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Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
U.S. patent office cancels Redskins trademark registration, says name is disparaging — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the Washington Redskins trademark registration, calling the football team's name “disparaging to Native Americans.”
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In Landmark Decision, U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name is “disparaging to Native Americans” …
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Patent & Trademark Office cancels several Washington Redskins trademarks
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
US Patent Office ruling cancels ‘disparaging’ Redskins trademark
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Wall Street Journal:
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine — Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. — As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few …
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James Fallows / Reuters:
The Graciousness and Dignity of Richard B. Cheney — “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.” — A few hours ago I said (sincerely) that a number of prominent officials who had set the stage for today's disaster in Iraq deserved respect …
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Halimah Abdullah / CNN:
Cheney rips Obama over foreign policy in op-ed
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Wall Street Journal:
Poll Shows Erosion in President's Support — As clouds gather abroad, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Mr. Obama's job approval rating at 41%, matching a previous low.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ Poll: Obama's Foreign Policy Rating Plummets, Even Without Iraq — And respondents are evenly divided if the details of Bergdahl's disappearance from his base in Afghanistan matter in the U.S. decision to secure his release: 47 percent say the details matter, while 46 percent say they don't.
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Karl Rove: Bill Clinton revealed Hillary Clinton's health — Karl Rove is continuing to raise questions about Hillary Clinton's health and says Bill Clinton is the one who revealed new details about the extent of her lengthy recovery. — “She has a problem with the fact …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Is Hillary Clinton Imploding? — Last week was a very, very bad week for Hillary Clinton. — By just about every account, her book is uninteresting and unreflective, a carefully contrived piece of positioning. Yet instead of owning that, she insisted at an event that she was “done with being really careful about what to say.”
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Hillary Clinton cannot let you hold a viewpoint about guns that is terrorizing the vast majority of Americans.
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
America Divided Over Hillary Clinton Presidency, NBC/WSJ Poll Finds
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Politico's reporting disaster — Politico's media blogger, Dylan Byers, regularly supplies his readers with tidbits on comings and goings in the news business, but this week he provided an additional service: a lesson in the limitations of armchair journalism.
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare subsidies push cost of health law above projections — The large subsidies for health insurance that helped fuel the successful drive to sign up some 8 million Americans for coverage under the Affordable Care Act may push the cost of the law considerably above current projections, a new federal report indicates.
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Federal insurance exchange subsidies cut premiums by average of 76%, HHS reports
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Max Fisher / Vox:
Israel's occupation of the West Bank is indefensible — JERUSALEM — There is a pleasant fiction in the United States and parts of Israel that the Israel-Palestine conflict exists in a sort of suspended animation, on pause and simply awaiting diplomatic resolution.
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Adam Mann / Wired:
What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse — I grew up in Los Angeles, the city by the freeway by the sea. And if there's one thing I've known ever since I could sit up in my car seat, it's that you should expect to run into traffic at any point of the day.
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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Iraqi premier Maliki gaining strength as Shiites rally behind him — BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is tightening his hold on power in response to the catastrophe unfolding in Iraq, even as his critics blame his policies for causing the mayhem that is tearing the country apart.
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BREITBART.COM:
TED CRUZ RESISTS CALLS TO CRITICIZE REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES — Tuesday after CNN's town hall presentation with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “OutFront” host Erin Burnett had Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on to offer his reaction. — After talking briefly about the former secretary …
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Robert A. Moffitt / New York Times:
Cutting the Poor Out of Welfare — Over the past three decades, Congress has conducted a major experiment in anti-poverty policy. Legislators have restructured benefits and tax breaks intended for the poor so that they penalize unmarried, unemployed parents — the modern day version of the “undeserving poor.”
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Jindal moves against Common Core — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal issued executive orders Wednesday to withdraw the state from the Common Core standards and federally subsidized standardized tests, defying his state legislature, his superintendent of education and the business community …
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