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Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Cruz Scolds Boy After Child Tells Him ‘You Suck’ At Indiana Rally [VIDEO] — La Porte, IN-Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said a kid growing up in his household would have been spanked if they acted out the way a boy did towards him Sunday during a rally. The pre-teen boy was escorted out by local law enforcement …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Times and Fox News
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house — A youthful protester who interrupted his rally late Sunday evening should get a spanking, Ted Cruz suggested to his audience in La Porte, Indiana. Such a punishment, he added, would have gone a long way in changing the behavior of Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones and The Week
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Why Rubio hasn't endorsed Cruz — Marco Rubio won't be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he's likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention — if it gets that far. — The de facto plan, Rubio's backers say, is designed to help Cruz.
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Political Wire
Mike Pence / Indianapolis Star:
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz
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Talking Points Memo, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Politico
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Countdown to Indiana
The Note: Countdown to Indiana
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and BizPac Review
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
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Talking Points Memo, Forbes, AOL and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
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New York Magazine and Talking Points Memo
Michael Walsh / New York Post:
How Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by — As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic. It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.
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Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, No More Mister Nice Blog and Althouse
BBC:
Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto — Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. — His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.
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Gavin Andresen, The Week and Computerworld
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Economist:
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Is he? — Evaluating his claim will involve a multi-step paternity test — IMAGINE that the paternity of a particularly brilliant child is in doubt, and someone steps forward to claim he is the father. In the real world a DNA test would sort the matter out quickly.
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Daily Mail, New York Times and Mashable
Wright-Master / Dr. Craig Wright Blog:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
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New York Magazine, NPR and Al Jazeera English
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Ohioans Want Kasich To Drop Out — PPP's newest Ohio poll finds voters in the state are getting sick of John Kasich's Presidential campaign. Only 38% think he should stay in the race, compared to 49% who think it's time for him to drop out. Those numbers have shifted substantially …
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Political Wire, Cincinnati.com and The Gateway Pundit
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years — Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters. — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Political Wire
Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips — The Vermont senator continued to argue that he could still win the Democratic nomination. — aritbenie — Bernie Sanders on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of his bid for the White House by vowing …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders: ‘It will be a contested convention’
Sanders: ‘It will be a contested convention’
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New York Magazine and New York Times
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances
Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances
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The Week
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’
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Lauren Collins / New Yorker:
The Model American — In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours. The couple had been in London. At around 8 P.M. on a Monday night, they landed at Ljubljana's Brnik airport in Trump's Boeing 727.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Letting Stephen Colbert Be Stephen Colbert (Whoever That Is) — Last Wednesday, the CBS chairman Leslie Moonves ducked into that night's taping of Stephen Colbert's “Late Show,” and then joined Mr. Colbert in his office above the Ed Sullivan Theater. — There Mr. Moonves …
Detroit News:
DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout — Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.
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ThinkProgress, Da Tech Guy Blog, Detroit Free Press, The Atlantic and Washington Post
Molly Worthen / New York Times:
Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’ — IN American politics, few forces are more powerful than a voter's vague intuition. “I support Donald Trump because I feel like he is a doer,” a senior at the University of South Carolina told Cosmopolitan. “Personally, I feel like Bernie Sanders is too idealistic …
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Althouse
Simon Maloy / Salon:
The Benghazi slow-walk: How to drag out an investigation for maximum political impact — Trey Gowdy's committee has been overloading the Pentagon with interview requests and hunting down Hannity callers — At some point over the next few months, the House Select Committee on Benghazi …
New York Times:
Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races — SAN ANTONIO — In a state where everything is big, the 23rd Congressional District that hugs the border with Mexico is a monster: eight and a half hours by car across a stretch of land bigger than any state east of the Mississippi.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: The GOP's a ‘rigged party’ — on Monday said that the Republican Party is trying to stack the deck against him becoming the GOP presidential nominee. — “The bosses are trying to run it,” he told host Chris Cuomo on CNN's “New Day.” “It's a rigged party. The bosses want to pick whoever they want to pick.
Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security — If you sense that airport security lines are getting longer — much longer — you're definitely not alone. — A combination of fewer Transportation Security Administration screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures …
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties — In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win.
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The Week
Julie Shaw / Philly.com:
Blogger sues Kathryn Knott, her father, and Bucks D.A. — A blogger who wrote about Kathryn Knott - the Bucks County woman convicted of participating in a 2014 attack on a gay couple in Center City - has sued Knott, Knott's father, the Bucks County district attorney, and others.
Los Angeles Times:
Top L.A. County sheriff's official resigns over emails mocking Muslims and others — Tom Angel at Burbank police headquarters in 2015. — A top Los Angeles County sheriff's official has resigned amid mounting criticism over emails he sent mocking Muslims, blacks, Latinos …
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