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Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’ — Hillary Rodham Clinton will call Wednesday morning for far-reaching reforms in the criminal justice system that would “end the era of mass incarceration,” according to a campaign aide. — In a speech at Columbia University in New York City …
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Guardian, Progress Pond, Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh and Talking Points Memo
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The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore
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Associated Press, digital.vpr.net and Yahoo Politics


The Blue-City Model — Baltimore shows how progressivism has failed urban America.
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AMERICAN DIGEST and Instapundit

Clinton: ‘Baltimore is burning’
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ABC News, Hot Air, Mediaite and Weekly Standard

Hillary Clinton calls for end to mass incarceration, reversing Bill Clinton legacy
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BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress and Guardian

Hillary Clinton's forgotten death penalty shift
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Washington Post and New York Times

Hillary Clinton To Call For ‘End To The Era Of Mass Incarceration’ In Major Speech
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Vox, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh, The Verge, Hot Air and Business Insider

Hillary Clinton Pushes Criminal-Justice Proposals in Baltimore Aftermath
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Bloomberg View, US News, New York Magazine, Shakesville, Washington Post, New York Times and Talking Points Memo


‘We Will Not Obey’: Christian Leaders Threaten Civil Disobedience if Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage — “We will not obey.” — That's the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.
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Washington Monthly, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Signal and Fox News
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Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to see a nobility of purpose in gay marriage.
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The Progressive Pulse, Hullabaloo, The Atlantic and RH Reality Check

Majority of Republicans would attend a loved one's gay wedding: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Huffington Post, Washington Post and Hot Air


State of the News Media 2015 — Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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The Atlantic, The Hill, Washington Post, TVNewser, Pew Research Center and Poynter., more at Mediagazer »
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Cable News: Fact Sheet
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Capital New York and PoliticusUSA

Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray” — Shares - — The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.
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Liberaland, New York Post, Weekly Standard, American Journalism Review, Business Insider, NPR, Washington Post, The PJ Tatler, CNN, Poynter., Scared Monkeys, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Patterico's Pontifications, now.snopes.com, CBS Baltimore, TVNewser, KFOR-TV, The Atlantic, Towleroad News #gay and WMAR
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Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice
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Washington Post


Obama: ‘No excuse’ for violence in Baltimore — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the “criminals and thugs who tore up” the city of Baltimore on Monday night, after rioting and looting paralyzed the city and overwhelmed local officials.
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Mashable and The Huffington Post
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Why Baltimore: An American Tragedy
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Power Line, Washington Times and WBIR-TV


61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill — Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario. — Shares — Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …
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Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money


The Church of Lyin'tology … Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times start to run out of road. After enough years have passed, a career's worth of public bulls**t and bad faith start to roll downhill faster …
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New York Times and Progress Pond


U.S. Economic Growth Nearly Stalls Out — Businesses slash investment, exports tumble and consumers show caution as GDP expands at 0.2% pace — WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy slowed to a crawl at the start of the year as businesses slashed investment, exports tumbled and consumers showed signs of caution …
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Reuters, White House.gov Blog, Washington Post, New York Times, Outside the Beltway and NPR
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Clinton Foundation Failed to Disclose 1,100 Foreign Donations — Hillary Clinton's presidential run is prompting new scrutiny of the Clintons' financial and charitable affairs—something that's already proved problematic for the Democratic frontrunner, given how closely these two worlds overlap.


Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’ — A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations. — The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.
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ThinkProgress, ucsusa.org/press/all, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller


Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch — Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence. — VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …
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WGN-TV and fox13now.com


Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch — Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch. 9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15. — CONNECT — AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
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New York's PIX11


Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem — Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Guardian and Daily Kos


Thousands of new Lerner emails found — An inspector general investigating the IRS's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups has found thousands of emails from Lois Lerner, the agency official at the center of that controversy, according to committees involved in the probe.
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CNN, Fox News, Scared Monkeys, TheBlaze.com, Hot Air and The Last Refuge

Reid applauds man who started rumor his brother beat him up — WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday applauded the Las Vegas man who made up a story about him being beaten up by his brother and successfully planted the tale with some conservative bloggers and radio talk show hosts.