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James O'Keefe / Big Government:
ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! — **This is a Part I of the ACORN San Bernardino exposé. Updates to follow... [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
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Andrew Edwards / sbsun.com:
ACORN organizer rips video — SAN BERNARDINO - The head organizer for California ACORN says a new video that appears to show a staffer at the organization's San Bernardino office is fake journalism. — The video, which was posted shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday on a Web site called Big Government.com …
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Acorn Runs Off the Rails — 'We're just community organizers, just like the president used to be.' — On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 to strip Acorn, the premier community organizing group on the left, of more than $1.6 million in federal housing money meant to assist low-income people obtain loans and prepare tax forms.
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The Hill:
Snowe falls away, leaving Senate Dems without GOP health support — Senate Democrats are going to have to move forward on healthcare without a single Republican supporter after Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday she could not back the Finance Committee's bill.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
UPDATED: Rockefeller Says “No Way” on Baucus Framework — Senator Jay Rockefeller, speaking Tuesday afternoon on a conference call co-sponsored with the Campaign for America's Future: — I have sat besides Max Baucus for 22 years on the Finance Committee. ... I'm probably one of his best friend among Democrats.
Rasmussen Reports:Election 2010: Nevada Senate Race
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:Baucus's bill gets no love from GOP
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:Sen. Jay Rockefeller Dumps on Baucus' Bill and No Snowe Yet
Andrea Shea King / The Radio Patriot:
“THE WHOLE THING IS COMING UNDONE. BRACE YOURSELVES” — Glenn Beck just wrapped up what had to be the most compelling radio I've heard... and lately, most of his shows have been pretty compelling. — Whew, where to start? Well, how about this: you should make it a point to do two things today …
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Ben Johnson / FrontPage Magazine:
Valerie Jarrett: The Next Van Jones — MANY HAVE WONDERED HOW ANYONE AS EXTREME AS OBAMA'S “GREEN JOBS CZAR” Van Jones - a self-described “Communist” obsessed with racial conspiracy theories - could have been named to head a federal agency. David Horowitz described the radicalization …
TMZ.com:
Obama Calls Kanye a ‘Jackass’ — The Audio — TMZ has obtained the audiotape of President Barack Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass” for hijacking Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the VMAs. — The audio was recorded just before Obama went on camera to do an interview with CNBC.
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Fox News:
Congressman Suggests People Will Don ‘White Hoods’ If Wilson Not Rebuked — In an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., says that people will put on “white hoods and ride through the countryside” if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Rep. Joe Wilson, are not rebuked.
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:Resolution of disapproval passed
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn — WASHINGTON — For months during last year's presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign.
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The Politico:
Conservatives score string of scoops — The right-wing media's single-minded focus on a handful of targets over the past months and its success in pushing those stories into the mainstream have underscored the sharp divide between traditional news organizations and the bloggers …
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Pulling It Together …:
Simple Arithmetic — This week we put out our annual benchmark survey of employer health coverage and costs. Two numbers jumped off the pages. — The first number was the average cost of a family health insurance policy in 2009: $13,375. To put that number in context, if you are an employer …
Michelle Malkin:
A teachable moment: Racial thuggery in St. Louis; Updated — This is absolutely horrifying for any parent to watch. STLToday.com reports that police say the black-on-white student beating was completely unprovoked and racially motivated. Watch as many students cheer the attack — and the bus driver is nowhere to be seen:
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Leah Thorsen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Tape shows beating on bus of Belleville West student
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Carter Claims There Is “Racist” Tone Against Obama — In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former President Jimmy Carter said he has been extremely bothered by the heightened climate of racial and other hate speech since the election of President Barack Obama.
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Brad / Sadly, No!:
Dan Riehl: Licking his chops (or is it soiling his pants?) for a race war — It's only going to get funnier and more terrifying, my friends. Let's roll the tape: … Oh, this is delightful! Riehl demonstrates how tough and rugged he and his 9/12 compadres are by bragging …
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Bush reportedly called McCain ‘a five-spiral crash,’ said Palin ‘not remotely prepared’ — According to a new book — excerpts of which are to be published in the next issue of GQ Magazine and detailed Tuesday — former President George W. Bush was incredulous upon learning that Sen. John McCain …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:George Bush said Palin was ill prepared: ‘Is she the Governor of Guam?’
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Bygones not bye-bye for Bill Clinton in California Democratic gov race — In case you think ex-President Clinton forgets political slights, even after nearly two decades, think again. Here's a fascinating California political item, slightly edited for non-Californians, from our blog buddies over at L.A. Now:
Terry Jones / Investor's Business Daily:
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul — Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.
Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Media Malpractice: Tom Brokaw's World Implodes — Tom Brokaw. — With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new “dean” of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion …
Jesse Walker / Reason:
The Paranoid Center — On June 10, 2009, an elderly man entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, raised a rifle, and opened fire, killing a security guard named Stephen Tyrone Johns. Two other guards shot back, wounding the gunman before he could end any more lives.
Tom Hester Sr / NewJerseyNewsroom.com:
Poll: Corzine takes lead over Christie in gubernatorial race … Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine has for the first time gained the lead in the gubernatorial race among all registered voters, according to a new Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll. — Among all registered voters polled …
Washington Examiner:
Susan O'Connor — I just don't understand why everyone does not recognize that this health care reform is a sham. Both sides have their own agenda and it is not the best interest of the public. Why can we not have public forums and discussions as to what the public wants.
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