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MyFox Twin Cities:
Man Chucks Tomatoes at Sarah Palin at MOA — The man misses and hits an officer instead — BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A man was arrested for throwing tomatoes at Sarah Palin during her book signing on Monday at the Mall of America. — Jeremy Olson, 33, allegedly threw two tomatoes …
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Stanley Fish / Opinionator:
Sarah Palin Is Coming to Town — When I walked into the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan last week, I headed straight for the bright young thing who wore an “Ask Me” button, and asked her to point me to the section of the store where I might find Sarah Palin's memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.”
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Public option deal takes shape — A potential deal took shape Monday that could eliminate the public option from the Senate health reform bill, as Democrats weighed big expansions of both Medicare and Medicaid in a bid to break an impasse over the government insurance plan.
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New York Times:
Liberal Senators Press for Expansion of Medicare — WASHINGTON — In return for concessions on their proposal for a new government-run health insurance plan, liberal Democratic senators pushed Monday for expansion of Medicare and Medicaid and more stringent federal regulation of the insurance industry.
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TalkLeft, Boston Globe, Washington Post, The New Republic, The Note and The Reality-Based Community
Bryan Walsh / Time:
The Truth Behind the Leaked Climate-Change E-Mails — Icebergs float out of the Jacobshavn Fjord into the Jacobshavn bay near Ilulissat, Greenland — The controversy over e-mails stolen from global-warming researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at Britain's University of East Anglia …
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George Monbiot / Guardian:
The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working — Think environmentalists are stooges? You're the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby - I've got the proof — Read the case notes for this article here — When you survey the trail of wreckage left …
Michelle Malkin:
Shhh! Don't confuse Reid with history while he's playing the race card! — It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democrat Party that battled to preserve it. — It's the Democrat Party, not the GOP, that boasts an ex-Klansman among its senior leaders.
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Wall Street Journal:
An Inconvenient Democracy — The EPA aims to bully Congress and business with its carbon ruling. — Printer — Friendly — EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said yesterday that her ruling that greenhouses gases are dangerous pollutants would “cement 2009's place in history” …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Entering an election year, Democrats sharpen focus on jobs — Some fear that the most basic of voter issues has been crowded out — President Obama's renewed focus on the economy underscores an elemental truth of politics. For all the attention the White House and Congress have given …
Watts Up With That?:
The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero — by Willis Eschenbach — People keep saying “Yes, the Climategate scientists behaved badly. But that doesn't mean the data is bad. That doesn't mean the earth is not warming.” — Darwin Airport - by Dominic Perrin via Panaramio — Let me start with the second objection first.
Washington Post:
Obama preparing new push to add jobs, tackle deficit — Redirecting TARP funds to small firms proposed — President Obama plans to outline Tuesday a major push to tackle one of the biggest threats to the economy and to his administration: the soaring unemployment rate.
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Coordinated Bombings in Baghdad Kill at Least 101 — BAGHDAD — In what appeared to be a coordinated assault, a series of car bombings across Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least 101 people and wounded scores more, according to preliminary accounts by police and hospital officials.
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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Primary likely to serve as de facto special election for Kennedy's seat — Massachusetts voters will pick a Democratic nominee for the race to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Tuesday, and that candidate is expected to have little trouble in next month's special election.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Gates: 'We're in this thing to win' — In a surprise visit to Afghanistan, he aims to reassure troops, Karzai — KABUL — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived in this war-torn country Tuesday morning on an unannounced visit, prepared to offer U.S. troops a message from Washington …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
An Innovation Agenda — The economy seems to be stabilizing, and this has prompted a shift in the public mood. Raw fear has given way to anxiety that the recovery will be feeble and drab. Companies are hoarding cash. Banks aren't lending to small businesses. Private research spending is drifting downward.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Skepticism on global warming heating up? — Washington (CNN) - A rise in skepticism among Americans over global warming is mostly due to changes among Republicans, according to new national poll. — The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Monday …
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Fox News:
Ahmadinejad Reportedly Claims U.S. is Blocking Return of Mankind's Savior — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims the United States is attempting to thwart the return of mankind's savior, according to reports from Al Arabiya, a television news station based in Dubai.
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
ACORN Report Finds No Illegal Conduct — ACORN employees caught in those undercover videos advising a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to break the law acted unprofessionally and inappropriately, but did nothing illegal, an independent report has found.
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Talking Points Memo
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: Voters are voting in Massachusetts! — 1. It's zero hour in the Massachusetts Senate special election race to replace the late Ted Kennedy. The action is all on the Democratic side but thanks to state Attorney General Martha Coakley's name identification and financial advantages …
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
Millions in U.S. Drink Dirty Water, Records Show — More than 20 percent of the nation's water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data. — That law requires communities to deliver safe tap water to local residents.
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Don Surber