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Jeb Bush: Not Ready for Prime Time [Updated] — It's not my biggest problem with Jeb Bush, but one of the issues with his candidacy is that he is badly out of shape as a candidate. He last ran a campaign in 2002, thirteen years ago. As a result, he isn't sharp, and keeps making mistakes.
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The Note: The Debate Stage Is Set — NOTABLES —TEN CANDIDATES, TWO HOURS, ONE GOAL: Survive the first Republican presidential debate. A slate of governors, senators and other presidential contenders is set to gather in Cleveland to debate each other for the first time this election cycle.
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Political Wire, Politico and The Hill


Hillary Clinton Attacks Jeb Bush During Colorado Trip
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Weekly Standard, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal and New York Times


Jeb Bush says he ‘misspoke’ about women's health being overfunded
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Daily Kos

Clinton blasts Bush over women's health comment
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Daily Kos and Washington Post

FBI looking into the security of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail setup — Hillary Rodham Clinton has said that the private e-mail server she used as secretary of state “had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.”
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The Atlantic, Power Line, Talking Points Memo, Liberal Values, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, RedState, Slantpoint, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The Last Refuge, The Hill, Politico, Fox News, Daily Mail, The PJ Tatler, The Week and The Right Scoop
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‘Last Man Standing’ star Tim Allen: 'We're going to drill Hillary' — LOS ANGELES - Season 5 of “Last Man Standing” is going to get political with the presidential race upon us, and neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is going to be safe from the wisecracking Mike Baxter, played by Tim Allen.
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BizPac Review, Wall Street Journal, Mediaite and The Daily Caller


Donald Trump on GOP Debate: 'I'd Like It to Be Very Civil' — When the top 10 Republican candidates for president take the stage Thursday night in Cleveland for the first debate of this election cycle, all eyes will be on Donald Trump, the candidate who is leading the polls and appears to be winning the media war.


The GOP Is About to Become the Party of Trump — When Donald Trump takes center stage at Thursday's Fox News debate in Cleveland, it will be a critical moment for the Republican Party. Until recently, Americans mentally categorized Trump as a celebrity entertainer and interpreted …
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Booman Tribune, Hot Air and Mock Paper Scissors
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My Question for the Republican Presidential Debate
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RedState


Police: Active shooter reported dead at Nashville area theater — Metro Police report the shooter at the Carmike 8 Cinema is dead. — The Nashville Fire Department confirmed that shots were being fired at the Carmike 8 Cinemas on Bell Road at 1:55 p.m. — Police responded to a shots fired call about 1:15.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Police: Suspect in Antioch theater shooting dead … (Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean) — Metro police say a suspect who opened fire in a Antioch theater this afternoon also had a hatchet and may have injured one person with the hatchet. — Police said about 2:20 p.m. they were examining …
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Washington Post, New York's PIX11 and The Week

There is No Pro-Life Case For Planned Parenthood — I'm hoping to do something broader about the abortion issue in this space soon, given the prominence that the debate over Planned Parenthood funding has suddenly assumed. But for this week a word (well, a few words) on the argument …
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CNN, The Daily Caller, Fox News, WTVR-TV and LifeNews.com
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What's the cost of avoiding the Planned Parenthood videos?
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The Moderate Voice, CBS Dallas, The Federalist, LifeNews.com and Trial of the Century

How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood
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The Atlantic and Mashable

John Kerry on the Risk of Congress ‘Screwing’ the Ayatollah — When I met with Secretary of State John Kerry in his office this past Friday, it was apparent that he was in an exceedingly feisty mood, and it's not easy to display feistiness when you're trapped, as he was, in a recliner.
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The Jawa Report, The Federalist, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and Twitchy

THREE MEMBERS OF 2012 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN STAFF CHARGED WITH CONCEALING PAYMENTS MADE TO STATE SENATOR — Three members of a 2012 presidential campaign committee were charged with offenses relating to the concealment of payments made to a former Iowa State Senator.
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New York Times, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
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MH370: Part Found On Reunion Island Is From Missing Plane — The plane part that was found on a beach in the Indian Ocean was determined to be part of MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more than a year ago, Malaysia's prime minister said. — The debris is the first piece …
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The Week and Associated Press
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Princess Chelsea — My apologies to Jessica Contrera. A few minutes ago as I settled in on the Acela and looked at Twitter, I saw all of these tweets about Contrera's Washington Post profile of Chelsea Clinton, in particular the line “Chelsea Clinton is the closest thing America has to a princess.”
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alicublog and Mock Paper Scissors
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Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms
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National Review


The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist' — One of my favourite things about living in Italy is the pizza, and it's recently given me an insight into how our brains are wired differently. — Pizza has taught me that logic can be subjective and that subjective logic can be cultural.


Why I'm Not Ridin' With Biden — Like most liberals, I like our vice president. But this idea that he's some kind of white knight savior for Dems is more than a little far fetched. — Several weeks before Maureen Dowd was feeding us dialogue from Beau Biden's deathbed …
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Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Hillary Clinton Put on Southern Accent for South Carolina Democratic Chairman
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Reuters, American Spectator, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post


The Fox News ‘Nerve Factor’ — Baier, Kelly and Wallace talk of sleepless nights prepping for the first GOP debate. — Baier, center, Kelly, right, and Wallace, left, represent the hard news side of a network better known for its outspoken conservative pundits. Getty
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ABC News, Bloomberg View, Hot Air, Shakesville, Mediaite, Raw Story and Fox News

George W. Bush causes a stir at George Allen courthouse when called for jury duty — Being summoned for jury duty at the George L Allen Sr Courts Building in downtown Dallas was anything but dull for Sheri Coleman. — In fact, Coleman and other jurors were in for quite the surprise …
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Washington Free Beacon and ABC News


In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions — Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. — So sorry about Cecil. — Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? — Cecil who? I wondered.
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The Week and Balloon Juice


What if Trump wins? — Sometimes voters do break the rules. — SHARES — Every political analyst, every political observer, every politician is absolutely sure that Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016. And we're all absolutely sure that Donald Trump …