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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General — Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system …
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: Holder Ran The DOJ ‘Much Like The Black Panthers Would’ — Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said Thursday during a discussion about Attorney General Eric Holder's reported resignation that he ran the Department of Justice “much like the Black Panthers would.”
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PoliticusUSA and The Mahablog
Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
GOP to Obama: Don't use lame-duck Congress to replace Holder — Conservatives are warning President Obama against using a lame-duck session of Congress to push through Attorney General Eric Holder's replacement, even as the White House signals its intention to fill the post quickly.
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PoliticusUSA, No More Mister Nice Blog and ABC News
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next Attorney General — The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is “engaged in immediate conversations” with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder …
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The National Interest:
Good Riddance, Eric Holder — “The most polarizing man in Barack Obama's administration—besides the president himself—is calling it quits.” — The most polarizing man in Barack Obama's administration—besides the president himself—is calling it quits.
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Townhall.com, The Daily Caller, Guardian, Los Angeles Times and National Review
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight Over Successor — WASHINGTON — President Obama's announcement on Thursday that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would leave the administration sets up an election-season scramble for a replacement to carry on Mr. Holder's civil rights crusade …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder quit — The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’
Why Holder quit — The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’
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ABC News:
Obama Announces Attorney General Eric Holder's Resignation
Obama Announces Attorney General Eric Holder's Resignation
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
With Eric Holder's Exit, Obama Loses a Key Ally
With Eric Holder's Exit, Obama Loses a Key Ally
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Washington Post, Politico, Guardian and The Dish
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Same Issues to Greet Eric Holder's Successor as Attorney General
Same Issues to Greet Eric Holder's Successor as Attorney General
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American Thinker
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Conservatives Launch ‘Unprecedented’ Campaign Against Pro-Marriage Equality Republicans — National Organization for Marriage, Family Research Council, and CitizenLink lash out against candidates “working to actively alienate the Republican base.” — Olaf Faeskorn/Tisei for Congress
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ferguson police chief tells CNN: I will not step down — Watch the full interview with Police Chief Tom Jackson on “Anderson Cooper 360°” tonight at 9 p.m. ET. — (CNN) — Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson — under fire for his department's handling of the Michael Brown shooting …
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Mike Hayes / BuzzFeed:
Missouri Police Wear “I Am Darren Wilson” Bracelets To Ferguson Protest
Missouri Police Wear “I Am Darren Wilson” Bracelets To Ferguson Protest
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Politico:
How Sen. Kay Hagan's husband won stimulus cash — When Kay Hagan voted for President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package, the Democratic senator hailed it as “the best way forward for working families across North Carolina.” — One of the families that later benefited is her own.
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RedState
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
SD Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Somehow Plagiarized Biographical Sentence — Mary Burke had her own policies plagiarized. — Susan Wismer For South Dakota / Via Facebook: SusanForSD — Democratic gubernatorial South Dakota nominee appears to have plagiarized parts of her issues page …
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New York Post:
Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies — Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't hold onto the Staten Island Zoo's squirming groundhog. — Mayor Bill de Blasio has groundhog blood on his hands! — A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2 …
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Senate Races: What September Polling Trends Tell Us — About a month ago, I wrote a pair of articles about the 2014 elections, one regarding the Senate, and another focused on the House. The goal of the articles was to try to reconcile two disparate sets of data tied to this election.
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Washington Monthly and Weekly Standard
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Romney 2016 is for real — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL 2016 ELECTIONS MITT ROMNEY — Is Mitt Romney, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination and lost in 2008, ran again and won the nomination but lost the general election in 2012, really thinking about running yet again for president in 2016?
John Monk / The State:
VIDEO RELEASED: SC trooper charged with felony in shooting at traffic stop over seat belt violation — COLUMBIA, SC — An S.C. trooper who stopped a man for a seat belt violation outside Columbia and then shot him - apparently without provocation - was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation
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Hit & Run, Shakesville and Daily Kos
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Gabby Giffords's Gun-Control Ads Are Being Criticized Because They're Working — Strange but true: getting shot in the head will make a person want to defeat political candidates who oppose gun control laws. Actually, getting shot in the head is usually fatal.
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National Review
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney rips Obama for ‘Ferguson’ — Dick Cheney says it's “outrageous” that President Barack Obama mentioned the summer's unrest in Ferguson, Mo., while speaking about ISIL during a speech at the United Nations. — “I was stunned,” the former vice president said on Wednesday during an interview on Fox News' “Hannity.”
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's exceptional U.N. address
Obama's exceptional U.N. address
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Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Beating Brownback Would Redeem 2014 — After reading Patrick Caldwell's very thorough explanation of why Gov. Sam Brownback's in danger of losing in November, I'm more convinced than ever that whether or not Republicans are kept from taking control of the Senate, it would be an important …
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Paul A. Offit / Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic — Whooping cough, mumps and measles are making an alarming comeback, thanks to seriously misguided parents. — Almost 8,000 cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, have been reported to California's Public Health Department so far this year.
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