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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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Politico, Gawker, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Daily Kos, 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 — On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a piece by two academics arguing that women would be safer from sexual assaults if they themselves were married or had married fathers. — The Post originally published the piece in its …
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Washington Post and The Huffington Post
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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Kuranga, Liberaland, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Hullabaloo, Althouse, 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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The Daily Signal and Diane Ravitch's blog
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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The Democratic Daily, 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, The Daily Banter, Mashable, Liberaland, KFOR-TV, The Raw Story, The Reaction and No More Mister Nice 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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Full, Washington Post, Shakesville, Outside the Beltway, Mashable, Booman Tribune and National Review
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Wall Street Journal:
Militants Overrun Iraq's Second-Largest City As Government Forces Flee
Militants Overrun Iraq's Second-Largest City As Government Forces Flee
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CNN, Pat Dollard, White House Dossier and National Review
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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Power Line, his vorpal sword and The Huffington Post
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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
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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Washington Monthly
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Attack Palin ‘For Being A Woman’ — Hillary Clinton elaborated today on why she rebuffed the Obama campaign's request that she attack Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential race to blunt Palin's appeal to women. — Clinton made her comments in an exclusive interview …
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ABC News and Talking Points Memo
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Eun Kyung Kim / Today:
Hillary Clinton: I refused to ‘attack’ Palin for ‘being a woman’
Hillary Clinton: I refused to ‘attack’ Palin for ‘being a woman’
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The Moderate Voice and The Daily Caller
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Cochran goes on offensive, calls McDaniel “an extremist,” “dangerous” — After months of milquetoast statements and letting surrogates do any campaign trash talking, incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran went on the offensive in Hattiesburg on Tuesday, calling his opponent Chris McDaniel …
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National Review, Hot Air, RedState, The Week and Talking Points Memo
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
In Mississippi, Senate hopeful Chris McDaniel embodies what the GOP fears about the tea party
In Mississippi, Senate hopeful Chris McDaniel embodies what the GOP fears about the tea party
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Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
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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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 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
The Official White House Tumblr:
The President is answering your questions tomorrow, and it will be awesome. Tune in Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET on whitehouse.tumblr.com. — You know, if you're hip to all these things.
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BuzzFeed, Guardian and Washington Post
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
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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
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
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
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Time Inc. Has a Big Problem—So Does Digital Journalism — Time Inc., the mother of newsmagazines, was born in 1922. She survived wars and recessions, grew up to be fabulously rich by mid-century, married the media giant Warner Communications, entered the golden years as one of the largest media companies …
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Poynter, The Dish, Re/code, Nieman Journalism Lab and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »