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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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Robert L. Pollock / Wall Street Journal:
Erdogan and the Decline of the Turks — When I asked the prime minister about stories alleging a U.S.-Israeli murder and organ selling scheme in Iraq, he could not bring himself to condemn them. — Israeli special forces and their commanders were apparently shocked to find their boarding attempt …
Anchorman / The Daily Caller:
Anchor accuses own network of ‘embarrassing’ bias in Israel coverage — What you' re about to read is perfectly true. I came within a butterfly fart of firing this memo off to my boss this morning in a fit of real rage. But my wife, yet again, intervened. — “You've been whining like this for ten years.
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Washington Post:
U.S. citizen among those killed in Israeli flotilla raid
U.S. citizen among those killed in Israeli flotilla raid
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Politics Daily, CBS News, The Jawa Report, CNN, Jerusalem Post, War in Context and Informed Comment
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Say
New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Say
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Israel Matzav, RubinReports, Haaretz, Time, Guardian, Ben Smith's Blog, Arabist.net, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, FP Passport and Laura Rozen's Blog
The Politico:
W.H. political team stumbles, bumbles — They toppled Hillary Clinton, crushed John McCain and managed to get the first black man elected president of the United States. — But now a series of recent missteps just keeps getting worse for Barack Obama's political operation …
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The Politico:
Romanoff: W.H. suggested three jobs — Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff confirmed Wednesday that Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff, had suggested three administration jobs that would be available to him if he dropped his plans to run against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet …
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Points a Finger at GOP
Obama Points a Finger at GOP
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Colorado Dem: Actually, the White House offered me three jobs to quit the primary
Colorado Dem: Actually, the White House offered me three jobs to quit the primary
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Denver Post, Political Punch, Cassy Fiano, TigerHawk, Weasel Zippers, Ben Smith's Blog, Weekly Standard and Pundit & Pundette
Peter Baker / New York Times:
News Analysis: Oil Leak Crimps White House Agenda
News Analysis: Oil Leak Crimps White House Agenda
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msnbc.com, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, The Swamp, The Caucus, Prairie Weather, CNN, Indecision Forever and Brilliant at Breakfast
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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The Politico, The Hill, The Daily Dish, Right Wing News, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Liberty Pundits Blog, theblogprof, Don Surber, HotAirPundit and Raw Story
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: Bush: No regrets for waterboarding
Jim Davenport / ABCNEWS:
Female Gov Hopeful Faces 2nd Sex Claim — Woman running for SC governor bashing claim of another affair made by accuser with no proof — A South Carolina lobbyist resigned from a rival political campaign on Wednesday and then became the second man to claim he had a tryst …
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says — The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well? — Decades ago, the Soviet Union reportedly used nuclear blasts …
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Poll: Angle leads among GOP to face Reid — Buoyed by endorsement from top conservatives, Sharron Angle has jumped into the lead among Republicans vying in Tuesday's primary for the right to face off against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this fall, according to a poll released Thursday.
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Paul Krugman:
Things Everyone In Chicago Knows — Which happen not to be true. — It was deeply depressing to see Raguram Rajan write this: … That's a claim that has been refuted over and over again. But what happens, I believe, is that in Chicago they don't listen at all to what the unbelievers say and write …
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 …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Director James Cameron says BP turned down help offer — PALOS VERDES, Calif (Reuters) - Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. — “Over the last few weeks I've watched …
New York Times:
Data Used to Justify Health Savings Effort Is Sometimes Shaky — In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing so.
Jeff Jarvis / New York Post:
How not to save news — The Federal Trade Commis sion says it wants to save journalism. I'm not sure who asked it to. — In a just-released “staff discussion draft” of “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” the agency only circles its wagons around old newspapers …
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 …
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Keitholbermann / Baseball Nerd:
Sources: Commissioner Selig Reviews Galarraga Game — Major League Baseball sources with direct knowledge of the meeting confirm that key members of baseball's hierarchy were to convene this morning in New York to review the circumstances of Umpire Jim Joyce's erroneous “safe” …
The Right Scoop:
Balls — See if you can find the person in this video with balls: — Paul Brasel — KeninMontana said it best, “That kid has balls that CLANK solid steel.” Good on him. — Robert Mahoney — I am glad the picture said it all. I frankly don't have 7 minutes and 19 seconds to waste on idiots.
Kate Sheppard / Mother Jones:
BP Oil: Coming to a Beach Near You in Summer 2010 — The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) just released this horrifying animation of how ocean currents may carry all the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. According to their computer modeling of currents and the oil, the spill …
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Black lawmakers want to limit new ethics office — WASHINGTON (AP) - Stung by a series of inquiries, nearly half the members of the Congressional Black Caucus want to scale back the aggressive ethics procedures that Democrats trumpeted after gaining control of Congress.
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
New memos detail Republican Frederic Malek's role in Nixon campaign against Jews — Frederic V. Malek, who is among Washington's wealthiest Republican power brokers, is discovering that even a single problematic episode in government service can be hard to shake.
Ibnkafka / Ibn Kafka's obiter dicta:
Gaza flotilla: How Israel's ministry of foreign affairs fakes photos of seized weapons — On the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs' Flickr page, the pictures of the so-called weapons seized on the ships taking part in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla provide ample evidence of the deviousness of those darned anti-semitic terrorists.
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