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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality — An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York …
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Edward Mason / Boston Herald:
Scott Brown snubs Sarah Palin, bags Tea Party rally — U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, whose stunning victory in January was fueled in part by Tea Party anger, has snubbed the fiery grassroots group and declined its invitation to join Sarah Palin Wednesday at a massive rally on Boston Common, the Herald has learned.
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DougJ / Balloon Juice:
Principled opposition to big government — Carl Paladino, a Tea Party candidate for governor in New York State has been sending out stuff like this emails (via WNYMedia—scroll down the link with caution as the larger article contains many NSFW images): — I can't ascertain …
Lawrence Budd / Dayton Daily News:
Racial slur by Tea Party leader hits home — SPRINGBORO — Racist comments, including a slur about Hispanics, posted on the Twitter page of the Springboro Tea Party were particularly hurtful to Alana Turner. — “Illegals everywhere today! So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Brown camp: No snub intended
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House kills Hillary SCOTUS buzz — The White House moved quickly today to squelch the widening speculation that Hillary Clinton could be nominated to the Supreme Court, as Senator Orrin Hatch suggested this morning. — “The President thinks Secretary Clinton is doing an excellent job …
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Douglas Burns / Iowa Independent:
King, Bachmann co-opt abortion rights message to attack health reform — SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa — Co-opting the argument advocates of legal abortion have used for decades, two leading congressional conservatives Saturday said health-care reform is nothing short of a federal intrusion …
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Another Name on President Obama's Supreme Court Short List
Another Name on President Obama's Supreme Court Short List
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Sarcasm of Sarah Palin — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a well-received speech on Friday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, an address defined — as almost all of her public pronouncements have been in the 18 months since she emerged on the national political scene — by a stinging sense of sarcasm.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner: Repealing healthcare law GOP's ‘No. 1 priority’ — Repealing healthcare reform will be Republicans' “No. 1 priority,” their House leader said Monday. — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that repealing the healthcare legislation passed in Congress last month …
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Coburn predicts likely defeat of his unemployment objection — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) conceded Monday that Democrats are likely to have the votes to overcome his objection to proceeding with a bill to extend unemployment benefits. — Coburn, who blocked efforts to pass an extension …
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Jamie Guzzardo / CNN:
Conn. bishops fight sex abuse bill — Hartford, Connecticut (CNN) — A bill in Connecticut's legislature that would remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases has sparked a fervent response from the state's Roman Catholic bishops, who released a letter to parishioners Saturday imploring them to oppose the measure.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘BARTER WITH YOUR DOCTOR’.... Once in a great while, we get a peek at Republicans' health care ideals, but rarely do we see them articulated as candidly as Sue Lowden described them last week. — Lowden is a former state senator and chair of the Nevada Republican Party.
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Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Healthcare law to sock middle class with a $3.9 billion tax increase in 2019 — Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — because of healthcare reform, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official scorekeeper for legislation.
Kos / Daily Kos:
Immigration reform as Democratic electoral firewall — Like health care reform before it, immigration reform has been declared dead more times than Al Qaida's #2 man. Yet this past weekend, Harry Reid spoke to an immigration rally in Las Vegas and promised action on the issue.
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FOX 23 MyFoxMaine.com Portland, ME:
Investigation Into West Virginia Mine Disaster Underway — Federal investigators are in West Virginia today to try to figure out what caused the worst mine U.S. disaster in 40 years. — 29 people were killed as a result of last week's blast at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Charleston, West Virginia.
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CNN:
Conan O'Brien coming to TBS … And the winner of the Conan O'Brien sweepstakes is ... TBS. — According to a press release sent out by the cable network (which, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner), the comedian is joining TBS to host a late-night show that is expected to debut in November.
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Wall Street Journal:
Did FDR End the Depression? — The economy took off after the postwar Congress cut taxes — 'He got us out of the Great Depression. " That's probably the most frequent comment made about President Franklin Roosevelt, who died 65 years ago today. Every Democratic president from Truman …
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
CORRECTION: Visa Policy For Israeli Nuclear Scientists Did Not Begin With Obama Admin — On April 8, 2010, I wrote an article in this space implying that the Obama administration had instituted a new policy restricting entry to the United States for Israeli nuclear scientists who worked at the Dimona reactor.
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Obama: We're still working on our democracy — President Obama said Sunday that the United States is still “working on” democracy and a top aide said he has taken “historic steps” to improve democracy in the United States during his time in office. — The remarks came as Obama met …
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Russian President says what distinguishes Obama ‘from many other people’ is that he is ‘a thinker.’ — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, one of 47 world leaders gathering for the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to relay his country's concerns ahead of the summit.
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Vice President Joe Biden — Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four siblings. In 1953, the Biden family moved from Pennsylvania to Claymont, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council.
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