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New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie loses his marbles on national TV | Editorial — Star-Ledger Editorial Board By Star-Ledger Editorial Board — It's no wonder that New Jersey is screaming a warning to the rest of the country. — For months, we have wondered how Gov. Chris Christie thinks he can win …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Reaction, Hinterland Gazette, The Moderate Voice and Washington Post
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
U.S. Releases Contents Of Bin Laden's English-Language “Bookshelf” — From Chomsky to Woodward. BuzzFeed News got a first look at the rare public accounting of some of the documents seized from Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. government this week …
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Politico, Gawker, CNN, Mashable, Hit & Run, The Week, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic and Al Jazeera English
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Gawker:
Apply to Work for al Qaeda Today!
Apply to Work for al Qaeda Today!
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Reuters, ODNI Newsroom Feed, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and The Week
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
If you search Google Maps for the N-word, it gives you the White House — Someone on Google Maps just labeled President Obama a very bad word. — A reader points out that if you enter a search for “N***** king” — which contains a particularly offensive racial epithet for African Americans …
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Guardian, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Hinterland Gazette and The Verge
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Iowa Democrats: Flawed Hillary Clinton Our Best Hope to Win — A Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies focus group finds Democrats resolved over their presidential frontrunner. — t margarettalev — Iowa Democrats are rallying around Hillary Clinton with pragmatic enthusiasm …
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Washington Post, Fox News, Business Insider, neo-neocon, Shakesville, The Reaction, Weekly Standard, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and Twitchy
Bobby Blanchard / The Texas Tribune:
In Beaumont, Ted Cruz Spars a Bit … BEAUMONT — Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz hit some of his main stump points while meeting with local leaders here Tuesday afternoon — promising to defend the Constitution, step back from the Obama administration's foreign policy and promote economic growth.
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Joe. My. God., Salon, Trail Blazers Blog and Gallup
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz Asks Reporters If ‘The Left’ Is ‘Obsessed With Sex’
Ted Cruz Asks Reporters If ‘The Left’ Is ‘Obsessed With Sex’
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Mediaite
Nick Gass / Politico:
Study on gay marriage views retracted after allegations of fake data — One of the authors of a recent study which claimed that short conversations with gay people could change minds on same-sex marriage has retracted it. — The retraction this week of the popular article published …
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Mediaite and Washington Post
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Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed:
Data Faked In Study About Gay People Changing Voters' Minds
Data Faked In Study About Gay People Changing Voters' Minds
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Washington Post, US News and Poynter.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Alan Grayson called cops on wife for allegedly using his credit card — Florida Rep. Alan Grayson recently called his estranged wife a “gold digger,” but a review of the potential Senate candidate's soap-opera divorce case shows he unsuccessfully tried to have her criminally charged for far less …
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The Hill, National Journal, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire and Business Insider
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cotton blocks move to take up NSA reform bill — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blocked a move from Republican colleague Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Tuesday to bring up the House-passed USA Freedom Act, which would reform the National Security Agency's surveillance practices.
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American Spectator
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Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Mitch McConnell's Two-Part Patriot Act Gamble
Mitch McConnell's Two-Part Patriot Act Gamble
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Hot Air, Bloomberg View, Guardian and The Intercept
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. House Benghazi panel subpoenas former Clinton White House aide — Congressional investigators have issued a subpoena demanding that former Clinton White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal testify next month before the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Curious Case of 50,000 Pages of Hillary Clinton E-Mails
The Note: The Curious Case of 50,000 Pages of Hillary Clinton E-Mails
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The Daily Caller, Political Wire, Washington Free Beacon and Politico
Susan Candiotti / CNN:
Source: Aaron Hernandez a lookout in prison fight — Rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez 13 photos — Former NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends his murder trial in Fall River, Massachusetts, on Thursday, January 29. The state accused Hernandez of orchestrating the shooting death …
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The Daily Caller, abc11.com, WPRI-TV and TMZ.com
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC, All 50 States and D.C. Charge Four Cancer Charities With Bilking Over $187 Million from Consumers — Complaint Alleges Defendants Falsely Claimed Donations Would Help Pay For Pain Medication, Hospice Care & Other Services; But Spent Donations on Cars, Trips, Sports Tickets, & Professional Fundraisers
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Charisse Jones / USA Today:
Sham cancer charities face federal charges of stealing $187M
Sham cancer charities face federal charges of stealing $187M
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The Week and Joe. My. God.
The Commonwealth Fund:
The Problem of Underinsurance and How Rising Deductibles Will Make It Worse — Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2014 — 31 million people in the United States were underinsured in 2014 — 11% of privately insured adults had a deductible of $3K or more in 2014, up from 1% in 2003
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The Huffington Post, Balloon Juice and New York Times
Dan Freedman / Connecticut Post:
Obama official once said train-safety cost outweighed benefit — WASHINGTON — When a Republican lawmaker in 2011 asked an Obama administration Office of Management and Budget official to name regulations where costs were not justified by benefits, the official had a ready answer.
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American Spectator, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers
Bobby Jindal / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Bobby Jindal plans to issue an executive order enforcing intent of religious freedom bill — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said he plans to issue an executive order enacting the intent of religious freedom legislation that died in a House committee Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |
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Washington Monthly, Fox News, Right Wing Watch, Washington Post, PoliticusUSA, Politico, Advocate and BuzzFeed
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Emily Lane / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Gov. Bobby Jindal issues religious freedom executive order
Gov. Bobby Jindal issues religious freedom executive order
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BuzzFeed, Right Wing Watch and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Pew Internet:
Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden have brought new attention to debates about how best to preserve Americans' privacy in the digital age.
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Mashable, Politico and New York Times
Katie Pavlich / The Hill:
The protected, connected liberal media elite — On Dec. 23, 2012, former NBC anchor David Gregory hosted an interview with National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre on “Meet the Press.” — As expected, the interview was hostile, with Gregory repeatedly badgering LaPierre …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
How the ‘ick factor’ could doom Hillary — and her party — Another day, another three Hillary stories — all of which continue the ongoing tarnishment of the Clinton brand. — Tarnishment (n): The dilution of the quality of a trademark due to its association with a similar but inferior or more questionable version.
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Betsy's Page and National Journal
Cyd Zeigler / Outsports:
Texas college bans gay athletes from dating or supporting same-sex marriage — LeTourneau Univ., an NCAA Division III school in Texas, has a new policy forbidding gay student-athletes from dating. Any support for same-sex marriage can result in an athlete's dismissal.