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10:05 AM ET, June 25, 2015

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Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
A Welcome Tipping Point for Republicans and the Confederate Flag  —  As everyone knows by now, in the wake of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina lasted week, allegedly perpetrated by a racist, Dylann Roof, there have been renewed calls to remove the Confederate flag from state grounds.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Tearing Down the Confederate Flag Is Just a Start  —  Suppose African-Americans marked their heritage with flags depicting Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831, in which slaves massacred about 60 whites before the uprising was crushed?  The flag wouldn't be celebrating the murder of whites …
Jim Webb / Facebook:
This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War.  The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades.
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Righteous Logic of the Neo-Confederate Watershed
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
No plans to rename US bases named after Confederate officers
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
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ABC News:
Obama Tosses Heckler From LGBT Event: 'You're In My House'
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bernie Sanders Gains on Hillary Clinton in Bloomberg Early-State Polling  —  Bernie Sanders is gaining on Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, with an appeal as an issue-oriented protest vehicle potentially capable of slowing any coronation of the popular front-runner.
Jeremy Tanner / New York's PIX11:
Chilling letters from ‘The Watcher’ force NJ family to flee $1.3M dream home  —  WESTFIELD, N.J. - It was a million-dollar dream home for one New Jersey family, located in picturesque Westfield, New Jersey — until the letters started showing up.  —  The threatening notes were signed …
Politico:
Anti-Obamacare senator braces for court ruling  —  The Supreme Court may give Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson more than he bargained for.  —  Ron Johnson won his Senate seat in 2010 on an anti-Obamacare campaign, railing against the law as “the greatest assault on our freedoms in my lifetime.”
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Amy Fried / Talking Points Memo:
What A Maine Tea Party Battle Tells Us About Obamacare's Future  —  If you want a glimpse of what may happen when the Supreme Court decides the big Obamacare case of the year, King v. Burwell, you might want to take a look up to America's Northeastern corner.  Mainers like to say “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.”
Discussion: ACASignups.net
Detroit Free Press:
Last Slide  —  Famed street artist Shepard Fairey, who visited Detroit last month to create the largest mural of his career, now faces felony charges that he tagged other properties across the city on his own time.  —  A warrant for his arrest was filed in 36th District Court on Friday.
Discussion: Politico and The PJ Tatler
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Bobby Jindal's Plan To Stop Being A Punchline And Actually Win  —  NEW ORLEANS — The most viral headline this year with the Louisiana governor's name in it was published in The Onion: “Bobby Jindal Not Sure He Willing To Put Family Through 2-Month Presidential Campaign.”
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Why Bobby Jindal Is Very Problematic
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Former Advisers Caution Obama on Iran Nuclear Talks  —  Five former members of President Obama's inner circle of Iran advisers have written an open letter expressing concern that a pending accord to stem Iran's nuclear program “may fall short of meeting the administration's own standard of a ‘good’ agreement” …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and UPI
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Public Statement on U.S. Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
Fox News:
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Bush, Trump score post-announcement bumps
Post and Courier:
Thousands pay respects to slain pastor lying in state under Capitol dome  —  COLUMBIA — Thousands of mourners on Wednesday streamed past the open casket of Clementa Pinckney, the esteemed pastor and state senator who lay in state under the Capitol dome a week after he and eight others were slain at a historic black Charleston church.
Discussion: CNN, Common Dreams, Refinery29 and NPR
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The State:
Public pays respects to slain Sen. Clementa Pinckney (+ video)
Discussion: reported.ly, NPR and New York Times
The Hill:
Boehner doles out new punishment  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his allies are charging ahead with their effort to punish conservatives who have been a thorn in leadership's side — a purge that is roiling the GOP conference.  —  The latest victim is Colorado Rep. Ken Buck …
Discussion: Instapundit
Lou Lumenick / New York Post:
‘Gone with the Wind’ should go the way of the Confederate flag  —  If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?
Daily Mail:
Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave roots could be dropped from PBS after he is slammed by broadcaster for ‘breaching standards’  —  The Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave-owning ancestors has been condemned for breaching a broadcaster's standards and his future with PBS thrown into doubt.
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Judge blocks federal fracking rule  —  A federal judge in Wyoming has temporarily blocked implementation of the Obama administration's regulations for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, hours before they were set to take effect.  —  The late Tuesday decision in the U.S. District Court …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Dickinson Press
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Benjamin Storrow / Casper Star-Tribune:
Federal judge issues stay on BLM fracking rule
Discussion: Denver Post and ThinkProgress
 
 
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Dedrick Russell / WBTV-TV:
Was church fire a hate crime? Pastor says culprit already forgiven
Melissa Boughton / Post and Courier:
S.C. Supreme Court replaces Charleston County Chief Magistrate Gosnell
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
CNN:
Story highlights  —  Cadyville, New York (CNN)Investigators …
Discussion: USA Today and Washington Post
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Small Ohio Town Is Focus of FBI Probe After Strange Deaths and Disappearances
Discussion: fox8.com
Alex Preston / Guardian:
The man who sleeps in Hitler's bed
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
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Lydia Warren For / Associated Press:
'I am sorry for the lives that I've taken': Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stuns court …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Lindsey Graham: Charleston Shooter Showed ‘Mideast Hate’ (VIDEO)
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