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4 Dead, Including Suspect, In Downtown Shooting Spree … Headlines List — “I was just sitting on my patio taking my dog out when I saw someone come around the corner, being chased by the police.” — Aaron Nicks and dozens of other people in downtown Colorado Springs Saturday morning watched …
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Matt Steiner / Gazette:
4 dead after morning shootings in downtown Colorado Springs — Gunfire rang out Saturday morning east of downtown Colorado Springs, leaving bullet-riddled bodies lying in the 200 block of North Prospect Street and in front of a Wendy's restaurant on North Wahsatch Avenue.
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Associated Press and Liberty Unyielding
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Dem: CNBC's ‘circus’ debate was like ‘The Gong Show’ — The Democratic governor of Virginia is lambasting the moderators of CNBC's Republican presidential debate for asking ridiculous questions. — Gov. Terry McAullife said the Wednesday debate was like a “circus” and compared the spectacle to the 1970s game show “The Gong Show.”
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Hot Air, ABC News and Balloon Juice
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Yes, liberal media bias is real, and here's how it affected the CNBC debate — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Since the Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night, there's been plenty of sturm und drang about media bias. Republican candidates and conservative commentators …
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Washington Monthly and Independent Journal
Don Melvin / CNN:
Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai with 224 people on board — Cairo (CNN)[Breaking news update at 7:34 a.m.] — An Egyptian aviation investigation team has reached the site of the crashed Russian passenger jet in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, state-run Nile TV reported Saturday, citing the minister of civil aviation.
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USA Today, The Liberty Zone and The Week
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Russian jet carrying 224 people crashes in Sinai. No survivors found.
Russian jet carrying 224 people crashes in Sinai. No survivors found.
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New York Times, Reuters, Al Jazeera English, Hollywood Life, Hot Air and The Week
New York Times:
Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President — One of the wealthiest and most influential Republican donors in the country is throwing his support to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a decision that could swing millions of dollars in contributions behind …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Springtime for Grifters — At one point during Wednesday's …
Springtime for Grifters — At one point during Wednesday's …
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DownWithTyranny!, Salon and bradford-delong.com
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Not Ready for Prime Time Bush
The Not Ready for Prime Time Bush
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Slate, Los Angeles Times, National Review, Hot Air and RedState
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush team bracing for cash crunch
Bush team bracing for cash crunch
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Bloomberg.com news, RedState, The First Street Journal, Reuters and Political Wire
Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:
Academia's Rejection of Diversity — ONE of the great intellectual and moral epiphanies of our time is the realization that human diversity is a blessing. It has become conventional wisdom that being around those unlike ourselves makes us better people — and more productive to boot.
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Washington Post
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
John Oliver Doesn't Want Trump On His Show: He Has Nothing Else To Say — John Oliver, comedian and host of HBO's “Last Week Tonight” on Friday said that he's not at all interested in having Donald Trump on his show. — “I don't really care about him in any capacity,” he said on CBS' “This Morning.”
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Tom Tancredo / Breitbart:
Former Congressman: I'm Quitting GOP — In a panel discussion at the University of Colorado after the recent Republican debate, I was asked by a student why she should be a Republican. The question forced me to ask myself the same thing. — I gave the young woman the standard talking points …
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Pirate's Cove, The Other McCain and The Spot
Mike Rowe / Facebook:
What's on YOUR Wall? — 'Hello Mr. Rowe! What's your take on MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry being offended by the phrase “hard worker”? How can such a label possibly be offensive to anyone? Lenny Kostecki ... My take Lenny, for what it's worth, is that there is no longer a limit to what people can be offended by.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Patterico's Pontifications and Independent Journal
BBC:
Bangladeshi secular publisher hacked to death — A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say. — Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher …
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Associated Press, Jihad Watch and Friendly Atheist
John Crudele / New York Post:
The Commerce Department's GDP numbers don't make any sense — Marijuana must be legal in Washington because the folks at the Commerce Department have to be smoking a lot of it. — Commerce announced on Thursday that the nation's third-quarter gross domestic product expanded by just a 1.5 percent annual rate.
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The Other McCain