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Jim Treacher / Jim Treacher's Blog …:
IT MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST IDEA FOR DAVID LETTERMAN TO JOKE ABOUT UNDERAGE GIRLS BEING RAPED — Look out, Guy Cimbalo. There's a new thuglike misogynist creep in town: — Before I continue, I'll pause for a moment so you can catch your breath and ease that stitch in your side. — Ready?
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Dan Collins / protein wisdom:
Letterman Fallout — Cynn, in comments, and Alicublog, via link, seem to think that my “joke” about Letterman from last night is somehow inappropriate. I want to stress to you scum-sucking morons that I don't care whether Letterman and his writers thought he was addressing the presence …
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The Sundries Shack
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Letterman Top Ten: Palin has a “slutty flight attendant look”; Audio: “Pathetic,” says Palin — I bet Ashley Herzog's bummed he didn't pull this a day earlier, huh? It would have made a sweet addition to her latest column. The best part: Letterman wondering why Slutty Flight Attendant didn't stop by the show.
Daniel Terrapin / Conservatives4Palin.com:
David Letterman is a Sexist Pervert; UPDATE: Gov. Palin Responds; Treacher Smackdown
David Letterman is a Sexist Pervert; UPDATE: Gov. Palin Responds; Treacher Smackdown
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Letterman On Palin's Daughter
Letterman On Palin's Daughter
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Charles Cooper / CBS News:
Palin's “Rashomon Moment”
Palin's “Rashomon Moment”
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
America's Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making — There are two basic truths about the enormous deficits that the federal government will run in the coming years. — The first is that President Obama's agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits …
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Debbi Wilgoren / Washington Post:
3 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum — A security guard and two other people were shot today inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington, authorities said. — U.S. Park Police said a gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire on the security guard and that other security guards returned fire.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Limbaugh, Gingrich, Cheney Seen as Speaking for GOP — Obama overwhelmingly seen as main person who speaks for Democrats — PRINCETON, NJ — Asked to name the “main person who speaks for the Republican Party today,” Republicans across the country are most likely to name three men: Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Cheney.
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David Squires / Hampton Roads Daily Press:
Rev. Wright says he doesn't regret severed relationship with president — HAMPTON - - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Barack Obama, a former member of the Chicago church in which Wright was the longtime pastor.
Howard Arenstein / CBS News:
Some Israelis Insulted By Obama Picture — Israeli TV newscasters Tuesday night interpreted a photo taken Monday in the Oval Office of President Obama talking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “insult” to Israel. — They saw the incident as somewhat akin …
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Charles Krauthammer / New York Post:
HOW FOX NEWS OPENED AMERICA — The following is excerpted from Charles Krauthammer's remarks upon receiving the 2009 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, named for The Post's late edit orial-page editor, yesterday in Washing ton. — AT a time when awards in the humanities …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Too True, Too True — Charles Krauthammer on what Fox News Channel …
Too True, Too True — Charles Krauthammer on what Fox News Channel …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Palau to Take Chinese Guantánamo Detainees — WASHINGTON — The United States has won an agreement to transfer up to 17 Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Palau, a sparsely populated archipelago in the North Pacific, according to a statement released …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Deeds Surges to Stunning Win in Va. — Running with the least money and fewest ties to vote-rich Northern Virginia, State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds has won the three-way Democratic primary for governor, paving the way for a rematch with Republican Bob McDonnell in the fall.
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Patrick Ottenhoff / The Electoral Map:
Virginia Primary Map: Creigh Sweeps from Clarendon to Coal Country
Virginia Primary Map: Creigh Sweeps from Clarendon to Coal Country
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: MR. DEEDS — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
FIRST THOUGHTS: MR. DEEDS — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
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Rasmussen Reports:
45% Say Cancel Rest of Stimulus Spending — Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans say the rest of the new government spending authorized in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan should now be canceled. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 36% disagree and 20% are not sure.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Coach Obama: Shape up now — President Barack Obama eats his vegetables and exercises every day — and he really wants you to do the same. — From the White House garden to his picks for top health jobs, Obama is telling America's McDonald's-loving, couch-dwelling, doctor-phobic populace that things are about to change.
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Sam / Sky News:
Peter Allen, in Paris — Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged. — French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 31 May.
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Politicker NJ:
Quinnipiac: Christie leads 50%-40% — Former U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie has a 10 point lead in the race for Governor, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll — Republican Christopher Christie has a ten point lead in the race for Governor against Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine …
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Alice Olins / Times of London:
Michelle Obama's Abbey outfit: stacked like a wedding cake - but nice colours — Wow, look at her go. Michelle Obama, who was in London on a short sightseeing trip with her daughters, didn't let the small issue of a failing government stand in the way of her sunny style.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Six Top Republicans Obama Listens To — Regardless of whether the President's bipartisan outreach is producing legislative results, there is a handful of conservatives and Republicans that the president and his White House team respect. By respect, I mean, quite simply …
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Scott / Power Line:
Do you recall what was revealed? — In my tentative notes on Barack Obama's speech to “the Muslim world” in Cairol last week, I observed that in significant respects Obama appeared to address Muslims from inside a Muslim perspective. — Thus his address to the “ummah” …
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Robert Farley / American Prospect:
TAIL ATTEMPTS TO WAG DOG. — Now this is fascinating: … This puts to test the notion that Israel is a major strategic asset for the United States, rather than a strategic liability. I have never been particularly convinced by the “Israel as asset” notion; it seems to me that underwriting …
Arthur B. Laffer / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates — The unprecedented expansion of the money supply could make the '70s look benign. — Printer — Friendly — Rahm Emanuel was only giving voice to widespread political wisdom when he said that a crisis should never be “wasted.”
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