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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
He Is Heavy. He's My Brother. — WASHINGTON — IT isn't about what we know now. — It's about what we knew then. — It is simply not true, as Republican presidential aspirant Scott Walker said on Friday, that “any president would have likely taken the same action Bush did with the information he had.”
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Associated Press:
GOP Prospects in Iowa Agree to Get Tough With Terrorists — Republicans wooing Iowa's most active party members called Saturday for a stronger presence in the world but ran the gamut in tone and just how tough to get with America's enemies. — On Armed Services Day …
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Washington Post:
Wide GOP field has party leaders anxious about '16 — DES MOINES — To take back the White House after eight years in the political wilderness, Republicans think they must soften their image and expand their appeal in particular to women and Latino voters. As Jeb Bush, a leading presidential …
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Connie Cass / Associated Press:
Iraq War Judged a Mistake by Today's White House Hopefuls — A dozen years later, American politics has reached a rough consensus about the Iraq War: It was a mistake. — Politicians hoping to be president rarely run ahead of public opinion. So it's a revealing moment when the major contenders …
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Politico
Peter Schweizer / USA Today:
Stephanopoulos, ABC have not fully disclosed Clinton ties: Schweizer — ABC's anchor much closer to Hillary's foundation than he told his viewers. — Fact-driven, fair, aggressive journalism animates American politics. As an investigative journalist, I am accustomed to asking tough questions.
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Jonathan Allen / Vox:
Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her
Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Peter Schweizer: ABC Should Redo Our Interview After Stephanopolous Admitted to Clinton Donations
Peter Schweizer: ABC Should Redo Our Interview After Stephanopolous Admitted to Clinton Donations
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NewsBusters and Ed Driscoll
Jim Messina / Politico:
Why the GOP can't get no satisfaction — My British experience — including advice from Mick Jagger — taught me that the Republican Party could end up like Ed Miliband. — Lead image by Getty. — One of the savviest political observers I've come across is Mick Jagger.
Sacramento Bee:
Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians — At California Democratic Party convention, Senate candidate makes whooping gesture Attorney General Kamala Harris calls it ‘shocking’ Sanchez would not say if gesture was an appropriate one
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New York Times:
The Right Baits the Left to Turn Against Hillary Clinton — WASHINGTON — A Twitter post recently caught the eye of Bill McKibben, the environmental advocate and godfather of the Keystone XL pipeline protests. It included an image from “The Simpsons” showing Homer and his family basking …
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The Moderate Voice and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Housing Apartheid, American Style — The riots that erupted in Baltimore last month were reminiscent of those that consumed cities all over the country during the 1960s. This rage and unrest was thoroughly explained five decades ago by President Lyndon Johnson's National Advisory Commission …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Al Sharpton's daughter sues city for $5M after spraining ankle — She learned at the feet of a master. — Shakedown artist Al Sharpton's eldest child wants $5 million from city taxpayers after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle, court records show.
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Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
David McCabe / The Hill:
George W. Bush defends religious liberty — Former President George W. Bush offered a defense of religious liberty and faith more broadly while speaking at Southern Methodist University's (SMU) commencement ceremony Saturday. — He spent some of his speech talking about why graduates …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The College Fix and Mediaite
Catherine Saint Louis / New York Times:
New Challenge for Police: Finding Pot in Lollipops and Marshmallows — After nearly 20 years on the job, Jim Jeffries, the police chief in LaFollette, Tenn., has seen his share of marijuana seizures — dry green buds stashed in trunks or beneath seats, often double-bagged to smother the distinctive scent.
New York Times:
ISIS Official Killed in U.S. Raid in Syria, Pentagon Says — WASHINGTON — American Special Operations forces mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria early Saturday, killing a leader of the Islamic State and about a dozen militant fighters, as well as capturing his wife and freeing …
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Slate, Reuters, Right Wing Watch, The Atlantic, DoD, Infowars, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice and CNN
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