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Andy Borowitz | Bush Campaign Hopes to Stoke Nostalgia for Nation's Most Glorious Era

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Andy Borowitz | Bush Campaign Hopes to Stoke Nostalgia for Nation's Most Glorious Era
George W. Bush. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Media advisers to former Governor Jeb Bush are hoping to exploit nostalgia for what is widely seen as the greatest era in American history, the years 2001 to 2009."
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News Corp Won't Be Prosecuted in US in Relation to Phone Hacking
Rupert Neate, Jon Swaine and Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian
Excerpt: "Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will not face any charges in the US in relation to phone hacking and payments to public officials by News of the World journalists in the UK, the company said."
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US Quietly Classifies Its Spending on Afghanistan
Philippa H. Stewart, Al Jazeera America
Stewart writes: "It was the first time the US public had not been granted knowledge of how its government was spending money in the country still wracked by violence after more than 13 years of conflict."
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Leftist Syriza Party to Veto TTIP, Controversial EU/US Trade Deal
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Greece's new Syriza government will try to sink a controversial trade deal with the United States that has been slammed as a corporate handout by critics, according to reports Monday."
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Jessica Valenti | Your Feelings About Vaccines Don't Trump Another Child's Medical Reality
Jessica Valenti, The Guardian
Valenti writes: "Risking other children's lives, and other parents' pain, is exactly what you're doing when you don't vaccinate your child: you're not just making decisions about your children's health, but the health and safety of the children around them."
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Koch-Funded Groups: Cut All Federal Funding for Walking, Biking, Transit
Angie Schmitt, Streetsblog USA
Schmitt writes: "You know it's time to fight over the federal transportation bill when the fossil fuel-soaked elements of the conservative movement start agitating to stop funding everything except car infrastructure."
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Martin O'Malley | Don't Drill Along the East Coast
Martin O'Malley, The New York Times
O'Malley writes: "The Obama administration's whiplash decision last week to allow oil and gas companies to drill along a wide area of the Atlantic Coast is a big mistake."
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