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thejoshuablog's Blog:
UPDATED: NY Times' Maureen Dowd Plagiarizes TPM's Josh Marshall — Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times: … TPM's Josh Marshall on Thurs: … All Dowd did was change “we were” to “the Bush crowd was”. — Now, I'm all for cutting & pasting. As a blogger I do it all the time, but I always give credit.
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The Huffington Post:
Maureen Dowd Admits Inadvertently Lifting Line From TPM's Josh Marshall — UPDATE: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, in an email to Huffington Post, admits that a paragraph in her Sunday column was lifted from Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall's blog last Thursday.
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Don Surber, The Other McCain, At-Largely, Roger Ailes, The Sundries Shack and Balloon Juice
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cheney, Master of Pain — Dick Cheney has done many dastardly things. But presiding over policies so saturnine that they ended up putting the liberal speaker from San Francisco on the hot seat about torture may be one of his proudest achievements. — Nancy Pelosi's bad week …
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Daily Kos, TalkLeft, Founding Bloggers, The Greenroom, the nytpicker, JustOneMinute, ATTACKERMAN, Redhot, Campaign Silo and Commentary
Associated Press:
Text of Obama's Notre Dame speech — Text of President Barack Obama's commencement address Sunday as the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., as released before delivery by the White House. The Rev. John Jenkins is the school's president. The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh is Jenkins' predecessor.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Audacity Of Humility — I found his Notre Dame commencement speech deeply Christian. I was struck by two passages. The first a simple statement of fact: — Understand - I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away. No matter how much we may want to fudge it …
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Ben Smith's Blog
MSNBC:
May 17: Kaine, Steele, Haass, Noonan, Brownstein — MR. DAVID GREGORY: Our issues this Sunday: warring parties. Democrats and Republicans at odds over the economy, national security, abortion and health care. This morning, whether President Obama's agenda is the blueprint for lasting Democratic rule …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
At Notre Dame, Obama Calls for Dialogue on Abortion — President Obama directly confronted America's deep divide over abortion on Sunday as he appealed to partisans on both sides to find ways to respect one another's basic decency and even work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Fox News:
Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker — The vice president, well-known for his verbal gaffes, confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks. — FOXNews.com — Vice President Joe Biden …
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Some on left souring on Obama — When President Barack Obama speaks to the Notre Dame commencement Sunday afternoon, television cameras will search the sea of graduates, looking for turned backs and defaced mortar boards that abortion opponents will likely use to register their disagreement with the president.
Andrew Breitbart / Washington Times:
‘I, Jerk’ — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — In this day of polarized politics, it's incumbent on good citizens to be vigorously truthful. Even in the heat of battle, partisans should own up to their mistakes. Rectifying errors builds credibility. Honest self-criticism ensures a healthy debate and a healthier democracy.
New York Times:
Death From Above, Outrage Down Below — IN recent days, the Pentagon has made two major changes in its strategy to defeat the Taliban, Al Qaeda and their affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First came the announcement that Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal would take over as the top United States commander in Afghanistan.
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
When Democrats start to doubt — While researching a liberal blogger who declared that she could “possibly bring [herself] to link to Robert ‘McCrazy’ McCain” — and I'm only too happy to return the favor of non-linkage, Libby Spencer — I ended up on the Detroit News blog, where I encountered Robert Smith Jr.
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Moe Lane
Kos / Daily Kos:
Clinging to a dead biz model for dear life — For two lawyers who supposedly specialize in media and First Amendment law, these guys were so full of stupid I'm embarrassed for them. You see, they have just the legislative solutions to the newspaper industry's ills!
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Has the Public Become More Opposed to Abortion? — These Gallup and Pew data are receiving a lot of attention. Both polls show a shift in opinion. In the Gallup data, the percentage of people who call themselves “pro-life” has increased and, for the first time in their polling …
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