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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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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.
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 …
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Uighurs Released to Bermuda All Trained at Terrorist Camp in Tora Bora
Uighurs Released to Bermuda All Trained at Terrorist Camp in Tora Bora
Times of London:
Foreign Office fury over settlement of Guantánamo Uighurs in Bermuda
Foreign Office fury over settlement of Guantánamo Uighurs in Bermuda
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US Department of Justice:
United States Resettles Four Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay …
United States Resettles Four Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay …
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New York Times
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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The Huffington Post:
Obama Reasserts Support For Public Plan While AMA Backtracks On Opposition
Obama Reasserts Support For Public Plan While AMA Backtracks On Opposition
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Hate — Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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site.pfaw.org:
PFAW Calls for DHS to Publish “Rightwing Extremism” Report — In the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas and Stephen T. Johns at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, People For the American Way President Michael B. Keegan called for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) …
Jesse Walker / Reason:
The Brown Scare of '09 — Greg Sargent's reaction to the murder …
The Brown Scare of '09 — Greg Sargent's reaction to the murder …
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Halimah Abdullah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senators who opposed tobacco bill received top dollar from industry — WASHINGTON — Among the 17 senators who voted against allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are some of the top recipients of campaign contributions from the tobacco industry …
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New York Times:
Tobacco Regulation, at Last — After more than a decade of struggle — and countless smoking-related deaths — the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday that gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. The House approved a similar bill in April, also by an overwhelming margin.
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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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Latest Right-Wing Meme: Von Brunn's A Lefty
Latest Right-Wing Meme: Von Brunn's A Lefty
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Barack Obama Surveys the World — “And the Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters” — When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world.
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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Blaming the Guy Who Came Before Doesn't Work Long — WASHINGTON — As President Obama struggles to turn around the moribund economy and confront multiple international issues, he wastes few opportunities to remind the country that the problems are not of his making.
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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New York Times:
Some in Qaeda Leave Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen — WASHINGTON — American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the terrorist group's leaders, are moving to Somalia and Yemen from their principal haven in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Dr. Biden's debut — Jill Biden was standing in a brilliant aqua dress inside a packed Gotham Hall in Manhattan one evening last week, waiting to address hundreds of people at an awards ceremony for a leading gay and lesbian organization. — One by one, they approached her. — Some just wanted to say hello.
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Michael Lea / Daily Mail:
Calls for Red Cross symbol to be axed over links to the Crusades — A Labour minister has sparked controversy by claiming that an alternative symbol is needed for the Red Cross because of the logo's supposed links to the Crusades. — Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems brace for CBO score — Senate Democrats are bracing for what they expect will be a huge price tag connected with revamping the nation's healthcare system. — The soon-to-be-delivered estimate on Democratic healthcare reform proposals is expected to be so expensive that lawmakers …