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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
Artist Admits Using Other Photo for ‘Hope’ Poster — Shepard Fairey, the controversial artist whose “Hope” poster of Barack Obama became an iconic emblem of the presidential campaign, admitted on Friday that he lied about which photograph from The Associated Press he used as his source …
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Simon Scowl / Deceiver.com:
Shepard Fairey Is a Liar — By his own admission! — In addition to being a plagiarist and a serial hypocrite, the plagiarizing serial hypocrite also tells big fat lies when it suits him. The LA Times reports: … If that's the case, why did he feel the need to lie and cover his tracks?
David Ng / Culture Monster:
Shepard Fairey admits to wrongdoing in Associated Press lawsuit — In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press. — Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Threatens Insurers' Anti-Trust Exemption — WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of airing “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal anti-trust laws.
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’
Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’
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CNN:
Sharpton threatens suit against Limbaugh — WASHINGTON (CNN)- Reverend Al Sharpton and his lawyers say they are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for an op-ed published Saturday, which Sharpton alleges “erroneously” characterizes his …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Harris poll puts Obama approval at 45% — Barack Obama might have hoped that an unexpected Nobel Peace Prize might halt his slide in the polls. Not so, says the latest Harris interactive poll, conducted over the last week. The survey contacted over 2200 adults on line …
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David Rohde / New York Times:
7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity — THE car's engine roared as the gunman punched the accelerator and we crossed into the open Afghan desert. I was seated in the back between two Afghan colleagues who were accompanying me on a reporting trip when armed men surrounded our car and took us hostage.
Paul Krugman:
Superfreakonomics on climate, part 1 — OK, I'm working my way through the climate chapter — and the first five pages, by themselves, are enough to discredit the whole thing. Why? Because they grossly misrepresent other peoples' research, in both climate science and economics.
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J. Bradford DeLong's …, Economist's View, Climate Progress, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Freakonomics
Bradley Olson / Houston Chronicle:
Brown leads poll in Houston mayor's race — Poll shows Brown with lead, Parker trailing closely behind — City Councilman Peter Brown, who has blanketed the airwaves for months with an evergreen message about his “blueprint” for Houston, has emerged as the front-runner in the Nov. 3 mayoral race …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence — (updated below) — There is a vital development — a new ruling from the British High Court — in a story about which I've written many times before: the extraordinary joint British/U.S. effort to cover up the brutal torture …
Washington Post:
In Shift for Obama, U.S. Settles On Modulated Policy for Sudan — After lengthy debate, the Obama administration has settled on a policy toward Sudan that offers a dramatically softer approach than the president had advocated on the campaign trail — but steers clear of the conciliatory tone advocated …
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Lateef Mungin / CNN:
Morehouse College bans cross-dressing — ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Fake but Aristotelian? — Actually, the great Greek philosopher probably didn't endorse ObamaCare. — Printer — Friendly — Yesterday we received an email from a loyal reader who nonetheless seems to disagree with everything we write—a type of reader for whom we have a special, if slightly perverse, affection.
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
Pakistan Launches Ground Offensive in South Waziristan — 30,000 Troops Deploy In Militant Stronghold — The Pakistani military launched a major ground offensive Saturday in the insurgent haven of South Waziristan, starting a much-awaited fight that could define the nation's increasingly …
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