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CNN:
Poll: Donald Trump surges to 32% support — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has become the first Republican presidential candidate to top 30% support in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, which finds the businessman pulling well away from the rest of the GOP field.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump: I wasn't talking about Carly Fiorina's face — Trump insists he wasn't talking about Fiorina's looks — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that when he suggested Carly Fiorina's face would make her unelectable, he wasn't talking about her looks. — “I'm not talking about looks.
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Ben Carson: I don't want to get into a ‘gladiator fight’ with Donald Trump
Ben Carson: I don't want to get into a ‘gladiator fight’ with Donald Trump
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CNN, Hot Air, NBC News and Sky Dancing
NBC News:
First Read: Why John Boehner Could Lose His Job
First Read: Why John Boehner Could Lose His Job
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The Hill, Slate, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump fires back at Carson: ‘Who is he to question my faith?’
Trump fires back at Carson: ‘Who is he to question my faith?’
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Raw Story, ABC News and Mock Paper Scissors
Paul Solotaroff / Rolling Stone:
Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy
Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: Dred Scott Decision “Remains To This Day The Law Of The Land” — The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 14th Amendment. — While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis's refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee: Dred Scott Decision ‘Remains To This Day The Law Of The Land’ (AUDIO) — Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court decision that upheld slavery “remains to this day the law of the land.”
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
NY Times Launches Its Jew-Tracker — The New York Times today offers up a table examining the Democratic (but not Republican) Senators and House members opposed to Obama's Iran agreement, noting whether they are Jewish and the proportion of Jewish constituents in their state or district. Like this:
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Alicia Parlapiano Updated / New York Times:
Lawmakers Against the Iran Nuclear Deal
Lawmakers Against the Iran Nuclear Deal
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Hit & Run, Moe Lane and Outside the Beltway
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
New York Times Launches Congress ‘Jew Tracker’
New York Times Launches Congress ‘Jew Tracker’
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Oath Keepers Send Armed Guards To Protect Kim Davis From US Marshals — The Oath Keepers, the anti-government “Patriot” group that mounted an armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at the Bundy Ranch, stationed armed guards outside of military recruitment centers after the Chattanooga shooting …
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AMERICAblog News, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Mahablog, Towleroad, Addicting Info, Joe.My.God. and Balloon Juice
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Jason Van Tatenhove / oathkeepers.org/oktester:
Oath Keepers Offers Kim Davis Protection From Further Imprisonment by Judge
Oath Keepers Offers Kim Davis Protection From Further Imprisonment by Judge
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Raw Story
Politico:
David Brock: The New York Times has ‘a special place in hell’ — The pro-Clinton crusader accuses former D.C. bureau chief Carolyn Ryan of helping to turn the paper into a ‘megaphone for conservative propaganda.’ — David Brock's war against the New York Times just went nuclear — and the paper is responding with equal fury.
Politico:
Bernie Sanders overtakes Hillary Clinton in Iowa — People close to Clinton's camp have recently been warning that the Vermont senator could win Iowa and New Hampshire. — Hillary Clinton's Iowa edge is gone. — Bernie Sanders leads the former secretary of state for the first time among …
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CNN, Guardian, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Common Dreams, Towleroad and The Moderate Voice
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Big-Name Plan B's for Democrats Concerned About Hillary Clinton
Big-Name Plan B's for Democrats Concerned About Hillary Clinton
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Des Moines Register, Business Insider, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog News, Liberal Values, Democratic Strategist and Reuters
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP scores early win in ObamaCare lawsuit — A federal district judge on Wednesday delivered a blow to the Obama administration, ruling that the House Republican lawsuit against ObamaCare can move forward. — “The Court concludes that the House has standing to pursue those constitutional claims …
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Politico, Vox, Daily Kos and Wall Street Journal
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Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
Oh boy. Here we go again.
Oh boy. Here we go again.
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Health Affairs Blog, Outside the Beltway, Slate, New York Times, Slantpoint and ACASignups.net
Nick Gass / Politico:
Jindal calls Trump practically every name in the book — Bobby Jindal pulled no punches against Donald Trump on Thursday, raining down a deluge of criticisms on the current Republican leader in the polls, calling him “a narcissist,” “an egomaniac,” “non-serious,” “substance-free,” “insecure …
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ABC News, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly, Business Insider and Hot Air
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked — It's being called a “revolt” by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk. — More than 50 intelligence analysts working …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz's second shutdown play rankles fellow Republicans — GOP senators say they've seen this movie already and enough's enough. — Ted Cruz says his hard-line strategy to defund Planned Parenthood and risk a government shutdown is about doing the “right thing” and following through on Republicans' vows to conservative voters.
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Trail Blazers Blog and Daily Kos
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Jon Street / TheBlaze.com:
Officer Asked Speeding Driver Where She Was Headed — After She Told Him, the Cop Grabbed Her Hand and Did the Unexpected — Maxine Morgan admits she “wasn't really paying attention” as she sped down a Louisiana highway with her husband, Jimmy Morgan. But Bossier Parish deputy Jackie Loveless was paying attention.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems filibuster Iran vote — Senate Democrats held rank Thursday and blocked a resolution disapproving of the Iran nuclear deal, handing President Obama a major political victory. — Only a few months earlier, some Senate opponents of the deal predicted they would be able to muster 67 votes to override a presidential veto.
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CNN, Washington Monthly and Common Dreams
Genny McLaren / FOX40:
Mystery Ice Falls from Sky, Crashes Through Roof of Modesto Home — It wasn't a bird, and it wasn't a plane. It was a chunk of ice — and a big one — that fell through the roof of a Modesto home Wednesday morning. — It would almost be something to laugh at — like the story of …
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KTLA and Daily Mail
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
DNC chair closes door on more debates — Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is closing the door on adding more Democratic presidential debates, and said a controversial clause penalizing candidates for participating in unsanctioned debates would stand.
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msnbc.com, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Moe Lane, Mediaite and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Directs Administration to Accept 10,000 Syrian Refugees — WASHINGTON — President Obama, under increasing pressure to demonstrate that the United States is joining European nations in the effort to resettle Syrian refugees, has told his administration to take in at least 10,000 displaced Syrians over the next year.
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Common Dreams, Erick on the Radio, NPR and Mediaite
Emily Smith / Page Six:
ABC's David Muir nicknamed ‘Anchor Monster’ — “ABC World News Tonight” anchor David Muir is being nicknamed “Anchor Monster” by network staffers after repeatedly losing his temper with his crew over being beaten in the ratings by his rival, NBC's Lester Holt.
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Erick on the Radio and Jezebel
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Family Protests White Poet's Use of Chinese Pen Name — Controversy erupted in the poetry world earlier this week when it was discovered that a poem included in the annual “Best American Poetry” anthology was written by a white poet, Michael Derrick Hudson, who had submitted it to a journal under the Chinese pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Stephen Colbert Falsely States The NRA Is Opposed to Mental Health Checks — Last night comedian and late night talk show host Stephen Colbert falsely stated that the NRA is “opposed to mental health checks,” during an interview and discussion with GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.