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11:25 PM ET, June 29, 2014

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Adam Serwer / msnbc.com:
Men's rights conference takes aim at feminism  —  ST. CLAIR SHORES, Michigan - At what was billed as the first annual international conference on men's issues, feminists were ruining everything.  —  “I call it the evil empire,” Erin Pizzey, the British founder of one of the first domestic violence shelters …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Raw Story
CBS New York:
Violent Weekend Leaves 21 Shot Across The Five Boroughs  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - It was a violent night in New York City after at least 21 people were shot in incidents spanning each of the five boroughs.  —  As CBS 2′s Janelle Burrell reported, one of the shootings happened on Staten Island …
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Jeffrey Toobin Tells Americans To Be ‘Grateful’ That Dick Cheney Is Back On Their TVs  —  CNN guest host Jeffrey Toobin and two of the network's military analysts concluded on Sunday that America should be “grateful” that former Vice President Dick Cheney was doing interviews …
Discussion: Mediaite and Liberaland
James Risen / New York Times:
Before Shooting in Iraq, Warning on Blackwater  —  WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq.  But the inquiry was abandoned …
Discussion: Liberaland and Marginal REVOLUTION
Associated Press:
Marine who disappeared in Iraq in 2004 back in US  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Marine who was declared a deserter nearly 10 years ago after disappearing in Iraq and then returning to the U.S. claiming he had been kidnapped, only to disappear again, is back in U.S. custody, officials said Sunday.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Daily Mail:
‘Infidels must wear red collars and shave heads’: ‘Nazi’ vision of Muslim Britain from Imam who ran ‘Isis’ barbecue in Cardiff park  —  A radical hate preacher linked to the ‘brainwashing’ of three Welsh young jihadis fighting in Iraq and Syria has outlined his chilling vision of a Nazi-style …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Vox Popoli
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Obama to Seek Funds to Stem Border Crossings and Speed Deportations  —  President Obama will ask Congress to provide more than $2 billion in new funds to control the surge of illegal Central American migrants at the South Texas border, and to grant broader powers for immigration officials …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama to ask for more than $2 billion in emergency funds to stem immigration influx
Discussion: Guardian and Hot Air
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Obama's ‘woe is me’ attitude  —  President Barack Obama prepares to speak at the Brandenburg Gate on June 19, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.  —  Say this for President Obama: He's got an uncanny ability to block out distractions and keep his eye on the ball.  —  Facing a horrific expansion …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
Douglas Ernst / Washington Times:
Army's Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter's name racist  —  Veterans aren't happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL's Washington Redskins' name.
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
Rogers: Benghazi suspect ‘compliant but not cooperative’  —  (CNN) — Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, said Sunday the suspect in the Benghazi attacks “likely” did not provide useful intelligence during his two-week detention aboard a ship to the United States.
Discussion: Politico
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Sophie Gilbert / The Atlantic Online:
Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment  —  It was probably legal.  But was it ethical?  —  Updated, 7:45 p.m. Eastern.  —  Facebook's News Feed—the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone—is not a perfect mirror of the world.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Unions Fear This SCOTUS Case Could Bring Their ‘Final Destruction’  —  The Supreme Court is expected to rule on Monday, the last day of its term, in a landmark case that unions fear could deal a fatal blow to their movement.  —  The case, Harris v. Quinn, is about the constitutionality of …
Discussion: Washington Post and Althouse
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Clinton on pot laws: ‘I like where it is’  —  Bill Clinton says the federal government should shy away from legalization of marijuana for now — but that states should continue to experiment with their own “Rocky Mountain high.”  —  The former president, in a taped interview in Denver …
Discussion: Mediaite
RT:
Target ISIS: First batch of Russian fighter jets arrives in Iraq  —  The first ten Russian Sukhoi fighter jets arrived in Iraq on Saturday, the country's Defense Ministry said.  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping the jets will make a key difference in the fight against ISIS.
Discussion: ParaPundit
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Why Democrats insist on lying about how ‘poor’ they are  —  Hillary Clinton claimed that, at the moment she and her husband were signing up for $18 million in book deals, that they were “dead broke.”  —  Harry Reid (who lives in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel) said liberals are getting bullied …
Discussion: Reuters and Weasel Zippers
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's money woes
 
 
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