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Skeet-Shooting Grimes Tells McConnell 'That's Not How You Hold A Gun' — In a new TV ad slated for a six-figure statewide buy, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes tells Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) he doesn't know how to hold a gun. — The 30-second ad features …
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Bill Clinton: Republicans ‘trying to get you to check your brain at the door’ — Former President Bill Clinton railed against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday and framed the midterm elections as more broadly about defining “the terms in which we will relate to each other and relate to the rest of the world.”
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American Power and Wall Street Journal

Hillary Clinton dodges questions from DREAMers
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Business Insider and BuzzFeed

Alison Lundergan Grimes goes shooting in new ad
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CNN, Roll Call, The Immoral Minority and Washington Post


Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review — As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants …
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Hot Air, RedState, Taylor Marsh, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion


Thomas Frank: What's The Matter With The Democratic Party? — ‘Strikingly unoriginal thinking’ explains why the Democratic Party looks to be headed for another disaster this fall, he says. — Thomas “What's The Matter With Kansas?” Frank takes political data journalism to the woodshed:
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Have Nerds Betrayed the Left? — Thomas Frank has identified the enemy of true populism: political science. — Shares — A couple of weeks ago, Tom Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, sympathetically interviewed academic-activist Cornel West, both of whom agreed that Barack Obama has betrayed the left.
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Bloomberg View


All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus — But expert opinion is why we're in this mess — In a recent article on Vox, Ezra Klein declared that his generation of Washington journalists had discovered political science, and it is like the hottest thing on wheels.
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Liberaland and Lawyers, Guns & Money


Urban Outfitters Features “Vintage” Red-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt — The “vintage Kent State” sweatshirt is for sale in the women's section of the Urban Outfitters' website. — urbanoutfitters.com — It can be found through a quick search on the website:
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ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, WEWS-TV, Common Dreams, Guardian, Hit & Run, Plain Dealer and Mediaite
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TwitLonger — Urban Outfitters sincerely apologizes for any offense …
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Gawker, Truth Revolt, FOX2now.com, Tech Times, Boing Boing, Consumerist, myfox8.com, FOX CT and Mediaite

Urban Outfitters Offers ‘Vintage’ Faux Blood-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
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Wonkette

Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham — LONDON — A man recently came to visit the member of Parliament for Rotherham, Yorkshire, and he had a question. Now in his late 50s, he had arrived from Pakistan three decades earlier. After a lifetime of hard work, he could not understand …
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Senate has a secret book of rules — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has for years lived by a secret book of rules that governs everything from how many sheets of paper and potted plants each Senate office is allotted to when Senators can use taxpayer money to charter planes or boats.
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Washington Post


School's strict dress code nets 200 detentions, parent rebellion — Tottenville High School has implemented a strict dress code that's landed 200 kids in detention — and incited rebellion among the kids. — A strict dress code introduced by a Staten Island public high school principal …
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Althouse, ThinkProgress, New York's PIX11 and ABC News


State Republican Party Official Resigns After Suggesting Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized — Former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce — Former state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) resigned his position as first vice chair of the Arizona Republican Party late on Sunday evening amid criticism …
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Hit & Run, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Valley Fever and Raw Story
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Hillary Clinton: 'It's true I am thinking about' the presidency — Democratic superstar Hillary Clinton laid down a placeholder for a 2016 presidential bid Sunday during the feel-good nostalgia festival that was the Harkin Steak Fry. — She teased her White House ambitions by referring to …
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The Daily Beast, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Fox News
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Why Hillary hates Iowa
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Bloomberg View, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, ABC News and ABC News

How to Get It Wrong — Last week I participated in a conference organized by Rethinking Economics, a student-run group hoping to promote, you guessed it, a rethinking of economics. And Mammon knows that economics needs rethinking in the wake of a disastrous crisis, a crisis that was neither predicted nor prevented.
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The Moderate Voice


Largest City In Vermont Now Gets All Its Power From Wind, Water And Biomass — Water flows through the Winooski One hydro-electric plant in Winooski, VT. The Burlington Electric Department's recent purchase of the facility, located in the Winooski River between Burlington and the city of Winooski …
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Associated Press and Balloon Juice


Turning Tables, Democrats Use Cultural Issues as a Cudgel — RESTON, Va. — After a generation of campaigns in which Republicans exploited wedge issues to win close elections, Democrats are now on the offensive in the culture wars. — Democrats see social issues as potent …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money


Backing for Condoleezza Rice to take over scandal hit NFL — High powered backing for former Secretary of State to rescue America's most popular sport — Support is growing for a campaign to draft Condoleezza Rice as Commissioner for the troubled National Football League (NFL).

Iran rejects U.S. call to fight ISIL — PARIS — As diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight Islamic State extremists, Iran ruled out working with any international coalition, saying it had rejected American requests for cooperation against the militants.
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New York Times, The Hill, Hot Air and Politico
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