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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.”
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point — Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, look what the pollsters just brought in. — A pair of new surveys revealing that President Obama is still declining and has hit a new low in job approval among Americans just 56 weeks after they elected him with a decided margin.
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 …
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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.
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 …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Fox fudges poll numbers to claim 120 percent of the public believes …
Fox fudges poll numbers to claim 120 percent of the public believes …
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John Vidal / Guardian:
Copenhagen in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak — Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol — The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today …
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
President Obama told me to stop ‘demeaning’ him, says Rep. Conyers — President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee chairman's criticism. — In an interview with The Hill, Conyers said his opinions of Obama's policies …
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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 Panoramio — Let me start with the second objection first.
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New York Times:
Obama Offers Help for Small Businesses — WASHINGTON — President Obama presented a series of initiatives on Tuesday aimed at turning around the nation's beleaguered job market, paying particular attention to increasing the hiring of small businesses by opening lines of credit and offering tax breaks …
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Suzi Gablik / Virgil Speaks:
Why I'm Not a Liberal Anymore — Maybe the initial illuminating moment came when I learned that Tom Hayden, the anti-Vietnam war activist, had removed the Obama bumper sticker from his car. All I know is that I can hardly stand reading the Huffington Post these days.
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.
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.
New York Times:
Global Warming Is Not Slowing, New Analysis Says — COPENHAGEN — Despite recent fluctuations in global temperature year to year, which fueled claims of global cooling, a sustained global warming trend shows no signs of ending, according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public on Tuesday.
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Fistgate II: High School Students Given “Fisting Kits” At Kevin Jennings' GLSEN Conference (Photo) — In March 2000 the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) organization of Massachusetts held its 10 Year Anniversary GLSEN/Boston conference at Tufts University.
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New York Times:
Officials Try to Unite on Afghan Plan — WASHINGTON — On a seven-hour trip from Kabul to a NATO meeting in Brussels last week, the two men in Kabul most responsible for American policy in Afghanistan barely exchanged words, administration officials said, holing up in separate compartments on their military plane.
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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.
The Huffington Post:
Durbin: Banks And GOP Made A Pact To Kill Regulatory Reform — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — In a little-noticed but potentially explosive remark last Friday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) accused Republican leadership of signing a political pact with the banking industry …
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Washington Monthly
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Palin Bowls While Romney Skis — One of the popular framing devices during last year's Democratic primary was suggesting that the candidates appealed to different demographic categories, “beer-track Democrats” (Clinton) versus “wine-track Democrats"(Obama). Could a similar juxtaposition be at hand for Republicans?
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin: Huck made ‘horrible decision’ — Sarah Palin says former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made a “horrible decision” nine years ago in granting clemency to a man suspected of killing four police officers two weeks ago in Washington state. — “It was a bad decision obviously …
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GOP 12
ABCNEWS:
Jenny Sanford Exclusive: Husband's Actions Don't Reflect Poorly on Me — South Carolina's First Lady Tells Barbara Walters About Decision Not to Stand Next to Husband Gov. Mark Sanford During Press Conference — Jenny Sanford, wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford …
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Taegan Goddard's …