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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Anyone but Ted Cruz — You're evaluating candidates for an open job in your company, and you come across one who makes a big impression. — He's clearly brilliant — maybe smarter than any of the others. He's a whirlwind of energy. And man oh man can he give a presentation.
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RedState, Politico, Hot Air, Mock Paper Scissors and Bloomberg View
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson tumbles in national poll — Ben Carson took a tumble in the latest national poll, falling 7 points from last month in the Quinnipiac University survey, after weathering heavy criticism for his lack of foreign policy expertise and scrutiny about his personal tale of redemption.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
AP Conversation: Cruz's ambitious foreign policy has limits
AP Conversation: Cruz's ambitious foreign policy has limits
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New Republic, Mother Jones, Real Clear Politics, Hit & Run, Washington Post, Politico, The Week and New Yorker
Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
Reports of at Least 20 Victims Amid Active Shooting Incident in San Bernardino: Police — There were reports of at least 20 victims down amid an active shooter incident in San Bernardino late Wednesday morning, according to a police official. — The San Bernardino Fire Department initially …
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Steve Almasy / CNN:
Active shooter reported in San Bernardino, California — Reports of multiple victims in San Bernardino shooting — (CNN)Police in San Bernardino, California, tweeted a warning Wednesday that there was an active shooter situation. — There were one to three suspects …
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abc7.com, Talking Points Memo, WATE-TV, CNBC and FOX31 Denver
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Alabama Sued Over Photo ID Law After Mass DMV Closures — Alabama now faces a federal lawsuit over its voter ID law after closing 30 or so driver's licenses offices, many of them in areas with high African-American populations. — The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is bringing the suit on behalf …
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NAACP LDF
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Ted Cruz Vows To Fight Gay Rights In Extremist Conference Call
Ted Cruz Vows To Fight Gay Rights In Extremist Conference Call
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Towleroad
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Vows to Put Hard-Core Conservatives on Supreme Court
Ted Cruz Vows to Put Hard-Core Conservatives on Supreme Court
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LifeNews.com, Washington Post, Hit & Run and ThinkProgress
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
University President Draws Audible Gasps From Students, Faculty When He Reveals Identity of Suspect Behind Racist Threats — Kean University President Dawood Farahi drew audible gasps from faculty and students on Tuesday when he informed them that the suspect who recently made “abhorrent” …
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Truth Revolt and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Jessica Remo / New Jersey Online:
Twitter threats to black Kean students made by black alum, police say — ELIZABETH — A recent Kean graduate has been charged with being responsible for a series of tweets threatening black students at the school two weeks ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Tuesday.
Emily Shire / The Daily Beast:
Hamilton Students Deliver List of 83 ‘Demands’ to College President — From limiting freedom of speech to discouraging white faculty from leading departments, Hamilton College's ‘The Movement’ wants radical action across swaths of campus life. — A group of students at Hamilton College …
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The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Jon B. Carroll / The Henry County Report:
Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit … HUNDREDS OF CASES PROSECUTED WITH PLANTED EVIDENCE, MANY WRONGLY CONVICTED STILL IN PRISON — The Alabama Justice Project has obtained documents that reveal …
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New Republic, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Shakesville and addictinginfo.org
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Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Bombshell: Alabama cops systematically framed blacks by planting drugs and guns for decades
Bombshell: Alabama cops systematically framed blacks by planting drugs and guns for decades
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Balloon Juice, The Week and Daily Kos
Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Jake Tapper Hammers Trump Advisor For Insisting He Wasn't Mocking Disabled NYT Reporter — It looks like the media is finally growing tired of the monster they helped to create. You and your buddies built this, Jake. So sorry to see the Trump campaign and their over-the-top, blatant lies are finally starting to wear on you.
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Balloon Juice
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist
Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist
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The Moderate Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh, The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump on terrorists: ‘You have to take out their families’ … Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that the families of terrorists ought to be targeted in the fight against Islamic militants. — Trump made the remark during an interview on “Fox and Friends …
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New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo Politics, Mediaite, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo and CBS DC
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: We Have To ‘Take Out’ The Families Of Terrorists
Trump: We Have To ‘Take Out’ The Families Of Terrorists
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Mock Paper Scissors
Juan Williams / The Hill:
The GOP at breaking point — The biggest political story of 2015 will also be the biggest political story of 2016: The Republican base has divorced the Republican establishment. — The rupture has paralyzed Congress and polarized voters, both inside and outside GOP ranks.
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Washington Monthly
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Iraqis think the U.S. is in cahoots with the Islamic State, and it is hurting the war — BAIJI, Iraq — On the front lines of the battle against the Islamic State, suspicion of the United States runs deep. Iraqi fighters say they have all seen the videos purportedly showing U.S. helicopters …
John Nolte / Breitbart:
9 Pieces of Documentation that Vindicate Trump's Claim of 9/11 Muslim Celebrations — There is nothing yet that validates Donald Trump's claim that on that terrible September morning “thousands and thousands” of American Muslims cheered the collapse of the World Trade Center.
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MTV, Walid Shoebat, Liberty News, CNN, SGBerman, Moonbattery, Pamela Geller, The Last Refuge, Washington Post and Mediaite
Bob Brenzing / Fox17:
Photo of birthday cake decorated at Meijer goes viral for good reasons … GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A picture of a cake decorated at the Gaines Township Meijer is making the rounds on social media as people learn the story behind who created it. — Over the weekend, Lisa Aldrich posted a photo of a cake she purchased at Meijer.
New York Times:
The Chicago Police Scandal — The cover-up that began 13 months ago when a Chicago police officer executed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on a busy street might well have included highly ranked officials who ordered subordinates to conceal information. But the conspiracy of concealment exposed …
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Business Insider, Guardian, Chicago Tonight, Chicagoist, Slantpoint and CityLab
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Aurora Snow / The Daily Beast:
Two More James Deen Accusers Tell All: ‘There Was So Much Blood’ — Porn stars Amber Rayne and Kora Peters tell The Daily Beast's Aurora Snow about how Deen violated them on set, bringing the total number of on the record accusers to five. … One well-known adult actress discovered …
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Death and Taxes, Jezebel, New York Magazine, Mashable, Feminist Current, Hit & Run, Guardian, LAist, Independent Journal and Raw Story
Jordan Smith / Opposing Views:
60-Year-Old Pastor Marries Teenager With Support Of His Wife — Thom Miller, an Ohio-based pastor, has married a teenage woman and is having a child with her, all with the support of his 44-year-old wife Belinda. — The 60-year-old, who spent time earlier in life behind bars as a member of the mob …
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Liberaland
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Men accused of shooting up Black Lives Matter protest appear in court — and guess what? They're ‘not racist’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Attorneys for three of the men accused of opening fire on Black Lives Matter protesters appeared Tuesday in court to dispute the allegations against them.
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TwinCities.com and Pharyngula
Kasie Hunt / NBC News:
Lindsey Graham Faces A Looming Deadline in His Home State — South Carolina's State Election Commission has warned the state's Republican Party: If a candidate wants to stay off the ballot for the Feb. 20 presidential primary, they have until Dec. 21 to get out of the race.
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Washington Monthly and New York Times
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Walrus and the New York Times — As part of its cheerleading for the U.N. climate convention in Paris, the New York Times is running a series on What Climate Change Looks Like. First up are the walruses: … The Times is peddling ignorance here. Actually, the congregation of walruses …
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FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, The Mahablog and Climate Denial Crock …
Karen Weise / Bloomberg.com:
The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide … Photographs by Nathanael Turner
Fox17:
“I was speechless:” Man charged with felony for passing out jury rights fliers in front of courthouse … MECOSTA COUNTY, Mich. — A Mecosta man is charged with a felony for obstruction of justice and misdemeanor of tampering with a jury for passing out fliers about jury nullification rights …
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Hit & Run, FOX31 Denver and KFOR-TV
NBC News:
Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Robert Dear Targeted Agency Before: Ex-Wife — The man charged with killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has targeted the agency before, his ex-wife said Tuesday. — Robert Lewis Dear, 57 …
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Washington Post, RH Reality Check, LiberalAmerica.org, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Reuters, The Week, Associated Press and Vox
Josh Sanburn / TIME:
Here's What MTV Is Calling the Generation After Millennials — It joins a growing list of monikers for post-millennial teens — Griffin Picciani, 14, doesn't feel like a millennial. The New York City teenager looks at his early-20s cousins and easily recognizes the differences between his teenage years and theirs.
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Guardian, Death and Taxes, Gothamist and The Week