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Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina — Chaos after police killing culminate years of rising tension — 'You've got passions that are stirred up and running high' — Riots threaten to sway a deadlocked presidential race in race-riven North Carolina …
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In America, gun rights are for whites only — If you are a black man in America, exercising your constitutional right to keep and bear arms can be fatal. You might think the National Rifle Association and its amen chorus would be outraged, but apparently they believe Second Amendment rights are for whites only.
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Instapundit, Hullabaloo, The Charlotte Observer and The Root


Trump: Police wrongdoing needs to be ‘vigorously addressed’
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ABC News, Politico and Boing Boing

Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people,’ NC Congressman Robert Pittenger says
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Man Shot in Keith Lamont Scott Protests Dies in Charlotte, N.C., Hospital
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Talking Points Memo, NPR, NBCSports.com and NBC News

Exclusive: President Obama Urges ‘Peaceful’ Approach to Reforming Policing in Wake of Charlotte
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Politico

President Obama Offers Debate Advice for Hillary Clinton: ‘Be Yourself’
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twitchy.com, Politico and Mediaite

North Carolina congressman: Protesters ‘hate white people’
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Mark Cuban to take his trolling of Trump to the front row of Monday's debate — Mark Cuban: Trump a ‘danger’ to U.S. security — (CNN)When Donald Trump takes the stage on Monday night's primate time presidential debate, one of the few faces he will see will be that of a fellow billionaire that has tried to savage him in public.
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Political Wire and The Last Refuge


Clinton has lead but is vulnerable on trust, connection with voters — WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton heads into the first presidential debate with a 7-point lead over Donald Trump, but doubts among voters about about her trustworthiness and stamina are keeping Trump in the race, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
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Release the Charlotte Police Video — Elected officials who have paid any attention to the killings of civilians by the police that have roiled several cities in recent years should understand that keeping the public in the dark heightens tension and undermines trust in law enforcement.
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Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Keith Scott's Family Sees Videos of His Killing, and Says the Public Should, Too
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Family, police see different tale in same videos
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Protesters march for third night in Charlotte, defying curfew
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ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo and Political Wire


Video shows woman shooting at burglars during Gwinnett home invasion — GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Police are hoping someone can help identify two home invaders. They were caught on camera as a woman in the house shot at them. — “She exercised her right to defend her livelihood and property …
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Editorial Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Donald Trump would be a catastrophe. — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 21. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press) — The Times Editorial Board
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Politico
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More say press is too easy on Trump than said so of Romney, McCain
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Hot Air and Politicus USA

Trump received $1.6 million from Secret Service — Donald Trump's campaign isn't alone in patronizing his own businesses: taxpayers are indirectly doing so, too. — Federal Election Commission records show that the U.S. Secret Service has paid the Trump campaign about $1.6 million to cover …
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Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Fat Cat Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine — A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton. — Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed …
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The Lying Game — Here's what we can be fairly sure will happen in Monday's presidential debate: Donald Trump will lie repeatedly and grotesquely, on a variety of subjects. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton might say a couple of untrue things. Or she might not.
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USA Today, Yahoo, Daily Kos, The Atlantic and New York Magazine


Twitter may receive formal bid shortly, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google — Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology companies and may receive a formal bid shortly, sources said. — The social media company is engaged in conversations with potential suitors …
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Will the Left Survive the Millennials? — Midway through my opening address for the Brisbane Writers Festival earlier this month, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born Australian engineer and 25-year-old memoirist, walked out. Her indignant comments about the event might have sunk into obscurity …
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Althouse

An Important Message About Yahoo User Security — A recent investigation by Yahoo has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names …
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Clinton's eyes — a window into her health issues — In 2014 Conan O'Brien did a spoof of Hillary Clinton — 's interview with Diane Sawyer about her lack of lingering health issues following her 2012 concussion. In an obviously photoshopped version Clinton's eyes are made to oscillate crazily.
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Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric For Two Years — Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform — Big ad buyers and marketers are upset with Facebook Inc. after learning the tech giant vastly overestimated average viewing time for video ads …
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Trump's English-only campaign — It was just over a year ago, at a nationally televised debate, when Donald Trump chided Jeb Bush for speaking another language on the campaign trail. “This is a country,” Trump said standing at the lectern next to Bush, “where we speak English, not Spanish.”
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The Week


Statement from Glenn Reynolds — 'I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA TODAY's standards. For that I apologize.' — Wednesday night one of my 580,000 tweets blew up. I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA TODAY's standards.


'I DON'T NEED BRAIN TEST' Hillary Clinton slams suggestions she needs neurological test despite bizarre video showing her eyes moving ‘out-of-sync’ — The Democrat, 68, insists her ‘excessive’ health puts her rival Donald Trump's in the shade — PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Hillary Clinton has ruled …
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The Gateway Pundit


Past is prologue in police relations with people of color — On September 20th, news broke of another series of indefensible, senseless murders of unarmed black men occurred at the hands of police officers. — In Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 15, Terence Crutcher's car broke down and he pulled …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Tulsa Police Officer Charged With Manslaughter, Booked Into Jail
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