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There is a very hard and fast rule in American society, when you plagiarize you are disqualified. You are fired. Or, barring that, if you have even a shred of honor or shame, you apologize and resign. There is no Fair Use claim for unattributed word-for-word appropriation of other First Lady’s convention speeches. When Melanoma Trump stood before the cameras and delivered that speech as if it were her own she was lying right to the face of the American people. The media should refuse to cover another second of the RNC until the Trump campaign comes clean about this, […]

  DAILY BEAST:  The president revealed his favorite track of the year, and it’s a reflective, Bible-quoting track from hip-hop’s most honest and introspective artist. Kendrick Lamar’s earth-shattering 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly may have earned him 11 Grammy nominations, but here’s another accolade of which the rapper can boast: President Obama named one of Lamar’s songs as his favorite of 2015. In an interview with People, the president identified “How Much a Dollar Cost” as his most beloved track. The Bible-inspired opus comes toward the end of Butterfly and tells the story of a homeless man—whom Lamar assumes […]

Artwork by SHEPARD FAIREY CBS: President Barrack Obama is calling on Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to lead a national task force, which has the mission to come up with ideas on better policing amid the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Tensions are high in the wake of a grand jury’s decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb in August. Obama spent most of Monday discussing ways to prevent the situation in Ferguson from happening elsewhere in the future. The president met with Commissioner Ramsey and other police […]

RELATED: It’s a little unusual to see the Obama administration singing the praises of Doctors Without Borders, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nonprofit that is shipping doctors, drugs and supplies to West Africa to combat the Ebola outbreak. When President Barack Obama lauded the “incredible heroism” of American doctors who travel to countries such as Sierra Leone to do “God’s work” and “keep us safe,” on Tuesday, he was celebrating a community packed with Doctors Without Borders volunteers. […] But the recent executive branch acclaim for Doctors Without Borders obscures a long-running struggle between the humanitarian group and the White House […]

  TOM DISPATCH: 1. American-style war doesn’t work.  Just ask yourself: Are there fewer terrorists or more in our world almost 13 years after the 9/11 attacks?  Are al-Qaeda-like groups more or less common?  Are they more or less well organized?  Do they have more or fewer members?  The answers to those questions are obvious: more, more, more, and more.  In fact, according to a new RAND report, between 2010 and 2013 alone, jihadist groups grew by 58%, their fighters doubled, and their attacks nearly tripled. On September 12, 2001, al-Qaeda was a relatively small organization with a few camps […]

  NEW YORK TIMES: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency’s once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that — if approved by Congress — would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy advocates since its existence was leaked last year, according to senior administration officials. Under the proposal, they said, the N.S.A. would end its systematic collection of data about Americans’ calling habits. The bulk records would stay in the hands of phone companies, which would not be required to retain the data for any […]

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama

  PC WORLD: Julian Assange doesn’t use the blustering rhetoric you might expect from the founder of the activist publishing group WikiLeaks. Assange is responsible for leaking documents that have changed America’s political landscape— State Department cables and Iraq War logs—yet to a South by Southwest audience on Saturday, he spoke quietly and matter-of-factly even when uttering the most inflammatory statements. “Who really wears the pants in the [Obama] administration?” Assange asked during a Skype call with the SXSW audience. “Is it the intelligence agencies or is it the civilian part of that administration?” The obvious answer from Assange’s perspective: The […]

  NEW YORK TIMES: Comcast is expected to announce on Thursday an agreement to acquire Time Warner Cable for more than $45 billion in stock, a deal that would combine the biggest and second-biggest cable television operators in the country.For Comcast, which completed its acquisition of NBC Universal, the television and movie powerhouse, from General Electric less than a year ago, the latest deal would be its second big act to radically reshape the media landscape in the United States. MORE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: President Obama headlined a big-bucks fund-raiser Thursday night at the Northwest Philadelphia home of Comcast Corp. executive […]

  NEW YORK TIMES: A boyish-looking American diplomat was meeting for the first time with the Islamist leaders of eastern Libya’s most formidable militias. It was Sept. 9, 2012. Gathered on folding chairs in a banquet hall by the Mediterranean, the Libyans warned of rising threats against Americans from extremists in Benghazi. One militia leader, with a long beard and mismatched military fatigues, mentioned time in exile in Afghanistan. An American guard discreetly touched his gun. “Since Benghazi isn’t safe, it is better for you to leave now,” Mohamed al-Gharabi, the leader of the Rafallah al-Sehati Brigade, later recalled telling […]

  THE NEW YORKER: Reggie Walton, the FISA judge overseeing the [NSA’s warrantless spying on Aericans] at that time, wrote, in an opinion on January 28th, that he was “exceptionally concerned” that the N.S.A. had been operating the program in “flagrant violation” of the court’s orders and “directly contrary” to the N.S.A.’s own “sworn attestations.” Walton was considering rescinding the N.S.A.’s authority to run the program, and was contemplating bringing contempt charges against officials who misled the court or perhaps referring the matter to “appropriate investigative offices.” He gave Olsen three weeks to explain why the court shouldn’t just shut […]