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Los Angeles Times:
Isla Vista shooting: Read Elliot Rodger's elaborate attack plan — Elliot Rodger, the suspect in a rampage near UC Santa Barbara, outlined his intentions in a 137-page document that he sent Friday night, shortly before the killings, to someone he knew from an online body building forum.
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Amanda Hess / Slate:
The Pick-Up Artist Community's Predictable, Horrible Response to a Mass Murder — On Friday night, a gunman killed six people in Santa Barbara, and the killer himself was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head. Soon after police began investigating the crime, 22-year-old student Elliot Rodger emerged as the main suspect.
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ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog and Business Insider
New York Times:
California Gun Rampage Tied to Video Leaves Seven Dead — ISLA VISTA, Calif. — Seven people were killed, including the gunman, and seven others injured on Friday night after a bloody drive-by shooting on the crowded streets of a small college town near Santa Barbara, as a man the police described …
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Daily Kos:
Elliot Rodger, Gunman in California Mass Shooting, was influenced by the “Men's Rights Movement” — Trigger Warning: Violence against Women — Last Night in Santa Barbara California, a Gunman in a BMW opened fire on students near the UC Santa Barbara campus in Isla Vista.
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
UCSB Shooter Elliot Rodger Posted Racist Messages on ‘Puahate’ Website — Most of Elliot Rodger's final YouTube videos centered on his frustration over an inability to meet girls that found him attractive. The 22-year-old student who allegedly committed a drive-by shooting spree near UC …
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Los Angeles Times:
Isla Vista shooting suspect targeted sorority, neighbors, strangers
Isla Vista shooting suspect targeted sorority, neighbors, strangers
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Power Line, NY Daily News, USA Today, The Moderate Voice, The Truth About Guns, American Power and Guardian
Associated Press:
DIRECTOR SAYS SON RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING RAMPAGE
DIRECTOR SAYS SON RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING RAMPAGE
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The Raw Story, The Other McCain, KEYT-TV, ThinkProgress and The Week
USA Today:
Police identify Calif. shooting suspect as Elliot Rodger
Police identify Calif. shooting suspect as Elliot Rodger
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The Week, Clayton Cramer and Yahoo! News
Cynthia Johnston / Reuters:
Gunman kills six in drive-by shooting in California college town
Gunman kills six in drive-by shooting in California college town
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Shooter kills at least six people in rampage near UC Santa Barbara
Shooter kills at least six people in rampage near UC Santa Barbara
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Business Insider, American Power, BarbWire.com, Gawker, Scared Monkeys, NPR and No More Mister Nice Blog
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Final Word on U.S. Law Isn't: Supreme Court Keeps Editing — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice. The revisions include “truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning …
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Althouse, Vox Popoli and Washington Post
Jon Prior / Politico:
Blumenthal revisits gun control — Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Sunday he would urge Senate leaders to reconsider tougher gun control and mental health measures in the wake of this weekend's deadly shootings near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Huntsman: ‘Symbolic’ charges no deterrent — Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman on Sunday said charging members of the Chinese military with stealing U.S. trade secrets would likely not deter future online espionage. — Huntsman, a former GOP presidential candidate and Utah governor …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Democrats Privately Calling Obama ‘Detached,’ ‘Flat Footed,’ ‘Incompetent’ — CNN's John King reports that Democrats are privately calling President Obama “detached,” “flat footed,” and “incompetent.” — “Forget for a moment that Republican outrage,” said King on his CNN show this morning.
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American Thinker, Ed Driscoll and Washington Free Beacon
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Five Stories You'll Care About in Politics This Week — We were just about to place some bets on politics when Republicans decided to pull their chips back from Vegas. Mitch McConnell loves the women in his life, except of course for Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat he will now face …
Medium:
Everything Is Broken — Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network.
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Washington Monthly and PandoDaily
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor — HOUSTON — The kitchen of the detention center here was bustling as a dozen immigrants boiled beans and grilled hot dogs, preparing lunch for about 900 other detainees. Elsewhere, guards stood sentry and managers took head counts …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jessica Wehrman / The Columbus Dispatch:
Privatizing VA still appeals to Boehner — WASHINGTON — More than two decades ago, House Speaker John Boehner said, he floated an idea that was controversial: Why not privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs? — The idea was soundly rejected by veterans' organizations.
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