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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Letting Stupid beget Stupid — Newt Gingrich — with all his Boss Hogg gravitas — prattled on FoxNews Sunday about the “recklessness” of Obama's foreign policy, while proclaiming we should attack North Korea with ‘frickin’ lasers. Meanwhile, Obama was making a speech in front …
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Wall Street Journal:
Satellite Proposals Gain Traction After North Korea's Launch — U.S. intelligence agencies are capitalizing on North Korea's weekend rocket launch to advance proposals to deploy two new spy satellite systems estimated to cost a total of about $10 billion, according to government and industry officials.
Wall Street Journal:
From Bubble to Depression? — Bubbles have been frequent in economic history, and they occur in the laboratories of experimental economics under conditions which — when first studied in the 1980s — were considered so transparent that bubbles would not be observed.
Little Green Footballs:
Bush Bowed Too — More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. — Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video. (Click the image to watch.)
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Sister Toldjah, Jules Crittenden, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Liberal Values, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and TigerHawk
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Critical Thinker / Politics and Critical Thinking:
Obama Bowed, Bush Danced.
Obama Bowed, Bush Danced.
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Andrew Rosenfield / New York Times:
How to Clean a Dirty Bank — COMMERCIAL banks in the United States are not subject to the bankruptcy statute — when they become insolvent they are simply acquired by the government. This is what banks sign on for in return for a charter, deposit insurance and direct access …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Says Government Would Remove Bank Chiefs if Needed — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the federal government might remove top bank executives or board members if “exceptional” assistance is required to keep the banks operating in the future.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: ‘Common ground,’ East-West — President Barack Obama, capping a European tour with an address to the Turkish Parliament today, issued a call for seeking “a common ground” between East and West that he has voiced in his travels across the continent. — “I also want to be clear …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
A Rich Education for Summers (After Harvard) — Lawrence H. Summers plays down his stint in the hedge fund business as a mere part-time job — but the financial and intellectual rewards that he gained there would make even most full-time workers envious. — Mr. Summers, the former Treasury secretary …
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Even Rick Wagoner's Firing Got Lousy Mileage
Even Rick Wagoner's Firing Got Lousy Mileage
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Iain Martin / Iain Martin's blog listings:
Barack Obama really does go on a bit — Isn't it time for him to go home yet? It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe. He arrived in London last Tuesday, has been to Strasbourg, Prague yesterday and now he's off to Turkey.
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Wendy Koch / USA Today:
Homelessness up as families on the edge lose hold — Cities and counties are reporting a sharp increase in homeless families as the economic crisis leads to job loss and makes housing unaffordable. — In Seattle, 40% more people are living on suburban streets.
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Think Progress
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Life After Newspapers — Few industries in this country have been as coddled as newspapers. The government doesn't actually write them checks, as it does to farmers and now to banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers. But politicians routinely pay court to local newspapers …
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Pentagon lets media see return of US war dead — DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - The Pentagon's 18-year ban on media covering the return of fallen U.S. service members ended with a solemn ceremony for the arrival of a flag-draped casket of an airman felled in Afghanistan.
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Political Machine
Reuters:
New NATO chief pledges conciliation with Muslims — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he would pay close attention to religious sensibilities in his new role as NATO chief in comments aimed at allaying Muslim concerns at his appointment.
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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, PoliGazette, Fausta's Blog, EU Referendum and The Moderate Voice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day — George Bush's critics rightly roasted him for his tortured syntax and waterboarded grammar, and used it to make the claim that the graduate of both Harvard and Yale was an idiot. Well, perhaps, but I don't recall him ever claiming that Austrian was a language.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
2006 Israel-Lebanon War Looms Large in Pentagon Debate on Future — Leaders Divided on Whether to Focus On Conventional or Irregular Combat — A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon …
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Hannity: Obama ‘Harbors Deep Resentment’ Of America, Just Like Dixie Chicks — On Friday, President Obama told a town hall audience in Strasbourg, France, that America's tendency to dismiss Europe — as well as Europe's tendency to blame America for every problem — had to end.