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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.
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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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Debbie Schlussel:
So What if Holocaust Museum Shooter is White Christian: We Know Who Crescented, er . . . Created This Atmosphere; 9/11 Truther — Much is being made by Muslims and their many defenders on the left—and the ignoramus “conservatives” at Hot Air (who lecture us that hate has no ideological bounds …
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Michelle Malkin:
Shooting at National Holocaust Museum Updated: Museum guard dies; shooter wasn't “left” or “right,” just plain loony — Scroll for updates... Details just coming in. — Via FoxNews: “At least two people were shot at the national Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, an official told FOX News.
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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.
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Associated Press:
Guard dies after museum shooting — Authorities say they're investigating a white supremacist as the suspect — Police barricade museum visitors outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington 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 …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
“Told Ya So” - 89 year-old shooter “confirms DHS report” — Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge just announced that the shooting at the Holocaust Museum - allegedly by an 89-year old WWII veteran - confirms a recent DHS report regarding the threat posed by extremist veterans.
CNN:
Shooting reported at Holocaust Museum in Washington
Shooting reported at Holocaust Museum in Washington
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Heidi Beirich / Hatewatch:
Holocaust Museum Shooter Had Close Ties to Prominent neo-Nazis
Holocaust Museum Shooter Had Close Ties to Prominent neo-Nazis
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David Stout / New York Times:
Two Shot at Holocaust Museum in D.C., Police Say
Two Shot at Holocaust Museum in D.C., Police Say
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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 …
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Miranda Warnings for Terrorists — Thank Sen. McCain
Miranda Warnings for Terrorists — Thank Sen. McCain
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Flashback: Obama Said Terrorists Shouldn't Get Miranda Rights
Flashback: Obama Said Terrorists Shouldn't Get Miranda Rights
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin smacks down Letterman again — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a second swipe at David Letterman Wednesday, calling the CBS “Late Show” host's jokes about one of her daughters “disgusting” and “sexually perverted.” — In an e-mailed statement, the Republican governor said …
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John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
Top Ten Possible Letterman Reactions to Fallout Over Willow Palin Rape ‘Joke’ — 10. Listen, I didn't know Willow Palin was 14. She was born in 1995. I thought she was still 13. — 9. Why's everyone so mad? I wasn't making fun of Barack...? — 8. I understand some offense was taken over my remarks last night.
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 …
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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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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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The paralyzing fears of the Right — (updated below - Update II) — The Obama administration announced today that it will pay $200 million to the tiny Pacific island-nation of Palau in exchange for Palau's agreement to accept 17 Chinese Uighurs who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo for seven years.
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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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 …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Who's talking to North Korea? — In the opaque, dangerous days after North Korea sentenced two American journalists to 12 years' hard labor, the White House faced the challenge of fashioning a response that doesn't raise the tension level with the volatile hermit nation with a burgeoning nuclear weapons program.
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Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Bank bailout turns out to have been good business for U.S. — WASHINGTON — When Congress passed the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package last fall, critics said it'd be a money loser. But when 10 banks returned $68 billion of the money on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said the government had realized a small profit.