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Zoe Magee / ABCNEWS:
American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead — Furkan Dogan Was Shot Five Times, Including Four Times in Head — A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today.
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John / Power Line:
Time For A Change — The New York Times headlines: “An American Citizen Was Among the Dead on the Flotilla.” … ABC headlines: “American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead.” … The facts are not entirely clear, but it appears that Dogan was born in the United States to Turkish parents who returned to Turkey not long thereafter.
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Michael B. Oren / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: An Assault on Israel, Cloaked in Peace — PEACE activists are people who demonstrate nonviolently for peaceful co-existence and human rights. The mob that assaulted Israeli special forces on the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara on Monday was not motivated by peace.
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Amateur blogosphere, RIP … Only five years ago, the progressive political blogosphere was still predominately a gathering place for amateur (that is, unpaid or barely paid) journalists and activists unattached to existing media companies and advocacy organizations. Those days are almost completely over.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
The Times to Host Political Polling Site FiveThirtyEight — The New York Times said Thursday that it would begin hosting the popular blog FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine. — Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight to Partner with New York Times
FiveThirtyEight to Partner with New York Times
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
S.C. Republicans condemn ‘raghead’ comment — South Carolina Republicans were quick Thursday evening to condemn the remarks of a prominent Republican State Senator, Jake Knotts, who referred to a gubernatorial candidate as a “raghead” on an online political show today.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
SC senator: We've 'got one raghead in the White House, we don't need a raghead in the governor's mansion.' — Today, the Christian Broadcasting Network published a story about Nikki Haley, the frontrunner to become South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial nominee, saying that she …
UCAR:
Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast … BOULDER—A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer.
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The Hill:
White House, N.Y. Dems: No job offers made in Senate race — The White House and New York Democrats said Wednesday they didn't play let's make a deal to avoid a contentious Senate primary. — New York Reps. Steve Israel, Carolyn Maloney and Carolyn McCarthy along with former Rep. Harold Ford …
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The Politico
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The Politico:
W.H. political team stumbles, bumbles
W.H. political team stumbles, bumbles
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Anybody left who hasn't been offered a payoff job by the Obama …
Anybody left who hasn't been offered a payoff job by the Obama …
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The Page
Ted Roelofs / MLive.com:
'I'd do it again' former President Bush tells Grand Rapids crowd about waterboarding terrorists … GRAND RAPIDS — Former President George W. Bush was by turns affable, relaxed — and deadly serious in his local appearance Wednesday. — “Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” …
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed / Guardian:
George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind
George Bush admits US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind
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Fox News:
Congresswoman: White Supremacist Groups Behind Arizona Immigration Law — Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif. views a older NFL football helmet during a hearing entitled “Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries, Part II” in Detroit, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. (AP)
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Boston Globe:
Caught in the oil — A short entry - AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident.
David Weigel / Right Now:
Interview: Alexander Zaitchik on his new biography of Glenn Beck, ‘Common Nonsense’ — Last summer, when Glenn Beck was rocketing from talk radio stardom to the status of a national icon, he got the full profile treatment from Alexander Zaitchik at Salon. That profile was the first serious …
Kos / Daily Kos:
NV-Sen: Teabagger leads GOP field, Harry Reid back from the dead — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/31-62. Likely voters. MoE 4% (4/26-28 results) — Republican Primary MoE 5% — Sharon Angle (R) 34 (13) — Sue Lowden (R) 25 (38) — Danny Tarkanian (R) 24 (28) — Ouch.
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Igor / Think Progress:
O'Reilly compares gay people to al Qaeda. — Last night, culture warrior Bill O'Reilly ran a segment about a new gay-themed McDonald's ad airing in France. After previewing the ad, which shows a young man talking on the phone with his boyfriend, O'Reilly asked Fox News anchor Jane Skinner …
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Brian Williams To Mediaite: “The President Might Have Had His Scenario Off By 180 Degrees” — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was remarkably candid in respectfully rebuking President Obama's criticism of the media in an exclusive interview with Mediaite from the Gulf Coast.
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
The Muslim Brotherhood's Flotilla — Western press accounts have enumerated the many left-wing human rights activists who were among the Gaza-bound flotilla's passengers earlier this week. But there were other, more conspicuous passengers aboard the ships. The Muslim Brotherhood, in particular, was well-represented.
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New York Times:
Admiral Says Oil Pipe Is Cut, a Key Step in Halting Leak — NEW ORLEANS — Delicately manipulating a 20-foot-long shear at depths of nearly a mile, technicians successfully snipped a key riser pipe on Thursday in their effort to contain the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Capitol Weekly:
Tracking poll shows Whitman, Fiorina pulling away — Former eBay executive Meg Whitman holds a commanding lead over Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner in the June 8 Republican gubernatorial primary. In the GOP Senate primary, former HP President P HP Carly Fiorina has pulled away from rival Tom Campbell …
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The Huffington Post:
Bobby Jindal Asks Obama To End Moratorium On Deepwater Drilling — The White House has responded to Jindal, see update below. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote President Obama a letter on Wednesday criticizing his decision to implement a temporary moratorium of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ezra Klein:
The global economy isn't zero-sum — Matt Miller's got a very good column on education today that allows me to make an almost entirely unrelated point about the way China (and, for that matter, India) gets used in the domestic political conversation. Miller's column argues that we need …
Kos / Daily Kos:
Mark Kirk exaggerated Desert Storm service in constituent letter — It never ends with this guy. Here's Mark Kirk, writing a constituent:: … Wow, Kirk served in Desert Storm? He's proud enough of that letter that he posted it on his official House site. But, it's not technically true.
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Wall Street Journal:
Beating Up on Israel — The world's powers find it easier to denounce small nations like Israel than take on large and difficult problems like Iran or North Korea. — The ease with which the world's governments condemned Israel over the flotilla incident has been something to behold.
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Chicago Boyz
Thomas Spencer / The Birmingham:
Artur Davis says he won't run for office again after loss in Alabama governor's race … Four-term congressman Artur Davis, in the wake of a resounding rejection of his bid to be Alabama's governor, said Wednesday that his political career was over. — “I have no interest in running for political office again,” Davis said.
People.com:
Golden Girls Star Rue McClanahan Dies at 76 — Golden Girl Rue McClanahan has died at the age of 76. — “She passed away at 1 a.m. this morning,” her manager, Barbara Lawrence, tells PEOPLE. “She had a massive stroke.” — McClanahan, who played man-happy Blanche Devereaux …
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