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Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket' — Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world whether they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders. — All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate in Flint …
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Sanders to Clinton: 'Excuse me, I'm talking' … had one of their sharpest exchanges of the Democratic presidential campaign to date during Sunday's debate in Flint, Mich., when the Vermont senator cut his rival off for interrupting him. — “Excuse me, I'm talking,” Sanders said after Clinton tried …
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Sanders: 'What You're Really Talking About Is Ending Gun Manufacturing in America. I Don't Agree With That'
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Hillary Clinton's Lead Pipe Answer ‘Made Me Vomit In My Mouth,’ Flint Questioner Says
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Democratic Debate Takeaways: Clinton and Sanders Grow Tired of Each Other
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Balloon Juice, Scripting News, CNN and Knowledge is Power

How The Sanders Campaign Sees “Excuse Me, I'm Talking”
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Hot Air, American Spectator and Talking Points Memo

Sanders Tells Clinton: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking' in Arguably Sexist Debate Exchange
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Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands — Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.
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Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week — Ted Cruz's colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody else they dislike more. With the prospect of Donald Trump's nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from more than four senators this week …
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Talking Points Memo, Guardian and Hot Air

For Marco Rubio, Is It Too Late to Be the Underdog?
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Politico and Associated Press

Cruz: The Media Is Sitting On Explosive Trump Stories
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Daily Kos

After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida?
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The Risk I Will Not Take — Americans today face a profound challenge to preserve our common values and national promise. — Wage stagnation at home and our declining influence abroad have left Americans angry and frustrated. And yet Washington, D.C., offers nothing but gridlock and partisan finger-pointing.
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Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’ — Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing
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U.S. Strikes Kill 150 Shabab Fighters in Somalia, Officials Say
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The Atlantic, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon and The Week

Ex-ADL director: Trump pledge ‘is a fascist gesture’
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MOOK SPOOKED: Trump just won 2, we lost 3 of 4 — It's not going to be an easy path to the nomination for Hillary Clinton as many predicted and expected. — Campaign manager Robby Mook issued another panicked email to supporters Monday, reminding them Hillary came out the loser after this past weekend's primary votes.
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First Read: Why Trump's Delegate Lead Could Be Narrower Than You Think
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Kasich: I wouldn't need a delegate lead to win at a brokered convention
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Rebecca Bradley's Published Writings Reveal Opinions That Cross Line Into Hate Speech — One Wisconsin Now Uncovers State Court Justice's ‘Venomous’ Homophobia, Calls for Her Resignation
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Wisconsin Justice Apologizes For Student Columns Going Off On ‘Queers’ And AIDS
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Rebecca Bradley in 1992: ‘Queers’ with AIDS, addicts merit no sympathy
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Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’ — Newt Gingrich on Monday blasted Mitt Romney's speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” calling it a sure indicator that the 2012 Republican nominee would never be accepted as a consensus party choice at a hypothetical contested convention this summer in Cleveland.
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More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump — DENVER — Donald J. Trump's harsh campaign rhetoric against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primary, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six of them alone in the family of Hortensia Villegas.
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Lust for Destruction — When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election. They won't.
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Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Trump challenged over ties to mob-linked gambler with ugly past — Robert LiButti, top left, and Donald Trump, right. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos, state of New Jersey, William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, Ron Galella/Getty Images) — The daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure …

Why Nancy Reagan Didn't Want Ronald to Run for a Second Term — President Ronald Reagan was running for a second term, and Nancy Reagan was worried. The president's tight little circle of White House advisers and political strategists were confident as long as Reagan's Democratic opponent …
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Nancy Reagan's children speak out on her death
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Woman in ‘Mystery Machine’ mini van leads police on pursuit — Suspect still at large — REDDING, Calif. - — A Shasta County woman led law enforcement officers on a pursuit in a mini van painted to look like the ‘Mystery Machine’ from the Scooby Doo cartoon.


Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds — Sixty-one percent say it jeopardizes the nation. — Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States,” according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm …
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Liberty Unyielding


Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman's adoption — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed an Alabama court's refusal to recognize a same-sex adoption. — The justices upheld a challenge brought by an Alabama woman after her state's highest court refused …
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27 giant profitable companies paid no taxes — Death and taxes are supposed to be two certainties of life. But a few companies have at least escaped the taxes part. Investors, though, don't seem all that impressed. — There are 27 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 …
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