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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, police said Monday. — “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular …
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Recruiter Shooting Suspect Under FBI Investigation — Man Accused of Killing One Recruiter, Wounding Another, Spent Time in Yemen — The suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of one soldier and the critical injury of another at a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting booth today …
USsoldiersgurl / KATV-TV:
One Dead, One Injured in West LR Shooting
One Dead, One Injured in West LR Shooting
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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.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Right demands tougher fight — Conservatives are demanding that Senate Republicans take a harder line on Sonia Sotomayor, with new signs of tension between the Hill GOP and elements of the Republican base over the direction the opposition should move in the Supreme Court fight.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Justices Gone Wild — Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings won't happen for over a month, but it's easy to predict how they will go. In a series of preening, long-winded questions, the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will attempt to divine Sotomayor's position on a variety …
Washington Post:
Conservatives attack Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor's background
Conservatives attack Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor's background
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M Peretz / The New Republic:
Even the New York Times, for which Mahmoud Abbas has been a virtual hero …
Even the New York Times, for which Mahmoud Abbas has been a virtual hero …
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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.
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Justin Kendall / Plog:
Phone number found inside car of man suspected of killing George Tiller belongs to woman who plotted 1988 clinic bombing — KMBC Channel 9 captured this shot of a phone number to anti-abortion group Operation Rescue inside the car of Scott Roeder, the man suspected of shooting …
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 …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin, like most right-wingers, doesn't get it: Abortion …
Sarah Palin, like most right-wingers, doesn't get it: Abortion …
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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
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Megan McArdle:
The War on The War on Abortion
The War on The War on Abortion
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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” — The Playboy article linked to on this blog listed 10 conservative women “they love to hate” adding their reasons why. The blog included the link but only used the names of the women listed. But the Playboy article also included …
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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David Gardner / Daily Mail:
How Obamas' romantic £120 trip to Broadway racked up a £45,000 bill — ...that's for three private jets, two helicopter rides, extra planes for security and closing roads for motorcade — It was a campaign pledge that Barack Obama didn't dare break - a promise to take his wife …
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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 …
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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.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
A New Iran Overture, With Hot Dogs — SAN SALVADOR — Having sent the Iranian people a video greeting on their New Year, President Obama is now inviting them to help celebrate a quintessentially American holiday, the Fourth of July. — Last Friday, the State Department sent a cable …
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Scott / Power Line:
How Hillsdale beats Harvard — My interest in the the Solomon Amendment giving recruiters access to federally funded universities was piqued by a visit to Yale in the fall of 2002. I happened to be on the Yale campus when the law school managed to drive off military recruiter Brian Whitaker …
New York Times:
Foreclosures: No End in Sight — A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures. Unfortunately, there's little evidence, so far, that the Obama administration's anti-foreclosure plan will be able to stop it.