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New accusations: Peterson injured another son while disciplining 4-year-old — The four-year-old is by a different mother than the alleged victim in the Montgomery County case, in which Peterson is charged with felony injury to a child. — CONNECT — Photos and text messages obtained …
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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 …


Kirsten Gillibrand: I Couldn't Tell My Harasser ‘To Go F*** Himself’ — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Monday that when a male labor leader harassed her about her weight several years ago after she'd had a baby, she had a few choice words she couldn't say at the time.
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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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This Is What's Truly At Stake In The Battle For Senate Control — Arguably the most significant consequence of a Republican Senate takeover in 2014 is absent from the campaign trail, and hardly registers in any polls asking Americans what their top election issues are. — It's not Obamacare.
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Bill Clinton: Republicans ‘trying to get you to check your brain at the door’
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Skeet-Shooting Grimes Tells McConnell 'That's Not How You Hold A Gun'
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Lindsey Graham Worries Islamic State Will Destroy Americans, Wipe Out Mankind — WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's strategy for combating Islamic State militants and said the president needs to significantly step up military action …
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Rand Paul: As world changes, ‘you change’
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TwitLonger — Urban Outfitters sincerely apologizes for any offense our Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt may have caused. It was never our intention to allude to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in 1970 and we are extremely saddened that this item was perceived as such.
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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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AZGOP's 1st Vice Chairman Resigns — PHOENIX - 1st Vice Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party Russell Pearce today submitted his resignation to Robert Graham, Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party. Pearce made the following statement: — “As an unapologetic conservative …
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State Republican Party Official Resigns After Suggesting Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized
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Arizona GOPer: Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized
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Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare — Hillary Clinton played a crucial role in making President Obama's healthcare law a reality, a retiring Democratic senator told a crowd in Iowa on Sunday. — Clinton's “fingerprints are all over” the Affordable Care Act …
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Hillary Clinton: 'It's true I am thinking about' the presidency
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Limbaugh on Sexual Assault: “No Means Yes If You Know How to Spot It” — The sweaty armpit of talk radio now fancies himself to be a “seduction” expert. On his show today, Rush Limbaugh decried Ohio State's new policy instructing students to get explicit, verbal consent before having sex …
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Raw Story, Mediaite and The Huffington Post


Please—Let's Not Destroy ISIS — Obama's mission is hard enough without him stating a clearly unachievable goal. Why do presidents feel they have to sound like John Wayne? — Americans should support this mission against ISIS. One may well choose to do so warily, because …
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Liberaland, The Dish and Washington Times

US Labor Board Orders CNN to Rehire Fired Workers — The National Labor Relations Board ruled against the CNN cable television network on Monday in an 11-year-old labor dispute, ordering the network to rehire or compensate about 300 former workers. — The NLRB agreed with a November 2008 ruling …
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Republicans to limit Obama's aid to moderate Syrian rebel forces — House Republicans expect to unveil legislation Monday evening that would give President Obama the authority to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels, but with some limits on that authority. — The House Armed Services Committee …
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The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo

Absentee ballot mailings halted in push to restart voter ID law — Election officials, Michelle Avila (right) and June Gray check a voters identification during the February 2012 primary, the last time a voter ID requirement was in place in Wisconsin. A federal court ruling restoring the law …
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New York Times and Election Law Blog

Lobbyist, lawyer Thomas H. Boggs Jr. dead at 73 — Thomas H. Boggs Jr., who sat for years at the epicenter of Washington legal and political circles as the city's marquee name in lobbying and political fund-raising, died Sept. 15 at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 73.
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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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