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Washington Post:
One way to end violence against women? Married dads. — The data show that #yesallwomen would be safer with fewer boyfriends around their kids. — The dramatic social media response to the UC-Santa Barbara shooting, captured by the hashtag #YesAllWomen, underlined an important and unpleasant truth …
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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Gawker, Booman Tribune, Shakesville and Poynter
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo Editorial Page Goes Neanderthal For Second Time In A Week
WaPo Editorial Page Goes Neanderthal For Second Time In A Week
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The Huffington Post
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ABC News's Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi — A standard defense for Hillary Rodham Clinton when facing questions about Benghazi, Libya, has been to cite her commissioning of a report from the State Department's Accountability Review Board (ARB) …
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his vorpal sword, Power Line and The Huffington Post
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Aide: Clintons ‘Have a Life and a Set of Expectations that Are Different’ from Middle Class
Aide: Clintons ‘Have a Life and a Set of Expectations that Are Different’ from Middle Class
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, National Review and Ed Driscoll
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Attack Palin ‘For Being A Woman’
Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Attack Palin ‘For Being A Woman’
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ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Chris Good / ABC News:
The Hillary Clinton Interview: 21 Revealing Quotes
The Hillary Clinton Interview: 21 Revealing Quotes
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ABC News, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, CNN and The Lead with Jake Tapper
KOIN-TV:
Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School — TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A gunman and one Reynolds High School student are confirmed dead following a Tuesday morning shooting inside the Troutdale school. — Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson said during a noon update …
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Pat Dollard, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Raw Story
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CNN:
Student, suspect killed at Oregon school — (CNN) — When the shooting started at her high school near Portland, Oregon, early Tuesday, student Jaimie Infante didn't recognize the sound of the gunshot. — She thought maybe somebody had dropped a book. — In reality, a lone gunman …
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New York Magazine, Liberaland, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Reaction, KFOR-TV, The Raw Story, The Daily Banter and Mashable
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
California Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional — LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that teacher tenure laws deprive students of their constitutional right to an education, a decision that hands teachers' unions a major defeat in a landmark case …
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Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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Stephanie Simon / Politico:
Huge loss for teachers unions in California case — A court ruling on Tuesday striking down job protections for teachers in California is a big blow to unions — and will likely fuel political movements across the nation to eliminate teacher tenure. — Los Angeles Superior Court Judge …
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Diane Ravitch's blog
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
One Of The World's Scariest Terrorist Groups Now Controls Major City In Iraq — ISIS fighters in Fallujah, the first city the group captured — A terrorist group that al Qaeda has deemed too radical and unpredictable now controls the second largest city in Iraq as of Tuesday …
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New York Times, BBC, Full, Washington Post, Shakesville, Outside the Beltway, Mashable, Booman Tribune and National Review
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CBS News:
How do Americans view the Bergdahl swap? — Shares - — Just over a week after U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed by the Taliban, a CBS News Poll shows 45% of Americans disapprove of the deal that saw him released in exchange for five Taliban militants, while 37% approve of it.
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Why Is the American Far Right More Violent Than the American Far Left? — Between September 11, 2001 and March 2014, right-wing extremists killed 34 people in America. If you count the three Jewish community members Frazier Glenn Cross killed in Kansas City before screaming “Heil Hitler” …
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CNN and Washington Monthly
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
How The Worst Political State In The Country Ruined The Republican Party's Best Hope — Nikki Haley was once seen as the GOP's brightest rising star — then she got sucked into her home state's notorious political cesspool. Can she escape before 2016? — Chris Ritter
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Washington Monthly
Michael Scherer / TIME:
Hillary Clinton Avoids Hard Choices in Hard Choices — It reads like—and is—a political campaign book — The first thing to get out of the way is this: Hillary Clinton is running for President in 2016, even if she says on Page 595 of her new book, Hard Choices, “I haven't decided yet.”
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OnPolitics
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Book Signing Has Air of a Campaign Event
Hillary Clinton's Book Signing Has Air of a Campaign Event
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Weekly Standard and Mediaite
Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy — BRUNSWICK, Me. — For 40 years, evangelicals at Bowdoin College have gathered periodically to study the Bible together, to pray and to worship. They are a tiny minority on the liberal arts college campus, but they have been a part …
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Hit & Run, The Reality-Based Community, National Association … and Independent Journal Review
Politico:
New poll gives McDaniel 6-point lead in runoff — Rangel touts Bill Clinton endorsement on new mailer — Ernst up 5 in post-primary Vox Populi poll — Graham debates GOP challengers in S.C. — With help from Elizabeth Titus, Alex Isenstadt, James Hohmann and Tarini Parti
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Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
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Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham's Tea Party Teflon
Lindsey Graham's Tea Party Teflon
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Talking Points Memo
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner Won't Call Las Vegas Shootings ‘Domestic Terrorism’ — Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was asked Tuesday if he considers the Las Vegas shootings on Sunday to be “an act of domestic terrorism.” — “I — I'm not sure how I'd describe it,” he responded to reporters in the Capitol.
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Mediaite and Liberaland
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Kelly Riddell / Washington Times:
Vegas rampage underscores the rise of violent radicals; cop killings up 53%
Vegas rampage underscores the rise of violent radicals; cop killings up 53%
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Crime and Consequences Blog and Vox Popoli
Washington Monthly:
The Big Lobotomy — Last September, as they scrambled to decide on one final ultimatum before shutting down the federal government, Republican House leaders came up with what seemed like an odd demand: to strip their own staff of health care benefits. — At the time, staffers reacted …
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Booman Tribune
David Sirota / PandoDaily:
Gore at Southland: Snowden revealed far bigger violations than the one he committed — One of the most often-asked - and polled - questions in the whole debate about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is about his status. Is he a traitor or a hero? In the era of mass surveillance …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Mediaite
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Bannock Street Meets Peachtree Street — There's been a lot written this year about the Georgia Senate race, and about the DSCC's “Bannock Street Project” aimed at mitigating the “midterm falloff” problem among the young and minority voters Democrat need to win in highly competitive races.
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Guardian and Booman Tribune
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Latest Tea Party Piñata — About three weeks ago, Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Republican from Texas who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, gave a speech to the Heritage Foundation. Hensarling is a Tea Party favorite. His core view is that better government …
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National Review and The Mahablog