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Jeb Bush Should Face Facts: It's Time to Drop Out — Jeb, this isn't working. You're a bad candidate, and all you're going to do now is damage the guy who can beat Trump. Is that what you want? — Jeb, this just isn't going to work. After all that money spent, you're still sagging nationally …
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Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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Hillary Clinton Trolls GOP Field, Sending Them Copies of Her Book Hard Choices — The Democratic front-runner has repeatedly been criticized by her Republican rivals over her record as secretary of state. — jeneps — Hillary Clinton sent copies of her most recent book …
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ABC News, Politico and Taylor Marsh
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Hillary Clinton Sends Republican Candidates Copies of Her Book
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BREITBART.COM, Political Wire, Slantpoint, NOLA River and Mediaite
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Dems, Don't Freak Out About Rubio Just Yet
Dems, Don't Freak Out About Rubio Just Yet
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Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly, National Review, Washington Post and New York Times
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Holding Steady Nationally
Trump Holding Steady Nationally
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alicublog, Hot Air, Business Insider and The Last Refuge
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Hillary's ‘Hail Mary’ hope to get past the e-mail mess — In 1992, a popular Republican bumper sticker — the “meme” pre-Internet — read: “Annoy the Media. Re-elect Bush.” It was designed to appeal to conservatives who might be seduced into voting for Ross Perot and make them rethink.
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Betsy's Page and Slate
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Emailgate is a political problem for Hillary Clinton, but it also reveals why she'd be an effective president
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National Review, The Federalist and Bloomberg View
Eli Lake / Bloomberg View:
Clinton Can Thank Obama for Her Benghazi Headache
Clinton Can Thank Obama for Her Benghazi Headache
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The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast and Washington Free Beacon
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House Dem To Push Amendment Abolishing Benghazi Committee — A House Democrat will offer an amendment to abolish Congress' special committee on the Benghazi, in a move that simultaneously hits Republicans on Planned Parenthood and on House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) Benghazi “gaffe.”
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Second IT firm agrees to give Clinton's server data to FBI — Former secretary of state hired Datto Inc. to provide a private cloud backup of her emails — FBI asked the Connecticut company to turn over data. It agreed. — State Department also asking again whether she turned over all of her business emails
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Power Line, New York Post, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, Politico, Doug Ross, MichelleMalkin.com, Daily Mail and twitchy.com
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Justice Department set to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release — The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison — the largest one-time release of federal prisoners — in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
U.S. to Release 6,000 Inmates From Prisons
U.S. to Release 6,000 Inmates From Prisons
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Hit & Run
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Ivy League prof. calls Ben Carson a ‘coon’ — U Penn Prof Anthea Butler tweeted “If only there was a ‘coon of the year’ award” in response to Ben Carson's claim that people have the right to display Confederate flags on private property. — In the past, Butler has tweeted that God is a …
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Barry Diller Says He'll Leave the Country If Donald Trump Wins the White House — Media executive blames the influence of reality TV for poisoning politics. — emserre — Barry Diller, the founder and chairman of IAC Interactive, knows show biz and New York real estate …
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Power Line
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Hey, let's all make our own Donald Trump hats
Hey, let's all make our own Donald Trump hats
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Jezebel and Balloon Juice
Alan Berlow / New York Times:
Who the N.R.A. Really Speaks For — AN angry and exasperated President Obama, speaking to the nation last Thursday after the slaughter in Roseburg, Ore., made one oblique reference to the National Rifle Association, asking gun owners to question whether their “views are properly being represented …
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
What no politician wants to admit about gun control
What no politician wants to admit about gun control
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Bloomberg Business, The Week and Patterico's Pontifications
BobbyJindal.com:
We fill Our Culture With Garbage, And We Reap The Result — I'm going to start today by venting, and I will warn you in advance that this is going to be a sermon, but someone needs to speak the truth for a change: — Another week, another mass shooting, another press conference …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, No More Mister Nice Blog, Jezebel, NOLA River, Friendly Atheist, Fusion, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and New York Times
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Jindal: Oregon Gunman's Father Is A ‘Failure’ Who ‘Owes Us All An Apology’
Jindal: Oregon Gunman's Father Is A ‘Failure’ Who ‘Owes Us All An Apology’
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Booman Tribune
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Ben Carson ‘Much More Comfortable’ If Kindergarten Teachers Had Guns — In the wake of last week's shooting in Oregon, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson suggested that more people should be armed in the United States and said he would be okay with teachers being armed.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson slams Obama for Oregon visit with shooting victims' families
Carson slams Obama for Oregon visit with shooting victims' families
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Hot Air, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, addictinginfo.org, Bloomberg Business, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and USA Today
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Insistent Ben Carson Tells Whoopi That Hitler Really Could Happen Here
Insistent Ben Carson Tells Whoopi That Hitler Really Could Happen Here
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The Week
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Huge oil discovery on Golan Heights — Estimates are that the amount of oil found will make Israel self sufficient for very many years to come. — After more than a year of round-the-clock drilling, large amounts of oil have been found on the Golan Heights.
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Israel Matzav and Sputnik International
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Gallup gives up the horse race — <p>Gallup has been the country's gold standard for horse-race election polling ever since its legendary founder, George Gallup, predicted Franklin Roosevelt's landslide reelection in 1936.</p><p>But after a bruising 2012 cycle, in which its polls were farther off …
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Political Wire
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Romney's 47 percent? Now 45 percent — Mitt Romney's 47 percent is now 45.3 percent. — The Tax Policy Center says that's now the number of households who don't pay any income taxes, an almost five percentage point increase over the 2013 estimate of 40.4 percent.
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America's Fragile Constitution … Over the past few decades, many of the unwritten rules of American political life have been discarded. Presidential appointees, once routinely confirmed by the Senate, now spend months in limbo. Signing statements have increased in frequency and scope …
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Hillary Clinton Readies Oppo-Research to Go to War Against Joe Biden — “This could be messier than Obama-Hillary '08.” — 2.6k — If Joe Biden jumps into the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton will be ready to go on the offensive. According to a source close to the Clinton campaign …
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Telegraph, Liberal Values, Daily Mail, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Politico
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New York Attorney General Opens Inquiry Into Fantasy Sports Sites — The New York attorney general began an inquiry Tuesday into the prospect that employees of daily fantasy football sites have won lucrative payouts based on inside information not available to the public, asking two leading companies …
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USA Today, SBNation.com, CBS Los Angeles, Legal Sports Report and Tech Insider, more at Mediagazer »
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Online retailer Direct 2 Drive trolls Social Justice Warriors — Direct 2 Drive, an online games retailer, has adopted the PR strategy of the moment: relentless mockery of hand-wringing social justice warriors on the web. — D2D recently launched a tongue-in-cheek “Trigger Warning Week …
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Vox Popoli