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EPA chief decides to rewrite toxic wastewater rule at request of utility companies - The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal court this week that, after reviewing industry complaints, the agency plans to rewrite rules imposing fe...
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The Moderate Voice

When Trump needs a Friend, this is what ‘Fox & Friends’ is for - WASHINGTON — The movement away from President Trump had become a stampede. Republican lawmakers from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to lowly backbenchers ...
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Politico Top Stories

Top general: 'No place' for racism, bigotry in the ranks - The nation's top military officer Thursday said that racism and bigotry have "no place — no place" in the U.S. military, stressing his support for a seri...
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Hit & Run

Politicians Can't Get Enough Energy Cronyism: New at Reason - From solar to coal, politicians love to subsidize power production.
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The 2017 Stress Tests: Are US Banks Really in Good Shape? - *“… equally efficacious, and equally a hoax.” – Benjamin Disraeli, 1848[1]* One of the highlights of the U.S. summer for Fed watchers is the annual rit...
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League

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Talking Points Memo

Foxer Breaks Down in Tears Over Alt-Righters Being Judged - A Fox News talking head, Melissa Francis, breaks down in tears over everyone on the “unite the right” side of the Charlottesville march being ‘judged’. ...
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Secular Right

Des Moines: Theocrats Busted - The Des Moines Register (my emphasis added): The FBI raided a Catholic Worker House in Des Moines early Friday in search of evidence linked to efforts to s...
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George F. Will

The GOP has become the party of the grotesque - Look to Alabama’s GOP primary — and Michigan, where Kid Rock might be a contender.
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Megan McArdle

Essay Writing Service, Argumentative Essay - our essay writing team will work on it relent lessly to ensure that its quality
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The American Scene

They Meant Us No Harm, But Only Gave Us the Lotus - After hearing Sam Quinones on EconTalk, I finally stopped procrastinating and read Dreamland. It only took a few days over which every other activity was...
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Marc Ambinder

Cellular Phone Plans for Teens - Look around the mall and you will notice teen after teen either talking or texting on a cell phone. With such a large consumer base, you would think that t...
7 months ago
The Daily Dish

It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...
2 years ago
Will Wilkinson

Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...
2 years ago
Volokh Conspiracy

Why the Court should uphold Congress’s power in the Jerusalem Passport case - (Eugene Kontorovich) I am not thrilled that the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Jerusalem Passport Case, Zivotofsky v. Kerry. I continue to think ...
3 years ago
FiveThirtyEight

The White House Is Not a Metronome - The writer Megan McArdle asserts that Republicans have about a 75 percent chance of winning the White House in 2016, because "voters just get tired after e...
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Think Progress

EPA chief decides to rewrite toxic wastewater rule at request of utility companies - The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal court this week that, after reviewing industry complaints, the agency plans to rewrite rules imposing fe...
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NYT Home Page

In Backing Alt-Right, A.C.L.U. Embraces Role in Defending ‘Groups We Detest’ - The group’s defense of a planned rally in Virginia, before the violence, has parallels to its seminal role in a proposed neo-Nazi gathering in Skokie, Ill....
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memeorandum

PX: Robert E. Lee monument in Greater Cincinnati removed. Will it be relocated? (Jason Williams/Cincinnati.com) - Jason Williams / Cincinnati.com: *PX: Robert E. Lee monument in Greater Cincinnati removed. Will it be relocated?* … FRANKLIN, Ohio - On Wednesday morni...
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NYT International

Saudi Arabia Reopens Qatar Border for Hajj Pilgrims - Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday that it is reopening its border with Qatar to allow Qataris to attend the hajj, despite a monthslong rift between Doha a...
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Al Jazeera

Uncertainty as Texas A&M drops White Lives Matter rally - Texas A&M University cancels White Lives Matter rally but white supremacist organiser vows to hold event.
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Playbook

THE BANNON intvw intrigue: what was he doing? -- WHAT TRIGGERS TRUMP's temper -- KELLY 'dismayed' -- FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Sessions remarks in N.C. -- B'DAY: Ron Bonjean - Steve Bannon is a savvy political operator. Did he know what he was doing when he gave an interview to a liberal outlet?
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The Trump-Sessions Leak Crackdown - AP Andrew Harnik Attorney General Jeff Sessions, accompanied by National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina and Director of...
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Democracy in America

Floods and political crisis are back in New Orleans - TWELVE years ago Hurricane Katrina exposed the flood defences in New Orleans as a cruel joke. The floods unleashed by the storm marinated people's homes in...
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Free exchange

The hubris of ten-year budgets - IN February of 2001, Alan Greenspan, then still the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and still called the “Maestro”, testified to the Senate Budget Committ...
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Haaretz Diplomacy

Palestinian killed by Israeli army gunfire in West Bank - In separate incident, Palestinian man seriously wounded by IDF in clashes near Hebron.
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Haaretz News

Local authorities complain of high cost of waste recycling - Cities say cumbersome and inefficient bureaucracy to blame.
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American Conservative

ISIS, the Neocons, and Obama’s Choices - Though Congress and the president are out of town, the final weeks …
2 years ago
Economix

Economix Meets the Gales of Change - Economix is coming to an end, but it will be succeeded by The Upshot, a new politics, policy and economics site.
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Ben Smith

Remainders: Onward - Remainders: Onward
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Glenn Thrush

Cantor 'stunned' by Virginia Tech shootings - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday that he was “saddened and stunned” at the news that two people, including a poli
5 years ago
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