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NRO's Rich Lowry Explains What Lessons He Thinks We Should Learn From Ferguson — Bloody Bill's finest does his best to attempt to absolve Darren Wilson from any responsibility for the death of Michael Brown. — From one of Bloody Bill Kristol's finest over at the National Review Online …

Discussion: Hit & Run, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos

Michael Eric Dyson / New York Times:

Where Do We Go After Ferguson? — WASHINGTON — WHEN Ferguson flared up this week after a grand jury failed to indict the white police officer Darren Wilson for killing the unarmed black youth Michael Brown, two realities were illuminated: Black and white people rarely view race in the same …

Discussion: Bloomberg Politics

Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:

CNN is lying when they say Ferguson protests were ‘peaceful’ — Here's a quiz for you folks in the media: What happens if you're out doing “man on the street” interviews but none of the men on the street fit your “narrative”? — If you're CNN, you stop interviewing them.

Associated Press:

Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson Won't Get Severance Package — FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, says police Officer Darren Wilson will not receive a severance package as part of his resignation from the police force. — Mayor James Knowles said Sunday …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Rudy Giuliani Finds A Way To Blame African Americans For Police Killings — Responding to a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that the black community …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and FOX News Radio

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Giuliani: Wilson Case Never Should Have Gone to Grand Jury

Discussion: The Daily Caller and FOX News Radio

New York Times:
On Rooftops of Ferguson, Volunteers — With Guns

Discussion: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Hullabaloo, Oath Keepers and Prairie Weather

Winston Churchill / The Daily Beast:

Heed the Warnings: Why We're on the Brink of Mass Extinction — Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll, executive producer of the doc Mass Extinction: Life At the Brink, on why mankind's days are numbered. — “How strange it is that the past is so little understood and so quickly forgotten …

Discussion: Liberaland and Hot Air

Steve Rose / Kansas City Star:

A 2016 ballot without Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush? You heard it here — Charlie Cook, one of the most respected political experts in the country, believes Hillary Clinton has only a 25-30 percent chance of running for president, and in any case he thinks she is either “rusty” or “she has lost her fastball.”

Discussion: Bloomberg Politics and Political Wire

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Jammie Wearing Fools and Prairie Weather

Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:

Obama calls Chuck Todd ‘sad’ — The commander in chief doesn't think much of the man who labeled him “The Stranger.” — Shopping at a Washington, DC, bookstore Saturday, President Obama spotted a copy of “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd's new book about his presidency. — “Oh, Chuck Todd!”

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, PoliticusUSA and Power Line

Will Hobson / Tampa Bay Times:

Tampa homeless program uses unpaid, destitute residents as steady labor force, revenue source — TAMPA — Before every Tampa Bay Buccaneers home game, dozens of men gather in the yard at New Beginnings of Tampa, one of the city's largest homeless programs. — The men — many of them …

Thomas Tracy / NY Daily News:

Heartland Brewery receives backlash for ‘racist’ slogan — The beerhouse is drawing criticism for its Bavarian Black Lager, which promises customers will become ‘a slave to the flavor.’ Several people, including Kristen John Foy of the National Action Network, say the slogan is racist and inappropriate.

Discussion: Raw Story and Hinterland Gazette

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:

When Whites Just Don't Get It, Part 5 — WE Americans are a nation divided. — We feud about the fires in Ferguson, Mo., and we can agree only that racial divisions remain raw. So let's borrow a page from South Africa and impanel a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine race in America.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Hullabaloo and CANNONFIRE

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

The Retreat to Identity — LAST summer, around the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, I wrote a column making — gingerly — a case for optimism about race and politics in America. — My argument was basically this: As much as racial controversy has marked …