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The Hill:
Palin beginning to irritate some Senate GOPers — Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. — But those same senators may have their eye …
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Letterman: Palin Updated Her “Slutty Flight Attendant” Look In NY — While reading his top ten list Monday night, “Late Show” host David Letterman said Gov. Sarah Palin bought makeup from Bloomingdale's to update her “slutty flight attendant” look. Palin was in New York over the weekend.
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Comedian on ‘Today’ Show Trashes Sarah Palin: She's ‘Very Much Like Herpes’ — VH1 comedian Chuck Nice appeared on Tuesday's “Today” show and compared Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the sexually transmitted disease herpes. He mocked, “But, Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I've got to say …
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Exchange of the Day — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was interviewed last night by Sean Hannity on Fox News: — Palin: We are the only state with a negative tax rate where we don't have any income, sales or property tax statewide, and yes we have a share of our oil resource revenue that goes back to the people that own the resources.
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Peter Hamby / CNN:Palin upstages Gingrich at biggest GOP fundraiser
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Frank J. Gaffney Jr / Washington Times:
GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president? — During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton — someone Judge Sonia Sotomayor might call a “white male” — was dubbed “America's first black president” by a black admirer. Applying the standard of identity politics and pandering …
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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
My Apologies to Publius — On reflection, I now realize that, completely apart from any debate over our respective rights and completely apart from our competing views on the merits of pseudonymous blogging, I have been uncharitable in my conduct towards the blogger who has used the pseudonym Publius.
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Associated Press:
10 Banks Allowed to Repay $68B in Bailout Money — WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation's largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money. — The department on Tuesday said the banks, which were not named, will be allowed to repay the money …
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David Ellis / CNNMoney.com:Ten banks allowed to pay back TARP
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Cautious at Heart — Sonia Sotomayor had bad timing. If she'd entered college in the late-1950s or early-1960s, she would have been surrounded by an ethos that encouraged smart young ethnic kids to assimilate. If she'd entered Princeton and Yale in the 1980s, her ethnicity and gender …
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Think Progress:
Cantor Falsely Claims There Are No ‘Judicial Precedents’ For The Prosecution Of Suspected Terrorists On U.S. Soil — Today, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Ghailani was transferred to New York to face trial for the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Media Fall for Phony ‘Jobs’ Claims — The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction. — Printer — Friendly — Tony Fratto is envious. — Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Not All Abortions Are Equal — The case of Dr. George Tiller, murdered just over a week ago in the lobby of his church, helps explain why so many people believe that abortion should be available at any stage of pregnancy. — Tiller did abortions in third trimester, when almost no one else would do them …
Phil Bronstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room — When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, “So, stop it all of you!” He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about.
CNN:
Voight on Obama: The president is a ‘false prophet’ — • President Obama — The hope of the Republican Party: A combo ticket with Jon Voight and Sarah Palin...the combined intellect and spiritual resonance of a newt...all designed to lead us out of darkness. — Ruth, Orlando
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Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
Lieberman, Graham Threaten to Shut Down Senate — Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to hold up any and all legislation in the Senate until Congress passes its legislation to prohibit the release of photos showing detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed — Al-Qaeda Could Use Contents, Agency Says — The Obama administration objected yesterday to the release of certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons, arguing to a federal judge …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:Defeat of Graham-Lieberman and the ongoing war on transparency
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Murdered Doctor's Abortion Clinic Shuttered — The Wichita abortion clinic run by a doctor who was shot and killed will remain closed permanently, his family said on Tuesday. — Dr. George R. Tiller's clinic was one of the few in the country to provide abortions to women late in their pregnancies …
David Gratzer / Wall Street Journal:
Canada's ObamaCare Precedent — Governments always ration care by making you wait. That can be deadly. — Printer — Friendly — Congressional Democrats will soon put forward their legislative proposals for reforming health care. Should they succeed, tens of millions of Americans …
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Say Anything, Newshoggers.com, The Huffington Post, Wake up America, Gateway Pundit and Fausta's Blog
Newsweek:
The Top of the Class — The complete list of the 1,500 top U.S. high schools — Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors.
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly and Fox News will have more right-wing violence to answer for — If Fox News is going to continue to traffic in hateful, vigilante-style rhetoric, then folks at Fox News, as well as their apologists in the GOP Noise Machine, are going to have to come up with better talking points …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Health reform bill lacks details — The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee will release a much anticipated draft of health care reform this afternoon, but the most contentious issues, like the public insurance option and employer mandate, will be left out of the bill for now …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL): I Told China Not To Believe U.S. Budget Numbers — Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) now appears to have taken a bold step in the debate over the budget deficit: Openly telling a foreign government not to trust the administration in Washington. — The Straits Times reports …
Ezra Klein:
Health Reform for Beginners: The Difference Between Socialized Medicine, Single-Payer Health Care, and What We'll Be Getting — I've been meaning to write this post for some time. The words “socialized medicine” and"single-payer health care" get thrown around with such gleeful abandon …
Hans A. Von Spakovsky / Wall Street Journal:
Holder Winks at Voter Intimidation — On ballot integrity, the Justice Department is taking us backward. — Printer — Friendly — When Eric Holder became U.S. attorney general, he promised to administer the law in an objective, nonpolitical manner.
New York Times:
Lethal Bomb Hits Hotel in Northwest Pakistan — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Militants opened fire on security guards and rushed a small truck packed with explosives through the gates of a five-star hotel in this northwestern city on Friday, detonating a huge bomb in the parking lot that killed …
Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:
Fiat Will ‘Never’ Walk Away From Chrysler, CEO Says — Fiat SpA will “never” walk away from its deal with Chrysler LLC, Fiat Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said in an interview. — “We should just be patient and let the system work,” Marchionne said by telephone today moments …
On Deadline:
Judge kills suit claiming ‘crunchberrries’ aren't real fruit — This tale of an attempted cereal killing comes to you courtesy of the legal blog Lowering the Bar. — A federal judge in California has dismissed a complaint filed by a San Diego woman who had bought “Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries” …
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
O'Reilly defends torture: ‘Look, if it were illegal, Bush and Cheney would have been arrested.’ — Fox News's Bill O'Reilly has always been one of the most outspoken defenders of torture, declaring there's “certainly no proof” that “mistreatment” ever happened at Guantanamo, and insisting it's …
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