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Rep. Bob Etheridge gets vicious in viral video — but who filmed it and why? — So, what really happened when Rep. Bob Etheridge ran into a couple of self-described “students” on the streets of D.C. last week? The video confrontation between the obscure seven-term North Carolina Dem …
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Scott / Power Line:
Etheridge the Unready — and his enablers — Watching the video below in this post at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site yesterday, my first thought was that there is something wrong with Rep. Bob Etheridge. He was set off by the question asked on the street outside a Nancy Pelosi fundraiser …
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Video shames Etheridge, galvanizes Republicans — In a frame from the video, Etheridge holds the young man by the neck and demands to know who he is and the young man asks him to let him go. — The video was harsh. There was U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, a grandfather with a nice-guy reputation, fuming on a Washington sidewalk.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dems defend Etheridge, attack Breitbart
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Mara Liasson / NPR:
NPR Poll Shows Tough Road Ahead For Democrats — A new public opinion survey for NPR shows just how difficult it will be for Democrats to avoid big losses in the House this November. — Democrat Stan Greenberg and Republican Glen Bolger conducted the first public battleground poll of this election cycle.
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NPR Poll: Congressional Battleground — Attitude Toward Incumbents — As you may know, there will be an election for your representative to Congress in November this year. Do you think you will definitely vote to re-elect [your incumbent House representative] to Congress …
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
I admit it: I was wrong to have supported Barack Obama — In three and a half years of blogging, this has been my single most unpopular post. There's little point, I know, in reminding readers that my support for Barack Obama was qualified; that I simultaneously endorsed GOP Congressional candidates …
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Efforts to Repel Gulf Oil Spill Are Described as Chaotic — GRAND ISLE, La. — Deano Bonano, the emergency preparedness director for Jefferson Parish, marched from a motor home being used as a command center to an office across the street filled with BP officials. — It was late May.
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Election 2010: South Carolina Senate — South Carolina Senate: DeMint 58%, Greene 21% — While South Carolina Democrats fret over how an unemployed political unknown with a felony charge hanging over him won their party's Senate nomination, the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
South Carolina voter: I voted for Alvin Greene because ... his name reminded me of Al Green — It's as good a theory as any other. Two things here. First, I'm happy to announce that I'll be a candidate for U.S. Senator from New York this year under my new legal name, Harrison Forde.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Sen. Lincoln Considers Two-Year Phase-In of Swaps Spinoff — Fresh off her squeaker of a primary, is Sen. Blanche Lincoln caving to banks already? — Despite earlier reports of a new day for the embattled Section 716 provision of the Wall Street reform bill, which would force mega-banks …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Will Take to Oval Office With a Familiar Theme — WASHINGTON — The venue says it all. By choosing to speak to the nation on Tuesday night for the first time from the Oval Office, where his predecessors have spoken of wars and disasters, President Obama is conveying the gravity of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Steven Levingston / Washington Post:
Glenn Beck's paranoid thriller, “The Overton Window” — Threshold. 321 pp. $26 — The success of Glenn Beck's novel, “The Overton Window,” will be measured not by its literary value (none), or its contribution to the thriller genre (small), or the money it rakes in (considerable) …
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Steve King: Obama Favors The “Black Person” By Default — 1 hour and 40 minutes ago — Walid Zafar — Rep. Steve King (R-IA) appeared on the G. Gordon Liddy Show this morning to discuss Arizona's controversial immigration law and accused Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Because There Are No Racists... From Iowa congressman Steve King:
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Meg Whitman Was Accused of Shoving eBay Employee — SAN FRANCISCO — During her 10 years as chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California, was known as a demanding leader who did not hesitate to express displeasure with employees who failed to live up to her standards.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Angle works to soothe nervous GOP — Sharron Angle is coming to Washington for two days of meetings designed to reassure worried Republican leaders that she will not let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid define her as an eccentric right-wing extremist before her campaign against Reid even gets off the ground.
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Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online:
‘The Accidental Politician’ — By: Robert Costa
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Clinton finally ahead of Obama in popularity — It's about two years too late, but Hillary Clinton has finally pulled ahead of Barack Obama. — By any measure — favorability ratings or job approval — Americans by a sizable margin have warmer views of the secretary of state than they do of the president.
Hans A. von Spakovsky / The Corner on National …:
The DISCLOSE Act and the NRA: Some Bad News — By: Hans A. von Spakovsky — Just as opposition was building in the House to the unconstitutional and burdensome DISCLOSE Act, which is intended to help Democrats in the November election by stifling the political speech of corporations …
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Proposed Arizona law denies citizenship to kids of illegal immigrants — (CNN) — A proposed Arizona law would deny birth certificates to children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents. — The bill comes on the heels of Arizona passing the nation's toughest immigration law.
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Timothy P. Carney / Beltway Confidential:
In defense of the WaPo's Dave Weigel — And our item on his dancing — Dave Weigel of the Washington Post writes plenty of stuff I don't agree with, and I think the Post's hiring him to follow conservatives is another symptom of the Left's unhealthy obsession with the Right that allows …
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CNN:
Armed pair held at Central Command base — MacDill Air Force Base, Florida (CNN) — A heavily armed man and woman were in custody Monday after trying to enter the Air Force base that houses the headquarters for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan without authorization, an Air Force spokeswoman said.
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American arrested searching for Osama bin Laden — Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A 52-year-old American citizen who said he was searching for Osama bin Laden was detained in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan this week, Pakistani police said Tuesday. — The Californian named Gary …
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Reuel Marc Gerecht / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: Iran's Revolution Enters Year 2 — IN 1985 — when no case officer could even dream of widespread pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran like those that occurred a year ago this week — I first arrived on the Iran desk in the C.I.A.'s Directorate of Operations.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Enamored with wind, Obama ignored drilling risks — The Minerals Management Service, which is charged with regulating offshore oil drilling, was a deeply troubled agency when Barack Obama inherited it from George W. Bush. Top MMS officials had been caught drinking, doing drugs and even having sex with oil-industry contacts.
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David Muir / ABCNEWS:
Jindal Orders Barrier Wall Off Gulf Shore — Louisiana Gov. Takes Matters Into Own Hands, But Will BP Foot the Bill? — Eight weeks into the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of the Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has told the National Guard that there's no time left to wait for BP …
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
As Mess Is Sent to Landfills, Officials Worry About Safety — PORT FOURCHON, La. — Cleanup crews here wear a common uniform of straw hat, white rubber boots and a sheen of sweat as they collect the bedraggled and oil-soaked pompoms that are strung along Fourchon Beach.
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Peter Robinson / Wall Street Journal:
Immigration: What Would Reagan Do? — The Gipper repeatedly declared that openness to immigration represents a defining aspect of our national identity. — In a television advertisement airing in Arizona, John McCain, running for a fifth term in the Senate, strolls through the desert near Nogales …
New York Post:
Obama's 9/11 envy — President Obama doesn't like the fact that the Gulf oil spill reminds people of Hurricane Katrina, since the public response to that catastrophe hastened the decline of his predecessor's standing. He'd prefer that the American people be reminded of something else …
Ace / minx.cc:
The Real Reason the Right Doesn't Like Soccer Bonus: Stuff White People Say They Like — NPR thinks it knows the answer. Not really a surprise; it's their same answer for everything about the right: Racism. … Wow, for this automatic writing NPR pays people. — Here's a less hacky explanation.
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
No Keynesianism in the Berliner Morgenpost — Some of you thought that I was making fun of Germans by scrutinizing one of the local newspapers, the Berliner Morgenpost. Quite the contrary, the paper is more sophisticated than its American equivalents and furthermore I enjoy reading it myself.
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