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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.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Righteous Logic of the Neo-Confederate Watershed — I think this is the third post I've started with some version of this incredulity. But I still cannot believe the Charleston Massacre has triggered quite this total a collapse of support, not just for flying the Confederate battle flag …
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Charles J. Dean / al.com:
Alabama Gov. Bentley removes Confederate flags from Capitol grounds — On the order of Gov. Robert Bentley, the Confederate battle flag which stands at the foot of the confederate memorial on the state Capitol grounds was taken down this morning. — Two workers came out of the Capitol building …
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
No plans to rename US bases named after Confederate officers — The Pentagon said Wednesday that there is currently “no discussion” on renaming U.S. military bases that honor Confederate officers. — “As of now, there's no discussion of adjusting our current naming policies,” said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
Yet More on the Confederate Battle Flag
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Bradley Engle / BobbyJindal.com:
A Special Announcement From Bobby Jindal — My name is Bobby Jindal, and I am running for President of the United States of America. There were three people I think you would agree my wife Supriya and I had to tell first. … Puppy — My daughter Selia cut to the chase: she wanted a puppy.
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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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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bobby Jindal hits Jeb Bush, hard, as he announces White House run
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Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Bobby Jindal Enters Presidential Race, Saying ‘It Is Time for a Doer’
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ABC News:
Obama Tosses Heckler From LGBT Event: 'You're In My House' … President Obama had a heckler tossed from a White House reception in celebration of LGBT pride month after the woman refused to stop interrupting the president. — “Listen, you're in my house,” Obama said, to the applause of the crowd …
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#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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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 …
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Anesthesiologist trashes sedated patient — and it ends up costing her — These audio clips are excerpts from conversations between a gastroenterologist, an anesthesiologist and a medical assistant during a colonoscopy. This was entered as evidence in a lawsuit filed by the patient for defamation and medical malpractice.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Sarah Palin is the REO Speedwagon of Politics — Sarah Palin in a few short years has gone from a telegenic and slightly charismatic speaker (when reading from a tight script), to a TV commentator who never meets a run-on sentence she can't out-run. — So it's perhaps no surprise …
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Fox dumps Sarah Palin
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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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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
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CNN:
Story highlights — Cadyville, New York (CNN)Investigators are examining items recovered from a cabin where two escaped murderers are believed to have hidden, and have found a bloody sock, New York law enforcement officials said Wednesday. — But that could mean anything.
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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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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Small Ohio Town Is Focus of FBI Probe After Strange Deaths and Disappearances … The FBI is now helping to investigate a string of disappearances and murders that have taken place in a small Ohio town over the past 13 months. — Six women have vanished in the town of Chillicothe since …
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Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Guide: Six Big Decisions Remain — The Supreme Court is scheduled to issue decisions Thursday, with six major cases remaining on the docket, and is expected to release opinions again on Friday and perhaps next week. Still to be decided are the health-law subsidies and gay-marriage cases …
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Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
And then there were seven: The remaining cases, in Plain English
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CNN:
State Rep.: Charleston victims ‘waited to be shot’ - CNN Video — CNN's Drew Griffin interviews State Representative William Chumley about taking down the Confederate flag and the Charleston church shootings.
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Robert Behre / Post and Courier:
Rep. William Chumley ‘regrets’ self-defense comment
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Lindsey Graham: Charleston Shooter Showed ‘Mideast Hate’ (VIDEO) — Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday appeared to compare the white gunman who killed nine people last week at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina with Islamic radicals.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Bush, Trump score post-announcement bumps — There's been a lineup change in the race for the GOP nomination, as businessman Donald Trump moves up after declaring his candidacy. He's now second in the order after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who also got an uptick in support after his formal announcement.
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