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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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‘Justice is worth fighting for’: A Q&A with the graduate student whose hunger strike has upended the University of Missouri — Jonathan Butler is in pain, but he has no intention of giving up. — As of 9 a.m. Monday, it has been a week since the 25-year-old University of Missouri graduate student …

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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Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal
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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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The Biggest Holes In Ben Carson's Yale Psychology ‘Hoax’ Story

Chris Christie: 'I Don't Have A Lot Of Sympathy' For Ben Carson (VIDEO)
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Christie on Carson scrutiny: 'I don't have a whole lot of sympathy'
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How A Conservative Radio Host Inspired Ben Carson To Apply To Yale
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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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How Much Will Obama Extract from Israel in His Last Year?
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Obama and Netanyahu Seek to Move Past Rift Over Iran Nuclear Deal
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Obama Starts Personal Facebook Page
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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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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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SeaWorld to end 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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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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Virginia fraternity sues Rolling Stone over rape story
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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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Supreme Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Texas Trooper
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Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’ — “You gotta step up, man.”
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Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk — Trouble in America's statehouses: secrecy, questionable ethics and conflicts of interest — In November 2014, Arkansas voters approved a ballot measure that, among other reforms, barred the state's elected officials from accepting lobbyists' gifts.
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Florida gets D- grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation
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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?

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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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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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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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 …


Vitter Addresses Prostitution Scandal — Sen. David Vitter addresses his past indiscretions with a prostitute in a new ad: “I failed my family.” — TwitterFacebookLinkedin
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