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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 …
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Washington Post, Power Line and Eschaton
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:
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American Spectator, The Mahablog and Washington Monthly
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Righteous Logic of the Neo-Confederate Watershed
The Righteous Logic of the Neo-Confederate Watershed
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Progress Pond, Bloomberg View, Daily Kos and al.com
Fox News:
Debate over rebel flag widens to include all symbols of Confederacy
Debate over rebel flag widens to include all symbols of Confederacy
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BREITBART.COM, Mediaite, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, USA Today, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air and Raw Story
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
No plans to rename US bases named after Confederate officers
No plans to rename US bases named after Confederate officers
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Business Insider and Daily Kos
#Not1More Deportation:
Undocumented Transgender Woman Who Interrupted President at White House Pride Event Calls to End Deportation — There is no Pride as long as LGBTQ Immigrants are being imprisoned, she says. — WASHINGTON, DC — Just moments ago, Jennicet Gutiérrez interrupted the President during …
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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.
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Politico, Hot Air, Common Dreams and Political Wire
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.”
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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.
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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
Why Bobby Jindal Is Very Problematic
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Bobby Jindal Enters Presidential Race, Saying ‘It Is Time for a Doer’
Bobby Jindal Enters Presidential Race, Saying ‘It Is Time for a Doer’
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Bloomberg View, Advocate, Politico, Campaign for America's Future, American Spectator and Yahoo Politics
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bobby Jindal hits Jeb Bush, hard, as he announces White House run
Bobby Jindal hits Jeb Bush, hard, as he announces White House run
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Washington Post, Salon, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, ABC News and The PJ Tatler
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” …
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Fox News:
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Bush, Trump score post-announcement bumps
Fox News Poll: Bush, Trump score post-announcement bumps
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NBC News, Washington Post and Oliver Willis
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.
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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 …
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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?
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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.
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New York Times, Althouse, Instapundit and American Power
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 …
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Benjamin Storrow / Casper Star-Tribune:
Federal judge issues stay on BLM fracking rule
Federal judge issues stay on BLM fracking rule
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Denver Post and ThinkProgress