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Wall Street Journal:
A Bow to Charleston — A Northerner bows, deeply, to the South: — I have never seen anything like what I saw on television this afternoon. Did you hear the statements made at the bond hearing of the alleged Charleston, S.C., shooter? — Nine beautiful people slaughtered Wednesday …
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Jonathon M. Seidl / TheBlaze.com:
The Moment an MSNBC Anchor Broke Down On-Air as Glenn Beck Showed Up at the Charleston Church — MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts broke down on-air Friday while reporting live from Charleston, South Carolina, and the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church where nine people were massacred earlier this week.
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Mashable, The Huffington Post, Towleroad, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Hot Air
Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
FBI Director Says Charleston Shooting Not Terrorism — In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in South Carolina, two particular phrases have been used in the media to describe the attack — “hate crime” and “terrorist act.” Soon after the initial reports of the tragedy …
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Infowars, Guardian and PoliticusUSA
Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton on Charleston: 'We Can't Hide' From Truth of White Privilege — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed the 83rd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco on Saturday morning. Among other things, she addressed Wednesday night's shooting …
Discussion:
Infowars and Liberaland
Erin Dooley / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Calls for ‘Common Sense’ Gun Control After Charleston Shooting
Hillary Clinton Calls for ‘Common Sense’ Gun Control After Charleston Shooting
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Politico, Bloomberg Business, Hinterland Gazette and The Democratic Daily
Politico:
Jason Chaffetz strips Meadows of subcommittee chairmanship — The House Republican crackdown on bucking the leadership reaches new levels of severity. — The House Republican crackdown has reached a new level of severity. — House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz …
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
After ‘no’ vote on trade, Meadows loses subcommittee chair — House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has removed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) from his post as a subcommittee chairman, according to a Chaffetz spokesperson. — The removal comes …
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Booman Tribune
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Gay Marriage's Moment — REMEMBER the AIDS crisis? If you lived in a big American city during its spread, you were witness to constant sorrow and countless examples of gay people treated as second-class citizens. — One was almost certainly this: the steadfast, heartbroken man being shut …
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Towleroad
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Dylann Roof Photos and a Manifesto Are Posted on Website — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dylann Roof spat on and burned the American flag, but waved the Confederate. — He posed for pictures wearing a No. 88 T-shirt, had 88 Facebook friends and wrote that number — white supremacist code for “Heil Hitler”— in the South Carolina sand.
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Hot Air, Politico, alicublog, NPR, Washington Monthly, Hinterland Gazette, Liberal Values, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, Althouse and Daily Kos
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Joe Lapointe / Detroit Free Press:
Fight racist fire with literal fire: Burn Confederate flags
Fight racist fire with literal fire: Burn Confederate flags
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CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Hill
Talking Points Memo:
Full Text Of Charleston Suspect Dylann Roof's Apparent Manifesto
Full Text Of Charleston Suspect Dylann Roof's Apparent Manifesto
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The Week, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, fox8.com and Fusion
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Influence of Money in Politics a Top Concern for Voters — Americans express far more alarm about the influence of money in politics than the fact that another Bush and Clinton are running for the White House, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. — Asked to rank their top concerns …
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Political Wire
Michael Eric Dyson / New York Times:
Love and Terror in the Black Church — AT the sprawling Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas one day last spring, I was met by five men with earpieces who escorted me to the pastor's office. As I prepared to preach that morning, a rolling phalanx of bodyguards shadowed my every move …
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Daily Kos
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio's backyard battle royal — Florida's Miami-Dade GOP, which Jeb Bush built into a powerhouse, may not be big enough to fit two presidential candidates. — MIAMI — Jeb Bush built the Miami-Dade Republican Party. And now Marco Rubio wants to take possession.
Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Rick Perry calls Charleston shooting an ‘accident’ — An aide to Rick Perry claims the GOP presidential candidate misspoke when he referred to the mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., as “an accident.” — Speaking with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax …
Discussion:
Hot Air, BizPac Review and Guardian
USA Today:
Arizona sheriff sending armed posse into black churches — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will send armed posses of volunteers to 60 black churches around Phoenix, following the deadly attack on a historically black church in Charleston. Arpaio's office has previously been accused of racial profiling.
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Liberaland and Mediaite
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to send armed volunteers to protect churches
Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to send armed volunteers to protect churches
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Raw Story, Instapundit and Infowars
Henri Gendreau / The Columbus Dispatch:
Columbus police officer injures 4-year-old while shooting at dog — A Columbus police officer accidentally wounded a 4-year-old girl in Whitehall on Friday when he fired at a charging dog, police said. — A neighbor and the girl's uncle identified her as Ava Ellis, who was taken …
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Raw Story, WBNS-TV and Daily Mail