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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Harry Reid's Joke to Asians: You're Not Smarter Than Everyone Else — “One problem that I've had today is keeping my Wongs straight” — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid drew laughter from an Asian audience Thursday with a pair of Asian-themed jokes. — “I don't think you're smarter …
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Asian chamber spurns Reid, endorses Hutchison — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks during the Asian Chamber of Commerce's monthly lunch at the Gold Coast casino-hotel in Las Vegas Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (Erik Verduzco/Las vegas Review-Journal) — U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, D-Queens …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Reid apologizes for Asian jokes — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday issued an apology for cracking two Asian-themed jokes during a speech Thursday night at the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce. — “My comments were in extremely poor taste and I apologize.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Harry Reid just told Asian Americans they're not ‘smarter than anybody else.’ He does stuff like this a lot.
Harry Reid just told Asian Americans they're not ‘smarter than anybody else.’ He does stuff like this a lot.
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The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, Ed Driscoll and PUNDITGUY
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid apologizes to Asians over ‘Wong’ comment
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Obama vs. ISIS: This Time It's Personal — When ISIS beheaded an American journalist, it meant to intimidate—and provoke—the United States. It should be careful what it wishes for. The gloves just came off. — The Obama administration signaled Thursday that the United States has begun …
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James Warren / NY Daily News:
Obama lands in the rough among critics over second day of golf after James Foley was executed by ISIS — The President, who is vacationing in Massachusetts, took to the links for a second straight day. Obama was slammed for picking up a putter just minutes after delivering a somber speech about the death of journalist James Foley.
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Talking Points Memo and National Review
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
The logic of not paying ransoms — The U.S. government certainly tried to save James Foley before he was executed by Islamic State extremists. Sources have told The Washington Post that a secret raid was conducted in a bid to save the American journalist and others.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Foley's killing was ‘absolutely’ a terrorist attack — The killing of American journalist James Foley was “absolutely” a terrorist attack, the White House said Friday. — Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, briefing reporters from Martha's Vineyard …
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
W.H. defends post-Foley golf game — The White House on Friday defended President Barack Obama's decision to head to the golf course earlier this week just moments after condemning the killing of American journalist James Foley. — While principal deputy press secretary Eric Schultz declined …
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Hot Air
Rheana Murray / ABC News:
James Foley's Siblings Say US Could Have Done More to Save Him
James Foley's Siblings Say US Could Have Done More to Save Him
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Defense secretary: ISIS threat 'beyond anything we've seen'
Defense secretary: ISIS threat 'beyond anything we've seen'
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Charles Krauthammer / National Review:
Time to Stop ISIS — The Islamic State has grown because it seemed unstoppable.
Time to Stop ISIS — The Islamic State has grown because it seemed unstoppable.
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Don Emmert / GlobalPost:
Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family
Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family
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Washington Post:
Washington Post editorials will no longer use ‘Redskins’ for the local NFL team — THIS PAGE has for many years urged the local football team to change its name. The term “Redskins,” we wrote in 1992, “is really pretty offensive.” The team owner then, Jack Kent Cooke, disagreed, and the owner now, Daniel M. Snyder, disagrees, too.
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Annys Shin / Washington Post:
Washington Post editorial board stops using the word ‘Redskins’
Washington Post editorial board stops using the word ‘Redskins’
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Politico, CBS DC, The Reaction and USA Today
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Admin Offers Hobby Lobby Workaround On Birth Control — The Obama administration rolled out a plan on Friday to protect access to copay-free birth control for women in response to the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling. — A new “proposed rule” by the Department of Health …
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Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:
White House issues new fix for contraceptive coverage
White House issues new fix for contraceptive coverage
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Robert P. Jones / The Atlantic Online:
Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson — The shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the anger poured out in response by Ferguson's mostly black population, has snapped the issue of race into national focus.
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Ryanschuessler / Ryan L. Schuessler:
I will not be returning to Ferguson — I had been on the ground helping Al Jazeera America** cover the protests and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., since this all started last week. After what I saw last night, I will not be returning. The behavior and number of journalists there is so appalling …
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Jim Nintzel / Tucson Weekly:
Judgment Day — Three Republicans battle for the chance to face Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick in next week's primary election — Republican voters in Congressional District 1 are going to have to choose among three candidates in next week's primary election to find a nominee …
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Los Angeles Times and ThinkProgress
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
AZ GOP Candidate Suggests Migrant Children Could Spread Ebola
AZ GOP Candidate Suggests Migrant Children Could Spread Ebola
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
A Theory on Long-Term Economic Trends and a Sudden Crash — Employment losses during the Great Recession may have had more to do with factors like the rise of Walmart than with the recession itself, two economists say in a new academic paper. — The paper, presented Friday morning …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare rates are rising once again — WHITE HOUSE OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE ENTITLEMENTS BUDGETS AND DEFICITS — Supporters of President Obama's health care law have been touting proposed insurance rates for 2015 — arguing that they aren't as high as some of the dire warnings of the law's critics.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza Compares “What's Going On In Ferguson” To ISIS — “You have these people who basically believe that to correct a perceived injustice, it's perfectly okay to inflict all types of new injustices.” — View Video ›