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Richard Read / Oregonian:
Borrower returns books 52 years late to Portland State University's library, with unsigned note — Memo to the person who anonymously returned two books to the Portland State University Library 52 years after borrowing them: … It's a fact. Approximately 52 years after taking out a couple …
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Associated Press
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Huckabee finances challenge his future — Mike Huckabee faces the greatest challenge of the top 10 GOP presidential candidates in continuing his campaign, according to the latest fundraising reports released on Thursday. — While the former Arkansas governor is in no real danger of missing …
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Raw Story
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
President Mitt Romney Lectures Frontrunner Donald Trump on How Republicans Win Elections — Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 Republican presidential nominee who, alongside running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), lost the election to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden …
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Freedom Outpost and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Lawrence Lessig / The Atlantic:
Larry Lessig: I'm All In — I had an idea. It proved right. It proved wrong. Can I act on the right bit, despite the wrong? — In July, I decided to try something that no one else had done: to launch a campaign for a “referendum president,” focused on ending the system of corruption that has crippled our government.
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Balloon Juice, The Verge and Bloomberg.com news
Gary Legum / Salon:
Jeb Bush's epic implosion: Why it's high time he gave up his presidential fantasy — Let's face it: Jeb sucks at this whole running-for-president thing, and he's just wasting our time now — Memo to Jeb Bush: Ignore mash notes like this one from Jennifer Rubin. Your presidential run is likely done.
Dambala / American Zombie:
David Vitter - Interview with Wendy Ellis, October 13, 2015 — The following interview segments are with former prostitute, Wendy Ellis, also known as Wendy Cortez in original stories that surfaced from Hustler magazine back in 2007. Ellis originally came forward with allegations …
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Political Wire and Liberaland
Ashley Harding / WJXT-TV:
SWAT team arrests 3 after overnight standoff — Suspect wanted for armed burglary arrested with woman after trailer standoff — Two fugitives and a woman were arrested seven hours after the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office SWAT team was called to a Westside home.
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Slantpoint and addictinginfo.org
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New York Times:
The Great ‘Sanctuary City’ Slander — Lawmakers in Washington and around the country are in an uproar over what they derisively call “sanctuary cities.” These are jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, or try in other ways to protect unauthorized immigrants from unjust deportation.
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ImmigrationProf Blog
George F. Will / Washington Post:
What Bernie Sanders doesn't understand about economic equality — America is more distant from the 1933 beginning of the New Deal (82 years) than that beginning was from the 1865 end of the Civil War (68 years). Both episodes involved the nation's understanding of equality …
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protein wisdom
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts — When it comes to paying taxes, most Americans think the wealthy do not pay their fair share. — There is a sharp divide, however, between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to taxing the rich, who provide most of the cash for political campaigns.
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addictinginfo.org, Slantpoint, The PJ Tatler, Liberal Values and Crooked Timber
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Pushes Bernie Sanders to Face ‘Socialist’ Moniker Head-On — On Friday night's Real Time on HBO, host Bill Maher opened the show by sitting down with Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and attempted to “undemonize the word Socialism”. The segment from the bombastic Maher …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Marco Rubio's wake-up call — <p>The hype surrounding Marco Rubio's presidential campaign just smashed into the wall of reality.</p><p>First, the Florida senator's team insisted it had stashed more campaign cash in the bank than fellow Floridian Jeb Bush — only it hadn't.