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Free Market Brat Beats on Cantor, V.A. Gets FBI Investigation, Iraqi Cities Fall: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 6.11.2014 4:30 PM

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    David Brat, the economics professor who squished second-ranking House Republican Rep. Eric Cantor in the primaries, is a free market guy who digs Ayn Rand and doesn't like the snoopy NSA. Yeah, he's a border warrior, but that's a pretty good start.

  • Like Brat, his Democratic opponent, Jack Trammell, is a professor at Randolph-Macon College. Unlike Brat, Trammell is writing a vampire novel.
  • Having had his clock cleaned, Cantor will step down as House majority leader.
  • The Veterans Administration earned itself a full-fledged criminal investigation by the FBI. Whoops.
  • In two days, the Iraqi government lost control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and then Tikrit, to Islamic militants.
  • Thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in El Salvador and Guatemala are turning up at the U.S. border, seekig refuge. They're ending up crowded into holding facilities.
  • The weapons used by Jared Michael Padgett to kill a classmate at an Oregon high school had been locked up at his home, "but he defeated the security measures," according to the local police chief.

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