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Helen Thomas retires after fallout from controversial Israel remarks — Helen Thomas announced Monday that “she is retiring, effective immediately,” according to a statement from Hearst newspapers. — Her decision comes after her controversial remarks about Israel hit the blogosphere.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
The Helen Thomas ‘Scandal’ — By: Jonah Goldberg — I think a lot of people in Washington need to get a grip. — For starters, this is a classic gaffe because Helen Thomas accidentally told the truth. She's wrong on the substance, obviously. But of course she believes the Israelis should go away.
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Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas retires following controversial remarks — Veteran reporter Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House since the John F. Kennedy administration, is retiring immediately following her controversial statements about Israel, Hearst Newspapers reports.
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Rabbi sat on Thomas scoop as webmaster-son took exams — When veteran journalist Helen Thomas made inflammatory remarks about Israel, the comments weren't captured by a major news organization. Instead, a rabbi and his 17-year-old son broke the story. — Right now, Rabbi David Nesenoff …
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WHITE HOUSE GONE WILD: Shirtless Favreau And Vietor's Sunday/Funday Beer Pong Match
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
No, Sarah Palin, White House Press Corps Did Not Condone Helen Thomas' Comments
No, Sarah Palin, White House Press Corps Did Not Condone Helen Thomas' Comments
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering
Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering
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Richard Greener / The Huffington Post:
Helen Thomas Is Out Of Work - Good Thing We've Got A “Free” Press Here
Helen Thomas Is Out Of Work - Good Thing We've Got A “Free” Press Here
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Hearst Corporation:
HELEN THOMAS ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
HELEN THOMAS ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
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Our hard-core, adversarial press corps — On Friday, CNN's Ed Henry posted a series of giggly, adolescent updates on his Twitter feed, describing the events that took place at a “beach” party thrown by Joe Biden, at the Vice President's mansion, for various “reporters” and White House officials.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: “The stimulus failed” — Originally, I intended to just clip out the statement from Keynesian economist Jeffrey Sachs that “the stimulus failed,” which Joe Scarborough had to dig to get, but the entire segment is worth viewing. First, Sachs confirms — on MS-NBC, no less …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: BP Oil Spill Response Rated Worse than Katrina — Most Favor Criminal Charges Against BP and Others Involved in the Gulf of Mexico Spill — By more than a 2-to-1 margin, Americans support the pursuit of criminal charges in the nation's worst oil spill, with increasing numbers calling it a major environmental disaster.
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GOP bad dream: Birther on ticket — California Republicans optimistic about their prospects in November could find themselves with a bit of a problem after the votes are counted in Tuesday's primaries - a statewide ticket with the so-called “Birther Queen” as one of their candidates.
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U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe — Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.
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The Huffington Post:
Move On, MoveOn! — What's Your Reaction: … An Open Invitation to MoveOn.org from the Left (AKA anti-party) Wing of the Independent Movement — Co-authored by Harry Kresky and Jason Olson — On May 2, 2010 MoveOn.org launched its “most important campaign ever,” an effort to …
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The Moderate Voice
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Human Experimentation at the Heart of Bush Administration's Torture Program — High-value detainees captured during the Bush administration's “war on terror,” who were subjected to brutal torture techniques, were used as “guinea pigs” to gauge the effectiveness of various torture techniques …
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Nikki Haley / WIS-TV:
Bauer says polygraph results prove he's not behind Haley attacks … Bauer tells WCSC he'll “absolutely” take a lie detector test — Also on the Web — COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has released the results of a lie detector test which he says proves he isn't behind a string …
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The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser — In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet …
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Can the astonishing popularity of Indiana's penny-pinching governor carry him to the White House in 2012? — When Mitch Daniels ran for governor of Indiana in 2004, a friend and videographer got the idea of filming the candidate in vidéo vérité style as he traveled around the state in his Indiana-made RV.
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Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price — SAN FRANCISCO — When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. — Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages …
The Huffington Post:
White House Endorses Unlimited Liability Cap For Oil Spillers — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Democrats in Congress and officials in the White House are making yet another major push to pass legislation to make the liability for oil companies involved in damaging spills unlimited.
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Rasmussen Reports:
49% Say Pro-Palestinian Activists To Blame in Gaza Ship Incident — Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters believe pro-Palestinian activists on the Gaza-bound aid ships raided by Israeli forces are to blame for the deaths that resulted in the high-profile incident.
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Mysterious Billboard Puts Obama's Face on $100,000,000,000,000 Bill, Asks: ‘But Who Will Pay the Piper?’ — (CNSNews.com) - Thanks to an advertiser who wishes to remain anonymous, cars and trucks on Arizona Highway 260 in East Central Arizona are driving by a billboard advertisement that recently went up …
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It's useful to have geniuses around — A neat anecdote from inside the administration's response to the oil spill: … Graphic credit: XKCD — Environment - Xkcd - Energy - Oil spill - United States
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Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse — Today's corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010. These profits will tumble next year, preceded most likely by the stock market. — People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
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The Other McCain, Clusterstock, The Foundry, And So it Goes in Shreveport and James Pethokoukis
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
The Night Beat, 6/7: Obama Kicks Ass. But Whose Ass? — 1. “Whose ass to kick.” The phrase that will resonate tomorrow. President Obama said it during an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer in re, his consultations with smart people about the oil spill, and what he hop[ed to learn from them.
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