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TMZ.com:
Ray Rice — ELEVATOR KNOCKOUT ... Fiancee Takes Crushing Punch (Video) — ELEVATOR KNOCKOUT — Fiancee Takes Crushing Punch (Video) — EXCLUSIVE — This is what a two game suspension looks like — Ray Rice delivering a vicious punch to his fiancee's face, knocking her out cold ... and TMZ Sports has the shocking video.
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host On Alleged Ray Rice Video: Why Won't Obama Lead? — Fox News host Andrea Tantaros wasted no time during Monday's episode of “Outnumbered” directing anger at President Obama and the Democrats over a video reportedly showing NFL star Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee in an elevator.
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Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Raw Story
CNN:
After video, Ray Rice cut from Ravens — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday suspended running back Ray Rice indefinitely after a new video surfaced that shows the player punching his future wife in an elevator in February, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said on Twitter.
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Liberaland and Althouse
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Scots, What the Heck? — Next week Scotland will hold a referendum on whether to leave the United Kingdom. And polling suggests that support for independence has surged over the past few months, largely because pro-independence campaigners have managed to reduce the “fear factor” …
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Better Together Blog, Washington Monthly, Guardian, Telegraph, National Review and YouGov Labs News
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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Scottish independence: Decapitate Britain, and we kill off the greatest political union ever — The Scots are on the verge of an act of self-mutilation that will trash our global identity — Right: it's time to speak for Britain. If these polls are right, then we are on the verge of an utter catastrophe for this country.
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Guardian, National Review, Samizdata and Booman Tribune
John Fund / National Review:
Britain on the Brink of a Breakup
Britain on the Brink of a Breakup
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Shot in the Dark and Guardian
Politico:
The threat to American democracy — We are at a pivotal moment in American history. — Building the United States of America has been long, arduous and rife with setbacks. But throughout the years, we have undoubtedly moved toward a more inclusive democracy. We expanded the right to vote.
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Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN poll finds majority of Americans alarmed by ISIS — Washington (CNN) — Americans are increasingly concerned that ISIS represents a direct terror threat, fearful that ISIS agents are living in the United States, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll. Most now support military action against the terrorist group.
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Washington Free Beacon
Sen. Tom Udall / The Hill:
Bipartisan case for a Constitutional amendment on campaign finance
Bipartisan case for a Constitutional amendment on campaign finance
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Washington Post
New York Times:
Destroying ISIS May Take Years, U.S. Officials Say — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to carry out a phased campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria that may take three years to eventually destroy the terrorist army — requiring a sustained effort that could last until …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Facing Dem attacks, could new GOP strategy end birth control wars? — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE 2014 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS BOBBY JINDAL CONTRACEPTION THOM TILLIS CORY GARDNER — Remember the 2012 Republican presidential debate in which ABC's George Stephanopoulos, seemingly out of nowhere …
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Washington Monthly and National Review
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Tarini Parti / Politico:
Tillis dismisses ‘mansplaining’ charges
Tillis dismisses ‘mansplaining’ charges
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The Charlotte Observer, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Bush gives Clinton grandpa advice — Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were complimentary of each other Monday, with the 43rd president even giving his Democratic predecessor some insider advice on the life of a grandfather. — “Get ready also to be like the lowest person …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dick Cheney to meet with House GOP on midterms — Former Vice President Dick Cheney will appear before House Republicans at a Tuesday meeting to discuss the midterm elections, according to two sources familiar with his plans. — Cheney's appearance comes as Republican leaders launch …
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Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Says Everyone Should Be Free To Smoke And Fire Gay People — CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—At a recent town hall in Charlotte's suburbs, North Carolina House Republican Robert Pittenger compared the right to fire LGBT workers to the right to smoke cigarettes on private property.
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The Raw Story
Elianayjohnson / National Review:
Udall: Beheaded American Journalists Would Have Wanted Cautious Approach to ISIS — The president has in recent days taken fire from members of his own party for taking a low-key approach to tackling the problem presented by the Islamic State, particularly as the images of two American journalists kidnapped …
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The Daily Caller and Hot Air
David Weigel / Slate:
Gerrymandering and the Big Sort Fallacy — Every so often, Nate Cohn writes something about how the political impact of gerrymandering is overrated, and I write something about how he's wrong. The argument has gotten pointlessly heated in the past, and neither one of us has inched toward …
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New York Times, Washington Monthly, The Dish, American Prospect, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / TIME:
Bruce Levenson Isn't a Racist, He's a Businessman … From left: Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Dominique Wilkins — Courtesy of Iconomy, LLC
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Talking Points Memo, ESPN, Bloomberg View, Mediaite, Associated Press and Twitchy
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
As Two Men Go Free, a Dogged Ex-Prosecutor Digs In — LUMBERTON, N.C. — The most memorable moment of the trial that put Henry McCollum and Leon Brown behind bars for three decades for a hideous 1983 rape and murder was a display of brilliant courtroom theatrics.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Polls Show Path Of Least Resistance To GOP Majority — Pollsters are picking up the pace after a slow start in this midterm election season. Sunday featured the release of a trio of NBC News/Marist polls of the Senate races in Arkansas, Kentucky and Colorado, while the online polling firm …
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The Other McCain, Washington Monthly, Fox News, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Shift in Alaska Helps Republicans Retain Senate Edge
Shift in Alaska Helps Republicans Retain Senate Edge
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The Daily Caller, Political Insider blog and today.yougov.com
Theodore B. Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Harry Reid Rewrites the First Amendment — When politicians seek to restrict speech, they are invariably trying to protect their own incumbency.
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Hot Air