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Emily Greenhouse / Bloomberg Business:
RETRACTED: Nancy Reagan Gives Her Endorsement to ... Hillary Clinton? — Nancy Reagan is the subject of the second part of an upcoming History Channel series called “First Ladies In Their Own Words.” Ron Reagan, the former first lady's son, is the host of the show, created in conjunction …
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Why Hillary Clinton's Campaign Frightens Democrats — Hillary Clinton, who reportedly will announce her candidacy this weekend, is such a prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination that she more or less cleared the field simply by behaving like someone who was going to run.
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Democrats and Independents Don't Want a Hillary Coronation — If Hillary Clinton is to become her party's 2016 presidential nominee, independents and even Democrats overwhelmingly want to see her earn the title, according to a Bloomberg Politics national poll …
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Washington Post:
How Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign machine will kick into gear
How Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign machine will kick into gear
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
How Do You Hire an Understudy for a Presidential Campaign?
How Do You Hire an Understudy for a Presidential Campaign?
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Democratic Strategist
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Hillary Clinton team woos reporters
Hillary Clinton team woos reporters
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
GOP: Stop Hillary
GOP: Stop Hillary
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Lauren Gambino / Guardian:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to launch presidential campaign on Sunday en route to Iowa - source
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to launch presidential campaign on Sunday en route to Iowa - source
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Hillary to Launch Campaign This Weekend With ‘Insane’ Fundraising Push
Hillary to Launch Campaign This Weekend With ‘Insane’ Fundraising Push
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The Reaction
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Video Shows Rand Paul Walking Out Of Interview With Newspaper — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had yet another contentious interaction with the media on Friday when he reportedly walked out of an interview with The Guardian. — Staffers of The Guardian newspaper tweeted that Paul refused to answer …
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Rand Paul / Guardian:
Rand Paul walks out on Guardian interview and lights go off - video
Rand Paul walks out on Guardian interview and lights go off - video
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David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
Rand Paul, Media Darling
Rand Paul, Media Darling
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Lindsey Graham's strategy: Take down Rand Paul
Lindsey Graham's strategy: Take down Rand Paul
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JR Ross / Politico:
Scott Walker's Steep Learning Curve
Scott Walker's Steep Learning Curve
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Alan Keyes / WND:
IS IRAN DEAL PART OF OBAMA-3RD-TERM SCHEME? — Exclusive: Alan Keyes looks at impact of BHO's ‘rapprochement with deadly evil’ — Once a high-level Reagan-era diplomat, Alan Keyes is a long-time leader in the conservative movement. He is well-known as a staunch pro-life champion …
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Alan Keyes: Obama Wants Nuclear War To Obtain A Third Term
Alan Keyes: Obama Wants Nuclear War To Obtain A Third Term
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Bachmann: Obama's foreign policy ‘virtually guarantees’ World War III
Bachmann: Obama's foreign policy ‘virtually guarantees’ World War III
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
New York Times Kicks off NRA Convention Coverage with Massive Lie — The NRA Convention starts today, in Nashville, Tennessee. And so, rather predictably, the New York Times has started its day by lying about it. Per the Times's editorial board: … This is completely and utterly wrong.
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New York Times:
No Firing Pins, Please, as the N.R.A. Gathers
No Firing Pins, Please, as the N.R.A. Gathers
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Tennessean.com and Wall Street Journal
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
The New York Times Is Blatantly Lying About Guns At The NRA Annual Convention
The New York Times Is Blatantly Lying About Guns At The NRA Annual Convention
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Salon, WKRN-TV, The PJ Tatler and NPR
Hillary Clinton / The Huffington Post:
A New Chapter — “Epilogue” from the paperback edition of HARD CHOICES by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Copyright © 2014 by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. — “Where did Hillary go?” the President asked, looking around.
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Selim Algar / New York Post:
Boss in text: You're fired because you refused sex — Geralyn Ganci (left) and Raymond Townsend (right). — He's not only an incredible cad — he's incredibly stupid, too. — A married Long Island limo-company manager told a female dispatcher he was firing her because she rejected …
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BuzzFeed:
Dove Has Women Walk Through Doors Labeled “Beautiful” Or “Average” In Latest Campaign — Once again, soap is acting condescending. This post has been updated. — This post was inappropriately deleted amid an ongoing conversation about how and when to publish personal opinion pieces on BuzzFeed.
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiser
BuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiser
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Where Government Excels — As Republican presidential hopefuls trot out their policy agendas — which always involve cutting taxes on the rich while slashing benefits for the poor and middle class — some real new thinking is happening on the other side of the aisle.
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JustOneMinute
Washington Post:
What the Vatican's stalled response to France's openly gay ambassador might mean — It's been a few months since France appointed Laurent Stéfanini, a practicing Catholic who is also openly gay, to be the country's next ambassador to the Holy See. This week, the European press noticed …
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Pete Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
The Alinsky Way of Governing — What happens when those in power adopt ‘rules for radicals’ to attack their less powerful opponents. — Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, recently caused a stir by sending letters …
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: ‘Jihad’ Was Waged Against Religious Freedom Bills — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that opponents of a pair of controversial religious freedom laws had been waging a jihad against those proposals. — “We look at the jihad that is being waged right now in Indiana and Arkansas …
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Asks For Tolerance From The LGBT Community
Ben Carson Asks For Tolerance From The LGBT Community
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Bill Maher: Hillary Clinton Has My Vote But She's Not Getting A Million-Dollar Check — The HBO host talked to BuzzFeed News about a Democratic presidency he's not excited about, a Republican field he says is too weak to win a general election, and the “teenage girls” who attacked him this week.
Deseret News:
How high taxes and regulation are killing one of the most prosperous states in the nation — Upstate New York is becoming Detroit with grass. — Binghamton, New York — once a powerhouse of industry — is now approaching Detroit in many economic measures, according to the U.S. Census.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends trolling Netanyahu — The White House is standing by a tweet mocking Israeli Prime Minister Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite concerns it could further sour relations between the two countries. — A White House tweet defending the framework nuclear agreement …
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