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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week — THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House denies Kristol flotilla investigation claim — The White House is sharply denying a claim by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol that “the administration intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set up an independent commission, under UN auspices …
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
White House works to ease Iran proposal in Congress
White House works to ease Iran proposal in Congress
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Joshua Lott / Newsweek:
Saint Sarah — To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image. — Sarah Palin's pro-woman rallying cry is poised to transform the Christian right into a women's movement.
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Michael Hogan / Vanity Fair:
“Sarastopheles,” “Sarah Pagan,” and Other Discarded Newsweek Covers — If Newsweek is going to command a decent price, now that it's on the block, its editors are going to have to follow Norman Pearlstine's sage advice and publish stories that get people talking. The easiest way to do that?
David Catanese / The Politico:
Experts review S.C. Senate ballots — The campaign of defeated Democratic Senate candidate Vic Rawl has assembled a team of national academic experts to review Tuesday's perplexing South Carolina primary results that propelled a virtually unknown, underfunded and unemployed candidate …
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John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Did Alvin Greene Win Because of Ballot Order? Because of Race?
Did Alvin Greene Win Because of Ballot Order? Because of Race?
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Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
THE HEARTBREAKING TRUCE — I received an astonishing email today from a concerned friend who has been very influential in the fight to end the scourge of abortion. — Apparently, a 2012 Republican presidential prospect in an interview with a reporter has made the suggestion that the next President …
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Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Exposure lifts 3 GOP presidential prospects: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich — Meet Iowa's most popular 2012 GOP presidential prospects: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich. — Others though, aren't as popular. — That means if Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Prune and Grow — Sixteen months ago, Congress passed a stimulus package that will end up costing each average taxpayer $7,798. Economists were divided then about whether this spending was worth it, and they are just as divided now. — The president's economists ran the numbers through …
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
One of my favorite David Brooks columns
One of my favorite David Brooks columns
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Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Schumer Says It ‘Makes Sense’ To ‘Strangle [Gaza] Economically’ Until It Votes The Way Israel Wants — This past Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivered a wide-ranging speech at an Orthodox Union event in Washington, D.C. The senator's lecture touched on areas such as Iran's nuclear program …
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Michael A. Cohen / The New Republic:
All Silent on the Lefty Front — Why haven't progressives mounted more of a challenge to the war in Afghanistan? — Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a 151-page report outlining the increasingly grim situation in Afghanistan. The paper highlighted the Afghan government …
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The Huffington Post:
Republicans Jubilant About Gulf Coast Coverage — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Republican communication strategists in Washington and Louisiana are thrilled at the press coverage of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according to e-mails from GOP officials accidentally sent to the Huffington Post.
St. Petersburg Times:
Gov. Charlie Crist vetoes abortion bill — TALLAHASSEE — As he positions himself to the center in the U.S. Senate race, Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday vetoed a measure requiring most women to pay for an ultrasound and hear a description of the fetus before they can have an abortion.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi: We'll stop blaming Bush when problems go away — Democrats will keep blaming George W. Bush until the problems from his administration end, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. — In an interview with MSNBC, Pelosi said congressional Democrats feel justified in blaming the Bush administration …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Admiral Allen on Maine Boom, Tony Hayward, and How the Official Response Would Not Have Been Different If They'd Known the True Flow Rate — We sat down with the national incident commander for the BP oil spill, US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, this morning to talk about the latest.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Allen: Uh, no one told me about Maine boom company
Allen: Uh, no one told me about Maine boom company
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Paul Krugman:
Dealing With Chermany — So here's where we are: China has done nothing to change its policy of massive currency manipulation, and its exports are surging. Meanwhile, Europe is going wild for fiscal austerity. Angela Merkel says that budget cuts will make Germany more competitive — but competitive against whom, exactly?
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
A Brief, Possibly Drug-Induced Peruvian-Chasidic Interlude — Charles Mann forwarded me this video, along with a post by Alma Guillermoprieto that attempts to explain the video, nearly successfully. I don't know what to make of much anymore, especially this, though I will say it is pleasing …
J. Taylor Rushing / Ballot Box:
Sen. Bennet: I knew White House urged Romanoff not to run — Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said Thursday he was aware that the White House urged Andrew Romanoff not to challenge him in a primary. — Bennet told The Hill that he knew beforehand that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
S.C. Rep. Knotts asked to resign — The Lexington County Republican Party on Thursday night asked GOP state Sen. Jake Knotts to resign for calling gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley a “raghead.” — The county party said the comments brought “shame” and “disgrace” to both Knotts and the state …
Little Green Footballs:
Photos: Turkish Journalist Who Took Cropped Pictures Hanging Out with Terrorists — Turkish journalist Adem Ozkose was aboard the Mavi Marmara when it was boarded by the IDF, and he is the person credited with the photos that were misleadingly cropped by someone unknown.
Nathaniel Popper / Los Angeles Times:
Millionaires make a comeback — Although hit hard during the Great Recession, the wealthy rebounded in 2009, data show. — Reporting from New York — Unemployment remains at near-record levels, and most Americans are struggling to rebuild their battered finances.
Ben Herzon / Macroadvisers:
The Chances of a “Double-Dip” are Essentially Nil — The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research has yet to call an official end to the recession that began in December of 2007, but most forecasters (and at least one outspoken member of the Committee …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
An Early Campaign Gaffe Makes a Non-Issue Big — You can parse a voting record. Flip-flops — political ones — are fair game. But don't talk about a woman's hair. — In one of those classic campaign gaffes, Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for the Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Hispanic Voters' Preferences Unchanged Post-Arizona Law — Two-to-one preference for Democrat is nearly identical to intentions before passage — PRINCETON, NJ — Hispanic voters nationwide haven't shifted their congressional voting preferences since the signing of Arizona's new immigration law on April 23.
Front Page Magazine:
The Grand Jihad — Posted by Jamie Glazov on Jun 11th, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. — Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's editor.
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