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Cecilio Padilla / CBS Sacramento:
Support Of Israel Reason House Was Tagged With Swastikas, Frat Says — DAVIS (CBS13) - On Saturday morning - the holiest day of the week for Jews - swastikas spray painted in red on their Jewish frat house were the last thing these brothers expected to wake up to.
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Richard / Sacramento Bee:
Sacto 911 — Students at a UC Davis-affiliated Jewish fraternity house awoke Saturday morning to find two large swastikas spray painted onto their building. — Nathaniel Bernhard, vice president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, said the vandalism took place between 3 and 9 a.m. Saturday.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
McCain defends ‘low-life scum’ remark — McCain doesn't regret calling protestors “lowlife scum” 02:51 — Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain says the Code Pink protesters he called “low-life scum” at a hearing last week deserved it. — The Arizona Republican made the remark after protesters rushed …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
McCain Doesn't Regret Calling Protesters ‘Low-Life Scum’ (VIDEO)
McCain Doesn't Regret Calling Protesters ‘Low-Life Scum’ (VIDEO)
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CNN, Mediaite and FOX News Radio
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
With Romney Gone, Ryan Says He Will Stay Neutral in 2016
With Romney Gone, Ryan Says He Will Stay Neutral in 2016
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Politico
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Huckabee compares being gay to drinking, swearing — Washington (CNN)Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says expecting Christians to accept same-sex marriage is “like asking someone who's Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli.”
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Mike Huckabee: Christians Object To Gay Marriage Like Muslims Think Dogs Are Unclean — Possible Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday argued that Christians could have “gay friends,” while still opposing marriage equality because it was a biblical principle.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Chickens come home to roost for de Blasio — For Mayor de Blasio, last week was one he'd like to forget. It started with brickbats over a botched plan for a blizzard that fizzled, and it was all downhill from there. — By the end, he was battling something more pernicious than either Mother Nature or Gov. Cuomo.
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Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
WATCH: Police Officer Draws Gun On Black Kids Throwing Snowballs — A New Rochelle, New York police office is seen in a disturbing video drawing his firearm then aiming it at a youth who was in a snowball fight with his friends. — The kids are seen kneeling in the snow.
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Detroit Free Press:
Last Slide — “I set our attendance standard by this man,” says Todd Wilson, plant manager at Schain Mold & Engineering. “I say, if this man can get here, walking all those miles through snow and rain, well I'll tell you, I have people in Pontiac 10 minutes away and they say they can't get here — bull!”
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Nicole Hensley / NY Daily News:
Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate ‘disappear’ with ‘Lord of the Rings’ sorcery — The ring little Aiden brought to school may not have been the true ring of power, but it had enough controversy to get him suspended from a Kermit, Texas, school.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Obama's Plans for Deficit and Taxes Are Detailed on Eve of Budget Proposal — WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose a 10-year budget on Monday that stabilizes the federal deficit but does not seek balance, instead focusing on policies to address income inequality as he adds nearly $6 trillion to the debt.
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The PJ Tatler
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Our Loud, Proud Left — FOR the last week, liberal journalists have been furiously debating whether a new political correctness has swept over the American left. The instigator of this argument was New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, normally a scourge of Republicans, whose essay on what he dubbed …
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National Review and Booman Tribune
Beenish Ahmed / ThinkProgress:
Why Did Amal Clooney Get Asked About Versace While Taking On Armenian Genocide? — When a reporter jokingly told Amal Clooney that she was expected to wear Versace to a hearing at the European Court of Human Rights on Friday, she made a quick retort. — “I'm wearing Ede & Ravenscroft,” …
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