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Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Terry Declares That Tiller “Reaped What He Sowed,” Then Asks If Someone Will Buy Him Lunch — Today, Randall Terry held a press conference at the National Press Club “to discuss how the pro-life movement should deal with Dr. [George] Tiller's death” and defend his statement …
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Megan McArdle:
The War on The War on Abortion — Let me start off, in the obligatory way, by announcing that I am pro-choice. I don't think abortions before, say, eight [months] weeks are even arguably murder. Moreover, I don't think many other people believe it's murder, either, for all that they profess to.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Responds To The Tiller Murder: ‘No Backpedaling Here...Every Single Thing We Said About Tiller Was True’ — After yesterday's brutal shooting of George Tiller, a Kansas doctor who administered abortions, many anti-choice groups quickly condemned the murder and attempted to separate themselves from the actions of the killer.
New York Times:
Suspect Is Identified in Killing of Abortion Doctor — WICHITA, Kan. — The suspect in the fatal shooting of one of the nation's only doctors to perform late-term abortions had professed an anti-government, anti-abortion philosophy in years past, some who knew him said on Monday.
Frank Schaeffer / The Huffington Post:
How I (and Other “Pro-Life” Leaders) Contributed to Dr. Tiller's Murder
How I (and Other “Pro-Life” Leaders) Contributed to Dr. Tiller's Murder
William M. Welch / USA Today:
Recruiter shot dead outside Army office — A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday. — “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular …
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CNN:
1 dead, 1 hurt in recruiting office shooting — (CNN) — A U.S. soldier was killed and a second was wounded Monday in an apparent drive-by shooting at a recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, police said. — The second soldier's injuries were not life-threatening, said police Lt. Terry Hastings.
USsoldiersgurl / KATV-TV:
One Dead, One Injured in West LR Shooting — Little Rock - One person is dead, another seriously injured, and a third is in custody following a double shooting in west Little Rock Monday morning. — Authorities say the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at a U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
It's official: Playboy is a hate site; Update: Playboy pulled it — Playboy likes to claim that it prints pictures of naked women as a means to empower them. Uh-huh. It seems that Playboy and Hugh Hefner only like to empower women to the extent that they'll take off their clothes …
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Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blog:
Playboy 's “Top 10 Conservative Women We Hate to Love” — Playboy has concocted a list of GOP women they “hate to love.” — “So Right, It's Wrong,” they say. — And the list is: — 1. Michelle Malkin — 2. Megyn Kelly — 3. Mary Katharine Ham — 4. Amanda Carpenter
Tommy Christopher / Politics Daily:
Playboy Magazine Officially Hates Women, Conservative or Otherwise — Over the years, “tasteful” porn dinosaur Playboy Magazine has been the subject of pop cultural debate for decades. Is the nudity exploitation, or empowerment? Does the magazine celebrate women, or degrade them?
The Huffington Post:
Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage — Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama. But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Cheney mixes up Obama, Osama — Former Vice President Dick Cheney confused the president of the United States with the world's most-wanted terrorist in a speech on Monday. — Speaking at the National Press Club, Cheney answered a question as to why his administration had not caught Osama bin Laden.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
GOP Has Always Been Dominated by White Voters — Gallup has data out suggesting that 89 percent of self-identified Republicans are white; the comparable figure among Democrats is 65 percent. These numbers closely match those from last November's Presidential election …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Minnesota Supremes Grill Coleman Lawyer On Lack Of Evidence — The oral arguments just finished at the Minnesota Supreme Court, in Norm Coleman's appeal of his defeat at the election trial, with Coleman's lead attorney Joe Friedberg arguing that serious constitutional issues mean …
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Michael Moore / Mike's Message:
Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore — I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled. — As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan …
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Jerusalem Post:
‘Halting W. Bank growth unreasonable’ — Article's topics: Binyamin Netanyahu, Settlements, FADC, Tzipi Livni — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu characterized on Monday as “unreasonable” US demands to freeze all building east of the Green Line, adding that he was “still unclear” …
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Charles Savage / The Caucus:
Conservatives Ask Republican Senators to Filibuster on Sotomayor — Several years ago, when Senate Democrats were using filibusters to block confirmation votes on several of President George W. Bush's appeals court nominees, some conservatives decried the tactic as unconstitutional.
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Should Run Against the Power of the Center — Move to the center. That's the advice Republicans are getting from quarters friendly and otherwise. It seems to make a certain amount of sense. If opinion is arrayed along a single-dimension, left-to-right spectrum and clustered …
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Why'd Obama switch on detainee photos? Maliki went ballistic — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos from Iraq and Afghanistan after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki warned that Iraq would erupt into violence and that Iraqis …
Agence France Presse:
Obama says US cannot impose its values: BBC interview — US President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States cannot impose its values on other countries, but argued that principles such as democracy and the rule of law were universal. — In an interview with the BBC ahead of a visit …
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