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Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:
My Ben Carson Days — I attended a three year high school from 1978 to 1981. I took the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test ("PSAT") in tenth grade, and I checked off a box in the PSAT application inviting colleges to send me their literature. I was contacted by the United States Military Academy …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
The Biggest Holes In Ben Carson's Yale Psychology ‘Hoax’ Story — Dr. Ben Carson's camp responded forcefully Sunday to a Wall Street Journal article raising questions about another one of his powerful personal anecdotes: when a professor dubbed the Yale junior the “most honest” student in his psychology class.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Christie on Carson scrutiny: 'I don't have a whole lot of sympathy'
Christie on Carson scrutiny: 'I don't have a whole lot of sympathy'
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, The Week, Shakesville and RedState
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Chris Christie: 'I Don't Have A Lot Of Sympathy' For Ben Carson (VIDEO)
Chris Christie: 'I Don't Have A Lot Of Sympathy' For Ben Carson (VIDEO)
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Little Green Footballs, Hit & Run, Mock Paper Scissors and Mediaite
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Chris Christie Vetoes Legislation Making It Easier To Vote In New Jersey
BREAKING: Chris Christie Vetoes Legislation Making It Easier To Vote In New Jersey
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New York Times, Washington Free Beacon and The Bob and Chez Show
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
How A Conservative Radio Host Inspired Ben Carson To Apply To Yale
How A Conservative Radio Host Inspired Ben Carson To Apply To Yale
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How the Missouri football team just took down its university president — For the past week, a graduate student at the University of Missouri has been on a hunger strike, hoping to force the school system's president to resign his position over a perceived failure to address racist incidents on campus.
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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Four Reasons the Missouri Football Strikers are Cowardly Liberal Lazy Douchebags — UPDATE: Mizzou's President has apparently resigned, proving that some people think negotiating with terrorists is a good idea, even when those terrorists are 1-5 in the SEC.
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NBC News:
Tim Wolfe, University of Missouri President, Says He's Resigning Amid Racial Unrest
Tim Wolfe, University of Missouri President, Says He's Resigning Amid Racial Unrest
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
‘Justice is worth fighting for’: A Q&A with the graduate student whose hunger strike has upended …
‘Justice is worth fighting for’: A Q&A with the graduate student whose hunger strike has upended …
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RedState, Advancing Missouri, Columbia Missourian, Fox News, Fusion, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Feministing, The Week, Clutch Magazine, CNN and New York Times
Brett McMurphy / ESPN:
Missouri player says many on team don't support practice boycott
Missouri player says many on team don't support practice boycott
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Despair, American Style — A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression. He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Charts of the Day: Americans Seem to Be About As Happy As Ever — The new Case/Deaton paper about the rise in white deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drug overdoses has inspired a lot of discussion about why Americans are apparently so despondent these days. Paul Krugman goes so far as to call it “existential despair.”
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here's Hillary Clinton's big 2016 challenge, in one chart — As many have already observed, one of the big questions that will help decide whether Hillary Clinton wins the White House next year is this: Can Clinton turn out the coalition that helped power Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 wins at the same levels that the president did?
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone — The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an article in 2014 that alleged a freshman was gang raped at the house during a party.
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Ian Simpson / Reuters:
Virginia fraternity sues Rolling Stone over rape story — A University of Virginia fraternity sued Rolling Stone magazine on Monday for $25 million in damages over a discredited article about a 2012 gang rape at the fraternity. — The Phi Kappa Psi chapter filed the defamation lawsuit in Charlottesville …
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Lori Weisberg / The San Diego Union-Tribune stories:
SeaWorld to phase out theatrical killer whale show — SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding theatrical killer whale show at its San Diego park next year as part of a comprehensive strategy unveiled Monday to re-position the embattled company amid persistent criticisms of how it treats its orcas.
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The Huffington Post:
Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’ — “You gotta step up, man.”
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Sotomayor rips Supreme Court for letting cops get away with a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to violence — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — In a powerfully written dissent, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the thinking of some of her fellow justices …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Texas Trooper
Supreme Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Texas Trooper
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
For debate, Fox Business aims to be the anti-CNBC — Fox Business Network, the host of Tuesday's GOP debate, has its claws out — not for the candidates, as its moderators vow to stick closely to the issues, but for its more famous competitor CNBC. — Tuesday's encounter …
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Ashley Harrell / Center for Public Integrity:
Florida gets D- grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation — Land of sunshine still has shadows over open records laws — When people who are not from Florida think about Florida, they think Disney World. They think sunburnt half-wits who can't understand a ballot.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Bachmann: Jesus is ‘coming soon’ — Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) calls in an interview for converting as many people as possible to Christianity because Jesus is “coming soon.” — The 2012 Republican presidential candidate made the comments in a radio interview last week with Tony Perkins …
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Ward Baker / The Hill:
GOP will hold the Senate in '16 — In almost every democracy in the world, political parties who lose landslide elections respond by deposing their leaders and conducting autopsies on their strategies. But Senate Democrats, routed in 2014, have instead doubled down on failure and that's why they will fail …
Caleb Howe / The Right Scoop:
Hugh Hewitt Tries To Explain Media Bias To Morning Joe — This morning there were some minor fireworks on Morning Joe, as Hugh Hewitt and Joe Scarborough duked it out over Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton and media bias in general. — Joe argues that there is simply no way that the press …
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Washington Times and Hot Air
Jonathan Ferziger / Bloomberg Business:
Obama Tells Netanyahu Their Differences Must Be Narrowed — He says split is mostly on ‘narrow issue’ of the Iran deal — Netanyahu says shared goals will keep the alliance strong — President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that while their differences …
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Tova Dvorin / Arutz Sheva:
Scandal: Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration — Organizers in Umeå claim the event is a ‘security risk’, downplay Holocaust's horrors. — Synagogue set on fire during Kristallnacht — Wikimedia Commons — The organizers of an anti-Nazi event …
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