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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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Politico, Hot Air and Little Green Footballs
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Plain Dealer:
Republicans will launch anti-Hillary Clinton ads on Sunday as she makes her candidacy official — Is Hillary Clinton ready for Rob Portman? — Hillary Clinton is expected to announce her candidacy for president on Sunday. Republicans plan to launch ads against her in swing states, including Ohio.
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The Reaction
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bloomberg falls for fake Nancy Reagan report — Bloomberg Politics published a report about Nancy Reagan based off of fake news site NationalReport.net — The piece, headlined “Nancy Reagan gives her endorsement to... Hillary Clinton,” quoted a supposed “Drudge Report” …
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Addicting Info, Mediaite and DrudgeReport
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Democrats and Independents Don't Want a Hillary Coronation
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Democrats and Independents Don't Want a Hillary Coronation
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Moe Lane
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton, First Lady, on Gay Marriage: A Case Study In Opacity
Hillary Clinton, First Lady, on Gay Marriage: A Case Study In Opacity
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Politico and The Atlantic Online
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
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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Washington Post, Mashable, Los Angeles Times, WBUR, Bloomberg Business, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and RedState
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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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New York Times
David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
Rand Paul, Media Darling
Rand Paul, Media Darling
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The Daily Caller, mrctv.org/videos, Politico, Washington Monthly and Mediaite
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 — In a WorldNetDaily column titled “Is Iran Deal Part Of Obama-3rd-Term Scheme?,” conservative activist Alan Keyes writes today that President Obama has made a secret deal with Iran that allows the country to “unleash nuclear destruction” …
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Washington Monthly
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
Associated Press:
Obamas file annual tax return showing $477,000 in income - but they paid $93,362 in federal taxes and got a $20,000 REFUND — President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, paid more than $93,000 in federal taxes last year on an adjusted gross income of more than $477,000, according to tax returns released Friday by the White House.
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Josh Earnest / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama and Vice President Biden's 2014 Tax Returns — Today, the President released his 2014 federal income tax returns. He and the First Lady filed their income tax returns jointly and reported adjusted gross income of $477,383. The Obamas paid $93,362 in total tax.
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New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Wayne LaPierre: Hillary ‘Will Bring a Permanent Darkness of Deceit and Despair’ — At the NRA's annual convention today, Wayne LaPierre spent quite a lot of time in his speech talking about Hillary Clinton and how much they cannot let her become the next president.
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Right Wing Watch, Raw Story and FOX News Radio
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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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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Ed Driscoll and Hot Air
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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 and The PJ Tatler
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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The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Politico, Mashable, Slate and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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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Liberaland and FOX News Radio
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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Hot Air, Townhall.com and The Daily Caller
Booker Complaint / U.S. Department of Justice:
Topeka, Kansas, Man Charged in Plot to Explode Car Bomb at Military Base — A Topeka, Kansas, man has been charged in federal court with attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley military base near Manhattan, Kansas, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin …
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Firedoglake, Mediaite, KFOR-TV and NBC News
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Revolution Lives! — Beyond all the talk of centrifuges and enrichment capacities, President Obama's deal with Iran is really a giant gamble on the nature of the Iranian regime. The core question is: Are the men who control that country more like Lenin or are they more like Gorbachev?
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The Daily Beast, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Weekly Standard, MintPress News, Booman Tribune and Washington Free Beacon
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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Right Wing Watch and Daily Kos
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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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Friendly Atheist and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
Conservative Groups Vow to Quash Dan Savage's ABC Sitcom Pilot — Dan Savage doesn't even have a sitcom based on his life yet, though there is a pilot, starring Martha Plimpton, currently in production at ABC. But that hasn't stopped social conservatives from mounting a campaign against the embryonic show.
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