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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Pundits Have It All Wrong. Ted Cruz Is a Real Threat For the Nomination. — Ted Cruz gets no respect. At least no respect in keeping with the impressiveness of the campaign he's built and his increasing odds of winning the Republican nomination. — The press and the political class …
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
Why GOP elites are totally ignoring a political reality that could destroy their party — For months now, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has actually been split into two races. — In the one that gets talked about the most by the professional political press …
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The American Conservative, The Daily Caller and CNN
Ken Shepherd / NewsBusters:
Chris Matthews Not Sure If Cruz, Rubio Really Hispanic; They're ‘Cuban Nationals’ Though — Share it Tweet it — According to Chris Matthews, it's uncertain whether the term Hispanic can properly be used to describe GOP presidential aspirants Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida).
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NBC News:
Rubio Looks Like the GOP Frontrunner, But There's a Catch — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — The Rubio Paradox — After his strong debate performances …
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
In new shock poll, Sanders has landslides over both Trump and Bush — In a new McClatchy-Marist poll, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads Republican candidate Donald Trump by a landslide margin of 12 percentage points, 53 to 41.
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DownWithTyranny! and Discourse.net
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New York Times:
Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Maintaining Lead Over Bernie Sanders — Despite a month of sharpened attacks, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has failed to significantly dent Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Thursday.
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Mark Schmitt / New York Times:
A Lost Generation of Democrats
Elspeth Reeve / New Republic:
The Hillary Clinton Living Inside the Republican Brain
The Hillary Clinton Living Inside the Republican Brain
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
FBI expands probe of Clinton emails, launches independent classification review — The FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary Clinton's emails, with agents exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case.
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Majority think Clinton acted unethically or illegally in emails
Poll: Majority think Clinton acted unethically or illegally in emails
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Real Clear Politics
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval Rating Slips to 11%
Congress' Job Approval Rating Slips to 11%
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Times, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
Massoud Hayoun / Al Jazeera America:
Missouri state senator aims to block student's dissertation on abortion — Exclusive interview: Missouri grad student defends research on how state's required abortion wait affects women — A University of Missouri doctoral student plans to continue research for her dissertation on the effects …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's claim that she tried to join the Marines — “He looks at me and goes, 'Um, how old are you. And I said, ‘Well I am 26, I will be 27.’ And he goes, ‘Well, that is kind of old for us.’ And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, ‘Maybe the dogs will take you,’ meaning the Army.”
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Why aren't Hillary Clinton's exaggerations of her life story bigger news?
Why aren't Hillary Clinton's exaggerations of her life story bigger news?
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Naked Politics
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Chris Christie: College unrest a product of ‘lawlessness’ that Obama allows — MUSCATAINE, Iowa — In his first campaign stops after a well-received performance in Fox Business's “undercard” GOP presidential primary debate, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) mixed raw talk about addiction …
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j.school:
Crying Wolfe Exposes Real Problem
Crying Wolfe Exposes Real Problem
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Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
What You Need To Know About The Huge Student Protest Sweeping The Country Today — On Thursday, students across the country will walk out of their classrooms and march for the right to a free college education. According to organizers, 110 college campuses across the country are expected to participate in the grassroots event.
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Curtis Skinner / Reuters:
Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college
Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Mizzou, Yale and Free Speech — On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force. — One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways that damage everyone's education.
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Yale, Mizzou and Others—Training a Generation of Proto-Fascists
Yale, Mizzou and Others—Training a Generation of Proto-Fascists
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The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, The Academe Blog and Slantpoint
Jonathan Rauch / New York Daily News:
A new trigger warning for college kids: How to prepare them for the intellectual discomforts of a university — Though I'm as strong an advocate as you'll find of free speech and thick skins, I feel some sympathy for the Yale student whose meltdown in a university courtyard went viral …
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Washington Post
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
A Plague of Racial Hoaxes on Campus — The two well-publicized incidents of racism on the University of Missouri campus, consisting of offensive slurs directed at African-American students, have not been independently confirmed. That does not indicate that these events never happened …
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Power Line
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Ben Carson Adviser: We Have ‘Intelligence’ About Chinese In Syria (VIDEO) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's business manager and adviser Armstrong Williams attempted to support Carson's bizarre debate claims on Syria during a Wednesday interview with MSNBC by assuring the anchor that the Chinese are, in fact, in Syria.
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Mother Jones and The Bob and Chez Show
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Secret Service Agent Charged With Sexting 14-Year-Old From White House — A uniformed Secret Service officer was arrested for allegedly sending nude photos to a contact he thought was a 14-year-old girl, with some texts sent while on the job at the White House, CNN reported Thursday.
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Missouri student files complaint against professor who called for ‘muscle’ — The University of Missouri student who filmed assistant professor Melissa Click call for “muscle” to eject him from a protest site on campus says he has filed a complaint with police alleging simple assault.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump's New Book To Debut Behind Ben Carson's On New York Times Bestseller List — Ben Carson isn't only challenging Donald Trump's frontrunner status in the Republican presidential primaries — he's beating him in book sales, too. — Trump's new book, Crippled America …
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Anthony Breznican / EW.com:
HARRISON FORD IS HAN SOLO — The ‘Star Wars’ actor has had harsh words for the smuggler, but they're closer than you think — First of all, there's the flyboy thing. Even Ford (grudgingly) admits there's a lot of real pilot in Solo. “Oh, I suppose there's a kind of pride in the mastery of a machine,” he allows.
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Guardian and The Daily Caller
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Mizzou Demonstrators Segregate White Allies to Form ‘Black Only Healing Space’ — Student protesters at the University of Missouri asked white supporters to leave Wednesday night in order to create a “black only healing space.” — Steve Schmidt, an activist who was at the protest …
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RedState, Daily Wire, Maggie's Farm and neo-neocon
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
David Vitter's Race for Governor Could Bring the Senate Together — After a rough and highly personal debate in the Louisiana governor's race on Tuesday night, all eyes in the Senate are on David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who is in a pitched battle to win the governor's mansion back home.
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Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
What do people see in Ben Carson? — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — In sixth grade — you'll have to excuse me if I'm fuzzy on the details; this happened more than a decade ago - my English teacher gave our class a reading assignment about world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans divided over how far to go with ObamaCare repeal — Senate Republicans are divided over how far to go with an ObamaCare repeal bill they plan to send to the president's desk by year's end. — Senate GOP leaders have told their members they will repeal as much of the 2010 healthcare reform law …
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Politico, Washington Post, Hit & Run, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, Horizons and The Bob and Chez Show
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Utah judge removes lesbian couple's foster child, says she'll be better off with heterosexuals — Last year, Utah couple Beckie Peirce and April Hoagland decided to get married. Last summer, in a decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the Supreme Court confirmed that this was okay.
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