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The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy — From a Nexis search a few moments ago: Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
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theblogprof, Gawker, Green Sheet, Pundit & Pundette, RedState, Nice Deb, Weekly Standard, Pajamas Media and NewsBusters.org
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Busted. Van Jones Linked to 9-11 Truther Movement Back in **January 2002** — Yesterday, news broke out that Barack Obama's communist Green Czar was a 9-11 Truther. The administration much later in the day released a statement saying Van Jones was “not now or ever” involved in the 9-11 Truther movement.
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Political Punch, All American Blogger, JustOneMinute, Swampland, The Huffington Post, The TrogloPundit, NewsReal Blog, National Review Online, Scared Monkeys, Ztower, Pajamas Media, Dean's World, The Daily Dish, Weekly Standard, The Mahablog, AmSpecBlog, CBS News, thelcabroadside.wordpress.com, Confederate Yankee, Green Sheet, NewsBusters.org, Right Wing Nut House, Erick's blog, Moonbattery, YID With LID, theblogprof, Stop The ACLU and A Blog For All
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Van Jones, Gone in 60 Seconds? — kf hears today is the day the MSM (not just Tapper) officially turns on Van Jones, the White House “green jobs” adviser who signed a 2004 Truther petition. ‘Gone by midnight’ is the prediction. He's on the Liverpool Care Pathway!
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Bond Urges Congressional Hearing on Administration's Mr. Jones — Senator Highlights Jones' Repugnant ‘Truther’ Association and Inflammatory Language — WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee …
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FIRST THOUGHTS: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg — *** Stuck in the middle with you: As President Obama prepares to deliver his primetime health-care speech on Wednesday, he's finding himself boxed in from the left and right — of his own party.
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FiveThirtyEight, D-Day, The Plum Line, Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars, Salon, The Political Carnival and Think Progress
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Perfect: Van Jones also a Mumia supporter; Update: Michelle …
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The Corner on National …, Verum Serum, Ace of Spades HQ, Blue Crab Boulevard and Pajamas Media
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Stunner! Obama Hack Van Jones Also a Mumia Supporter
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Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs, RBO, The Hill, Riehl World View and NewsBusters.org
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Trouble For Jones — At his daily press briefing Friday afternoon …
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Imagine a Van Jones in a Republican Administration — By: Peter Kirsanow
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Booker Rising
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Oh my: White House refuses to say that Van Jones still has Obama's confidence
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Meg Whitman Blasts Van Jones
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The Politico, The Washington Independent, KansasCity.com Prime Buzz, Michelle Malkin, Ben Smith's Blog and Grist
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Sources: White House drafting health care bill — WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned that the White House is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months. — Multiple sources close to the process tell CNN that while the plan is uncertain …
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American Power, AMERICAblog News, TPMDC, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, The Page, msnbc.com, The Hill and Salon
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White House Polling Memo Omits Numbers Showing Support For Public Option
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Daily Kos, AMERICAblog News, Taylor Marsh, The Washington Independent, The Political Carnival, TalkLeft and Emptywheel
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Obama Holds Conference Call With Progressives Who Oppose “Trigger”
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NO QUARTER
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Gates: AP decision ‘appalling’ — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
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Rare AP Photo Captures U.S. Death in Afghanistan — Going back to 2002, I have been writing about the shameful reluctance, even refusal, of U.S. media outlets to carry truly graphic images of the true cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — dead or even, in many cases, gravely wounded U.S. soldiers and Marines.
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The Money Problem — The loudest problem in health-care reform is the public plan. But the biggest problem is finding the money to fund any plan. The House bills didn't solve the problem, as deficits explode after the first 10 years. The number $700 billion (over 10 years) …
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Franken Talks Down Angry Mob!!! — I got to witness something really special the other day. About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen. Al Franken's booth at the Minnesota State Fair and confronted him loudly when he arrived. But within minutes, he'd turned an unruly crowd into a productive conversation on health care.
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Rep. Bachmann: Dems Want To Sabotage Me Because I Might Become President — On Mike Gallagher's radio program yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) offered a novel theory as to why Democrats want her out of office: They don't want her to become the first woman president.
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Can We Have Buckley Back? — Over the last few days, Jon Henke has laid out the case for the Right more strongly disavowing outfits like WorldNetDaily that actively peddle Birther nonsense. To the extent the mainstream Right has weighed in, it has been to urge Jon to ignore WND and move on …
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Canada to stage mock Afghan attack in Washington — Washington — From Friday's Globe and Mail — The Taliban will attack an Afghan village set up in the heart of Washington courtesy of the Canadian Forces, who will send in a medic in a dramatic effort to save a civilian crippled by the explosion.
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DCist
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Canadians to Stage Fake Attack in Washington
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Globe and Mail
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Audi Chief Calls Chevy Volt “A Car For Idiots” — Bring on the war of words. In a frank conversation with MSN writer Lawrence Ulrich, Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen has said that the Chevy Volt will fail and that anybody who buys the car is an idiot.
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Fausta's Blog
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Why ‘GQ’ Doesn't Want Russians To Read Its Story … text sizeAAA — For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn't the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found.
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Taibblog, The Daily Dish, At-Largely, Ben Smith's Blog, Mediaite and Michael Calderone's Blog
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Could Texas' Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National? — While Republicans are busy gnashing their teeth over President Obama's imminent indoctrination of the nation's schoolchildren, there's an education story bubbling up in Texas that could have considerably more far-reaching consequences.
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Obama Regulation Czar Advocated Removing People's Organs Without Explicit Consent — (CNSNews.com) - Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” …
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Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette, theblogprof, YID With LID, The Washington Independent and Weasel Zippers
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Protester to Mark Warner: Which part of the Constitution says you get to take over health care? — Via CNS. We've been down this road before but it's one thing to kick around arguments in the comments and another to watch a U.S. Senator be put on the spot.
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The Coming Reset in State Government — My fellow governors and I are likely facing a permanent reduction in tax revenues. — Printer — Friendly — State government finances are a wreck. The drop in tax receipts is the worst in a half century. Fewer than 10 states ended …
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A Doctor's Plan for Legal Industry Reform — My modest proposal to rearrange how lawyers do business. — Printer — Friendly — Since we are moving toward socialism with ObamaCare, the time has come to do the same with other professions—especially lawyers.
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Chris Christie Accident — On July 26, 2002 Christie was driving a leased BMW in the city of Elizabeth. — He was on his way to a swearing in ceremony for the Union County Prosecutor. But Christie apparently got a little lost. When he got to the intersection of Murray street and Clinton …