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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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Mediaite, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and NBC News
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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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Fusion and Columbia Missourian
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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CNN, SI.com, USA Today, Common Dreams, CollegeFootballTalk, The Federalist, Washington Post, Business Insider and BizPac Review
New York Times:
Tim Wolfe, University of Missouri System President, Resigns
Tim Wolfe, University of Missouri System President, Resigns
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Weekly Standard, ABC News, Fox News, Washington Post, ESPN and NPR
Lori Weisberg / The San Diego Union-Tribune stories:
SeaWorld to phase out killer whale show … SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding 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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CNBC, ThinkProgress, Guardian, Mother Jones, KOIN-TV, Gizmodo, The Verge, CBS Los Angeles, The Week, KFOR-TV and Mashable
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Hugo MartinContact / Los Angeles Times:
SeaWorld to phase out killer whale show — SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding killer whale show at its San Diego park next year as part of a strategy to re-position the embattled company amid persistent criticisms of how it treats its orcas. — In its place would be a new orca …
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KTLA, WGN-TV and fox13now.com
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
How A Conservative Radio Host Inspired Ben Carson To Apply To Yale — Ben Carson told reporters a story on Friday that he has written about several times: as a high school senior, he could only afford to apply to one college, and he decided he would apply to the school that won a face off …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Ben Carson and the Truth
Ben Carson and the Truth
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, EcoWatch, RedState, Business Insider, Hot Air, Shakesville, Jezebel and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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Hit & Run, The Week and Talking Points Memo
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
The Biggest Holes In Ben Carson's Yale Psychology ‘Hoax’ Story
The Biggest Holes In Ben Carson's Yale Psychology ‘Hoax’ Story
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Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, CANNONFIRE and Business Insider
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Chris Christie Vetoes Legislation Making It Easier To Vote In New Jersey — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed legislation Monday that would have added 1.6 million new voters to the state's rolls and made New Jersey the third state in the country to adopt automatic voter registration.
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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, Mock Paper Scissors and Mediaite
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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Raw Story and The Mahablog
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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?
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Outside the Beltway, Los Angeles Times and Political Wire
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
League of Conservation Voters Action Fund to endorse Clinton
League of Conservation Voters Action Fund to endorse Clinton
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, lcv.org, Booman Tribune and Slantpoint
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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ABC News, Politico and Bloomberg.com news
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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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Adweek, Independent Journal, Mediaite, TVNewser, The Week, whorunsGov and FishbowlDC
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Channel Star Maria Bartiromo to GOP Candidates: Grow Up
Fox Business Channel Star Maria Bartiromo to GOP Candidates: Grow Up
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Vox, Political Wire and Politico
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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RedState, Erick on the Radio, The PJ Tatler and The Huffington Post
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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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Sets Sights on ‘Moderate’ Marco Rubio — With the two Republican presidential hopefuls on the rise, the Texas hardliner is subtly trying to undermine his rival. — For Ted Cruz, the single biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination may not be outsider candidates Donald Trump …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Heritage Action presidential scorecard rates Cruz near-perfect
Heritage Action presidential scorecard rates Cruz near-perfect
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The Week and whorunsGov
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.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Bernie Sanders, Lover of Genocidal Tyrants, Is Anything But Cute — In a reality show election starring Hillary Clinton, it takes real effort to be the most appalling, disgusting, and morally bankrupt character in the cast. Enter stage left Bernie Sanders, the “democratic” socialist.
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Instapundit
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 …
BBC:
Jordan policeman kills American and South African trainers — A Jordanian policeman has opened fire at a police training centre outside Amman, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian, officials say. — The Jordanian embassy in Washington said the assailant wounded five others …
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Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller