on woman lying unconscious on Portland street — Gov. John Kitzhaber performed emergency first aid on an unconscious woman in downtown Portland on Friday. (Jonathon J. Cooper/AP) — Gov. John Kitzhaber may have helped save a woman's life Monday …
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Melissa Pamer / KTLA 5:
Rialto Assignment Asking Students to Question Holocaust to Be Revised — The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Supreme Court gives its blessing for prayer at town meetings. Get ready for a lot more Jesus in your life. — The most important turn in Monday's Supreme Court ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway—a case that probes the constitutionality of explicitly religious prayer in legislative sessions …
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
With the Supreme Court's Help, Religion Creeps Toward the State
With the Supreme Court's Help, Religion Creeps Toward the State
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Religion Dispatches, ACS Blog, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Hot Air and New York Times
Juan Williams / The Hill:
House GOP walking into a trap — What happens to the House Republican caucus if Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) forces a vote on immigration reform? — Here are three predictions: — 1. The bill passes. An overwhelming majority of Republicans vote for it.
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
The Tea Party, Revisited
The Tea Party, Revisited
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Washington Monthly, Fox News, Weekly Standard, Instapundit and Politico
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Wide Impact of Climate Change Already Seen in U.S., Study Says — The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
White House Hopes Report Will Change GOP Minds On Climate Change
White House Hopes Report Will Change GOP Minds On Climate Change
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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
D.C. Council to vote on broad new tax on insurance to cover city's health care exchange — The District's health exchange has a problem — a big money problem. — Like the 14 states that started online marketplaces, the District faces a year-end deadline to prove its Web site …
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Mortality Drop Seen to Follow '06 Health Law
Mortality Drop Seen to Follow '06 Health Law
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
John Kerry: I'll comply with House GOP's Benghazi request — Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday indicated he would comply with a House GOP subpoena to testify about Benghazi and other questions from the new select committee appointed by House Speaker John Boehner.
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CNN, Mediaite and The Hugh Hewitt Show
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
How the White House helped Republicans on Benghazi
How the White House helped Republicans on Benghazi
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No More Mister Nice Blog and ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress:
Senate Candidate Belittles His Opponent As Just A Young Woman Who Has No Life Experience — Matt Bevin campaigning in Lexington. — CREDIT: Scott Keyes — MADISONVILLE, Kentucky — Senate candidate Matt Bevin doesn't think much of his potential Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Anti-Anal Sex Lawmaker Steve Hickey Makes His Crudest Analogy Yet (VIDEO) — To say that Steve Hickey is repulsed by anal sex is to say that South Dakota winters are a bit cold. — But the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based pastor and member of the state's House of Representatives managed to outdo himself on Monday …
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Happy Huckabee Gets Mad — In 2007, Mike Huckabee stood impassively on a Republican presidential debate stage while Mitt Romney tried to embarrass him. A program that Huckabee had instituted in Arkansas gave undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children the right …
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Washington Monthly and Yahoo! News
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
So Many Jihadists Are Flocking to Libya, It's Becoming ‘Scumbag Woodstock’ — Leaders from at least three of al Qaeda's most virulent affiliates are now in Libya. What are they planning there? — In the nearly 20 months since the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks …
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The PJ Tatler, Washington Post, Yahoo! News and Hit & Run
David Remnick / News Desk:
Putin's Four Dirty Words — No wonder so many cultural conservatives, from Pat Buchanan to the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, adore Vladimir Putin: he projects bare-chested swagger, and he is also developing a form of Russian cultural conservatism intended as a rejection of Western permissiveness.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host Wants TV Meteorologists To Ask Obama About Benghazi Today (VIDEO) — What does the weather have to do with Benghazi? — Dana Perino, co-host of Fox News' “The Five,” challenged meteorologists on Monday to ask Obama the tough questions on the 2012 attacks in Libya.
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Paul Roderick Gregory / Forbes:
Putin's ‘Human Rights Council’ Accidentally Posts Real Crimean Election Results — The website of the “President of Russia's Council on Civil Society and Human Rights” posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to the Council's report …
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Washington Post, Business Insider, RedState, Little Green Footballs and The PJ Tatler