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3:35 AM ET, June 13, 2010

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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Paypal Cuts Off Atlas: Truth is the New Hate Speech  —  The little money that Atlas generates (I have no large donors) is about to be cut off.  Apparently the jihad is hard at work trying to kill free speech (and the bus ads and the 9111 no mosque movement) from making its way to those in pursuit of truth.
Caroline Glick:
YouTube silences Latma, removes We Con the World  —  As Israel went offline for the Jewish sabbath, YouTube removed most versions of Latma's hit parody song We Con the World.  If you try to access the song on YouTube you receive the notification:  —  This video is no longer available due …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Inevitable: YouTube pulls “We Con the World” video; Update: Video rehosted  —  What happens when a song parody skewering a politically-correct target reaches viral stage on YouTube?  Caroline Glick gives us the answer: … As Glick notes, it's not the first time that YouTube has come …
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
“I am a Muslim,” Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit Islamic Coup on the White House … Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father …
Discussion: Doug Ross and The Right Scoop
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Days After BP Denies Blocking The Media From Covering The Spill, Reporter Is Harrassed On A Public Beach  —  In response to numerous media reports that BP has been blocking journalists from covering the oil spill and speaking with clean-up workers, BP CEO Doug Suttles issued a letter …
Investor's Business Daily:
Administration: 51% Of Companies' Health Plans Won't Pass Muster  —  Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare.  That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Betsy's Page
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Investor's Business Daily:
Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul?  Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes  —  Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.  —  Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
S.C. Strikes Again  —  Alvin Greene filed for our sins.  —  Greene, an unemployed 32-year-old, is currently the most famous Democratic candidate in South Carolina.  He just won the nomination to run against Senator Jim DeMint in November, overcoming major obstacles such as not having campaign staff …
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Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:   Nikki Haley and Rand Paul Races: Where Have All the Reporters Gone?
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Demystifying Charter Cities  —  Sebastian Mallaby has a good piece in the Atlantic on Paul Romer and the idea of “charter cities”—places that would be administered by credible developed democracies but inhabited by migrants from poor countries—that I recommend to one and all.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Paul Gillespie / The Irish Times:
Merkel has depleted her capital of trust within EU  —  Jürgen Habermas, who receives the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin next week, is Germany's foremost philosopher and critical theorist.  His lifelong work on language, communicative reason and discourse in the public sphere …
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Courage to Leave  —  There is no good news coming out of the depressing and endless war in Afghanistan.  There once was merit to our incursion there, but that was long ago.  Now we're just going through the tragic motions, flailing at this and that, with no real strategy or decent end in sight.
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban
Julian Pecquet / Ballot Box:
Campaigns react to Jerry Brown comparing Whitman to Goebbels  —  Jerry Brown's campaign for California governor continues to suffer fallout from off-the-cuff comments he made to a radio reporter comparing Republican Meg Whitman's messaging to Nazi propaganda.
Gregory Sullivan / Pajamas Media:
BREAKING: Coast Guard Head Was Informed of Maine Oil Boom on 5/21.  Yesterday, He Claimed He Didn't Know  —  A letter signed by both Maine senators — with the four Gulf State governors copied — informed Admiral Allen of Packgen's boom weeks ago.  Allen told ABC yesterday that he hadn't heard this information.
Discussion: HotAirPundit
 
 
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Fox News:
NAACP Urges Hallmark to Pull ‘Racist’ Card From Shelves
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Newly released Kagan papers show a flair for the political
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
FTC to Probe Apple Practices
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Mashable!
Garance Franke-Ruta / Washington Post:
Obama on the spill: 'I can't suck it up with a straw'
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette
Ken Layne / Wonkette:
The Atlantic Hiring 29 Journalists and an Idiot
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COMING TO TERMS WITH A ‘DEBILITATING ENERGY STALEMATE’. …
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Weekly Address: Fair Pay for Doctors
Discussion: New York Times and Politics Daily
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
State Wants to Borrow From Pension Fund, to Pay the Fund
Geoffrey Wheatcroft / Daily Mail:
America's ALWAYS tried to do down Britain
 

 
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The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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