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In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth — Never mind that it's 92 degrees and nearing the end of the day: Jenny Beth Martin has started jogging between houses. — “I've gotta get my steps,” she calls back to the rented Suburban with the Florida license plates …
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COCHRAN CAMPAIGN STAFFER ARRESTED FOR STEALING CAMPAIGN SIGNS
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Talking Points Memo and RedState

Conservatives Plan to Use Poll Watchers in Mississippi
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Talking Points Memo, BREITBART.COM, Daily Kos, The Week, Slate, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Political Insider blog and Gawker

McDaniel Campaign Attacks Sen. Cochran's Daughter With '#Who'sYaDaddy' Meme
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BuzzFeed, Senator Chris McDaniel, Liberaland and Washington Post

Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel Make Closing Arguments
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RedState

Supreme Court: EPA can regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with some limits — The Supreme Court on Monday mostly validated the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, while imposing some limits on the agency's reach.
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BarbWire.com
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Justices, With Limits, Let E.P.A. Curb Power-Plant Gases
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ThinkProgress and The Verge

God Save the United States From This Anti-Democratic Court
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Booman Tribune and Althouse

Supreme Court Hampers EPA on Greenhouse Gases But It Could Have Been Worse
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Daily Kos and Lawyers, Guns & Money


Chelsea Clinton interview: ‘I will always work harder than anyone’ — It was almost inevitable that Bill and Hillary's daughter would join the Clinton machine - try as she might to resist. But can she ever emerge from their shadows? — Once upon a time, Chelsea Clinton was a little girl from Arkansas.
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Gawker and Mediaite
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Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn't
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Politico, National Review, Rush Limbaugh and Hot Air


Inside the vast liberal conspiracy — Picture this: millionaires and billionaires gathering under tight security in fancy hotels with powerful politicians and operatives to plot how their network of secret-money groups can engineer a permanent realignment of American politics. — Only, it's not the Koch brothers.
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Fox News, Hot Air, Daily Kos, The Other McCain, Mediaite, Washington Monthly and Poynter

Free Beacon's ‘Hillary Files’ under scrutiny — A Republican opposition researcher who obtained Hillary Clinton-related documents from the University of Arkansas and provided them to the Washington Free Beacon signed an agreement stating that those documents would not be published without permission …
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The Daily Caller and Betsy's Page
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Sudanese mom sentenced to die for Christian faith is freed — Meriam Ibrahim and Daniel Wani married in a formal church ceremony in 2011. — Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity …
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Fox News Insider, The Right Scoop, Moe Lane and National Review
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Court releases memo of U.S. justifying drone attacks on citizens — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday released a redacted version of the U.S. Justice Department's memorandum of justification for a 2011 drone attack that killed Anwar al Awlaki, an American-born Islamist preacher suspected of having ties to al Qaeda.
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Politico, Business Insider, New York Times and Shakesville
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Here's When It's Legal To Kill An American Citizen With A Drone
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite


Iraqi military facing ‘psychological collapse’ after losses, desertions — Iraqis prepare to fight militants — After militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took Mosul and other Iraqi cities, the government issued a call for volunteers to join the army. Many Iraqis answered.
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Reuters, New York Times, CANNONFIRE, emptywheel, Guardian, JustOneMinute, Hullabaloo, Firedoglake and Eschaton
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CHOICES AT THE TOP — President Obama won the White House …
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Fox News


Dems Ain't Happy Either — In addition to the rank and toxic politics of ‘vote fraud’ bamboozlement and voter suppression of African-American votes from the likes of J Christian Adams and crew (remember, this was actually what was at the heart of the US Attorney firing scandal) …
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Washington Monthly


Gun nuts are terrorizing America: The watershed moment everyone missed — From Cliven Bundy defeating the cops to “open carry” movement's menace, the left's timidity has spawned a nightmare — Here is a truth so fundamental that it should be self-evident: When legitimately constituted …
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Hullabaloo


US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany — More than 20 firefighters free exchange student from the artwork Chacán-Pi (Making Love) by Fernando de la Jara in Tübingen — In the space of 24 hours last week, two spectacular rescue operations were carried out in southern Germany.
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Mediaite and The Raw Story

Poll: Many Americans wary of U.S. role in Iraq — Shares - — NEW YORK — Fifty percent of Americans think the U.S. doesn't have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq, while fewer - 42 percent — think the U.S. does, a CBS News/New York Times poll reveals.
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Politico, Firedoglake, The Dish, Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard, CNN, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog and Shakesville

Conservatives and Climate Change — On Sunday Henry Paulson, the former Treasury secretary and a lifelong Republican, had an Op-Ed article about climate policy in The New York Times. In the article, he declared that man-made climate change is “the challenge of our time,” …
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Marginal REVOLUTION, Hit & Run, Bloomberg View, BarbWire.com, AMERICAblog News, JustOneMinute, Gawker, Daily Kos and naked capitalism


Obama Flips on Immunity for U.S. Troops in Iraq — American forces could be prosecuted by Iraq's famously compromised courts as they defend Baghdad. No wonder the Pentagon is so reluctant to send 'em. — President Obama pulled U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2011 because he couldn't get Iraq's parliament …
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Weekly Standard, New York Times, Fox News, Hot Air, emptywheel, The Week, The PJ Tatler and Lawfare


Responsible Gun Owner Of The Day Was Showing Off His Gun When He Shot Himself In The Head — Remember when we used to play shoot 'em up, shoot 'em up, bang bang, baby? — No charges filed in North Carolina after two grown men were carelessly playing with guns.
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Liberaland


The jihadist schoolboy dubbed ‘Osama Bin Bieber’: Teenager from Coventry ‘fighting alongside ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria’ — A British teenager has joined the fanatical band of Islamic terrorists rampaging across Syria and Iraq and killing thousands, it has been reported.
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and The Week


THE ABSOLUTIST … - ARCHIVE - WORLD CUP - DAILY COMMENT - AMY DAVIDSON - ANDY BOROWITZ - JOHN CASSIDY - MARIA KONNIKOVA - RICHARD BRODY - SHOP
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Mediaite and Business Insider