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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Ferguson fraud — The bitter irony of the Michael Brown case is that if he had actually put his hands up and said don't shoot, he would almost certainly be alive today. His family would have been spared an unspeakable loss, and Ferguson, Missouri wouldn't have experienced multiple bouts of rioting …
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New York Times:
The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots — The St. Louis County grand jury's decision not to indict the white police officer who in August shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, would have generated widespread anger and disappointment in any case.
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BBC, BuzzFeed, Guardian, Raw Story, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Prairie Weather, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, The Great Debate, The PJ Tatler, Salon, The Toast and The Dish
Ed Driscoll:
New York Times Publishes Darren Wilson's Address — All the doxing that's fit to print. — “The Times “had no qualms whatsoever about publishing almost all the information needed for Officer Darren Wilson's enemies to track him and his wife down at home,” John Nolte writes at Big Journalism …
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International Business Times, BREITBART.COM, protein wisdom, Riehl World News, National Review and Clayton Cramer
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Exclusive: Police Officer Darren Wilson Explains How He Feared for His Life
Exclusive: Police Officer Darren Wilson Explains How He Feared for His Life
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Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, New York Times, New York Magazine, Time and Daily Signal
Dan Good / ABC News:
Exclusive: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson Tells George Stephanopoulos He's Having a Baby
Exclusive: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson Tells George Stephanopoulos He's Having a Baby
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The Huffington Post, Jezebel, New York Magazine, abc7news.com and Gawker
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Fanciful and not credible’: CNN legal analyst destroys Darren Wilson's testimony
‘Fanciful and not credible’: CNN legal analyst destroys Darren Wilson's testimony
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Addicting Info, Bloomberg Politics and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Chronicle of a Riot Foretold
Chronicle of a Riot Foretold
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The Great Debate, Politico, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
New York Times:
Amid Conflicting Accounts, Trusting Darren Wilson
Amid Conflicting Accounts, Trusting Darren Wilson
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New Yorker, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Balloon Juice, The New Republic, Bloomberg View, Liberal Values, Business Insider, Time, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Vox and Slate
James Oliphant / National Journal:
Obama's Split-Screen Appeal Lost in Ferguson's Anger
Obama's Split-Screen Appeal Lost in Ferguson's Anger
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Washington Post, Time and The Dish
Washington Post:
Ferguson violence broke the mold in three ways — one of which is just unfolding now
Ferguson violence broke the mold in three ways — one of which is just unfolding now
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Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, TIME, New York Times, The Daily Beast and RedState
Charles Roberts / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
Watch: Darren Wilson Explains Why He Shot Michael Brown (Video)
Watch: Darren Wilson Explains Why He Shot Michael Brown (Video)
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FOX News Radio
Nick Hanauer / Politico:
The Pitchforks Are Coming... For Us Plutocrats — To: My Fellow Zillionaires — You probably don't know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
What's Next for the Democrats? — I was talking to Ted Strickland, the former governor of Ohio, when Nick Hanauer approached. “What did you call it again?” Strickland asked Hanauer, a Seattle-based tech zillionaire who has become a celebrity on the left for his advocacy of wealth redistribution.
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Veto threat derails Reid tax deal — The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto an emerging deal that would restore several lapsed tax breaks, bringing into the open tensions between President Obama and the top Senate Democrat. — Jennifer Friedman, a White House spokeswoman …
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Washington Monthly and Politico
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Obama Threatens to Veto $440 Billion Tax Deal
Obama Threatens to Veto $440 Billion Tax Deal
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Seeing the Forest, Washington Post, Gawker, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Didn't Republicans See Obama's Immigration Move Coming? — Congress foiled by extremely predictable scheme. — Shares — One of the strangest things about the immigration debate is the fervent belief by conservatives that President Obama is motivated only by devious partisan considerations.
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Washington Monthly, The Dish and PoliticusUSA
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Admits: ‘I Just Took an Action to Change the Law’ — The White House has argued that President Obama's executive amnesty order last week was made well within the existing law. But in remarks in Chicago tonight, President Obama went off script and admitted that in fact he unilaterally made changes to the law.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Obama to immigration hecklers: ‘I just took an action to change the law’
Obama to immigration hecklers: ‘I just took an action to change the law’
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Riehl World News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: Dems erred with ObamaCare — Democrats made a strategic mistake by passing the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, said Tuesday. — Schumer says Democrats “blew the opportunity the American people gave them” …
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CNNMoney.com:
U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards — For 44 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has defended the American people's right to breathe clean air by setting national air quality standards for common air pollutants. — Successful public health protection depends on the latest science.
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ThinkProgress
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions
Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls on Ozone Emissions
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Politico, The Verge, The Equation, Political Wire, Washington Times and FOX News Radio
Reuters:
U.S. judges overturn gay marriage bans in Arkansas, Mississippi — (Reuters) - U.S. district judges on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional same-sex marriage bans in Arkansas and Mississippi, separately overturning measures that voters approved a decade ago in both socially conservative Southern states.
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AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos
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NBC News:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Stent Placed in Her Heart — Ginsburg, 81, said in a series of interviews this year that she has no plans to retire.
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Mediaite and The Agonist
Rachel Huggins / The Hill:
Obama fires back at hecklers: ‘Get the facts’ — President Obama shot back at hecklers Tuesday who interrupted his speech in Chicago, insisting they “get the facts.” — Back in his hometown, Obama pitched his sweeping executive actions on immigraton to a pre-dominantly Polish-American crowd.
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Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Why amnesty will force layoffs — President Obama's amnesty for illegal immigrants will produce a disaster of unparalleled magnitude when the ObamaCare employer mandate kicks in. — Those granted amnesty will not be eligible for ObamaCare. The amnesty will merely keep them safe from deportation; it won't make them legal.