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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 …
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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.
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Reuters, Althouse, White House.gov Blog Feed, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice and Commentary
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 …
NPR:
Transcript Of President Obama's Remarks — text sizeAAA — Following is an advance transcript of President Obama's remarks at the Fort Hood memorial service, as provided by the White House. — We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost …
ABCNEWS:
Executed: 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 …
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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 …
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The Jawa Report
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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Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Congress Matters, Taylor Marsh, TPMDC, Open Left, Washington Monthly, RedState and GayPatriot
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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 …
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Pat Robertson on Ft. Hood: Islam is ‘not a religion’ …
Pat Robertson on Ft. Hood: Islam is ‘not a religion’ …
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Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh, Media Matters for America, Raw Story, ATTACKERMAN, No More Mister Nice Blog, TPMMuckraker and Shakesville
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Rush to Therapy
The Rush to Therapy
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The Huffington Post, Democracy in America, Marc Lynch, Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, TPMCafe, The Blotter, Commentary and The Mahablog
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 …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
Washington Post:
Hasan on Islam — Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood, was supposed to discuss a medical topic during gave a presentation to senior Army doctors in June 2007. Instead, he lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Democrats Raise Alarms Over Health Bill Costs — WASHINGTON — As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the bills Congress is considering do not fulfill President Obama's promise …
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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.
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?
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Carrie Prejean confirms ‘sex tape,’ but ...
Carrie Prejean confirms ‘sex tape,’ but ...
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Townhall.com, Below The Beltway, News Hounds, The Huffington Post, The Sundries Shack, Hot Air and The Other McCain
Wall Street Journal:
Confessions of an ObamaCare Backer — A liberal explains the political calculus. — Printer — Friendly — The typical argument for ObamaCare is that it will offer better medical care for everyone and cost less to do it, but occasionally a supporter lets the mask slip and reveals the real political motivation.
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.
Washington Examiner:
Climate bill's ‘emergency provision’ gives Obama strong-man powers — By: EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE ALERT — Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Democrats …
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 …
Jules Crittenden:
Harvard Yard — Home of American heroes. — It's always easy to poke fun at the World's Greatest University across the Charles, all the more so in recent decades as, like much of academia, it sank in a wretched swamp of America-bashing leftism while continuing to survey the world down its superior nose.
CBS News:
Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists — Posted by Declan McCullagh In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
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Crooks and Liars, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Raw Story, Hot Air, Hit & Run, The Anchoress, Mediaite and Clayton Cramer's BLOG
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.
Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
Breaking: Rajiv Shah for USAID administrator — An administration official has confirmed that Rajiv Shah will be nominated to be the next administrator of USAID. — POLITICO reported yesterday that the 36-year-old USDA chief scientist and undersecretary for research, education and economics …
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US Department of State, The Swamp, The Cable, The New Republic, La Vida Locavore and The Washington Independent