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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Israel Derangement Syndrome — To read Charles Krauthammer today is to enter a twilight zone of an alternate reality. A country permanently occupying and colonizing a neighboring region, and treating its original inhabitants as dangerous interlopers, is the victim.
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Turkish ambassador calls for Hamas to take part in “final solution” — In an unfortunate turn of phrase, the Turkish ambassador to Washington twice said Friday that the terrorist group Hamas is a necessary and important part of the “final solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Washington Post:
Those troublesome Jews — The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. — But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council …
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Free Times:
THIS JUST IN — With a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face outside a Columbia bar, Republican S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts called Lexington Rep. Nikki Haley, an Indian-American Republican woman running for governor, a “raghead” several times while explaining how he believed she was hiding her true religion from voters.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Haley will ‘resign’ if affairs proved — South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley is vowing to resign if either of the two men who say they've had an affair with her is ever able to prove it. — Both blogger Will Folks and lobbyist Larry Marchant have in the last two weeks claimed …
The State:
Knotts uses slur to describe Haley, Obama
Knotts uses slur to describe Haley, Obama
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Ken Layne / Wonkette:
Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students' Faces On Mural Be Changed To White — Hard to find even the Gallows Humor in this story, so maybe we won't even try. Maybe it's time to admit that large chunks of America are in the hands of unreconstructed racists and vulgar idiots …
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Dennis Wagner / Arizona Republic:
Altered mural fuels racial debate in Prescott — A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. — The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity.
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Connie Hair / Human Events:
Boehner to Bashing Beatle: Apologize! — Sir Paul McCartney's cheap shot aimed at former President George W. Bush at a White House event on Wednesday has prompted House Minority Leader John Boehner to demand an apology from the Beatle. — McCartney literally gushed over President Obama throughout his East Room concert.
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Tony Hayward / Wall Street Journal:
What BP Is Doing About the Gulf Gusher — The ultimate solution is to drill a relief well. In the meantime we believe we can substantially reduce the flow of oil. — Last week, I attended the memorial service for the 11 men who died aboard the Transocean Deepwater Horizon on April 20.
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New York Times:
Obama Warns BP on Paying Big Dividends Amid Oil Spill — NEW ORLEANS — President Obama visited the Gulf Coast on Friday and chastised BP for paying billions of dollars in dividends to shareholders and on advertising to save its image while some people whose livelihoods were wrecked …
Sammy Benoit / YID With LID:
Helen Thomas Says Jews Should Get the Hell Out of Palestine and Back To Germany-MUST SEE VIDEO — Helen Thomas is as fair and open minded as she is good looking. The most Senior of White-House Correspondents has given up being a real reporter and instead spends her time spewing venom toward America's war …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Liz Cheney attacks Obama for saying flotilla deaths were “tragic” — It's not surprising that Liz Cheney is now faulting Obama's handling of the Israeli raid on the flotilla. What is noteworthy is how she's doing it: She's faulting the President for describing the loss of life as “tragic.”
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Keep America Safe:
Statement By Liz Cheney On President Obama's Response To The Flotilla Incident — Today, Keep America Safe's Liz Cheney released the following statement on President Obama's response to the flotilla incident: — “Yesterday, President Obama said the Israeli action to stop the flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip was “tragic.
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
U.S. Added 431,000 Jobs in May, Mostly From Census — Employers added 431,000 nonfarm jobs nationwide in May, the biggest increase in a single month in a decade, the Labor Department said Friday. But the bulk of the growth was in government jobs, driven by hiring for the Census, and private-sector job growth was weak.
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Robert Reich / The Huffington Post:
Why We're Falling Into a Double-Dip Recession — We're falling into a double-dip recession. — The Labor Department reports this morning that the private sector added a measly 41,000 net new jobs in May. But at least 100,000 new jobs are needed every month just to keep up with population growth.
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
We had no choice, commando who killed 6 tells ‘Post’ — “They were coming at us with murder in their eyes,” says S., describing the “battlefield” aboard the ‘Mavi Marmara’; He hit the deck to see three officers lying wounded. — Talkbacks (18) — Make JPOST.COM your Home Page — Iranian Threat
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Show Kagan's Liberal Opinion on Social Issues — Elena Kagan has kept her cards so close to the vest that in the days after President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, some on the left worried she was too moderate to replace liberal Justice John Paul Stevens.
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Report: Clapper to be nominated national intelligence director — President Barack Obama has tapped James Clapper to be the fourth director of national intelligence, according to a report in The Washington Post. — Clapper, the Pentagon's top intelligence official, succeeds former U.S. Navy …
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Maggie Haberman / Maggie Haberman's Blog:
Sandra Lee's “thoughtful” beau — Grace Rauh of NY1 caught up with Food Network personality and longtime Andrew Cuomo girlfriend Sandra Lee at an event this week, and, after some negotiating, got to chat with the tall blond without ground rules. — Here was her take on Cuomo the man …
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Democrat Tells Libtalker He Wants Republicans Sent To Prison — JAIL MY FOES — Grayson: Michael Steele Should Be Imprisoned — While it's already no secret that far-left Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL) is a loose cannon, there's no question his fiery rhetoric has been cranked up a few notches in recent days.
Alexander Trowbridge / On Media's Blog:
Conservatives don't like FTC's journo plan — Conservative outlets are lashing out at the Federal Trade Commission after the agency released a draft proposal for “reinventing journalism.” The 47-page document, spawned from a year-long project looking into the future of the news industry …
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Washington Post:
U.S. ‘secret war’ expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role — Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups …
Newsweek:
The Dems' Secret Plan to Hold Congress — Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much these days. But lately it seems that they've been willing to set aside their vast, irreconcilable differences and publicly concur on at least one thing: that the Democrats are going to do really, really badly in November's midterm elections.
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The Huffington Post:
Bush's Glib Waterboarding Admission Sparks Outrage — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded — and would do it again — has horrified some former military and intelligence officials who argue …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Cars Are Expensive, Poor People Need Transit — Mike DeBonis has an excellent article about Vincent Gray's streetcar flipflop and the blog-led activist backlash against him. But I do want to object to the characterization of people with a stake in seeing improved mass transit as “well-off …
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