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Witless Ape Rides Escalator — Donald Trump is in the race. — Donald Trump may be the man America needs. Having been through four bankruptcies, the ridiculous buffoon with the worst taste since Caligula is uniquely positioned to lead the most indebted organization in the history of the human race.
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Raw Story, Hot Air, Shot in the Dark, Mashable and Althouse
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Trump Says He'd ‘Win Easily’ If He Ran With Oprah … According to Donald Trump, a 2016 ticket of Trump for president and Oprah Winfrey for vice president would be a lock for the White House. — “I think Oprah would be great. I'd love to have Oprah,” Trump told ABC News. “I think we'd win easily, actually.”
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, CBS DC, Daily Mail, Political Wire, Washington Post and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Charles Krauthammer On Donald Trump: 'A Campaign That's Run On Know-nothing Xenophobia.' — Donald Trump likes Charles Krauthammer about as much as anyone would like a snake bite. He's called the conservative columnist many things including being an overrated clown and a dummy …
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The Note: What Candidate Trump Means For The GOP … By MICHAEL FALCONE — NOTABLES —DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE'D ‘WIN EASILY’ IF HE RAN WITH OPRAH. According to Donald Trump, a 2016 ticket of Trump for president and Oprah Winfrey for vice president would be a lock for the White House, ABC's CHRIS GOOD notes.
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Independent Journal Review, Bloomberg Business and Politico
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Neil Young, Donald Trump Spar Over ‘Rockin’ in the Free World' Use — Young claims campaign was not authorized to use track, but Trump spokesperson says song was legally obtained — When Neil Young released his anthemic track “Rockin' in the Free World” off 1989's Freedom …
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Bloomberg Business and NPR
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Garish Tastes, Awful Hair: Donald Trump Is America — He's the king of bad taste in a country that loves bad taste. And all the candidates (him included) are pygmies anyway. Go, Donald! — Who are these jacklegs, highbinders, wirepullers, mountebanks, swellheads, buncombe spigots …
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Donald Trump's festival of narcissism
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Shakesville, Hit & Run, Daily Kos and Outside the Beltway
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Neil Young to Donald Trump: Don't Rock in My Free World
Neil Young to Donald Trump: Don't Rock in My Free World
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New York Daily News:
Full transcript of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential announcement
Full transcript of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential announcement
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The Week, Informed Comment and The Daily Signal
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Neil Young: Donald Trump ‘not authorized’ to rock in the free world
Neil Young: Donald Trump ‘not authorized’ to rock in the free world
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New York Daily News, The Week and Seven Days
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Fake 2000 Campaign: Gun Bans, Single-Payer Health Care, And Taxes
Trump's Fake 2000 Campaign: Gun Bans, Single-Payer Health Care, And Taxes
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BREITBART.COM and Liberaland
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Blumenthal says he didn't write Libya intel he sent Clinton — Sidney Blumenthal did not write or know the source of any of the Libya intelligence he passed on to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Blumenthal told House Benghazi investigators on Tuesday, according to sources in the room.
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Vox, The Last Refuge, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
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Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Ex-Clinton aide didn't write Benghazi memos
Ex-Clinton aide didn't write Benghazi memos
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Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Walker, Bush, Rubio lead GOP field; Clinton Still Dominant — PPP's newest national Republican poll continues to find a bunched up race at the top. Scott Walker leads with 17% to 15% for Jeb Bush, 13% for Marco Rubio, 12% for Ben Carson, 11% for Mike Huckabee, 8% for Ted Cruz and Rand Paul …
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Rubio, Bush, Paul Are Clinton's Top Opponents in Swing-States Poll
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CNN, Politico and Naked Politics
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Why Marco Rubio scares all other presidential candidates
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Rachel Dolezal has a right to be black — NAACP official's race questioned 5 photos — Rachel Dolezal, 37, is the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two people who say they are Caucasian.
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Tamara Winfrey Harris / New York Times:
Black Like Who? Rachel Dolezal's Harmful Masquerade
Black Like Who? Rachel Dolezal's Harmful Masquerade
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Meet The Valedictorian Who Turned Graduation Into A ‘Shake It Off’ Flashmob — Their parents had no idea what was coming. — The commencement speech arms race is no joke this year. It takes something pretty special to grab attention during a season when one valedictorian got …
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Ryan Seacrest, Mashable and Fox News Insider
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Senate Dems give GOP 45-day highway deadline — Senate Democrats are giving Republicans 45 days to negotiate a long-term highway funding extension. — And while they aren't ruling out supporting another short-term fix when funding runs out at the end of July, they suggest it will be difficult …
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Politico:
GOP leaders hatch trade workaround
GOP leaders hatch trade workaround
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Pope's Views on Climate Change Add Pressure to Catholic Candidates — WASHINGTON — As the steamy hurricane season descends on Miami, the city's Roman Catholic archbishop, Thomas G. Wenski, is planning a summer of sermons, homilies and press events designed to highlight the threat that a warming planet …
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Bjorn Lomborg / USA Today:
What Pope Francis should do to really help the poor: Bjorn Lomborg
What Pope Francis should do to really help the poor: Bjorn Lomborg
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American Thinker, Power Line and EcoWatch
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Male Teen Has Consensual Sex with Female Teen. He Gets 25 Years as Sex Offender, Banned from Internet. — Computer science student Zach Anderson, 19, met a girl, 17, on the “Hot or Not?” app. He was from Elkhart, Indiana. She was 20 minutes over the border in Niles, Michigan. They hooked up.
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Satya Nadella email to employees on aligning engineering to strategy — As we approach a new fiscal year, I'd like to share with you how we are aligning our structure to our strategy and the changes to our Senior Leadership Team. — Over the past year, I have said that Microsoft aspires …
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Senate votes to ban use of torture — The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to ban the U.S. from ever again subjecting prisoners to waterboarding, “rectal feeding” and other brutal interrogation practices widely condemned as torture. — In a 78-21 vote, lawmakers on both sides …
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What I learned from covering the Bushes for more than 30 years — If anyone should be feeling an overwhelming sense of Groundhog Day this presidential election, c'est moi. — Frankly, I've been covering Bushes for so long, I feel like I ought to be parachuting out of airplanes.
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Escaped tiger from flooded Tbilisi zoo ‘is liquidated’ after killing man … TBILISI, Georgia — A tiger that escaped a flood-ravaged zoo was shot dead in central Tbilisi on Wednesday after killing a man working on disaster relief. — The dramatic deaths — of man and predator …