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3:50 AM ET, May 22, 2016

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New York Daily News:
KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too  —  Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture.  —  “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
Discussion: BizPac Review, Slantpoint and The Hill
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Weakend at Bernie's  —  WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is the Democratic nominee.  —  Really.  —  Just ask her.  —  She should have been able to finally savor shattering that “highest, hardest glass ceiling” — the one she gloried in putting 18 million cracks in last time around …
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Feud With the Democratic Leadership Heats Up
Discussion: alan.com
Kristen East / Politico:
Sanders backs DNC chair's primary opponent
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders Burned Through Cash in April, Filing Shows
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Liberal Values
Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races  —  Homeboykris, ridden by Horacio Karamanos, wins the first race of the day on a muddy track ahead of the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore.
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Erik Brady / USA Today:
Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes  —  BALTIMORE — Exaggerator won the Preakness Stakes on a sloppy track Saturday, ending a Triple Crown bid by Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, who lost for the first time in nine career starts.  —  Cherry Wine finished second, with Nyquist third.
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
Discussion: Mediaite
Dillon Mullan / Washington Post:
Two horses die in first four races of Preakness Saturday
Discussion: CNN
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA facing member backlash over Trump endorsement  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With its last-minute decision to formally endorse Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association put itself out in front of the fight for Republican party unity.  —  Just a day later, it's already taking flak.
Discussion: The Hill, miamiherald and RedState
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
Salon:
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully  —  Trump's weakness is ridicule.  Even if Jon Stewart is sitting this one out, Democrats need to embrace serious satire  —  Donald Trump's absurd yet frighteningly real campaign …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016  —  Late in the afternoon on Friday, a press statement appeared on the website of the think tank Demos that set significant segments of policy twitter and left-wing political twitter ablaze.
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The Full Text Of Trump's First Address To A Major Hispanic Group Is Really Something  —  Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AFP / Getty Images  —  “It's so great to be with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.  We're gonna do a lot of things if I get elected president.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump reaches out to Hispanic Christians in video
Discussion: BizPac Review and Mediaite
Justen Charters / Independent Journal …:
She Shot Heartbreaking Footage From NYC Dorm On 9/11.  Now Millions Are Seeing What She Saw.  —  When it comes to September 11th, 2001, most of the footage we have seen comes from the news and media.  —  However, one girl who had a window's view to Ground Zero, recorded video of the horrific events that unfolded that morning.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
The Trump Wall Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Protect Women From Gang-Rape  —  Donald Trump stirred up controversy this past year for claiming “rapists” and “killers” are migrating over the United States' southern border.  —  Trump was right.  —  Rapists are crossing over into the US southern border.
Washington Post:
Primed to fight the government  —  A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty  —  B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target.  Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols.
Katie Leslie / Trail Blazers Blog:
T. Boone Pickens postponing major fundraising event for Donald Trump, cites scheduling issues  —  WASHINGTON — Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is postponing a fundraiser for Donald Trump that had been scheduled to take place at Pickens' ranch next month.  —  In a statement provided …
Ari Melber / NBC News:
New Trump Filing Undercuts Claims on Self-Funding  —  Donald Trump insists he personally funded his primary campaign, but a new report filed by his presidential campaign tells a different story.  —  Trump has now spent a total of $43 million, according to his filing with the Federal Election Commission …
Discussion: RedState
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
A Post-Primary Rally Boosts Trump, Albeit with Challenges Aplenty (POLL)  —  A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party's presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Mike Carlson / National Review:
Sorry, I Still Won't Ever Vote for Trump  —  My vote doesn't matter, but keeping a clear conscience does. … D  —  ear Reader (In particular, my truly Dear Readers.  You'll see what I mean.),  —  So, I'm back.  Contrary to rumors of some sort of rapture-like event …
Discussion: RedState and The Other McCain
David Harsanyi / Washington Post:
We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate  —  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at the Federalist.  —  Never have so many people with so little knowledge made so many consequential decisions for the rest of us.  —  A person need only survey the inanity of the ongoing presidential race …
New York Times:
EgyptAir Was Aware of Threats to Security, Including One Scribbled on Plane  —  CAIRO — In an eerie premonition, the EgyptAir jetliner that plunged into the Mediterranean on Thursday was once the target of political vandals who wrote in Arabic on its underside, “We will bring this plane down.”
Discussion: AOL
 
 
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Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
Hating America at Google
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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump filings from late '70s showed he paid no income taxes: report
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Top U.S. commander completes day-long secret visit to Syria
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Behind Donald Trump's Nonexistent Florida Strategy in the General Election
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ISIS prepares statement: Speculation mounts EgyptAir MS804 crash WAS a terror attack
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
CNN pundit S.E Cupp has had enough of Trump fans calling her a “cuckservative.”
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Jeb Bush says Donald Trump's supporters aren't a bunch of idiots
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Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Evidence scant California's licensed illegal immigrant drivers getting insurance
Discussion: BizPac Review
New York Times:
Key G.O.P. Donors Still Deeply Resist Donald Trump's Candidacy
Discussion: whorunsGov and The Hill
Mercury News:
San Francisco: Man seriously injured in mob attack
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
How to Deal with Cretinous Twitter Mobs: A Bleg
Discussion: Unfogged
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Don't look now, but Barack Obama is suddenly popular
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Politicus USA
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Mob of women attack Victoria's Secret employee in Miami Lakes
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 

 
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