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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 Republican debate, Ben Carson was asked about his involvement with Mannatech, a nutritional supplements company that makes outlandish claims about its products and has been forced to pay $7 million to settle a deceptive-practices lawsuit.
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush team bracing for cash crunch  —  Jeb Bush's campaign, wounded after another mediocre debate performance, is bracing for the possibility that revenue dries up in the coming weeks ahead.  —  It's a striking turn for a campaign that had embarked on a “shock and awe” approach to fundraising …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Republican ‘Insiders’ Shine
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.
Discussion: The Other McCain
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Independent Journal
WUSA9:
WUSA9: Lottery clerks selling themselves winning tickets … WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - A man who sold himself a $1,000,000 winning D.C. Lottery ticket is just one of many retailers a WUSA9 investigation found winning the lottery at rates statisticians say border on impossible.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
White House Aims to Stop Release of Obama-Clinton Emails  —  WASHINGTON — The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties …
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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 …
Discussion: Friendly Atheist and Jihad Watch
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.
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary rally  —  Protesters with the Black Lives Matters movement interrupted a Hillary Clinton rally in Atlanta on Friday, where she planned to unveil her criminal justice reform plan.  —  Members of the civil rights group in the crowd chanted …
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Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Vows to Fight Profiling as Black Protesters Chant
Discussion: Politico
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.
Washington Post:
6 injured in chemistry classroom fire at Woodson High in Fairfax  —  A chemistry demonstration at a Fairfax County high school went out of control Friday morning, with a flash of flame engulfing a group of students, leaving two with serious burns and also sending three others to the hospital.
Discussion: Daily Mail
Alex Thompson / Politico:
America's Most Dangerous Political Taboo  —  Political taboos, campaign dealbreakers and electoral glass ceilings are crumbling.  Members of Congress are openly gay and bisexual, there's a black man in the White House, and a woman may be next.  Voters have accepted all sorts of behavioral warts …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama to Send Special Operations Forces to Syria to Help Fight ISIS  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will deploy a small number of American Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria, a United States official said.  —  The White House is expected to make the announcement on Friday, the official said.
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