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Our withdrawn review “Blood cotton” — Apology: In our review of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” by Edward Baptist, we said: “Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains.”
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Business Insider and The Huffington Post
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Blood cotton — The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery …
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Talking Points Memo and Gawker
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Economist Denounces One-Sided Account of Slavery [Updated]
The Economist Denounces One-Sided Account of Slavery [Updated]
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Eschaton, Talking Points Memo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Fed: Under Obama, only the richest 10 percent saw incomes rise … Under President Obama, the richest 10 percent were the only income group of Americans to see their median incomes rise, according to a survey released this week by the Federal Reserve. — The Fed data covered the years 2010-2013 …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Survey of Consumer Finances
Survey of Consumer Finances
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PolicyShop, naked capitalism, ParaPundit and Wall Street Journal
Matthew C Klein / FT Alphaville:
US income and wealth inequality facts of the day
US income and wealth inequality facts of the day
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Marginal REVOLUTION and Wall Street Journal
Jason Katz / The Hill:
America's confused foreign policy in the post-Soviet sphere — As the tragedy of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 showed, one needs to look no further than the pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists' own Facebook pages to identify the culprits of these murders and the supporters empowering them.
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Ukraine abandoned — At his first press briefing after the beheading …
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
Don't save Ukraine — President Obama is doubling …
Don't save Ukraine — President Obama is doubling …
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The Dish, Macleans.ca and RedState
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The need for a mighty U.S. military — The writer is the former governor of Massachusetts. In 2012, the Republican Party nominated him for president of the United States. — Russia invades, China bullies, Iran spins centrifuges, the Islamic State (a terrorist threat “beyond anything that we've seen …
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American Prospect, Hot Air, Fox News and Wall Street Journal
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U.S. and Allies Form Coalition With Intent to Destroy ISIS — NEWPORT, Wales — The Obama administration said Friday that the United States and its allies had formed a coalition to fight Sunni militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, unveiling a military and political campaign …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, US Department of State, Liberaland and Mediaite
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New Book Says C.I.A. Official in Benghazi Held Up Rescue — CAIRO — Five commandos guarding the C.I.A. base in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012 say that the C.I.A. station chief stopped them from interceding in time to save the lives of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and an American technician during …
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CANNONFIRE and Business Insider
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Woman beheaded ‘with machete’ in north London garden — Palmira Silva was decapitated at her home in Edmonton in an indiscriminate rampage before armed police subdued her ‘crazed’ attacker — An 82-year-old woman was beheaded in a north London suburban garden by a man with a machete.
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Business Insider
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Not Everyone Can Afford the All-American On-Campus Experience — Living away from home gives students a chance to immerse themselves in new academic and social worlds. But that kind of college experience is available only to an increasingly privileged few.
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Senate Democrats urge President Obama to delay immigration order — More top Democrats are pressuring President Barack Obama to slow down on immigration reform, further diminishing the chances that he'll take sweeping administrative action before Election Day. — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) wants Obama to wait until after November.
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Power Line, Weekly Standard, National Review, Washington Post, The PJ Tatler and Capitol Report
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Top CIA officer in Benghazi delayed response to terrorist attack, US security team members claim — A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News' Bret Baier.
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The PJ Tatler, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Independent Journal Review and Fox News Insider
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Cook: Apple Will Beef Up Security but Lax Attitude Didn't Lead to Hacks — Apple CEO Denies a Lax Attitude Toward Security Allowed Hackers to Post Nude Photos of Celebrities — Apple Inc. said it plans additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts, but denied that a lax attitude toward security …
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‘Meet’ the Chuck Todd advantage — Todd's roundtable will feature regular contributors, including Joe Scarborough, who has been promoted to NBC News senior political analyst and a regular contributor to “Meet.” (Todd dismisses any suggestion that Scarborough doesn't fit the bill for reported analysis …
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FishbowlDC
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Holder: Civil rights probe into Trayvon Martin shooting still active — Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the federal civil rights investigation into the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin remains active, noting “recent developments” in the case.
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BillMoyers.com and Instapundit
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Early Voting in Ohio, Despite Republican Objections — A federal judge's decision this morning to allow early voting in Ohio is a big victory for those who think voting should be easier and more accessible. It was also a remarkable decision in purely human terms, showing …
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Daily Kos
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John Kerry / US Department of State:
Remarks at Top of Meeting on Building an Anti-ISIL Coalition Co-Chaired by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, U.K. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, and U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon — Remarks — Secretary of State — Celtic Manor — Wales, United Kingdom — Good morning, everybody.
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National Review
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Obamacare Lawsuits Just Suffered a Big Setback — What it means and how the legal challenge could play out — The latest big legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act—the one that could potentially deprive millions of people of subsidies, making it impossible for them to get insurance …
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Vox, Washington Post, The Mahablog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, his vorpal sword, Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress
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Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 corruption counts — RICHMOND — A federal jury Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruption — sending a message that they believed the couple sold the office once occupied by Patrick Henry …
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Kobach: Democrat Chad Taylor's name will remain on ballot for U.S. Senate — Chad Taylor doesn't want to be in the race for U.S. Senate, but he's going to remain on the ballot. — Taylor, the Democratic nominee for Senate and district attorney of Shawnee County, submitted a formal letter …
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Betsy's Page, Hot Air, New York Times, Liberal Values, National Review, The Rothenberg Political … and New Yorker
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