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Rudolph Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message — Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership. — There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.
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Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
Darrell Issa Defends Giuliani: Obama ‘Views America Differently’
Darrell Issa Defends Giuliani: Obama ‘Views America Differently’
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Raw Story
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet
Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet
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Salon, The Last Tradition and The Mahablog
Juan Williams / The Hill:
McConnell fails to deliver — After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill this week. — Somehow the bruised Reid looks good compared to the new Republican Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Congress faces five-day deadline for funding Homeland Security — Lawmakers will begin returning to Washington on Monday with only five days left to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). — Legislation funding the agency is at an impasse over provisions demanded …
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Washington Post, Political Wire, ABC News and The Week
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why are Americans confused about Obama's religion? — Fresh from a controversy over his views on evolution, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is now involved in a controversy over his views, or lack of them, on President Obama's religion. On Saturday, two Washington Post reporters asked Walker …
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BuzzFeed, Washington Monthly, American Prospect, msnbc.com and Booman Tribune
Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
Walker's anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin — KING, Wis. — At the old union hall here on a recent afternoon, Terry Magnant sat at the head of a table surrounded by 18 empty chairs. A members meeting had been scheduled to start a half-hour earlier, but the small house …
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Fox News, BillMoyers.com and RedState
Washington Post:
Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush's low-key wife — In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.
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The Week, Democratic Strategist, Political Wire and Discourse.net
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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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
President Obama's cyber pitch misses mark in Silicon Valley — The Obama administration is stumbling in its cybersecurity message to Silicon Valley, according to tech executives and a former White House official. — The White House recently made a big show of going to Stanford University for a major cybersecurity summit.
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary Clinton's War on Women — Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a champion of women in the workforce, but women working for her in the U.S. Senate were paid 72 cents for each dollar paid to men, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of her Senate years' salary data.
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New York Times:
Rivals Google and Apple Fight for the Dashboard — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers. — They made the trip to learn about Android Auto, a new dashboard system meant …
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Hillary's ethics: Clinton foundation should return foreign gifts — Donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation include Hollywood stars, Farmers Insurance and the H.J. Heinz Co. Foundation. They also include the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates, creating a sticky ethical bog …
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The Hill, Raleigh News & Observer, Washington Free Beacon and Washington Post
Daily Mail:
The milk of human kindness came before intelligence: Skulls of early humans show they developed compassion up to 3million years ago - before they could even speak — Study suggests kindness and compassion came before intelligence, and may have helped early humans develop reasoning skills and speech
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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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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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