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Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
Big Idea: California Is So Over — California's drought and how it's handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior. — California has met the future, and it really doesn't work.
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The PJ Tatler
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Granny Get Your Gun — WASHINGTON — THE most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem. She can't figure out how to campaign as a woman. — In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men — Bill Clinton and Mark Penn — and campaigned like a man.
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Booman Tribune, Althouse and The Moderate Voice
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000 — The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
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Fox News and Instapundit
New York Times:
Voting Rights, by the Numbers — When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its main argument was that the law was outdated. — Discrimination against minority voters may have been pervasive in the 1960s when the law was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote …
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Hullabaloo
Betsy Hiel / Associated Press:
Reagan shooter Hinckley closer to permanent freedom — The last man to shoot an American president spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community. — He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and drives around in a Toyota.
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Liberaland, FOX News Radio and Associated Press
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Walker Shines in New Hampshire — Nashua, N.H. — Scott Walker was feeling it. — He'd been speaking for a little more than ten minutes, telling stories about his battles in Wisconsin to a crowd of Republicans nodding their heads in enthusiastic agreement.
Washington Post:
GOP contenders audition their attack lines on Clinton — NASHUA, N.H. — As Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared to bring her week-old presidential campaign to this state on Monday, an array of Republicans vying to be their party's pick spent the weekend offering a preview of how they would take her on.
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Plain Dealer:
Ohio principal dumps school's Muslim headscarf day after online backlash — Mindy McCarty-Stewart, principal of Mason High School in Mason, Ohio, Thursday, April 16, 2015, canceled a student-led event in which girls planned to celebrate diversity by spending a day wearing a Muslim headscarf.
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The Gateway Pundit, Cincinnati.com, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and BizPac Review
Harry Dunphy / Associated Press:
The world's financial leaders see a number of threats facing a global economy still on an uneven road to recovery with U.S. and European officials worrying that Greece will default on its debt. — The finance ministers and central bank governors ended three days of meetings in Washington determined …
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Bloomberg Business
Jackie Congedo / WLWT-TV:
Officer: ‘I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force’ — Kidder says relative gave him body camera to use at work after Ferguson — Officer Jesse Kidder has only been on the New Richmond police force for a year, but he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he's a Purple Heart recipient.
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CBS Cleveland, NBC News and Associated Press
Nicholas Garcia / Chalkbeat Colorado:
Jeffco board member apologizes for sharing link to “hate group” on Facebook — Jefferson County school board member Julie Williams said late Friday that she was “sincerely sorry” and that she would remove a link on her personal Facebook page that she shared that encouraged families to keep …
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FOX31 Denver and Raw Story
James Hohmann / Politico:
Rand Paul slams GOP foreign policy hawks — NASHUA, N.H.—Rand Paul ripped into his hawkish rivals for the Republican nomination Saturday, suggesting that problems in the Middle East would actually be worse under them than President Barack Obama. — “There's a group of folks in our party …
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The Reaction
Washington Post:
New Hampshire could be make-or-break for Jeb Bush — MANCHESTER, N.H. — St. Anselm College has been a required stop on the pilgrimage for presidential aspirants, going at least as far back as John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon more than a half-century ago.
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FOX News Radio and Political Wire
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Marco Rubio-Jeb Bush alliance sours in GOP primary faceoff
Marco Rubio-Jeb Bush alliance sours in GOP primary faceoff
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller