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Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blog:
Karl Rove accosted by ex-GOP chief of staff — Former Bush adviser Karl Rove was verbally accosted Thursday evening by an ex-chief of staff to former Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.). — Rove was quietly having dinner at the tony restaurant Charlie Palmer Steak on Capitol Hill when he was aggressively approached …
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Bill Sammon / Fox News:
Rove Calls Biden ‘Liar’ After VP Boasts of Scolding Bush — Aides to former President George W. Bush are challenging the veracity of Vice President Joe Biden's claim this week of having privately castigated Bush. — FOXNews.com — Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a …
Dayo Olopade / theroot.com:
EXCLUSIVE PIC: Clinton and Obama, in the Sandbox Again — Another busy day at the White House: First Lady Michelle Obama hosted students from Bancroft High School in Washington, who helped her plant and water the brand-new White House garden. She and Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack spoke …
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Glenn Beck — “I'm President Obama” — douses actor with gas-can contents, holds up lit match — You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! — DOWNLOAD — PLAY — Barack Obama wants to burn Joe Q. Public alive — and all because he wants to fix the immigration mess.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
GOP govs get dose of stimulus reality — The list of governors threatening to decline federal stimulus money last month read like a list of Republicans considering running for president in 2012: Governors Mark Sanford, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin led the anti-stimulus charge.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
It's Your Country Too, Mr. President — In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed: — “Rules must be binding.
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New York Times:
Both U.S. and Pirates Sending More Ships to Standoff — MOGADISHU, Somalia — American naval reinforcements moved toward the scene of a pirate hostage standoff in the Indian Ocean on Friday, and there were reports that the Somali pirates, desperate to get back to shore with their American captive …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Tea Tantrum Movement — I spent the better part of an hour earlier today scanning the various sites and blogs to try and understand what specifically the Fox-Pajamas tea parties are about. Having absorbed about as much of the literature as I can, I have to say I'm still befuddled.
Gerald Warner / Gerald Warner's blog listings:
Barack Obama: President Pantywaist - new surrender monkey on the block — President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit?
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CNN:
PETA asks Pet Shop Boys to change name — LONDON, England (CNN) — Just because they named their new CD “Yes,” does not mean that British electro-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys, will agree to just about anything. — The band has turned down a request from an animal rights group to rename itself the Rescue Shelter Boys.
wtopnews.com:
Gov't. commits a crime against you — the taxpayers — I'd like to report a crime. — A young man was robbed on Tuesday night inside a hospital while federal security guards watched. The victim was surrounded by seven men and women, and most of them had guns.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama's Campaign Web Site Still Blasts Bush Legal Tactic Obama Is Now Using — This is one to watch, because it's ballooning into a bigger and bigger problem for the new administration. — Last Friday, Obama's Justice Department infuriated some legal observers by invoking the …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
TPM: “Obama Mimics Bush on State Secrets”
TPM: “Obama Mimics Bush on State Secrets”
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Cyra Master / The Atlantic Online:
Media Insiders Say Internet Hurts Journalism — In a poll of prominent members of the national news media, nearly two-thirds say the Internet is hurting journalism more than it is helping. The poll, conducted by The Atlantic and National Journal, asked 43 media insiders whether, on balance …
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Gretchen Metz / Daily Local News:
Breeder regrets dog sale to Biden — EAST COVENTRY — It was a proud moment for Linda Brown when then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden selected her kennel to purchase his new German shepherd puppy. — That was in mid-December. — For Brown, that proud moment was short-lived.
Ronald L. Trowbridge / Chicago Tribune:
Under tyranny of everyday hypocrisy — The fatal flaw in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged schemes of pay-to-play politics could come down to the quid being too close to the quo. Had the separation been wider, it would have been business as usual among politicians in Springfield or Washington.
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Jacqueline L. Salmon / Washington Post:
Faith Groups Increasingly Losing Legal Battles Over Gay Rights — Faith organizations and individuals who view homosexuality as sinful and refuse to provide services to gay people are losing a growing number of legal battles that they say are costing them their religious freedom.
Tom LoBianco / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Climate bill could trigger lawsuit landslide — Allows action from those ‘expected to suffer’ — Self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who “expect to suffer” from it - from beachfront property owners to asthmatics - for the first time would be able to sue …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: CNN mildly scolds Obama for bow, media for ignoring it — The White House miscalculated on its “no-bow” response. CNN spends a couple of minutes calling them on it — and giving profuse credit to Hot Air while doing so. Take a close look at the video shots in this Jeanne Moos segment …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Murphy Ahead By 49 Votes (Right Now) 46 Votes — The latest score in NY-20 shows that Democrat Scott Murphy is currently ahead in this nail-biter of a result — but if GOPer Jim Tedisco doesn't like it, he could just wait 15 minutes. — The official state results show that Murphy has taken …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Anti-Gay Rights Group Calls its Marriage Campaign ‘2M4M’ — Now that activist legislators are legislating from their legislatures to legalize gay marriage, activists are turning up the volume on anti-gay marriage rhetoric. — There's just one, ahem, kink.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Making Banking Boring — Thirty-plus years ago, when I was a graduate student in economics, only the least ambitious of my classmates sought careers in the financial world. Even then, investment banks paid more than teaching or public service — but not that much more, and anyway, everyone knew that banking was, well, boring.
The Cook Political Report:
Introducing The Cook Political Report Partisan Voting Index (PVI) for the 111th Congress — Cook Partisan Voter Index by State and District — Cook Partisan Voter Index by Partisan Rank — The Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index (PVI) Explained
Scott Roxborough / Reuters:
TV show exonerates Osama bin Laden — BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the September 11 attacks. — In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show “Devil's Advocate” on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women …