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Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "There is probably no greater insult to those who have served their country than to use public support for them as a validation of war itself. Memorial Day is not about the glorification of war. It is about the sacrifice of human beings who believed and believe that their sacrifice will bring about good."
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Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "There is probably no greater insult to those who have served their country than to use public support for them as a validation of war itself. Memorial Day is not about the glorification of war. It is about the sacrifice of human beings who believed and believe that their sacrifice will bring about good."
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How the NRA Enables Massacres
Cliff Schecter, The Daily Beast
Schecter writes: "Yet another massacre occurred last night at an institution of learning, this time the University of California, Santa Barbara. The price we paid for the National Rifle Association’s 'freedom' was seven people murdered and seven injured at nine different crime scenes."
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Cliff Schecter, The Daily Beast
Schecter writes: "Yet another massacre occurred last night at an institution of learning, this time the University of California, Santa Barbara. The price we paid for the National Rifle Association’s 'freedom' was seven people murdered and seven injured at nine different crime scenes."
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Ryan Lizza | The Lawyer and the Kill-List Memo
Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
Lizza writes: "David J. Barron, a lawyer at the Department of Justice, sent Eric Holder, the Attorney General, a lengthy memorandum. Barron, who had celebrated his forty-third birthday earlier that month, was a professor at Harvard Law School, on leave for a couple years to work for President Barack Obama. Barron, like many young lawyers who arrived in Washington with the new Administration in 2009, had impeccable liberal credentials."
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Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
Lizza writes: "David J. Barron, a lawyer at the Department of Justice, sent Eric Holder, the Attorney General, a lengthy memorandum. Barron, who had celebrated his forty-third birthday earlier that month, was a professor at Harvard Law School, on leave for a couple years to work for President Barack Obama. Barron, like many young lawyers who arrived in Washington with the new Administration in 2009, had impeccable liberal credentials."
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A Surveillance Bill That Falls Short
Editorial | The New York Times
Excerpt: "A year ago, it would have been unimaginable for the House to pass a bill to curtail the government’s abusive surveillance practices. The documents leaked by Edward Snowden, however, finally shocked lawmakers from both parties into action, producing promises that they would stop the government from collecting the telephone data of ordinary Americans and would bring greater transparency to its domestic spying programs."
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Editorial | The New York Times
Excerpt: "A year ago, it would have been unimaginable for the House to pass a bill to curtail the government’s abusive surveillance practices. The documents leaked by Edward Snowden, however, finally shocked lawmakers from both parties into action, producing promises that they would stop the government from collecting the telephone data of ordinary Americans and would bring greater transparency to its domestic spying programs."
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Nate Silver | 'Tea Party' Has Outlived Its Usefulness
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Silver writes: "Here's a familiar-seeming political tale. An incumbent Republican senator, from a famous political family and with a long history of moderation, is challenged by an upstart candidate in the GOP primary."
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Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Silver writes: "Here's a familiar-seeming political tale. An incumbent Republican senator, from a famous political family and with a long history of moderation, is challenged by an upstart candidate in the GOP primary."
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When Cannabis Goes Corporate
Ian Austen, The New York Times
Austen writes: "In the high-ceilinged warehouse, where stacks of Hershey’s bars and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups once awaited shipment, the nose now picks up a different odor: the woody, herbal aroma of 50,000 marijuana plants."
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Ian Austen, The New York Times
Austen writes: "In the high-ceilinged warehouse, where stacks of Hershey’s bars and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups once awaited shipment, the nose now picks up a different odor: the woody, herbal aroma of 50,000 marijuana plants."
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Elephant Poachers Have a New Problem: US Marines
John R. Platt, TakePart.com
Platt writes: "Twelve years ago Zakouma National Park in Chad was home to an estimated 4,300 elephants. Today that number is fewer than 500. Poachers wiped out the majority of the park's elephants between 2006 and 2009 while the country was in the midst of a devastating civil war."
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John R. Platt, TakePart.com
Platt writes: "Twelve years ago Zakouma National Park in Chad was home to an estimated 4,300 elephants. Today that number is fewer than 500. Poachers wiped out the majority of the park's elephants between 2006 and 2009 while the country was in the midst of a devastating civil war."
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