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2:45 AM ET, November 11, 2009

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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:

The Best Speech Obama's Given Since...Maybe Ever — Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it justice. Yes, I'm having a Chris Matthews-chill-running-up-my- leg moment, but sometimes, the man …

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Moderate Voice, Reclusive Leftist, Macsmind, Time, Mediaite, Political Byline, The Confluence, Neptunus Lex, Whiskey Fire and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

The White House:

Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood Fort Hood - III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas — THE PRESIDENT: To the Fort Hood community; to Admiral Mullen; General Casey; General Cone; Secretary McHugh; Secretary Gates; most importantly, to family, friends and members of our Armed Forces.

Discussion: Reuters, Slate, The Swamp, The Hill, White House.gov Blog Feed, American Power, TVNewser, Los Angeles Times, Top of the Ticket, Althouse, The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly and Mudville Gazette

Wall Street Journal:

Army Wasn't Told of Hasan's Emails — Pentagon Says It Only Learned of Shooting Suspect's Contacts With Cleric After the Fort Hood Killings — President Barack Obama walks past the helmets and rifles of slain soldiers on his way to address a memorial service Tuesday at Fort Hood, Texas.

Discussion: Newsweek Blogs and Emptywheel

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:

Obama's Best Speech Ever — President Obama's speech at Fort Hood may go down as one of his best ever. — The president was able to balance his duties as Commander in Chief while consoling a nation in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy. That he was able to do this while taking away …

Discussion: Washington Wire, The Reaction and Burnt Orange Report

NPR:
Transcript Of President Obama's Remarks

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Washington Post:
Hasan on Islam — Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the Army psychiatrist believed …

Discussion: The Corner on National …, Danger Room, Mudville Gazette, Atlas Shrugs, American Power, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Michelle Malkin, Jihad Watch, protein wisdom, The Sundries Shack, The Daily Dish, Flopping Aces and Left Coast Rebel

Ann Gerhart / Washington Post:
Obama visits Fort Hood to speak at memorial for shooting victims

Discussion: American Power, Weekly Standard, Politics Daily, baldilocks and Matthew Yglesias

ABCNEWS:

D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad Put to Death — The D.C. Sniper Who Terrorized Americans in 2002 Was Executed Tonight in Virginia — Just after 9 p.m. this evening — seven years and 12 days after he was captured and later charged with orchestrating a cold-blooded shooting spree …

Discussion: No Sheeples Here, Little Green Footballs and pandagon.net

Fox News:

D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad Is Executed in Virginia — JARRATT, Virginia — John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the U.S. capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday. — Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Jawa Report

Washington Post:

Muhammad executed for sniper killing — 10 died in Oct. 2002 rampage; what motivated two shooters remains unclear — JARRATT, Va. — John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who kept the Washington region paralyzed by fear for three weeks as he and a young accomplice gunned down people at random …

Discussion: Gates of Vienna, Guardian, AMERICAblog News and Hot Air

CNN:
D.C. sniper is executed; no last words

Discussion: Below The Beltway, Jack & Jill Politics and The BRAD BLOG

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
‘Beltway sniper’ dead: Executed tonight

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters: Mastermind of Washington area sniper attacks executed

Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
D.C. sniper executed in Virginia

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ABCNEWS:

Senior Official: More Hasan Ties to People Under Investigation by FBI — Alleged Shooter Had “Unexplained Connections” to Others Besides Jihadist Cleric Awlaki — A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had …

Discussion: Flopping Aces, American Power and Weasel Zippers

New York Post:
Deadly denial — Fudging the facts on Fort Hood

Discussion: American Power and Weasel Zippers

Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Pat Robertson on Ft. Hood: Islam is ‘not a religion’ …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Firedoglake, TPMMuckraker, Shakesville, ATTACKERMAN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Right Wing Watch and Wonkette

New York Times:

Blackwater Said to Approve Iraqi Payoffs After Shootings — WASHINGTON — Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Nation, Raw Story, Philly.com, The Washington Independent, The Moderate Voice, MoJo Blog Posts, Hullabaloo and AMERICAblog News

The Politico:

Clinton to Senate Dems: ‘We are winning’ — Bill Clinton walks through Capitol Hill as reporters ask questions. — John Shinkle — With the issue he has positioned to be his crowning achievement as president at a crossroads, Barack Obama once again called on his former rival to help him follow through.

Discussion: Wake up America, Hit & Run, thedanashow.wordpress.com, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, Mediaite, The Daily Dish, Pajamas Media and Taylor Marsh

Capitol Confidential / Big Government:

Exclusive: Audio From ACORN Claims Jerry Brown Will Whitewash Investigation — On October 15th, local ACORN spokesman David Lagstein was the special guest of the East County Democrat Club in El Cajon, CA. Lagstein is ACORN's chief organizer in the San Diego area.

Discussion: Associated Press, Pajamas Media and Wizbang

Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Brown spokesman recorded 6 interviews

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over — White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post at the end of the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy, will take over, according to sources familiar with the move. — Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, TPM LiveWire, Michael Calderone's Blog, The Caucus, Politics Daily, The Swamp, Political Byline, Sister Toldjah, Pajamas Media, NewsReal Blog, The Page, NewsBusters.org, YID With LID, D.C. Now and Ben Smith's Blog

The Huffington Post:

Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — With Reporting By Ryan Grim — One of Congress's foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.

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Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Clyburn: Abortion Provision Only Got Us Ten Votes

Discussion: The Politico

The White House:

President Obama Announces USAID Administrator — WASHINGTON - Today, President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Rajiv Shah as Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). — President Obama said, “The mission of USAID is to advance America's interests by strengthening our relationships abroad.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, The Cable and Obama Foodorama

Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Breaking: Rajiv Shah for USAID administrator

Discussion: US Department of State, The New Republic, The Swamp, La Vida Locavore, The Washington Independent and Rethinking U.S. Foreign …

The Huffington Post:

NEW YORK POST LAWSUIT: Shocking Allegations Made By Fired Employee — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The New York Post editor fired after speaking out against a cartoon depicting the author of the president's stimulus package as a dead chimpanzee has sued the paper.

Discussion: Michael Calderone's Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, The Washington Independent, Ben Smith's Blog, Think Progress and Romenesko

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Obama's modest proposal: A Lieberman swap — A source at the White House for the president's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reports that Obama ended the event with a modest proposal for the domestic politics of both men. — At the meeting's conclusion …

Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT, Weekly Standard and The Washington Independent

David Ignatius / Washington Post:

David Ignatius on saluting the military — In the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings, some commentaries have examined the damage to the U.S. Army from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few have spoken about the alleged shooter, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, as an extreme version of what can happen with an overstressed force.

Jamal Thalji / St. Petersburg Times:

Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist — TAMPA — A Marine reservist armed with a tire iron beat and chased a man he thought was an Arab terrorist and even called 911 to say he was detaining the man, police said. — But the man he assaulted was actually …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Political Carnival

John Cole / Balloon Juice:

An Object Lesson on Not Being Jerks — The closing bits of this WaPo piece on the NY-23 affair really sums it all up: … The funny thing about all of this is that no matter how bad all their ideas are, no matter how disastrous their governance has been, no matter how many horrible things …

Discussion: The Political Carnival, Real Clear Politics, Power Line, Top of the Ticket and Washington Monthly

The Hill:

Sens. squeeze Speaker over commission — Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim entitlement benefits over to an independent commission. — Seven members of the Senate Budget Committee threatened during a Tuesday hearing …

Discussion: Open Left

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Tough future for Snowe as a Republican — It looks like Olympia Snowe could have a pretty hard time getting nominated for another term in the Senate as a Republican. — There are now more folks in her party who disapprove than approve of Snowe's job performance.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Swing State Project, TPMDC, Ezra Klein, Open Left, Guardian, Hot Air, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, Real Clear Politics and The Washington Independent

Jordan Robertson / The Huffington Post:

Internet Virus Frames Users For Child Porn — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. — Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses …

Ann Althouse / Althouse:

The Carrie Prejean “sex tape.” — Ah, what a world we live in. … The story is well-told at the link. Go there. I'll just highlight this: … It's all about the page views... Teenager? Is TMZ threatening to post child pornography? In any case, what is it? Embarrassing topless nonsense?