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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Don't Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even. — IT turns out there is something harder to find than a fix for BP's leak: Barack Obama's boiling point. — The frantic and fruitless nationwide search for the president's temper is now our sole dependable comic relief from the tragedy in the gulf.
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Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack
Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack
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Josh Margolin / New Jersey Online:
Two N.J. men arrested at JFK airport before boarding plane to join Islamist terrorist group, authorities say — NEWARK — Two New Jersey men intent on killing American troops were arrested Saturday as they boarded flights to link up with a virulent jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.
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Paul Krugman:
Lost Decade, Here We Come — The deficit hawks have taken over the G20: … It's basically incredible that this is happening with unemployment in the euro area still rising, and only slight labor market progress in the US. — But don't we need to worry about government debt?
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Lauren Johnston / NY Daily News:
Rush Limbaugh to wed gal pal Kathryn Rogers today in lavish Palm Beach ceremony — It's wedding bells for Rush Limbaugh - for the fourth time. — The conservative firebrand, 59, will exchange vows Saturday in Florida with Kathryn Rogers - a blond bombshell half his age …
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Jose Lambiet / Palm Beach & South Florida …:
Rush Limbaugh married, again — Limbaugh and Rogers, joined together for life (Click on the photo for more) — As the stifling evening fell on The Breakers Saturday in Palm Beach, Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh tied the knot with his much younger sweetheart …
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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
THOMAS UNDER FIRE FOR ISRAEL REMARKS — Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas is coming under fire after a video circulated widely on Friday of her saying that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Poland and Germany. — The Hearst newspaper columnist …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Washington Asks What to Do About Israel — WASHINGTON — Some topics are so inflammatory that they are never discussed without first inserting a number of caveats. And so, when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town's think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Crist says Greer allegations ‘absolutely untrue’ — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said Sunday that damaging charges made against him on Saturday by a former close ally are “absolutely untrue.” — Former Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) Chairman Jim Greer, through his attorney …
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Beth Reinhard / St. Petersburg Times:
Jim Greer's lawyer says Gov. Crist okayed diversion of GOP funds — Gov. Charlie Crist personally signed off on his former Republican party chairman's confidential fundraising role with the state party - according to Jim Greer's attorney, whose allegation contradicts the governor's statement that he …
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BBC:
BP ‘capturing half Gulf oil leak’ — A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day, BP's chief executive Tony Hayward says. — The amount has risen since Saturday, and implies more than half the estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking each day is now being captured.
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Reuters:
Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships — Source: Reuters — Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.
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Karin Laub / The Huffington Post:
Rachel Corrie, Aid Ship, Seized By Israel With No Resistance
Rachel Corrie, Aid Ship, Seized By Israel With No Resistance
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE RACE: Angle takes lead in GOP primary — Percentage of undecided Republicans goes up — Continuing her stunning rise, Sharron Angle has shot into a clear lead in the U.S. Senate Republican primary, according to a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal that shows …