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Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters — The Bundy family of Nevada joined with hard-core militiamen Saturday to take over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, vowing to occupy the remote federal outpost 50 miles southeast of Burns for years.
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Washington Examiner:
Three of Cliven Bundy's sons, militia seize federal building in Oregon — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Three of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's sons and what they claim are 150 militia members have occupied a federal building in eastern Oregon in order to keep two local ranchers …
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Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Raw Story
OPB:
Who Wants A Burns Standoff? Not The Sheriff, The Ranchers, Or Even Cliven Bundy — BURNS — In this quiet, high desert town, frost covers the sagebrush and most people are staying indoors because of the below freezing temperatures. — Yet, tensions in this Eastern Oregon community …
Associated Press:
SCALIA DISMISSES CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY IN SPEECH — METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country's constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.
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Vox Popoli and BizPac Review
Michael Walsh / New York Post:
The myth of the cop killing ‘epidemic’ — To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport. — Except that these homicidal goons …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Middle East Couldn't Possibly Get Worse. Could It? — The Sunni-Shia schism goes back more than a millenium and has been a more or less constant feature of geopolitics in the Middle East for a long time. The closest the balance has come to being upset within recent memory was the Iran-Iraq war …
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Telegraph, Arab News and Slantpoint
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric
Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric
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Jihad Watch, Business Insider, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Independent
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Global outcry after Saudi Arabia executes Shi'ite cleric, 46 others
Global outcry after Saudi Arabia executes Shi'ite cleric, 46 others
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The Daily Caller, Reuters, Slantpoint and Associated Press
Not A Blog:
Last Year (Winds of Winter) — The last post from the Lost Post, and the one you've all been waiting for. — Back when this was one long long long post, before Live Journal sent it to the cornfield, I mentioned opening with Dickens' line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
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Daily Mail, EW.com, Vox Popoli, New York Times, Slantpoint, Business Insider, Maxim, Gizmodo, Mashable, Spinoff Online, The Verge and Deadline
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Tiffany Ap / CNN:
Al-Shabaab recruit video with Trump excerpt: U.S. is racist, anti-Muslim
Al-Shabaab recruit video with Trump excerpt: U.S. is racist, anti-Muslim
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Washington Monthly, BBC, Washington Post, Friendly Atheist, Outside the Beltway, RedState, KTLA, The Daily Caller and WTKR-TV
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting
Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother's Suffering — One evening in the 1960s, Donald J. Trump, still in college but eager to make it big, met his older brother, Freddy, for dinner in a Queens apartment complex built by their father. — Things went bad fast.
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addictinginfo.org, alan.com and Althouse
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
How Liberals Are The New Autocrats — Progressives may preach the joys of localism, but the trend in government is all the other way in everything from climate change to the economic complexion of your neighborhood. — The End of Localism — This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends.
Discussion:
John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Backers Say Their New Hampshire Voter Database Is ‘Huge’ — The Republican insurgent's camp insists they'll be able to turn out his vote. — As the campaign to win the nation's first presidential primary heads into its final weeks, New Hampshire supporters of Donald Trump say they've …
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Politico
Guardian:
Clinton campaign hopes Bill will deliver a New Hampshire ‘comeback kid’ boost — Bill Clinton has taken a backseat thus far as Hillary Clinton's national campaign hits its stride, but with a New Hampshire rally set, his impact is anyone's guess — “New Hampshire tonight has made Bill Clinton the comeback kid.”