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David Von Drehle / TIME:
The Clinton Way … Photograph by Spencer Platt-Getty Images
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
TIME Cover Gives Hillary Horns  —  The latest cover of Time magazine gives Hillary Clinton horns:  —  Look carefully at the space between the top of Clinton's head and the M in Time's logo.  —  The move by Time, whether on purpose or not, has been noticed on Twitter:
David Brock / USA Today:
Benghazi truthers should release their e-mails  —  With nothing to hide, Hillary stands strong against Republican smear tactics.  —  Even though Hillary Clinton fully and clearly answered questions regarding her e-mail usage yesterday, the Benghazi truthers on Capitol Hill refuse to give up.
Discussion: RedState, Politico and Hot Air
Jennifer Fermino / NY Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani says Obama should be more like Bill Cosby, blames Brooklyn McDonald's fight, Ferguson cop shootings on President  —  Just when you thought Rudy Giuliani couldn't get crazier, the former NYC mayor blamed Obama for the brutal beatdown at a Brooklyn McDonalds — and said the president should be more like Bill Cosby.
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Elias Isquith / Salon:
The media s**t-show is back: Why coverage of Hillary Clinton has been an embarrassment  —  A bit less than a year ago, Politico Magazine released an in-depth piece by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman about Hillary Rodham Clinton's long and incredibly fraught relationship with the national, mainstream media.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million  —  Bill Clinton and his office have received more money through the Former Presidents Act than any other ex-president  —  By Election Day 2016, taxpayers will have paid out more than $16 million to fund Bill Clinton's pension, travel …
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
No one read Hillary emails before destruction  —  **Want FOX News First in your inbox every day?  Sign up here.  Buzz Cut:  —  How did Hillary Clinton know that the tens of thousands of emails from her time in office she ordered destroyed were personal?  Did she or even her staff scroll through …
Washington Post:
Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White House  —  Two Secret Service agents suspected of driving under the influence and striking a White House security barricade disrupted an active bomb investigation and may have driven over the suspicious package itself …
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Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
A Brief History of the Secret Service's Drinking Problem
Discussion: ABC News, CNN and The Daily Caller
BBC:
Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66  —  Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died aged 66, having had Alzheimer's disease for eight years.  —  “The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds,” said Larry Finlay of his publishing company, Transworld.
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Guardian:
Terry Pratchett, Discworld series author, dies aged 66  —  Author of more than 70 novels, who ‘fired the imagination of millions’, dies at his home eight years after Alzheimer's diagnosis  —  The writer Terry Pratchett, who took millions of readers on a madcap journey to the universe of Discworld, has died aged 66.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Iran letter blowback startles GOP  —  John McCain: “It was kind of a very rapid process.  Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm.”  —  Some Republican senators admitted Wednesday they were caught off guard by the backlash to a letter warning Iranian leaders …
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New York Times:
Republican Idiocy on Iran
Politico:
The Federalism Fallacy in King v. Burwell
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Susan Weich / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Two police officers are shot in Ferguson  —  FERGUSON  • Two police officers were hit by gunfire early Thursday outside the Ferguson police department.  —  The shots were fired as police were confronting protesters who had gathered outside the police station.
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Without Applause is the Most Gripping Video You'll See All Day  —  The Texas senator tanks at a presidential forum.  —  If, like many Americans, your job involves watching a lot of speeches by Ted Cruz, you have grown familiar with the Texas senator's applause lines.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Democrats Have No Bench?  Be Serious.  —  Dan Balz of the Washington Post says Democrats have a problem for 2016: “The absence of a strong Democratic bench.”  National Journal's Josh Kraushaar replies, “Spot-on.”  The New York Times repeats the “weak bench” line and quotes Democrats who agree …
Discussion: Washington Post and The PJ Tatler
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New York's PIX11:
VIDEO: 4 teens viciously beat girl in Brooklyn McDonald's as crowd cheers … FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) - Cell phone video shows a 15-year-old girl being beaten to the ground by 4 other teens inside a Brooklyn McDonald's as dozens watched and cheered.  —  The savage fight broke out inside …
Discussion: FOX31 Denver
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Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Last Secrets of the Bush Administration  —  How to find out what we still don't know.  —  In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush.  It concerned an important deadline that was looming—one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Javier Ceriani / msnbc.com:
Univision host fired for ‘Planet of the Apes’ Michelle Obama remark  —  A popular Univision talk show host has been fired for making derogatory comments about Michelle Obama during a popular television show; the comments were widely circulated on social media.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Justice Obama  —  So in his turn writing “Tilting at Windmills” in the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, contributing editor (and esteemed friend) Steven Waldman needs just three sentences to toss out a very interesting idea: … Jeffrey Toobin actually devoted a long op-ed back in 2010 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Alexander Panetta / Canadian Press:
Hillary Clinton email excuses ‘laughable,’ says top freedom-of-information official  —  News conference ‘grossly misleading’  —  Hillary Clinton's defenders say she's sufficiently explained why she set up a do-it-yourself home email system when she was secretary of state, insist there's nothing to see here, and it's time to move on.
Gallup:
Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months.  Americans' mentions of the economy as the top problem (11%) dropped this month, leaving it tied with jobs (10%) for second place.
Kimberly Houghton / UnionLeader.com:
NH's first transgender lawmaker arrested for hospital bomb threat  —  NASHUA — Stacie Laughton, the state's first openly transgender legislator who was elected to the House of Representatives and then withdrew her candidacy days later, said Thursday that she is the person responsible for calling …
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Kerry Washington to Star as Anita Hill in HBO Movie ‘Confirmation’ (Exclusive)  —  Oscar nominee Susannah Grant will pen the script for the TV movie.  —  Anita Hill, left, and Kerry Washington  —  Kerry Washington is headed for HBO.  —  The Scandal star has signed on to play Anita Hill …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Progressives: We've Never Heard Of This “Progressive” Group Backing Obama's Trade Deal  —  The “Progressive Coalition For American Jobs,” run by former Obama campaign staffers, purports to represent the progressive left on the trade deal that the progressive left hates.  —  Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
 
 
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SWAT team responds to Ferguson home; 3 in custody
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and News One
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Insider Buzz Grows for Marco Rubio
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House frets return of ‘Clinton way’
Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
For 20 years I fought the law. Today the law won
Discussion: Spectator and Guido Fawkes
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When Liberals Blew It  —  Fifty years ago this month, Democrats made a historic mistake.
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