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Sen. Lindsey Graham / ABC News:
‘No Doubt’ President Obama Loves His Country, Says Sen. Lindsey Graham — Potential Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham has “no doubt” that President Obama loves his country, refuting comments made by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani earlier this week.
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USA Today:
Homeland Security chief: Be ‘vigilant’ at malls — The secretary of Homeland Security on Sunday warned shoppers at Minnesota's iconic Mall of America and similar venues to be vigilant in the wake of new terrorist threats. — “I'm not telling people to not go to the mall,” Secretary Jeh Johnson said on NBC's Meet The Press.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mall Of America Ups Security After Alleged Terrorist Threat
Mall Of America Ups Security After Alleged Terrorist Threat
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FOX News Radio
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson
‘This Week’ Transcript: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson
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Politico and Bloomberg Business
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Johnson warns Mall of America patrons
Johnson warns Mall of America patrons
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Reuters, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Hot Air, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, The Week and New York Magazine
NY Daily News:
Retired White Plains cop dead after killing two daughters, family dogs: officials — The high school in the small Westchester town shaken by a former police officer's murder of his two teenage daughters continued to come to grips with the unspeakable tragedy Sunday and was scheduled to open …
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New York's PIX11, Scared Monkeys, CBS New York, FreakOutNation, New York Magazine and Gawker
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Sean Kelly / OpposingViews.com:
Retired Police Officer Shoots, Kills Two Teenage Daughters Before Taking His Own Life — On Saturday, a retired police officer shot and killed his two daughters before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. — 52-year-old Glen Hochman reportedly sectioned off an area of his home …
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FOX News Radio
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet — The Russians believed in exceptionalism, too — Rudy Giuliani is giving me Soviet flashbacks. — With his bizarre foot-in-mouth rants about how Barack Obama doesn't love “America” the way “we” do, Rudy — and other “They hate us!” …
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Salon and The Mahablog
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Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
Darrell Issa Defends Giuliani: Obama ‘Views America Differently’ — On Sunday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) ran to Rudy Giuliani's defense after the former mayor's controversial remarks about President Obama. — Giuliani claimed last week that the president was not “brought up to love this country.”
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Raw Story and Hinterland Gazette
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ex-Giuliani Staffer: He's ‘Lost the Throne’ of Being Called 'America's Mayor'
Ex-Giuliani Staffer: He's ‘Lost the Throne’ of Being Called 'America's Mayor'
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FOX News Radio
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Jeb Bush's Brainless Trust — WASHINGTON — I had been keeping an open mind on Jeb Bush. — I mean, sure, as Florida governor, he helped his brother snatch the 2000 election. And that led to two decade-long botched wars that cost tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
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Roger Ailes
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush
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FOX News Radio
New York Times:
Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher — For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.
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Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry
Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry
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InsideClimate News, New York Times, ThinkProgress and Liberaland
Jim Romenesko:
Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership — Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …
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Politico and PandoDaily, more at Mediagazer »
Heather / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Former CBS Correspondent Takes Apart Bill O'Reilly's Argentina Story — CNN's Brian Stelter spoke to former CBS correspondent Eric Engberg about his recent post questioning Bill O'Reilly's version of events on his reporting in Argentina. Stelter asked Engberg at the end of the segment …
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CNNMoney, Hinterland Gazette, The Huffington Post and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
James Hohmann / Politico:
Walker feeling the heat — He says he's ready for 2016 but the Wisconsin governor hasn't faced anything like this. — Scott Walker likes to say that the recall election he survived three years ago, when national media descended on Madison to cover his showdown with Big Labor, prepared him for the rigors of a presidential campaign.
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Althouse
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Export-Import Bank critics pounce after bank yanks public data — Critics of the Export-Import Bank are seething over the removal from a government Web site of previously public data earlier they say helps them detect cronyism. — Between January 29 and February 13, officials …
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RedState