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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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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 …
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.
Fox News:
At Least 2 Shot Inside Holocaust Museum, Officials Say
At Least 2 Shot Inside Holocaust Museum, Officials Say
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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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Letterman Top Ten: Palin has a “slutty flight attendant look”; …
Letterman Top Ten: Palin has a “slutty flight attendant look”; …
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Letterman On Palin's Daughter
Letterman On Palin's Daughter
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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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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.
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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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 …
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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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Patrick Ottenhoff / The Electoral Map:
Virginia Primary Map: Creigh Sweeps from Clarendon to Coal Country — In the first Democratic primary for Virginia governor in ages, the boy from Bath County embarrassed the two guys from NoVA. Creigh Deeds won a strong 50% over Terry McAuliffe's 26% and Brian Moran's 24%.
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Deeds Surges to Stunning Win in Va.
Deeds Surges to Stunning Win in Va.
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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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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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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Quinnipiac University:
Christie Has 10-Point Likely Voter Lead In New Jersey, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Corzine Approval Drops To New Low — Fresh from his Republican primary victory, former federal prosecutor Christopher Christie leads Democratic incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine 50 - 40 percent among likely voters …
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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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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 …
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
With Friends Like Ezra Klein ... I think Ezra Klein misstates OMB director Peter Orszag's position—which Orszag presented on his blog and in a phone call responding to Virginia Postrel (who argued that if there's so much money to be saved in health care, as demonstrated by waste in Medicare …