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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton skeptics fear ‘an unstoppable train’ — Democratic insiders see little hope for Clinton's opponents, whoever they turn out to be. — It's gotten to this point: Even the Democratic Party's Hillary skeptics are resigned to her being the party's nominee.
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ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, Progress Pond, The Reaction, Hot Air and The Atlantic Online
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Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton begins her entry into the 2016 presidential race
Hillary Clinton begins her entry into the 2016 presidential race
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Business Insider, Real Clear Politics and The Reaction
Plain Dealer:
Republicans will launch anti-Hillary Clinton ads on Sunday as she makes her candidacy official
Republicans will launch anti-Hillary Clinton ads on Sunday as she makes her candidacy official
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Reaction
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Wayne LaPierre: Hillary ‘Will Bring a Permanent Darkness of Deceit and Despair’
Wayne LaPierre: Hillary ‘Will Bring a Permanent Darkness of Deceit and Despair’
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Raw Story, Right Wing Watch and FOX News Radio
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida surprise: Jeff Atwater won't run for Marco Rubio seat — Just as he looked like a front runner to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida CFO Jeff Atwater announced Saturday he would not run for the seat. — “Over the past weeks I have received a tremendous amount of encouragement …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Awkward or old friends? Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio sit next to each other on flight after NRA conference — In a sign of how literally close they are, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio sat next to each other on the same Friday night flight to Miami from Nashville, where they separately spoke at the National Rifle Association's annual convention.
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: The Democratic Whackjob Survey — Yesterday, in a somewhat useful exercise, my Democratic friend and sometimes sparring partner Carter Eskew compiled a “Republican Nutcase Check List” for Republican presidential candidates to take. (If you want to see how you'd rank, you can take that survey here.)
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The PJ Tatler
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Remains from Lincoln's Last Day — Imagine him in the last week of his life, 150 years ago this month. Shuffling, clothes hanging loosely on the 6-foot-4-inch frame, that tinny voice, a face much older than someone of 56. “I am a tired man,” he said. “Sometimes I think I am the tiredest man on earth.”
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The PJ Tatler and The Mahablog
Yoav Gonen / New York Post:
Cabby facing fine for ordering women to stop kissing — Now he's the one getting the kiss-off. — A cabby who claimed he had a “no-kissing policy” in his yellow taxi was hit with $15,000 in fines for ordering two female passengers to stop smooching — and then shouting vulgar epithets at them when they got out.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.:
Mormon Church To SCOTUS: Say No To Same-Sex Marriage Because It Will Deprive Us Of “Citizenship Rights” — A coalition of religious denominations including the Mormon Church has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in which they argue that the legalization of same-sex marriage will …
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FOX News Radio
Kathryn Schroeder / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
Father Charged With Kidnapping After Leaving 3-Year-Old In Trash Can — A father from Illinois has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped his 3-year-old daughter and left her in a trashcan. — “Our investigation initially shows that the father left the child in a garbage can and drove away …
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FOX News Radio
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Best Reason to Take Rand Paul Seriously Has Nothing to Do With His Politics — Although Rand Paul — who declared his bid for the presidency on Tuesday — has spent several years now inching toward the Republican mainstream, there is still a tendency among the political classes to view him as a sideshow candidate.
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The Week and Bloomberg Business
NBC News:
Egypt Sentences American Citizen, 27, to Life in Prison — Mohamed Soltan was arrested in 2013 after Egyptian security forces stormed a sit-in protest of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
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The Week and Rhode Island Public Radio
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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FOX News Radio
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Josh Earnest / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama and Vice President Biden's 2014 Tax Returns
President Obama and Vice President Biden's 2014 Tax Returns
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New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Is it a student's civil right to take a federally mandated standardized test? — Advocates for poor and minority children are pushing a novel idea: standardized tests as a civil right. — The nation's major civil rights groups say that federally required testing — in place …
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Diane Ravitch's blog and Althouse