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Quinnipiac University:
Voters Say 3-1 Paterson Does Not Deserve Election, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Most Say He Should Announce Now He Won't Run — New York State voters disapprove 60 - 28 percent of the job Gov. David Paterson is doing, the lowest approval ever for a New York Governor, and say 63 …
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Times of London:
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts — Listen to an exclusive track from Bob Dylan's new album, and read his views on US politics and history, exclusively on Times Online — Exclusive track: Listen to Feel A Change Comin' On
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Washington Post:
Americans Support Goal of Improved Relations With Muslim World — Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to “seek a new way forward” with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative views about Islam and a sizable number say that even mainstream adherents …
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Obama tells Turks that US is not at war with Islam — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — ANKARA, Turkey - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”
Chris Steller / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann fears ‘politically correct re-education camps for young people’ — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward …
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The New Republic:
Let Obama Sleep! — It's a small thing but did Robert Gibbs really need to wake Obama at 4:30 am with news of the North Korean missile launch? We knew the launch was coming and Obama had no imminent decision to make. Waking the president to tell him things so he can return to a troubled sleep …
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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.
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the Real America — I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the National Rifle Association and sportsmen to militia members to white supremacists and Obama birthers.
Gary Andres / Weekly Standard:
Pew: Partisan Gap in Obama's Approval Largest in Modern History — Pew released a poll last week showing the partisan gap in President Obama's approval numbers is the largest in modern history. Like many recent surveys, Pew finds Obama's overall approval rating at 59 percent.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE BUSH SIX — About a year ago, a book came out in England that made a fascinating prediction: at some point in the future, the author wrote, six top officials in the Bush Administration would get a tap on the shoulder announcing that they were being arrested on international charges of torture.
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Gavin Jones / Reuters:
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake — Source: Reuters — An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Special panel set to do last count in Minn. Senate race — The Minnesota Senate race has been undecided for so long that “it's sort of like the Iraq war,” says Bruce Carlson of Brooklyn Park, Minn. “People almost forget that it's still going on.” — A sharp reminder will come Tuesday …
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Financial Times:
The fiscal hole that must be filled — While Barack Obama was in Europe last week, Congress was voting on his budget. Because of the administration's surpassing ambitions, and because of the colossal demands its budget will place on domestic and international capital markets …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
There are no excuses for ongoing concealment of torture memos — Ever since October, 2007, the ACLU has been battling in court to compel the disclosure of three key torture-authorizing memos authored by Bush's Office of Legal Counsel chief Steven Bradbury and approved by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2005.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Justice Watch: Republican's Hold Obama Nominees Koh and Johnsen “Hostage”
Justice Watch: Republican's Hold Obama Nominees Koh and Johnsen “Hostage”
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.
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 …
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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Oliver Willis:
Truth Stings — The conservative blogs are enraged that people are pointing out that they have and are stoking the fires of an atmosphere of hate that leads to police officers getting killed. As I've written for years, this is part of their pattern of behavior in America and for too long we've accepted …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
No one is trying to silence right-wing fearmongers — but it is time to stand up to them — John Amato's virtual online magazine...OK, It's a blog! — Advertising- Commenting- General Problems- Media Problems- Supported Browsers- User Registration — Blogs » David Neiwert's blog
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 …
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Ward Churchill Redux — Last Thursday, a jury in Denver ruled that the termination of activist-teacher Ward Churchill by the University of Colorado had been wrongful (a term of art) even though a committee of his faculty peers had found him guilty of a variety of sins.
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