memeorandum: ISIS Video Purports to Show Killing of Ethiopian Christians (David D. Kirkpatrick/New York Times)

12:30 AM ET, April 20, 2015

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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.

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Daily Mail:

Slaughter on the beach: ISIS behead and shoot Ethiopian Christians in sickening new propaganda video — Video seems to show militants in Libya holding one group of at least 16 captive on a beach and 12 others in a desert — Before the killings a masked fighter in black brandishes …

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

ISIS Video Purports to Show Killing of Ethiopian Christians — CAIRO — The Islamic State released a video on Sunday that appears to show fighters from affiliates in southern and eastern Libya executing dozens of Ethiopian Christians, some by beheading and others by shooting.

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Matt Lewis / Telegraph:

Why satire not scandal could derail Hillary Clinton's campaign — “Serious” stories about Hillary Clinton did not attract as much coverage as her failure to leave a tip at a Mexican restaurant, writes Matt Lewis — Republicans are the usual targets for caricature on popular US comedy show …

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Jon Stewart / Guardian:

why I quit The Daily Show — Stewart's decision to retire as host of the satirical news show after 16 years has left liberal America in mourning. So why is he leaving just before an election - and what will happen when he steps out from behind the desk? — here was no one moment …

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:

Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege — A LIVING cartoonist lecturing his murdered peers makes for a curious spectacle, but that's what transpired at journalism's George Polk Awards a week ago. The lecturer was Garry Trudeau, of “Doonesbury” fame; his subject was the cartoonists for Charlie Hebdo …

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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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Matea Gold / Washington Post:

Big money in politics emerges as a rising issue in 2016 campaign — At almost the same time last week that a Florida mailman was landing a gyrocopter in front of the U.S. Capitol to protest the influence of the wealthy on politics, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was getting pressed …

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‘Free-range’ flap fans the flames of a national debate on parenting — Montgomery County police said that a call came in to check on the children's welfare shortly before 5 p.m. (Montgomery County Police) — Long before the Meitivs of Silver Spring clashed with Montgomery County …

Jim Yardley / New York Times:

Hundreds of Migrants Are Feared Dead as Ship Capsizes Off Libyan Coast — ROME — Hundreds of people were feared dead on Sunday after a ship crowded with migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean, as the authorities described a grisly scene of bodies floating and submerging in the warm waters …