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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Is A ‘Bro With No Ho,’ According To Mark Kirk — WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a “bro with no ho,” according to his colleague, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — The assessment of Graham's love life was made during a Senate Appropriations Committee markup on Thursday and caught on a live microphone.
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Katherine Skiba / Chicago Tribune:
Sen. Kirk calls Lindsey Graham a ‘bro with no ho’ — Sen. Mark Kirk was caught on a live microphone Thursday saying Republican presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham, who is unmarried, is a “bro with no ho.” — Kirk, a North Shore Republican, made the observation while votes were being taken during …
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Hillary's 4 aces in the hole — Hillary Clinton is playing presidential poker, and she's holding four aces that will give her a tremendous advantage in a general election against any Republican nominated to run against her in November 2016. — This accounts for the Hillary hysteria …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
These 9 words prove that Bill Clinton still doesn't get it on the Clinton Foundation — Bill Clinton sat for an interview with Bloomberg News on Wednesday to talk about, among other things, the controversy surrounding the Clinton Foundation and his wife's 2016 presidential bid.
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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Anti-Hillary Clinton Group Refuses to Change Name, Defying FEC Order
Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Bill Clinton Might Stop Giving Paid Speeches If Hillary Wins The White House
Bill Clinton Might Stop Giving Paid Speeches If Hillary Wins The White House
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Jon WardSenior / Yahoo Politics:
The Koch brothers and the Republican Party go to war — with each other — The Republican National Committee's data arm last year called it a “historic” occasion when it struck a deal to share voter information with the Koch brothers' rapidly expanding political empire.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The free-market Republican Party just got Uber'd — As champions of America's businesses and the free market, the Republican Party has embraced the disruptive, entrepreneurial spirit fostered by the new tech boom. When the taxi-disrupting Uber was under fire from regulators, the GOP stepped up …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Co-Author Of Mike Huckabee Books Was Accused Of Child Molestation In Two Legal Cases — Prominent Christian author John Perry, who has also co-authored a book with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, has been accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits.
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David Faber / CNBC:
Rupert Murdoch preparing to step down as CEO from 21st Century Fox — Rupert Murdoch expected to hand Fox CEO title to son James, reports CNBC's David Faber. — Rupert Murdoch, the 84-year-old chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of 21st Century Fox, is preparing to step …
Telegraph:
Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93 - latest reaction and tributes — Screen legend famous for roles in Count Dracula, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars dies in hospital after suffering respiratory problems … 13.05 — Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has paid tribute to …
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Benjamin Lee / Guardian:
Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93
Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods — The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America's wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”
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Rep. John Larson / The Hill:
A crisis for seniors who rely on Social Security — It seems every time we talk about the long-term future of Social Security, many in Washington start clamoring to raise the retirement age or propose other ways to trim Social Security's modest benefits. Those calling for cuts are missing …
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UnionLeader.com:
Union Leader to host Presidential candidates' forum Aug. 6 — Staff Report — On the same August night that Fox News hosts a much-criticized and limited Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, the Union Leader will host a New Hampshire Presidential Forum in the first primary state.
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Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
Megyn Kelly and Howard Kurtz attacked me for quoting her accurately and in context: “They take something and distort it” — Though it is refreshing to see Fox News acknowledging there's a problem with ideological echo chambers — On Wednesday's “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The man who helped kill Clintoncare explains why Obamacare can't be killed — In 1993, Republican strategist (and Weekly Standard editor) William Kristol was running the Project for the Republican Future, where he thought about how to assure a — you guessed it — Republican future.
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Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
N.C. Passes Law Allowing Court Officials To Refuse To Perform Gay Marriages — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A measure allowing some court officials to refuse to perform gay marriage responsibilities because of their religious beliefs became law in North Carolina on Thursday, with the state House voting …
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
N.C. legislature overrides governor on anti-gay marriage bill
N.C. legislature overrides governor on anti-gay marriage bill
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BBC:
Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment — Sir Tim Hunt was speaking at a conference in South Korea — A Nobel laureate has resigned from his position as honorary professor at a UK university after he made comments about the “trouble with girls” in science.
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Tom Cary / Telegraph:
Lance Armstrong: I've admitted to it all and I have suffered enough - it's now time to draw line in the sand — Lance Armstrong believes he has been punished enough, insists cycling is still in a bad place and admits $100m court case could ruin him — The words coming out of his mouth …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Republican field looks to Romney for '16 help — At least six Republican candidates for the presidency are headed to Utah for a summit hosted by Mitt Romney that begins on Thursday. — If the old saying that you learn more in defeat than in victory is true, Romney has plenty to teach.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
How not to become Brian Williams — How did a man so fastidious screw up so magnificently? — We give thanks for Brian Williams' fall—not because we have anything against the broadcaster, but because from his disgrace can be distilled a medicine that, when taken as directed, will prevent others from a place in perdition.
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Ben Ratliff / New York Times:
Ornette Coleman Dies at 85; Composer and Saxophonist Reshaped Jazz — Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85. — The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said.
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Allum Bokhari / BREITBART.COM:
Will Reddit Revolt Against Ellen Pao? — When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new age of censorship on the link-sharing and discussion site. Those predictions appear to have come true …
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Jenée Desmond-Harris / Vox:
Why I'm finally convinced it's time to stop saying “you guys” — The tech startup npm recently blogged about the unusual challenge some of its employees have agreed to participate in: they put a dollar in a glass jar every time they say “you guys.” — “We didn't invent the idea …
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Hot Air and The Federalist
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush in Warsaw: 'I'll Talk to My National Security Advisor' — Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush addressed reporters in Warsaw Thursday, speaking on issues ranging from regional security to his expected presidential campaign announcement on Monday. — Bush largely reiterated his themes …
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Politico
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
Frenship ISD teacher apologizes after McKinney-related segregation post — Fitzgibbons: ‘I apologized to the appropriate people’ — A Frenship teacher said she apologized after writing a — Facebook post saying she was “almost to the point” of wanting segregation regarding a racially charged police issue in McKinney.
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John Branch / New York Times:
Lost Brother in Yosemite … YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Afternoon gave way to evening, and the parade of restless clouds and the occasional bursts of rain had moved on from Yosemite Valley. In their wake was the empty quiet of Taft Point, 3,000 feet above a famous green valley going gray in late-day shadow.
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Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
Joyce Carol Oates Says She Was Joking About Those Poor Dinos — National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates would like to set the record straight: She does not fear for the fate of the mechanical Triceratops being plundered by Steven Spielberg. — The very earnest-seeming tweet that lit …
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