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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Weekly Standard may have been shooter target — FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address — A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail.
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The New Republic, American Power, CBS News, MyFox New York, The Other McCain, NewsBusters.org, Gawker, Examiner, Gateway Pundit, Fausta's Blog, The Daley Gator, Mudville Gazette, lgf 2.0, Salon, Red Alerts, TPMMuckraker, protein wisdom, No More Mister Nice Blog, The American Pundit, Democracy in America, Conventional Folly, Outside The Beltway and The Rhetorican
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Was James Von Brunn a Right-Winger? — Ben Smith, noting that James Von Brunn might potentially have considered targeting The Weekly Standard, writes: … I'm not sure what he's talking about here. First, the “conventional political classification” is a rubric that accounts for extremists …
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Latest Right-Wing Meme: Von Brunn's A Lefty — It's hardly been 24 hours since James Von Brunn allegedly walked into the Holocaust Museum and shot museum guard Stephen Johns. But already conservatives from Rush Limbaugh to Red State have started advancing their latest up-is-down meme …
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TPMDC, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Duck of Minerva, The Washington Independent and Founding Bloggers
beliefnet:
James von Brunn, Evolutionist
James von Brunn, Evolutionist
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The Sensuous Curmudgeon, City Room, BuzzFlash.org, Little Green Footballs and Commentary
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oh my: NOW inducts Letterman into its “Media Hall of Shame” — Credit where credit's due. … People on Twitter are grumbling about that last paragraph but (a) given how peeved the sisterhood will be that they're defending Palin, surely you won't begrudge NOW some sort of ass-covering knock …
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
A Boor and a Coward — Smug, hip David Letterman offered a smirky non-apology about his ongoing class and sexist slurs against the Palins, his apparent social inferiors. “We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Letterman says Palin joke in ‘poor taste’
Letterman says Palin joke in ‘poor taste’
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The New Republic, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Democratic Daily, Liberal Values, Ben Smith's Blog and Wonkette
TMZ.com:
Chastity Bono — Becoming a Man — Chastity Bono, civil rights advocate, journalist, author and musician, is in the early stages of changing his gender — transitioning from female to male, TMZ has learned. — Bono, the child of legendary entertainers Sonny and Cher, began the process earlier this year …
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Larry McShane / NY Daily News:
Chastity Bono is changing gender from female to male … Cher is about to get a new son. — Chastity Bono, the celebrity offspring of the singer and late husband Sonny Bono, is changing gender from female to male, her publicist told the Daily News on Thursday.
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Pam's House Blend
Ezra Klein:
Has Kent Conrad Solved the Public Plan Problem? An Interview. — (Earlier today, Sen. Kent Conrad, the North Dakota Democrat who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, introduced a “potential compromise” on the public plan: A system of federally-chartered co-ops that could offer …
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Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Is The Right Still “Proud To Be a Right-Wing Extremist”? — Back in April and May I wrote a whole series of posts about how the Right was systematically trumping-up a controversy over the Department of Homeland Security Report, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence …
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Roll Call:
Baucus Aides Warn K Street — Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday.
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The Politico, Political Punch, Erick's blog, Weekly Standard, YID With LID, RedState and Ezra Klein
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Caitlin Taylor / Political Punch:
Rev. Wright: I Meant to Say “Zionists” Are Keeping Me from Talking to President Obama — Not Jews — In an interview on a liberal satellite radio show, Rev. Jeremiah Wright attempted to clarify his comments to the Newport News, Virginia. Daily-Press about “them Jews” preventing him from speaking to President Obama.
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Michelle Malkin, Power Line, YID With LID, theblogprof, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hot Air, Babalú Blog, Paco Enterprises, Washington Post, Soccer Dad, Gateway Pundit and Salon
CBS News:
Senate Passes Landmark Anti-Smoking Bill — Legislation Gives FDA Sweeping Controls Over Production, Sale And Marketing Of Tobacco Products — (CBS/AP) Congress struck the government's strongest anti-smoking blow in decades Thursday with a Senate vote to give regulators new power …
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Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Bill Gives FDA Broad Powers to Regulate Tobacco
Bill Gives FDA Broad Powers to Regulate Tobacco
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The Moderate Voice
Times of London:
Foreign Office fury over settlement of Guantánamo Uighurs in Bermuda — The British Government responded with ill-disguised fury tonight to the news that four Chinese Uighurs freed from Guantanamo Bay had been flown for resettlement on the Atlantic tourist paradise of Bermuda.
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Palestinian family kills 15-yr-old son — Article's topics: Palestinians, Israel, Torture — In the first incident of its kind, a Palestinian family has killed its 15-year-old son in the West Bank after accusing him of “collaboration” with Israel. — Raed Wael Sawalha's body …
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Israel Matzav
Right Wing News:
The Top 40 Conservative Blogs For 2009 (Version 2.0) … The RWN Website of the Day is:
Harvard University Gazette:
Martha Minow named dean of Harvard Law School — Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become the dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, President Drew Faust announced today (June 11). — A member of the Law School faculty since 1981 …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Ignores Holocaust Museum Shooting, Wonders Whether It's Even ‘Newsworthy’ — Last week, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly went on a tirade against CNN for supposedly failing to cover the shooting of Pvt. William Long, an Army recruiter in Arkansas. Of course, O'Reilly's claims were blatantly false …
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Uighurs Released to Bermuda All Trained at Terrorist Camp in Tora Bora — It turns out Palau is not the only resort island willing to take the Uighurs detained at Guantanamo. The Obama administration has transferred four Uighurs to Bermuda, which is, of course, much closer to the continental U.S. than Palau.
John R. Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
What If Israel Strikes Iran? — The mullahs would retaliate. But things would be much worse if they had the bomb. — Printer — Friendly — Whatever the outcome of Iran's presidential election tomorrow, negotiations will not soon — if ever — put an end to its nuclear threat.
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
No. 2 House Republican compares Obama to Putin — WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 2 Republican in the House is comparing some of President Barack Obama's economic policies to those of Russia's prime minister and former president, Vladimir Putin. — The House Republican whip, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia …
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
US government seeks to rein in executive pay — Democrats want to push administration on US corporate pay strategies — American International Group, Inc. - , Bank of America Corporation - , Citigroup, Inc. — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is taking a half-step toward taming U.S. executive pay.
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The Anchoress, Tammy Bruce, Cafe Hayek, Gawker, Don Surber, The American Pundit, Say Anything, Maggie's Farm and Sister Toldjah
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
Russians Outfox U.S. in Latest Great Game — BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — One at a time the government's top critics seemed to go to jail, or simply disappear. — Syrgak Abdyldayev, a local journalist, began to investigate whether the attacks had anything to do with a team of Russian-speaking specialists …
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Danger Room