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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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ThinkProgress:
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” …
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Patent & Trademark Office cancels several Washington Redskins trademarks
Patent & Trademark Office cancels several Washington Redskins trademarks
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Patterico's Pontifications and The Daily Signal
Ken Belson / New York Times:
U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration
U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration
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The Daily Caller and Liberaland
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Hillary Clinton cannot let you hold a viewpoint about guns that is terrorizing the vast majority of Americans. — At yesterday's CNN Town Hall with Hillary Clinton, a Maryland teacher named Gail Santa Maria expressed concern about school shootings and asked whether “reinstating the ban …
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Power Line and Rush Limbaugh
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Gets Friendly With ‘Squirrel’ The RNC Sent To Stalk Her (VIDEO) — Hillary Clinton on Tuesday gave a signed copy of her new memoir “Hard Choices” to a Republican National Committee intern in a squirrel costume who's been following her book tour.
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Is Hillary Clinton Imploding?
Is Hillary Clinton Imploding?
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon and Yahoo! News
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Hillary Clinton Says Opponents Of Gun Control Laws ‘Terrorize’ Americans
Hillary Clinton Says Opponents Of Gun Control Laws ‘Terrorize’ Americans
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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Avik Roy / Forbes:
3,137-County Analysis: Obamacare Increased 2014 Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 49% — There are hundreds of aspects of Obamacare that people argue over. But there's one question that matters above all others: does the Affordable Care Act live up to its name? Does it make health insurance less expensive?
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Hot Air, ACASignups.net and Washington Post
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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.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The IRS scandal shows the IRS needs a bigger budget — Over a year after a scandal involving IRS investigations into the tax status of conservative political non-profits, Congressional conservatives are still outraged. On Tuesday June 17, Dave Camp (R-Michigan) — who chairs the House Ways …
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Weekly Standard, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Salon
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
House budget punishes IRS with 15% cut, halts Obamacare enforcement
House budget punishes IRS with 15% cut, halts Obamacare enforcement
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Weasel Zippers and RedState
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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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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FrontBurner and Fox News
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Feminazism After All — I always thought Rush Limbaugh was a little over the top with his designation of feminists as “Feminazis,” but being over the top is his job, after all. It appears he was also prescient. — Right now the most formidable critic of contemporary radical feminism is Christina Hoff Sommers.
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protein wisdom
Matthew Watkins / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas County commissioners unwittingly back slavery reparations — John Wiley Price's Price's resolution went beyond taking note of Juneteenth; it included a long list of injustices endured by blacks, from slavery to Jim Crow to predatory lending practices.
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Talking Points Memo, ABC News, The Raw Story and Associated Press
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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Politico, Guardian, ThinkProgress, The Right Scoop, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Power Line, Salon and Little Green Footballs
ThinkProgress:
People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ — It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends. To many, it seems like a joke. But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.
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Los Angeles Times and The Week
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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The Dish
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BLM Secession — Fresh on the heels of the shooting of a BLM agent near the California/Nevada border by a “sovereign citizen” far right activist, Carbon County, Utah, has, I guess you'd call it, seceded from the BLM. — By a unanimous vote, the County no longer recognizes the BLM's authority …
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