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Ben Carson formally jumped into the 2016 GOP presidential field on Monday, telling supporters at Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, "I'm Ben Carson, and I'm a candidate for president of the United States." The 63-year-old retired neurosurgeon's presidential campaign marks his first run for office. Ref. USAToday

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Well intentioned and maybe even a genuine man but as a late commercial to politics people will be highly apprehensive about nominating him to run.

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Ben Carson on Report He Did Fetal Tissue Research: I Didn’t “Kill Babies and Take Their Tissue”

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson addressed reports today that, decades ago, he conducted research using tissue from an aborted baby. Carson said what he did is entirely different from the scandal at Planned Parenthood — where unborn babies are purposefully killed in order to use their body parts for research purposes. Ref. Source 8s

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Ben Carson suggests more people should be armed

The neurosurgeon and presidential contender on the assets of lacking electoral experience. Ref. Source 4g

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I don't know what happened to him but when he decided to deny evolution and cosmology he lost what was a strong appeal. As a surgeon and an science educated man I thought he might be the candidate to be a conservative who opposed the current GOP anti intellectualism.

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They Really Hate Ben Carson

The invective against Dr. Ben Carson coming from the left is extraordinary, even for the left. Now that Carson, one of the pre-eminent brain surgeons in America, has become a viable candidate for president, the left has labelled him everything awful it can come up with. One left-wing columnist, Charles Blow of The New York Times, even disparaged his intelligence. But there were two attacks made this past week that should be beyond the pale even for the left. The first was that Carson “blamed the victims” in the Roseburg, Oregon, community college mass murder. How did that... Ref. Source 1g

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Carson kicks Trump out of first place in USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings

Ben Carson has overtaken Donald Trump for the first time in USA TODAY's weekly survey of political experts gauging the strength of the Republican field. Carson's rise in our rankings reflects recent Iowa polls showing him surging past Trump in the critical Hawkeye State. Trump slides down to second place, with Marco Rubio in third. Ref. USAToday

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Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship:

Ben Carson's campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Ref. Source 3j