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3:16 AM ET, June 12, 2009

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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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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 …
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Blood for Blood. Ashes for Ashes.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Napolitano: From Dimwit to Visionary
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Media Blog
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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NOW's Media Hall of Shame:
Letterman “Jokes” About Palin's Daughter  —  Offender: David Letterman on “Late Show with David Letterman”  —  The Offense: Late night TV host David Letterman “joked” that during their recent trip to New York, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter “was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” during a Yankees baseball game.
Discussion: Moe Lane
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 …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Wag the Blog: Palin vs Letterman
Discussion: Associated Press
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
protein wisdom rises to the challenge!
Discussion: The Other McCain
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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.
Washington Post:
Obama Gives Up on Resettling Cleared Guantanamo Detainees in U.S., Officials Say  —  Administration Gives Up on Bringing Cleared Inmates to U.S., Officials Say  —  The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live …
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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Gorman Gorman / The Note:
Grassley on Schumer Health Care Plan: It's “Obnoxious”
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Open Left
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.
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 …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Senate Votes for F.D.A. Rules on Tobacco
Discussion: DailyFinance and The Caucus
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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BBC:
‘Bloke Coke’ cleared from Venezuelan shop shelves... by order of the government  —  Coke Zero has been successful elsewhere in the world since its launch  —  Venezuela has banned the sale of the calorie-free Coke Zero, calling it harmful to people's well-being.
Calculated Risk:
Fed: Household Net Worth Off $14 Trillion  —  The Fed released the Q1 2009 Flow of Funds report today: Flow of Funds.  —  According the Fed, household net worth is now off $14 Trillion from the peak in 2007.  —  Click on graph for larger image in new window.
Right Wing News:
The Top 40 Conservative Blogs For 2009 (Version 2.0) … The RWN Website of the Day is:
Discussion: TigerHawk and The Sundries Shack
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 …
Michelle Malkin:
Barney Frank has a snit fit  —  Touchy, touchy.  When Barney Frank doesn't get to blubber uninterrupted on TV like he does in committee hearings and on the House floor, Barney Frank stomps off the set:  —  Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers.
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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