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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit — World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. — They entered a capital that had become a military encampment …
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Jackson Diehl / PostPartisan:
At nuclear summit, Obama snubs an ally — Forty-seven world leaders are Barack Obama's guests in Washington Tuesday at the nuclear security summit. Obama is holding bilateral meetings with just twelve of them. That's led to some awkward exclusions — and some unfortunate appearances, as well.
Cat Corben / American Thinker:
Obama Attends Non-Existent Soccer Game? — Reading the story about President Obama breaking tradition and ditching the presidential press pool over the weekend to watch one of his daughter's soccer games, it appears harmless, right? Not so. It is rather disturbing when you dissect it.
Michelle Malkin:
A cautionary note about the beating in New Orleans; Update: No Palin pins involved — Scroll for updates... I'm getting bombarded with angry e-mails about the terrible assault on Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal's campaign fundraising chief, Allee Bautsch, and her boyfriend in the French Quarter of New Orleans over the weekend.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
GOP Official & Boyfriend Savagely Beaten In Politically Motivated Attack - Including Broken Leg, Jaw, Concussion... Media Silent (UPDATES) — Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown — The governor's office said Monday that Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend suffered …
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Macaoidh / The Hayride:
The Brennan's Beatdown: Piecing Together A Story (Updated, 9:50 a.m.)
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Staffers' accounts paint more detailed, troubling picture of Massa's office — Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MASSA'S GONE, ENSIGN'S A SITTING SENATOR.... The Washington Post …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Boehner renews call for ethics probe into Dem leadership's knowledge …
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Lincoln Wall Street bill tacks left — A new proposal by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln would require sweeping changes to the $450 trillion derivatives market, including forcing big banks to spin off “swaps desks” that handle the complex financial instruments …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Who wins an Obama vs. Palin matchup? — A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday indicates that President Barack Obama would top the former Alaska governor by double digits in a possible 2012 general election showdown. — Washington (CNN) - She may be the best …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama vs. Palin 2012: No contest in '10 — President Barack Obama's job approval may have slid — 51 percent in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 46 today in the Gallup daily track, 45 yesterday. — But given a choice of the first-term Democratic president and the former governor of Alaska …
Matthew Mosk / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin Earned How Much Since July?! — With A Steady Stream of Six-Figure Speaking Gigs, The Former Alaska Governor's Haul May Be Even Bigger — Pundits can debate the political costs and benefits of Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor, but the monetary advantages …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
What's the Matter With Fox News? — I've been reading the debates touched off by Julian Sanchez's post on “a systematic trend toward “epistemic closure” in the modern conservative movement.” I'm nervous about wading in because almost anything I say is bound to offend someone I like.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Outcrazying The Crazy: How A Prankster Plans To Infiltrate And Destroy The Tea Party Movement — Meet Jason Levin, quite possibly the scariest man in the tea party universe. An Oregon technology consultant, Levin is the leader of Crash The Tea Party, a plan to take down the tea party from the inside.
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Elie Mystal / Above the Law:
U.S. News Rankings Leaked? This Happens Every Year. — We anticipated that the new U.S. News Law School Rankings would come out this week. That means we anticipated that the new rankings would be leaked beforehand. It happened last year; apparently U.S. News has more moles than Jack Bauer's office at CTU.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lieberman: ‘Thank God’ political momentum now with Republicans — Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) suggested in a new interview that he was grateful that political momentum now seemed to be on the side of Republicans. — Lieberman, an Independent senator who caucuses with Democrats …
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
Colbert Owns Wiki Leak (UPDATE: Video and More PWNAGE Added) — ***Bumped because we're all posting at the same time*** — When my students tell me how much they love John Stewart I usually tell them that Stephen Colbert is way better. Sure, I tell them, John Stewart has the smartest writers …
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Matthew Mosk / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin's Secret Contract Demands: Big Jets and Bendable Straws — Read the Contract Fished Out of a California University Dumpster By Angry Students — Gov. Sarah Palin may be flexible on some of the perks she needs when speaking in public, but on the question of drinking straws, she shall not bend.
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Mark Shanahan / Names:
Barney Frank gets a high-altitude haranguing on health care — Barney Frank has enemies, even 30,000 feet in the air. — Flying back to Boston from LA yesterday, the congressman was assailed by a pair of ophthalmologists upset about the health care reform bill.
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Michael Howard Saul / Wall Street Journal:
Pataki Declines to Join New York Senate Race — Former New York Republican Gov. George E. Pataki has decided not to mount an election challenge against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall. — Instead, he said in an interview Tuesday that he would create a new national organization aimed …
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Army to court martial ‘birther’ officer — From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski and Mark MurrayU.S. military officials tell NBC News that the U.S. Army will court martial a lieutenant colonel who refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be “illegal.”
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Larry Kudlow / Money & Politics Blog:
A V-Shaped Boom Is Coming — Conservatives shouldn't fight the tale of the tape. — Sometimes you have to take out your political lenses and look at the actual statistics to get a true picture of the health of the American economy. Right now, those statistics are saying …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Pennsylvania Democratic Primary for Senate — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary: Specter 44%, Sestak 42% — Pennsylvania's Democratic Primary is a month away, and the race between incumbent Senator Arlen Specter and challenger Joe Sestak is now a dead heat.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
GOP warns Obama over SCOTUS litmus test on Citizens United — Senate Republicans on Tuesday warned President Barack Obama he'll face serious opposition to his Supreme Court nomination if he uses a landmark campaign finance case as a litmus test for a nominee.
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
Hoyer criticizes Bachman for denying racial epithet — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday chided Rep. Michelle Bachmann (D-Minn.) for denying that a protester shouted a racial epithet at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) during last month's healthcare battle.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Miss. county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order — A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
76 Senators sign on to Israel letter — More than three quarters of the U.S. Senate, including 38 Democrats, have signed on to a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly rebuking the Obama Administration for its confrontational stance toward Israel.
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