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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Exclusive: Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals — Republicans are panicking as internal polls show Don Blankenship, a coal baron who spent time in jail for a mining disaster that killed 29 workers, surging into the lead in the West Virginia Senate GOP primary …
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Yikes: Two Internal Polls Show Don Blankenship Leading In WV On Eve Of Senate Primary — If he pulls this off tomorrow night, there's only one thing in the world that'll be able to console “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell. You guessed it: Cocaine. — This endless series of interventions …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At McConnell's Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump intervened Monday in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, pleading with voters a day before the election to oppose the former mine operator Don Blankenship …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials — In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal. Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Rudy Giuliani is repeating seven mistakes that brought down previous Trump advisers … THE BIG IDEA: — Rudy Giuliani has neither reduced Donald Trump's legal exposure nor helped him in the court of public opinion during his weeklong media blitz, but the former …
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The Atlantic, ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Los Angeles Times
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye — I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
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NRA BLOG:
Lt. Colonel Oliver North Poised to Become NRA President — “Most exciting news for NRA members since Charlton Heston Became President of Our Association,” Wayne LaPierre said. — DALLAS - Lt. Colonel Oliver North, USMC (Ret.) will become President of the National Rifle Association …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Oliver North to be NRA's new president — Washington (CNN)Oliver North, the Fox News contributor and central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will be the National Rifle Association's new president, the group announced Monday. — “Oliver North is, hands down, the absolute best choice …
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Political Wire, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
David Fontana / Washington Post:
Washington is now a cool city. That's terrible news for American democracy. — Sparky's Espresso Cafe was a few blocks from my apartment off 14th Street NW, but in the years after I moved to Washington in 2006, it felt to me like home. To get there from my apartment …
New York Times:
‘Smoke and Mirrors’: Emails Detail Pruitt's Drive for Secrecy at the E.P.A. — WASHINGTON — The invitation-only breakfast at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington gathered 250 executives from the nation's largest electric utilities, assembled in a ballroom to meet with Scott Pruitt …
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Jessica Bakeman / WLRN Miami Herald News …:
Stoneman Douglas Shooter Was Assigned To Controversial Broward Discipline Program, Officials Now Say — Broward school district officials admitted Sunday that the confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman was assigned to a controversial disciplinary program …
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
Broward Schools Lied to Sen. Rubio About Parkland Shooter's Record
Broward Schools Lied to Sen. Rubio About Parkland Shooter's Record
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report — The FBI and DOJ have been burying the investigators' questionable judgments and information helpful to Flynn. — Cute how this works: Kick off the week with some “the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted” bombast …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials
Nunes, in spat with Justice Department, threatens Sessions with contempt over Russia materials
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
People think she's a Parkland ‘crisis actor.’ It's terrifying. — NEW YORK — The strangers mocked her on social media. They called her old boss, saying she should be arrested. Now she feared one was stalking her. — Emma Gonzalez became an Internet obsession after a gunman killed 17 people …
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Raw Story
Denver Newspaper Guild:
Denver Post Newsroom Statement on Resignation of Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett — To our readers: — Newspapers tell the truth. — They must. Always. — That is why we, the newsroom of The Denver Post, are outraged at the unconscionable censorship imposed on our now-former editorial page editor, Chuck Plunkett.
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Michael Roberts / Denver Westword:
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper”
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper”
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Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Rejected Denver Post editorial decries ‘outright censorship’ at Digital First papers
Rejected Denver Post editorial decries ‘outright censorship’ at Digital First papers
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Splinter
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's popularity jumps in new CNN poll — (CNN)First lady Melania Trump has in recent weeks experienced a significant surge in support, a new CNN poll reveals, including among women and Democrats. — In a poll conducted by SSRS last week, 57% say they have a favorable impression of Trump, up from 47% in January.
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump unveils her platform, tells kids to ‘Be Best’
Katherine Mangan / Chronicle of Higher Education:
He Makes a Joke. She Isn't Laughing: ‘Lingerie’ Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars — He says he was joking when he asked to be let off an elevator at the ladies' lingerie department. A female scholar who was attending the same annual meeting of the International Studies Association …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Media Can Have Ideological Diversity Without Conservatives — Donald Trump's election exposed the irrelevance of conservative intellectuals — and thereby, the incoherence of many a liberal publication's mission statement. — During the 2016 primaries, the right-wing intelligentsia mobilized in opposition to Trump.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No wonder there's an exodus from religion … Do you wonder why the proportion of Americans declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion has skyrocketed in recent decades? — This trend is especially pronounced among adults under 30, roughly 40 percent of whom claim …
George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Shocker: Republican candidate says ‘I was just wrong’ — and Obama was right — ORLANDO — Candidates rarely admit being wrong about anything. — It's even more rare for a candidate in a Republican primary to say he was wrong and former President Barack Obama was right.
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Raw Story
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
This American Is A General For A Foreign Army Accused Of War Crimes In Yemen — “We would call him ‘Little Napoleon.’” — Stephen Toumajan spent most of his professional life as an officer in the US Army — but these days the country he serves is not the US but the United Arab Emirates.
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Obama's calorie rule kicks in thanks to Trump — An oft-forgotten provision of Obamacare is being pushed over the finish line by Trump's FDA. — One of Barack Obama's top food policy rules has escaped Donald Trump's war on regulations. — Starting Monday, calorie counts will have to be posted …
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul — Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image. — If I get addicted to vaping, I thought, in March, I will always remember this Texas strip mall.
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Mother Jones
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense … Rudolph W. Giuliani has been all over TV in recent days- making damaging concessions, opening up the possibility President Trump used a slush fund to pay off many women and, worst of all, floating the idea Trump doesn't need to respond to a subpoena because he is president.
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
Lava flow intensifies in Hawaii eruptions, spews 200 feet in air — After a day of relative calm, Kilauea roared back in full force on Sunday, spewing lava 300 feet in the air, encroaching on a half mile of new ground and bringing the total number of destroyed structures to 31.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Save Barnes & Noble! — Barnes & Noble is in trouble. You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business. You feel it when you walk into one of the chain's stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games, DVDs (DVDs?) and books. And you really see the problems if you dig into the company's financial statements.
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr's urging — Roseanne Barr hopes to teach tolerance and compassion in the next installment of her ABC sitcom. — On Tuesday's episode of Roseanne, a Muslim family living next door to the Conners elicits such fear in Roseanne …
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The Daily Caller
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
How Can the M.T.A. Rescue the Subway When It Struggles to Deliver Basics? — An order of 300 new subway cars should have arrived in New York City by January 2017, months before the system was officially declared to be in crisis. — Instead, only 32 of those cars are now on the tracks.
Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
Intelligent Machines Will Teach Us—Not Replace Us — Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on the overblown fears about AI — Over the centuries, humans have created countless technologies to save ourselves from backbreaking physical labor and mindless routine.
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Mother Jones