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Billboard With Giant Set Of Testicles Asks Who ‘Has The Balls To Impeach Obama’ — Hurray for the First Amendment! — There's so much wrong with this. Where it's placed, its content, and the attitudes that put it there are the tip of the iceberg. — Newsnet5.com:
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Debora Lee / WEWS-TV:
Graphic Cleveland billboard at Pearl and State Roads depicting male anatomy sparks controversy — CLEVELAND - A billboard depicting part of the male anatomy is sparking controversy on Cleveland's west side. — “It's totally inappropriate,” said John Sumlin as he passed by the sign, near Pearl and State Roads, Friday afternoon.
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Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Nixon speaks on several Sunday morning shows, Holder orders autopsy — Attorney general orders third autopsy — Attorney General Eric Holder said today he has ordered the Justice Department to conduct its own independent autopsy of Michael Brown. — Michael Sorkin, 10:50 a.m.
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. to Conduct Its Own Autopsy in Ferguson Case — FERGUSON, Mo. — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Sunday that the Justice Department would conduct its own autopsy of Michael Brown, the unarmed African-American teenager who was fatally shot more than a week ago by a white police officer.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ferguson Extends Curfew For Second Night
Ferguson Extends Curfew For Second Night
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CNN:
Ferguson curfew ends after 7 arrests, 1 shooting
Ferguson curfew ends after 7 arrests, 1 shooting
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Ellen Wulfhorst / Reuters:
Some clashes in Ferguson, Missouri, despite night curfew
Some clashes in Ferguson, Missouri, despite night curfew
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous — I have never seen anything so frivolous in my (admittedly nonexistent) legal career. — Shares … They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Perry: ‘I stood up for the rule of law’
Perry: ‘I stood up for the rule of law’
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
DEATH WISH? Media Draws Map to Home of Ferguson Police Officer Who Shot Mike Brown — Is the media trying to get Ferguson police office Darren Wilson lynched? — CNN broadcast a report Friday that showed the house, including the street number, of the Ferguson police officer who police say shot Mike Brown.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Five figures on the left who could challenge Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton's criticism of President Obama this week has added to the skepticism about her that has long percolated through the Democratic Party's grassroots. — Clinton's assertions of the need for a muscular foreign policy …
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
US ramps up air campaign in Iraq — The U.S. military ramped up its air campaign on Sunday against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters in Iraq. — Using a “mix of fighter, bomber, attack and remotely piloted aircraft,” the U.S. conducted 14 strikes against ISIS targets near the Mosul dam in northern Iraq.
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Shannon Chamberlain / The Atlantic Online:
What Is the Price of Perfect Equality? — The world is an increasingly unequal and unfair place, economists tell us. Every year, it becomes a little harder to picture what equal opportunity and egalitarianism even look like. As the rich attract capital like Jupiter attracts space debris …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Playing Soldier in the Suburbs — TO understand what's been happening in Ferguson, Mo., where protests and violence following a cop's shooting of an unarmed teenager summoned up a police response that looked more like a military invasion, it helps to flash back to the heyday of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Seven pieces of military equipment the Pentagon is giving to local police — The riots in St. Louis that have sprung up in response to the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager have cast a spotlight on whether local police departments have too many military-style weapons and other equipment …
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg View:
Reading the Early Republican Presidential Field — In the realm of Republican presidential politics, this has been a good year for Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas. It hasn't been as kind to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush or Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
High fashion, expense for Hillary travel — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers questions during the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' annual conference at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on Thursday, April 10, 2014. Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Where's the Justice at Justice? — WASHINGTON — JIM RISEN is gruff. — The tall slab of a reporter looks like someone who could have played an Irish Marine sergeant in an old World War II movie. — “Editors think I'm a curmudgeon,” the 59-year-old admits, laughing.
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