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Michelle Duggar Defends Smearing Transgender People As Pedophiles: It's ‘Just Common Sense’ — During Wednesday night's interview with Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar about their son Josh's history of molesting his younger sisters, Fox News' Megyn Kelley pressed the conservative couple to justify their advocacy against LGBT equality.
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KTLA, Advocate, The Bob and Chez Show and Los Angeles Times
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Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar: Sisters 'weren't even aware' of Josh's ‘wrongdoing’ — Michelle Duggar told Megyn Kelly Wednesday that she and her husband were “devastated” when they learned their then-teenage son Josh had molested several of his sisters. — During an hour-long exclusive interview on …
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Daily Mail, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Salon and FOX News Radio
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Duggar Endorsements Disappear From Huckabee's Campaign Site — Endorsements from Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, of TLC's “19 Kids and Counting,” have disappeared from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's (R) presidential campaign website. — The Duggar endorsements enjoyed top billing on the campaign site's …
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Media Matters Exec, Editor For ‘The Nation’ Have No Clue Who Marcus Luttrell Is — Former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced the launch of his 2016 presidential campaign today, complete with a freshly painted C-130 behind him and Navy SEALs to his left and right.
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Rick Perry Has A Rap/Country Song About Rick Perry
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Yahoo Politics, ABC News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Bloomberg Business and Bloomberg View
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Rick Perry to Run for President in 2016, Shrugging Off 2012
Rick Perry to Run for President in 2016, Shrugging Off 2012
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FiveThirtyEight, Advocate, Outside the Beltway, Shakesville and Tampa Bay Times
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Let's Get This Straight, Liberals - What Kinds of Molestation are Acceptable? — I can't believe how crazy the media is going over the Duggar family compared to the big fat yawn they gave Lena Dunham when she wrote in her book that she sexually experimented with her sister.
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Mediaite, Sarah Palin, Daily Mail, Washington Post, OnPolitics and Raw Story
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Chinese hackers breach federal government's personnel office — Chinese hackers breached the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, officials said Thursday, and the agency will notify some 4 million current and former federal employees that their personal data may have been compromised.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hillary leans hard into the battle over voting — As you may have heard, Hillary Clinton is already leaning into the ever-simmering battle over voting. Her Democratic allies are preparing to wage a national legal battle against GOP state-level voting restrictions, and she is calling for a national 20-day early voting period.
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, US News, The Week, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg Business and New York Times
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Calls For Universal, Automatic Voter Registration When Americans Turn 18
Hillary Clinton Calls For Universal, Automatic Voter Registration When Americans Turn 18
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Josh Trank sets the story straight on why he left ‘Star Wars’ — When Josh Trank announced May 1 that he was dropping out of a planned “Star Wars” spinoff film less than a year after being brought on to direct, it didn't take a Jedi master to intuit that the news would cause a major disturbance in the Force.
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Comicbook.com, /Film and Spinoff Online
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Lindsey Graham Compares Hillary Clinton To North Korea's Kim Jong Un — Presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took a swipe at Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during a Thursday appearance on Fox News, comparing her to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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Democrats, Don't Freak Out! — Hillary Clinton's poll numbers …
Democrats, Don't Freak Out! — Hillary Clinton's poll numbers …
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Science:
Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus — 1National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Asheville, NC 28801, USA. — 2LMI, McLean, VA, USA. — Much study has been devoted …
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Mashable, The Daily Caller, The Carbon Brief, The Verge, New York Times, Vocativ and Greg Laden's Blog
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EPA: Fracking poses no ‘widespread, systemic’ harm to drinking water — A long-awaited EPA report on hydraulic fracturing hands a victory to the oil and gas industry, concluding that the extraction process has “not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources.”
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Is the Tide Turning against PC? — Has the contemptible Laura Kipnis Affair incensed the worm into turning? Our own David French certainly hopes so. “Feminists from Jezebel to The Nation have expressed concern about Kipnis's treatment,” French wrote on Monday, “and Jonathan Chait …
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The Reality-Based Community, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Vox and The American Conservative
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Arrest Warrants Issued To People Who Cheered At High School Graduation — Senatobia, Miss. (CBS HOUSTON) — Four people who cheered at a Mississippi high school graduation may be thrown in jail after police issued warrants for their arrest. The superintendent who filed the charges said it's …
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Fox News, RH Reality Check, Balloon Juice, Rush Limbaugh, Common Dreams, Slantpoint and Joanne Jacobs
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Stephanie Gallman / CNN:
Audience served arrest warrants for graduation cheering - CNN.com
Audience served arrest warrants for graduation cheering - CNN.com
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BarbWire.com, New York Times, Outside the Beltway and Talking Points Memo
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Twitter Just Killed Politwoops — A Twitter spokesperson just provided the following statement to Gawker regarding the apparent suspension of Politwoops' access to Twitter's developer API, which enabled the Sunlight Foundation-funded site to track tweets deleted by hundreds of politicians.
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VP Biden Leans on Faith and Family in Mourning Son Beau … Friends and aides to Vice President Joe Biden say his deep family bonds and his strong reliance on faith are helping him cope with the passing of his son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer last weekend.
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GOP hopeful Ted Cruz, after Joe Biden joke in Michigan speech, offers condolences to family
GOP hopeful Ted Cruz, after Joe Biden joke in Michigan speech, offers condolences to family
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Detroit News, Bloomberg Business, Politico and Daily Kos
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Black Chicago Pastor: Dems ‘Failing’ Us — A pastor on the South Side is asking Republicans to talk to his flock after what he says are 50 years of disappointment from the other party. — CHICAGO — It is difficult to imagine a less likely GOP presidential campaign stop than O Block.
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Instapundit
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Fifa made payment to FAI after Thierry Henry handball, claims John Delaney — The Football Association of Ireland chief executive, John Delaney, has confirmed that the body accepted a payment from Fifa after Thierry Henry's handball in the 2010 World Cup qualifying play-offs ended their hopes …
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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Huckabee's Son Posted YouTube Video Of His Acting In Raunchy Film — John Mark Huckabee — son of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — posted, then removed, a clip on his YouTube page of his acting in a raunchy, never-released, low-budget film.
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Marco Rubio just made another confusing comment about his Middle East policy — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) offered a somewhat confusing explanation of his Iraq policy in an appearance on Fox News' “Outnumbered” on Thursday. — Rubio seemed to express support for US troops being present in Iraq …
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The Complex Power Coupledom of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and political activist Sean Eldridge were once the ultimate team, but Hughes's controversial purchase of The New Republic and Eldridge's failed run for Congress made the once-heroes villains.
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The Hill, NY State of Politics, The Huffington Post, Politico and New York Times
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John Cusack Talks ‘Love & Mercy,’ Drug Trips, and How Obama Is ‘Worse Than Bush’ — In a wide-ranging chat, the celebrated film star discusses his excellent biopic on Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, psychedelics, and why President Obama has let him down. — “I just say what I think, and if people don't like it, that's OK.”