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Los Angeles Times:
Mark Cuban discusses his own prejudices in startling terms — It turns out, regarding race-related views among NBA owners, Donald Sterling may have company. — Less than a month after Sterling rocked the sports world with racist remarks, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has openly acknowledged his own prejudices.
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Ramona Shelburne / ESPN:
Shelly Sterling to negotiate sale — Disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to allow his wife, Shelly, to negotiate a forced sale of the team, sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. — Shelly Sterling and her lawyers have been negotiating with the NBA since …
Donald Sterling / TMZ.com:
SURRENDERS CONTROL OF CLIPPERS — ... to Shelly — Donald Sterling is no longer the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Clippers ... TMZ Sports has learned he just surrendered control to his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, and she is now secretly negotiating with the NBA to sell the team ... ON HER TERMS.
Mark Cuban / USA Today:
'I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways'
'I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways'
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama's early VA response: Executive inaction — President Barack Obama wants to talk about flexing his administrative and executive power to do more. Instead, he got stuck talking about a clear administrative and executive failure that, at least so far, he hasn't done much about.
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Hot Air, Towleroad News #gay and The Hill
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems close ranks on VA — Senate Democrats are closing ranks behind Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and President Obama's decision to keep him in the cabinet despite Republican calls for his ouster. — As of Thursday afternoon, not a single Democratic senator had called for Shinseki's resignation.
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Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
J.D. Gordon / Fox News:
Al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo treated better than our vets
Al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo treated better than our vets
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No More Mister Nice Blog and BizPac Review
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: Obama will act on immigration if GOP doesn't
Schumer: Obama will act on immigration if GOP doesn't
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Instapundit, CBS News, The Moderate Voice and Politico
Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
Shinseki pledges to fix VA's problems
Shinseki pledges to fix VA's problems
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The Heritage Foundation, National Review and Hot Air
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Obama slams ‘false equivalence’ media — At a fundraiser last night, President Obama unleashed a surprisingly spirited and comprehensive attack on both-sides-to-blame media coverage. While he has taken issue with Beltway coverage before, what was particularly noteworthy …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
How right-wingers are amping up their war on science — From climate change to reproduction, Republicans are increasingly deciding “science” is whatever they say it is — No longer content just to claim to be “skeptical” of scientific findings they find disagreeable …
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National Review
Rasmussen Reports:
Georgia Senate: Nunn (D) Holds Slight Edge Over GOP Finalists — Georgia Republicans won't have a specific nominee for a couple more months, but the final two contenders are running slightly behind Democrat Michelle Nunn in Rasmussen Reports' first look at the U.S. Senate race in Georgia.
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Outside the Beltway, Political Insider blog and Taegan Goddard's …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough: I've Never Heard Anyone Object To Obamacare Over Race (VIDEO) — Joe Scarborough said Friday that he doesn't understand what evidence Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has to back up his claim that opposition to President Barack Obama's signature health care law is driven by his race.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Not long ago, the left raved about the VA.
Not long ago, the left raved about the VA.
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John Fund / National Review:
The Hard Sell on Climate Change — Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, was very forthright about his media priorities at a Society of Professional Journalists dinner in New York City on Monday. — He told Bill Carter of the New York Times: “Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about.
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
A Response to Michael Kinsley — In 2006, Charlie Savage won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles in The Boston Globe exposing the Bush administration's use of “signing statements” as a means of ignoring the law. In response to those revelations, Michael Kinsley …
detroitnews.com:
Michigan SOS: Conyers will remain off Aug. 5 ballot — Conyers (Elizabeth Conley / The Detroit News) — U.S. Rep. John Conyers will remain off the Aug. 5 ballot after Secretary of State Ruth Johnson decided Friday that the Detroit Democrat still lacks enough valid signatures to participate in the primary election.
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Washington Post
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Did a Pennsylvania Republican Lose Because He's Openly Gay? — Mike Fleck ran unopposed three times, but appears to have been beaten by a write-in candidate after coming out in 2012. — Pennsylvania may have become the 19th state to allow same-sex couples to marry Tuesday but did it also vote …
Ed Payne / CNN:
Tennessee brings back electric chair — Editor's note: CNN's original series “Death Row Stories” explores America's capital punishment system at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sundays, beginning July 13. Join the conversation about the death penalty at facebook.com/cnn or Twitter @CNNorigSeries using #DeathRowStories.
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Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
Gov. Haslam signs bill to allow electric chair in Tennessee
Gov. Haslam signs bill to allow electric chair in Tennessee
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Washington Post
David H. Autor / sciencemag.org:
Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent” — The singular focus of public debate on the “top 1 percent” of households overlooks the component of earnings inequality that is arguably most consequential for the “other 99 percent” of citizens …
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Peter Dizikes / MIT News Office:
Q&A: David Autor on inequality among the “99 percent”
Q&A: David Autor on inequality among the “99 percent”
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Washington Post
Noemie Emery / Weekly Standard:
They Had a Dream — Rule by experts comes a cropper — They had a dream. For almost a hundred years now, the famed academic-artistic-and-punditry industrial complex has dreamed of a government run by their kind of people (i.e., nature's noblemen), whose intelligence, wit, and refined sensibilities would bring us a heaven on earth.
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neo-neocon, The Other McCain and Roger L. Simon
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
The One Thing Each Party Needs to Overcome by 2016 — So far, neither side has made much progress toward solving its lingering challenge. — Each party emerged from the 2012 presidential election facing one key electoral challenge before the next contest in 2016.
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Booman Tribune
Richard Rubin / Bloomberg:
IRS Will Revise Proposal on Political Nonprofit Groups — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said today that it will revise proposed rules governing nonprofit groups' involvement in politics. — The rules, released last year, were an attempt to provide guidance for how much political …
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Sara Carter / TheBlaze.com:
$1 Million Bounty to Be Offered for ‘Smoking Gun’ in IRS Targeting Scandal
$1 Million Bounty to Be Offered for ‘Smoking Gun’ in IRS Targeting Scandal
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Progressives Today and Right Wing News