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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
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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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
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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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton dodges questions from DREAMers — Hillary Clinton dodged questions from an immigration reform group on the rope line at the Harkin Steak Fry in Iowa on Sunday when pressed on whether she supports President Barack Obama's delay on immigration-related executive actions.
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Alison Lundergan Grimes goes shooting in new ad
Alison Lundergan Grimes goes shooting in new ad
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Why Hillary hates Iowa
Why Hillary hates Iowa
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Sharyl Attkisson / Daily Signal:
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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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rand Paul: As world changes, ‘you change’ — Sen. Rand Paul on Monday pushed back against heightened criticism that he has flip-flopped on foreign policy issues, saying he has stood firmly against the Obama administration's policies in Syria. — Appearing on CBS “This Morning,” …
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Associated Press:
Iran rejects U.S. call to fight ISIL
Iran rejects U.S. call to fight ISIL
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New York Times:
Arab Nations Offer to Fight ISIS From Air
Arab Nations Offer to Fight ISIS From Air
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Jack A. Goldstone / Politico:
Obama Can't Destroy the Islamic State Without Iran's Help
Obama Can't Destroy the Islamic State Without Iran's Help
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Shifting his views, Rand Paul seeks broader appeal — but may risk his outsider image
Shifting his views, Rand Paul seeks broader appeal — but may risk his outsider image
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Yahoo! News, Fox News Insider and The Daily Caller
Thomas Frank / Salon:
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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Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
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:
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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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USA Today:
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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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
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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Andrea Hay / New York 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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
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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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Urban Outfitters Offers ‘Vintage’ Faux Blood-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
Urban Outfitters Offers ‘Vintage’ Faux Blood-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It — AUCKLAND, New Zealand—The New Zealand spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), worked in 2012 and 2013 to implement a mass metadata surveillance system even as top government officials publicly insisted …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Snowden: New Zealand's Prime Minister Isn't Telling the Truth About Mass Surveillance
Snowden: New Zealand's Prime Minister Isn't Telling the Truth About Mass Surveillance
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The Daily Caller, Guardian and RT
Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
The Name of the Fight — “Mr. President, everybody is asking in this country, are we or are we not at war?” a reporter asked Harry Truman at a White House press conference on June 29, 1950. It was a reasonable question: two days earlier, in response to a swift, unexpected advance of North Korean troops …
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Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Stupid Right Wing Tweets: Chuck Woolery Edition — Game show hack Chuck Woolery thinks ‘we have a Muslim problem in the White House.’ — What is it with game show hosts? They're all hucksters and idiots. Pat Sajak is a screaming teabagger and so is Chuck Woolery.
Wall Street Journal:
We're Number 32! — A new global index highlights the harm from the U.S. tax code.
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