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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
King Blames Obama for Inciting Baltimore Riots — The Iowa firebrand takes his hot fire to South Carolina. — Representative Steve King was in his element at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday, saying after a speech to raucous conservatives that the fault for riots in Baltimore lies with President Barack Obama.
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Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Top GOP Pollster Makes Really Weird Joke About Bruce Jenner At 2016 Event — A scene from Diane Sawyer's interview with Bruce Jenner. — CREDIT: YouTube/ABC News — GOP pollster Frank Luntz made an awkward joke about Bruce Jenner during a focus group at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday afternoon.
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Raw Story
Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
Why Character Attacks on Hillary Won't Work — Why the former first couple has always survived attacks on their character, and probably always will. — If you're Martin O'Malley, or one of the other potential Democrats pondering a race against Hillary Clinton, you've been presented …
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The Moderate Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog, CANNONFIRE and New York Times
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Capper / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Walker Shoots His Campaign In The Foot — On Sunday, Sergio Valencia del Toro was upset by an argument with his fiancee. He chose to deal with his pain and anger by going to a community setting with two hand guns and opening fire, killing three people - including an 11 year old girl - before taking his own life:
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Hullabaloo
Yahoo:
Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal — “She's absolutely wrong,” Barack Obama said, before I could even get the question out of my mouth. — He was talking about Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and populist crusader whom Obama helped elevate to national prominence.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, Fox News and New York Times
Sheri Fink / New York Times:
Liberia Is Free of Ebola, World Health Organization Declares — The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic. — “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over …
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The Atlantic, The Verge, Outside the Beltway, NPR and The Agonist
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Media centre — The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over
Media centre — The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over
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NBC News, Common Dreams and Mediaite
Matthew Pratt Guterl / The New Republic:
What Is David Brooks's Purpose? — The Times columnist says moral debate is dying. He must not be paying attention to #BlackLivesMatter. — New York Times columnist David Brooks has a question for you: “What Is Your Purpose?” That's the title of his latest missive on public morality …
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Washington Monthly, Unfogged and Power Line
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Triumph of the Unthinking — “Words,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” I've always loved that quote, and have tried to apply it to my own writing. But I have to admit that in the long slump that followed …
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Frankly Curious and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Charles Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back — Too many government regulations today are pointless and prevent us from doing our jobs as well as we could, writes Charles Murray. His modest proposal: Ignore them. — America is no longer the land of the free.
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The PJ Tatler
David Frum / The Atlantic:
What Republicans Can Learn From British Conservatives — Stephen Harper in Canada. Tony Abbott in Australia. John Key in New Zealand. And now, impressively re-elected, a second-term David Cameron in the United Kingdom. — Center-right leaders are in charge of every one of America's closest English-speaking allies.
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Instapundit, BBC and Washington Post
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Father Apparently Confesses to Family's Murder in Facebook Post — A British Columbia man has apparently admitted in a Facebook post to killing his family, CBC News reports. The post on Randy Janzen's Facebook page states that he killed his wife, his daughter, and his sister.
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Liberaland, Mediaite and BizPac Review
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
North Korea tests submarine ballistic missile — North Korea claims it launched a missile from a submarine. If true, the launch violates U.N. sanctions and makes the country more of a threat. Video provided by Newsy Newslook — Under the watchful eyes of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …