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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Disarray has some Republicans talking about dealing with Dems — Without a viable alternative to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), some centrist Republicans say they'd have little choice but to seek Democratic help in electing a new Speaker. — The centrists have long chafed at House conservatives …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Was George W. Bush President On 9/11? An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart — On Friday, Donald Trump generated substantial controversy when he asserted that George W. Bush was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks. — “When you talk about George Bush, I mean …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Donald Trump: 9/11 happened on George W. Bush's watch
Donald Trump: 9/11 happened on George W. Bush's watch
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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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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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Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
Hillary's gun confiscation proposal is going to backfire in a big way — Allahpundit wrote yesterday about Hillary Clinton's startling lurch to the left on guns. The story dealt largely with her fascinating suggestion that the United States should look at a “buyback program” …
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Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Kids rebel against bland foods in lunch line: Time for a ‘pasta exemption’? — A report from the General Accounting office finds students are sneaking salt shakers onto campus and creating a clandestine market for potato chips. The age-old question remains: How do you get students to eat their peas?
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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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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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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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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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Florida Times Union:
Sex delay extends night-long standoff with police on Jacksonville's Westside — A woman who told police she preferred sex to surrender was arrested Thursday after she and a man she was with refused to come out of a mobile home on Jacksonville's Westside. — A SWAT team called to the 9700 block …
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Ashley Harding / WJXT-TV:
SWAT team arrests 3 after overnight standoff
SWAT team arrests 3 after overnight standoff
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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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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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