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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
When Rhetoric Meets Reality — I was talking to Tim via AOL IM, and I decided it was probably worthwhile to bring this up for everyone. One of the things that is so surprising (for me, at least) about the whole Graeme Frost episode is that rather than make their case against this program …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Is Wrong With You?!? — The difference between the far right wing and the far left wing: the far right will do anything — anything — so long as the ends justifies the means. The far left folks have ethical boundaries that they try very hard not to cross: things like attacking …
Ezra Klein:
What Has Happened To The Right? — Something has gone wrong on the Right. Become sick and twisted and tumorous and ugly. To visit Michelle Malkin's cave is to see politics at its most savage, its most ferocious, its most rageful. They say they've spent the past week smearing a child …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: 'They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers' — Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted the right wing has been orchestrating a coordinated effort to smear a 12 year old recipient of SCHIP. These conservatives have been propagating baseless "facts" …
Peter Baker / The Trail:
Bartlett Unleashed: On Flip-Flops, a "Dud" and the Guy With the Funny Name — Dan Bartlett, formerly one of the closest advisers to President Bush, has been offering a tough analysis of the GOP field. (White House Photo Office). — One of President Bush's closest advisers …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Live-Blogging the Republican Debate — (Photo: Carlos Osorio/Associated Press) — Turning to the Experts | 6:10 p.m. More from Dean Baker: — It is fascinating (at least to those of us who had not watched one of these all the way through) how all the Republicans candidates feel …
Kelly P. Kissel / Associated Press:
Huckabee: Rivals Might Consider Suicide
Huckabee: Rivals Might Consider Suicide
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Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
Debate Drunkblogging — LIVE!
Debate Drunkblogging — LIVE!
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Fred File, Political Radar, Wake up America, Patterico's Pontifications and Pajamas Media
John Tierney / New York Times:
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus — In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes. Alluding to his office's famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Uh, About that "Leak" That Burned Our al Qaeda Intel — I know what the NY Sun and Washington Post are saying about a major source of intel being burned by a leak, but it just isn't so. Rita Katz and the SITE Institute do a great job, but attributing the interception of this video to them is just false.
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Power Line, Right Wing News, Martini Revolution, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, The Strata-Sphere, Riehl World View and Roger L. Simon
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
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Attytood, New York Sun, The Blotter, The Carpetbagger Report, CBS News, democracyarsenal.org, TPMmuckraker, The Next Hurrah, Danger Room, BuzzFlash.org, The Huffington Post, Shakespeare's Sister, Wonkette, D-Day, Daily Kos, Wake up America, MoJoBlog, Cliff Schecter, NewsBusters.org, Angry Bear, Firedoglake, The Lede, Weekly Standard, Captain's Quarters, AMERICAblog, The Liberal Avenger, Digg, The Mahablog and Macsmind
Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Matthews on Matthews — On today's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough asked Chris Matthews if Republican candidates would try to get a "cheap applause line" tonight by pointing to his recent controversial comments. — Said Matthews: — I've been thinking about that....It's not my stage tonight.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Motorcyclist hit by van carrying Michelle Obama — A minivan carrying the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was involved in a car accident this afternoon in northern Iowa where she was campaigning for her husband. — Neither Michelle Obama nor any members of the campaign staff …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Unveils Her Retirement Savings Plan — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York unveiled the second biggest domestic policy idea of her Democratic presidential campaign today, proposing to spend $20 billion to $25 billion a year to create 401(k)-style retirement accounts for all Americans …
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Associated Press:
Court nixes suit claiming CIA torture — Justices throw out German's challenge to alleged abduction by U.S. agents — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments …
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New York Times, ACLU, Captain's Quarters, The Carpetbagger Report, The Democratic Daily, Stop The ACLU and Macsmind
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Fake News Event of the Day — CNN's programming is really pretty weird. I generally don't catch any of the morning show, but between that and the Situation Room it seems that every day is dominated by some fake news event - a school lockdown, a missing child, a truck accident …
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
"Ward Churchill to teach unsanctioned course on CU campus" — Dangerous. Anti-establishment. Edgy: … If Churchill's special brand of anti-American, white guilt-fueled BDS is strong enough to get college students to attend extra classes — for which they'll receive no credit …
The Smoking Gun:
Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish — Autopsy: Pastor found in wet suits after autoerotic mishap — An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear …
Little Green Footballs:
Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU — At George Washington University, another outrageous action by the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Association, as they circulate flyers purporting to be from a conservative campus group …
Detroit Free Press:
Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Biden out of state primary — Four of the leading Democratic presidential nominees have removed their names from the Jan. 15 Michigan presidential primary. — U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards both earlier today filed paperwork …
Jonathan Chait / New York Times:
Captives of the Supply Side — REMEMBER the Republican presidential debate a few months ago, when three candidates raised their hands to indicate they didn't believe in evolution? Something just as laughable is likely to happen today, at the first Republican debate on the economy.
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Norwegianity, The Atlantic Online, NewsBusters.org, The Big Picture and Democratic Strategist
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
DoJ Vote Chief Argues Voter ID Laws Discriminate against Whites — When Justice Department lawyers and analysts found in 2005 that a Georgia law requiring voters to have photo ID would disproportionately discriminate against African-Americans, they were overruled by John Tanner …