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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention — NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah's Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama's citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives …
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Andrew Breitbart at National Tea Party Convention to Media: “It's Not Your Business Model That Sucks, It's You That Sucks” (Video) — Andrew Breitbart raised the roof at the National Tea Party Convention this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. Speaking to the dozens of reporters assembled in the back of the room, Andrew said this:
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breitbart, Farah argue Birtherism at Tea Party convention — Dave Weigel has been covering the Tea Party Convention in Nashville for the Washington Independent, and earlier today walked into an unplanned but heated debate between World Net Daily's Joseph Farah and Andrew Breitbart.
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Tennessee Tea Party Leaders Attack the Convention, Sort Of — NASHVILLE — At 1 p.m., four representatives of Tennessee Tea Party groups gathered in a ballroom adjacent to the National Tea Party Convention with about 50 reporters and unleashed the criticisms that had dogged the event in the weeks leading up to it.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:Palin and McConnell wage proxy battle in Kentucky Republican Senate primary
Washington Post:The Tea Party is still taking shape
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Snowstorm puts W.H. press corps in danger — Photographers in the White House press corps experienced two dangerous moments on Saturday while covering President Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Committee's Winter Meeting. — Reporters ventured out to cover the speech amid …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RESPONDING TO ‘ANY CONFUSION OUT THERE’.... Well, he certainly sounds serious about getting health care reform done. — Speaking at a winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee, President Obama covered some familiar ground, but tackled health care reform in a rather straightforward way.
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:Obama suggests extending debate as way to pass health reform
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis. — In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including …
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Alex Williams / New York Times:
The New Math on Campus — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — ANOTHER ladies' night, not by choice. — After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into the corner booth of a gritty basement bar.
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
How Can Securitization Lending Be Made Safer ? … In his column today, Floyd Norris asks “Can the world be made safe for the return of securitizations?” — To a degree, that is the wrong question. — While some people have become focused on securitization, what we should really be looking …
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Peter Foster / Telegraph:
China threatens world health by unleashing waves of superbugs — China's reckless use of antibiotics in the health system and agricultural production is unleashing an explosion of drug resistant superbugs that endanger global health, according to leading scientists.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Eulogy To The Unknown Campaign Volunteer; Obama Misstates Facts — Obama is getting a bit of a bum rap for eulogizing a campaign volunteer (Melanie Shouse, per this, or this) who Obama claims, incorrectly, died without health insurance but insisted on being buried in an Obama t-shirt.
Blake Hurst / Weekly Standard:
Farmer Knows Best — The dark side of going green. — Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary of agriculture and an organic and sustainable food expert, has announced an initiative entitled “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food.” Sixty-five million dollars will be spent “to begin a national conversation …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Key Dem senator: Implementing 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal could last into 2011 — A key Democratic senator on Saturday said that implementing the repeal of the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy against openly gay service members could last into next year.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ — RNC Chairman Michael Steele and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) held a joint appearance Thursday night at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. When the debate turned to President Obama's plan …
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