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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
USA Today columnist clarifies exactly when he thinks you should kill protesters with your car — Instapundit's phony remorse. — Now, more than ever, we should encourage people to apologize. — The social media era encourages in-the-moment reaction to anything and everything.
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Above the Law, USA Today and Eschaton
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Megan Boehnke / Tennessean.com:
Tennessee investigates professor's tweet about Charlotte — Charlotte, North Carolina police were seen detaining demonstrators on Wednesday night. The city is under a state of emergency after two nights of violent protests followed the fatal police shooting of a black man. (Sept. 22) AP
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The Root, Mashable, Little Green Footballs, WCMH-TV, Vox Popoli, The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, twitchy.com and BizPac Review, more at Mediagazer »
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people,’ NC Congressman Robert Pittenger says
Charlotte protesters ‘hate white people,’ NC Congressman Robert Pittenger says
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Man Shot in Keith Lamont Scott Protests Dies in Charlotte, N.C., Hospital
Man Shot in Keith Lamont Scott Protests Dies in Charlotte, N.C., Hospital
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Talking Points Memo, NPR, AOL, NBCSports.com and NBC News
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
In America, gun rights are for whites only
In America, gun rights are for whites only
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Instapundit, Hullabaloo and The Charlotte Observer
Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg:
Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina
Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina
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Taylor Marsh, Politico, The Intercept, ABC News, Washington Post, New York Magazine and The Atlantic
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump: Police wrongdoing needs to be ‘vigorously addressed’
Trump: Police wrongdoing needs to be ‘vigorously addressed’
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Politico and Boing Boing
Dan Merica / CNN:
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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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, USA Today, Mediaite and The Last Refuge
Cincinnati.com:
Enquirer: It has to be Hillary Clinton — Presidential elections should be about who's the best candidate, not who's the least flawed. Unfortunately, that's not the case this year. — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the most unpopular pair of presidential candidates …
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Los Angeles Times:
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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Times of San Diego, Business Insider and Politico
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
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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The Right Scoop, LawNewz, New York's PIX11, The Last Refuge, Hot Air, Bearing Arms, The Daily Caller, WNEP-TV, KTLA and WCMH-TV
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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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Washington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Hot Air
Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
Trump is headed for a win, says professor who has predicted 30 years of presidential outcomes correctly — Nobody knows for certain who will win on Nov. 8 — but one man is pretty sure: Professor Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984.
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Business Insider and New Century Times
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sen. Mike Lee shoots down Trump Supreme Court trial balloon — Utah Sen. Mike Lee on Friday swiftly shot down the idea that he would accept a nomination to the Supreme Court from Donald Trump. — “Sen Lee already has the job he wants which is why he is campaigning to represent the great people …
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LawNewz, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and The Week
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Drudge Report:
DEBATE RULES: NO COUGHING BREAKS — If presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton slips into a coughing fit or any other medical crisis during Monday's high-stakes debate, she will have to power through, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! — “There are no commercial breaks,” a commission source explains.
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Truth Kings and twitchy.com
The Daily Beast:
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 Atlantic, Mashable, Business Insider, Scripting News, Boing Boing, The Verge, New York Magazine, CANNONFIRE and Fast Company
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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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Yahoo, USA Today, Daily Kos and The Atlantic
New York Times:
It Lives. Birtherism Is Diminished but Far From Dead. — America's most prominent birther has finally disavowed the myth he helped to create. Will Donald J. Trump's concession affect the public's belief about whether President Obama was born in the United States?
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Morning Consult
New York Times:
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, Democracy Now, Common Dreams, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
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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RedState, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, The Week, CNBC, AOL, Occupy Democrats, New Century Times, Balloon Juice and Guardian
MJ Lee / CNN:
The day I became an American citizen — Becoming a citizen: History is made on Ellis Island — New York (CNN)I WAS COVERING the 2016 presidential election at CNN for more than a year when I made a confession to my husband: I felt a pang of sadness whenever I heard the national anthem at a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton rally.
CNBC:
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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Bloomberg, New York Magazine, TechCrunch, East Bay Times, The Verge, Business Insider, alan.com and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
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
John R. Coppedge / The Hill:
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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American Thinker, Power Line, AOL, BizPac Review, alicublog, No More Mister Nice Blog and Truth Kings
Lionel Shriver / New York Times:
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
New York Times:
Debate Prep? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Differ on That, Too — Hillary Clinton is determined to get under Donald J. Trump's skin at Monday's debate, and is testing attack lines to try to rattle him. — Mr. Trump is largely shunning traditional debate preparations …
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Politico, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, NBC News and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
How A Decision In May Changed The General Election — Last summer, when Donald Trump began his rise to the nomination, Hillary Clinton responded by pointing a finger squarely and firmly at the Republican Party. — Trump might sound extreme, she said, “but if you look at everyone else's policies, they're pretty much the same.”
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The Moderate Voice and No More Mister Nice Blog