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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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Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
HOLOCAUST MUSUEM SHOOTER IS WHITE SUPREMACIST. — According to NBC, the man who shot a security guard and potentially one to two other people at the Holocaust Museum today is 89-year-old James W. Von Brunn. Von Brunn maintains a white-supremacist Web site, HolyWesternEmpire.org.
Tim Reid / Times of London:
White supremacist James W Von Brunn opens fire Holocaust museum — At least two people were shot today at Washington's Holocaust Museum, after an 89-year-old white supremacist entered the building and opened fire “indiscriminately”. — Emergency services said that an adult male was taken …
Associated Press:
Guard dies after Holocaust museum shooting — Authorities say they're investigating a white supremacist as the suspect — Police push back crowds outside the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., after a shooting on Wednesday. — Guard in Holocaust Museum shooting dies
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
Articles and Analysis — Regular readers will probably remember my that my father-in-law Frank Burstin, who passed away about a week before last fall's elections, was a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp. For that reason, as you may imagine, the news this afternoon about a shooting …
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Fox News:
Gunman Opens Fire Inside Holocaust Museum, Kills Security Guard — The security guard shot Wednesday at the Holocaust Museum has died of his injuries, the museum confirms. — FOXNews.com — WASHINGTON — A gunman opened fire inside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in the nation's capital Wednesday …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Holocaust museum shooter reportedly white supremacist James von Brunn. — This afternoon, a gunman apparently shot at least one person at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. MSNBC is reporting that the suspected shooter, who also sustained gunshot wounds, is James Von Brunn, a white supremacist born in 1920.
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Gunman walks into D.C.'s Holocaust Museum, opens fire, is wounded …
Gunman walks into D.C.'s Holocaust Museum, opens fire, is wounded …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
“Told Ya So” - 89 year-old shooter “confirms DHS report”
“Told Ya So” - 89 year-old shooter “confirms DHS report”
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Michelle Malkin
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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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner: Letterman in His Dotage — Letterman attacked in crass sexual terms …
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.
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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What Caused the Budget Deficit?
What Caused the Budget Deficit?
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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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ABCNEWS:
GOP Leader Rep. Eric Cantor Predicts Republican Landslide in 2010 — In ABC News Exclusive, Top GOP Leader Predicts Republicans Will Take Back House of Representatives in 2010 — These may be dark days for the Republican Party, but a top GOP congressional leader predicted today that Republicans …
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Exclusive: Miss California Carrie Prejean Loses Her Crown — Less than a month after being told by Donald Trump that she can keep her Miss California crown, Carrie Prejean was fired on Wednesday, Foxnews.com has learned exclusively. — K2 Productions, the independent producers …
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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Lee E. Ohanian / Forbes:
The $787 Billion Mistake — Current economic indicators suggest …
The $787 Billion Mistake — Current economic indicators suggest …
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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 …
Reason:
The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years — From William Randolph Hearst's ginned up hysterical stories about marijuana to the “10-cent plague” comic book scare of the 1950s to The New York Times warning of “cocaine-crazed Negroes” raping white women across the Southern countryside …
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Boing Boing
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.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Battle to Control State Senate Rages Unabated — ALBANY — With both Democrats and Republicans continuing to lay claim to control of the State Senate, the power struggle that has brought business in the Capitol to a halt the last two days appeared no closer to an amicable resolution on Wednesday.
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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.
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 …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Miranda Rights for Terrorists — When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I'll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet. — Of course, KSM did not get a …