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Barbara Boland / Washington Examiner:
Satan worshipers drown women with milk in Planned Parenthood counter-protest — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Satan worshipers launched a counter-protest against pro-lifers outside the Detriot and Ferndale, Michigan Planned Parenthood locations Saturday.
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The Gateway Pundit, CANNONFIRE and Twitchy
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Harry Reid endorses Iran deal, boosts chances Congress won't block it — Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid gave a forceful endorsement Sunday to the nuclear deal with Iran, a key boost that provides continued momentum for preventing Congress from blocking President Obama's pact.
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New York Times:
Future Risks of an Iran Nuclear Deal — WASHINGTON — As President Obama begins his three-week push to win approval of the Iran nuclear deal, he is confronting this political reality: His strongest argument in favor of passage has also become his greatest vulnerability.
Amy Wallace / Wired:
Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters — Since 1953, to be nominated for a Hugo Award, among the highest honors in science fiction and fantasy writing, has been a dream come true for authors who love time travel, extraterrestrials and tales of the imagined future.
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According To Hoyt:
Burning Down The Field in Order to Save It — So, I thought I didn't care about the result of the Hugos, because in making the establishment lose their collective sh*t at the “non approved” nominations, we'd proven our point: that there is a political color bar in SF/F …
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Otherwhere Gazette and Vox Popoli
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition — Sorry about sparsity of posts; on the road for family reasons, with real life getting in the way of digital. But I did see a number of people praising remarks from Charlie Munger declaring himself “flabbergasted” by low interest rates …
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
The Fed looks set to make a dangerous mistake — Raising rates this year will threaten all of the central bank's major objectives — Will the Federal Reserve's September meeting see US interest rates go up for the first time since 2006? Officials have held out the prospect that it might …
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality and Washington Center …
Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Two Arrested in Alleged Pokemon Championship Threat — Two Iowa men are under arrest on weapons charges after Boston police were alerted to alleged threats of violence against participants at the Pokemon World Championship, police said today. — Security officers at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston …
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Dean: Hillary email answers too ‘lawyerly’ — Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday that Hillary Clinton's response to her email issues had been too “lawyerly.” — “One of the problems is that Hillary Clinton is an incredibly smart lawyer,” …
Leonard Pitts Jr / miamiherald:
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why ‘Black lives matter’ resonates … This is a column about three words of moral cowardice: — “All lives matter.” — Those words have risen as a kind of counter to “Black lives matter,” the movement that coalesced in response to recent killings and woundings …
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RedState
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Scott Walker Takes His Third Position On The Hottest Issue In The Republican Primary — Presidential candidate's Scott Walker's journey to find a position on birthright citizenship, enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, took another unexpected turn.
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Hillary's e-mail defense is ‘total BS’: former State Dept. officials — Former State Department security officials don't buy Hillary Clinton's latest alibi that she couldn't tell that government e-mails — which she improperly, if not illegally, kept for several years on an unsecured home server …
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BizPac Review and Scared Monkeys
Will Leitch / Bloomberg Business:
Trumpus Maximus Goes to Mobile — About two hours before gates opened for Donald Trump's out-of-nowhere, only vaguely explicable rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, a gaggle of us journalists began to work the line. The line—already 1,500 deep two hours out—was a dream …