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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush's Former Classmates Say He Was A Hash-Smoking Bully — Thanks to the Boston Globe, we know what it's like to get high with Jeb Bush. — The newspaper spoke with several of Bush's former classmates from the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., who portrayed the former Florida governor as a stoner and a bit of a bully.
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Raw Story
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Michael KranishGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years — Possible presidential candidate had tumultuous four years at Andover school
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Althouse, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Business Insider and FOX News Radio
Michael KranishGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Jeb Bush shaped by troubled Phillips Academy years — Possible presidential candidate had tumultuous four years at Andover school
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Daily Mail, Reuters, US News, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Reihan Salam / Slate:
The Upper Middle Class Is Ruining America — And I want it to stop. — I first encountered the upper middle class when I attended a big magnet high school in Manhattan that attracted a decent number of brainy, better-off kids whose parents preferred not to pay private-school tuition.
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Althouse and New York Times
CNN:
Mary Cheney: Why is drag ‘socially acceptable’ and blackface isn't? — Washington (CNN)Mary Cheney wants to know why it isn't “socially acceptable” for a white person to “put on blackface and act out offensive stereotypes of African-Americans” if drags queens are allowed to imitate female stereotypes?
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Advocate and Towleroad News #gay
BBC:
Greece economy: Merkel rules out more debt relief — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out cancelling any of Greece's debt, saying banks and creditors have already made substantial cuts. — But Mrs Merkel told the Die Welt newspaper she still wanted Greece to stay in the eurozone.
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The Last Refuge, Bloomberg Business, The Gateway Pundit and NPR
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CNN:
Whitney Houston's daughter found unresponsive, taken to hospital — Story highlights — (CNN)Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive Saturday morning in a bathtub full of water in Roswell, Georgia, police in that Atlanta suburb said.
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Scared Monkeys and Joe. My. God.
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
Shoveling Science — Were you hit this week by all the climate change? We here in the Baltimore/Washington area received just a light dusting, but Boston was covered in it. Actually, thanks to the mainstream media, the whole nation was covered in climate change.
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
John B. Geer had hands up when shot by Fairfax County police, documents show — John B. Geer stood with his hands on top of the storm door of his Springfield townhouse and calmly said to four Fairfax County police officers with guns pointed right at him: “I don't want anybody to get shot . . .
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CBS DC
New York Times:
A Strained Alliance: Obama-Netanyahu Rift Grew Over Years — WASHINGTON — For six years, the pattern has been the same. A dispute between American and Israeli leaders spills out into the open. Analysts declare the relationship in crisis. Then the two sides try to tamp down emotions …
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The Times of Israel, Sky Dancing, Politico and Washington Post
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
The Next Anti-Abortion Strategy Lurking Around The Corner — In what could represent their next major effort to dismantle the protections under Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents are laying the groundwork for a new attack on reproductive rights that borrows a page out of their old playbook.
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Hullabaloo and LifeSiteNews
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Michael Moore: Clint Eastwood Once Threatened to Kill Me — Does this explain why Michael Moore has been so critical of American Sniper? In a long Facebook post Thursday night, the filmmaker recounted the time 10 years ago this month that Clint Eastwood allegedly threatened to kill him.
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FOX News Radio
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Michael Moore / Facebook:
The Day Clint Eastwood Said He Would “Kill” Me, 10 Years Ago This Week
The Day Clint Eastwood Said He Would “Kill” Me, 10 Years Ago This Week
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BizPac Review, TheBlaze.com, Scared Monkeys, Talking Points Memo, Addicting Info, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged — Bernie Sanders is in his natural state - of agitation. — It's just 9 a.m., but the socialist senator, contemplating a presidential run as a Democrat or as a populist independent, is red in the face and his white hair askew.
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The Moderate Voice
Matt ViserGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016 — WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney told his supporters Friday that he will not run for president a third time in 2016, abruptly ending a three-week flirtation that illuminated a conflict between his White House dreams and the prospect of a highly taxing campaign …
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National Review and Mediaite
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker is Out of Mitt's Shadow—But Staying In the Spotlight Is A Challenge
Scott Walker is Out of Mitt's Shadow—But Staying In the Spotlight Is A Challenge
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Hullabaloo, Althouse and Politico