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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 …
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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 of the soldiers, police said Monday. — “This individual appears to have been upset with the military …
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.
Associated Press:
Military Recruiter Killed In Ark. Shooting — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ― One Army recruiter was killed Monday and a second was wounded in a shooting at a recruiting office, and a suspect was arrested, police said. — Police Lt. Terry Hastings said the recruiter was shot when a man …
Noah Trister / Associated Press:
Police: Recruiting center gunman targeted military
Police: Recruiting center gunman targeted military
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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.
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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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.
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.
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Stan Finger / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Nebraska physician vows to keep Tiller's abortion clinic open
Nebraska physician vows to keep Tiller's abortion clinic open
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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 …
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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Rick Hasen / Election Law:
LIVE BLOGGING THE COLEMAN FRANKEN ORAL ARGUMENT — Now that the oral arguments have concluded, here are my tentative thoughts (you can find my earlier live blog below the fold): — 1. It is always dangerous to guess how a court is going to come out based upon oral argument.
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Washington Post:
GM Files for Bankruptcy Protection — General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection this morning, marking the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country's and — counting jobs at the company and its suppliers — employed well over 1 million people.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Cheney: ‘Would do exactly the same’ — Dick Cheney, the former vice president, has been pressing the Obama administration to declassify memos which he says show that the harshest interrogation tactics of the Bush administration produced valuable, life-saving information. — How's that going, he was asked today?
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M. — WASHINGTON — It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism. — But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese …
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Tom Tancredo Staffer Pleads Guilty to Karate-Chopping Black Woman — For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) during his presidential bid …
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Guardian:
Mysterious ‘chip’ is CIA's latest weapon against al-Qaida targets hiding in Pakistan's tribal belt — The CIA is equipping Pakistani tribesmen with secret electronic transmitters to help target and kill al-Qaida leaders in the north-western tribal belt, in a tactic that could aid Pakistan's army …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republican Base Heavily White, Conservative, Religious — Democrats are more likely to be moderate or liberal, Hispanic, or black or other races — PRINCETON, NJ — More than 6 in 10 Republicans today are white conservatives, while most of the rest are whites with other ideological leanings …
Rasmussen Reports:
62% Say Bush, Not Obama, To Blame For Ongoing Economic Problems — President Obama contends he inherited the nation's ongoing economic problems and that his actions since taking office are not to blame. Sixty-two percent (62%) of U.S. voters agree with the president that the problems are due …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Reagan Did It — “This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Kristol and Hume Call for Targeted Air Strikes on North Korea — As you probably know, a certain number of people are down-the-line pacifists. They believe that war is wrong, no matter what the cause. And as you've probably realized, none of them are major newspaper columnists …
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 …