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'She'd Probably Get Shot At The State Line' — A local district chairman says there's no love for Hillary in the Natural State. — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has apparently worn out her welcome in the state where her husband served as governor.
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Arkansas GOPer: Saying Hillary Would ‘Get Shot’ Wasn't Meant As A Threat — The Arkansas GOP official who reportedly said that Hillary Clinton would “probably get shot” if she entered the state as a presidential candidate asserted on Tuesday that he had been taken out of context.
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President Clinton: ‘Dead broke’ comments were ‘factually true’ — DENVER — Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday defended his wife Hillary Clinton's recent comments on wealth, saying she is “not out of touch.” — In a discussion with NBC's David Gregory as part of the Clinton Global Initiative …
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Arkansas GOP Official Says He Was ‘Taken Way Out Of Context’ When He Predicted Hillary Clinton Would Get Shot — An official in the Arkansas Republican Party insists he didn't mean Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton any harm when he told U.S. News she would …
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Hillary Clinton sign defaced: ‘Benghazi’ scrawled in red
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Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Weasel Zippers

Bill Clinton Defends Hillary's Middle-Income Ties
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Porn star's tweet prompts Steve Stivers aide Adam Kuhn to resign — The chief of staff to Ohio GOP Rep. Steve Stivers has resigned after a former porn actress posted an explicit photo of the aide online. — Adam Kuhn, a longtime Stivers aide, resigned on Tuesday. Kuhn is single, while the actress is married.
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GOP Rep's Chief Of Staff Resigns After Porn Star Tweets Photo Of His Penis — Rep. Steve Stivers' (R-OH) chief of staff, Adam Kuhn, resigned on Tuesday after a former porn actress posted a picture of his penis to Stivers' Twitter account, Politico reported.


Fox News Poll: Voters think IRS emails were deliberately destroyed — The consensus is: it's no accident. More than three-quarters of voters — 76 percent — think the emails missing from the account of Lois Lerner, the ex-IRS official at the center of the scandal over targeting of conservative groups, were deliberately destroyed.
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Weasel Zippers and Fox News Insider
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Democrat: IRS chief ‘arrogant’
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Breaking: Cochran holds off tea party challenge in runoff — (CNN) — After a long and bitter fight, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi will manage to fend off a serious tea party challenge in Tuesday's GOP Senate runoff, CNN projects, and move closer to a seventh term.
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Balloon Juice and The Raw Story
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Judge Dismisses McDaniel Supporter's Lawsuit To Prevent Crossover Voting
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Cochran Holds Off Tea Party Challenger in Mississippi
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Archivist Faults I.R.S. for Not Reporting Loss of Emails — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report a hard drive crash that destroyed emails belonging to a senior official at the center of a scandal over the agency's treatment …
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Grassley's Hunt For An Obama Insider Trading Scandal Backfires On GOP — Early last year, Wall Street traders somehow found out that the Obama administration planned to make a policy change to Medicare before the news was even announced. — The flurry of stock trades in major health care companies …
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The Mahablog and Balloon Juice


Boehner Planning House Lawsuit Against Obama Executive Actions — Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, told Republicans Tuesday he could have an announcement within days on whether the House will file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, challenging the executive actions that have become the keystone of the administration.
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A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son — After our house burned down in Wisconsin a few months ago, my husband and I packed our four young kids and all our belongings into a gold minivan and drove to my sister-in-law's place, just outside of Atlanta.
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Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and Guardian

Obama alums join anti teachers union case — Teachers unions are girding for a tough fight to defend tenure laws against a coming blitz of lawsuits — and an all-out public relations campaign led by former aides to President Barack Obama. — The Incite Agency, founded …
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Wall Street Journal, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Badass Teachers Association

Drunk Fox News Anchor Brawls With Airport Cops In Jailhouse Video — Remember the middle-aged Fox News anchor who was arrested while intoxicated at an airport bar in St. Paul, Minnesota? You may have even seen Gregg Jarrett's mugshot floating around last month.
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Raw Story

IRS Admits Wrongdoing, to Pay $50,000 in Leaking of Marriage Group's Tax Return — Two years after activists for same-sex marriage obtained the confidential tax return and donor list of a national group opposed to redefining marriage, the Internal Revenue Service has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to settle the resulting lawsuit.


Scotland Yard want to interview Rupert Murdoch about crime at his UK papers — Exclusive: Detectives contacted media mogul last year but agreed with lawyers to wait until end of phone-hacking trial — Rupert Murdoch has been officially informed by Scotland Yard that detectives want to interview …
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Sudan death row woman Meriam Ibrahim rearrested — Ibrahim arrested with husband and two children at Khartoum airport one day after she was released on orders of appeal court — Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman released from death row in Sudan on Monday, was arrested with her husband …
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Cool at 13, Adrift at 23 — At 13, they were viewed by classmates with envy, admiration and not a little awe. The girls wore makeup, had boyfriends and went to parties held by older students. The boys boasted about sneaking beers on a Saturday night and swiping condoms from the local convenience store.


The Law Is An Ass — There's been a bubbling hum of controversy surrounding the Senate Daily Press Gallery's decision to deny credentials to SCOTUSBlog. And as it happens, the issues involved here are ones I know fairly well since I'm the owner of a new media company and had to navigate …
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Standing Committee of Correspondents letter to SCOTUSblog June 23, 2014
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Politico, Outside the Beltway and SCOTUSblog


Here's A Video Of Congressional Leaders Holding Hands And Swaying (VIDEO) — Members of Congress are well-practiced in straddling the line between Capitol Hill decorum and the brutal nature of partisan politics. It was evident last year when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) …
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