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Sharron Angle / 8newsnow.com:
GOP Senate Nominee Sharron Angle Breaks Her Silence … LAS VEGAS - As Sharron Angle greeted supporters at Stoney's Restaurant in Las Vegas, 8 News NOW Reporter Nathan Baca approached her to ask about her Social Security plan. — Her website calls for “transitioning out” Social Security and Medicare.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Alan Simpson: Cutting Social Security Benefits to “Take Care of the Lesser People in Society” — Each time the Catfood Commission holds its secret meetings, Alex Lawson of Social Security Works has been outside with his camera, shooting video of the closed front door as FDL runs a live stream on our front page.
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Angle speaks about doing battle — Hopeful puts focus on joblessness, bankruptcies during Reid's tenure — Sharron Angle said Thursday that she wasn't surprised by the ferocity of attacks on her by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's campaign since she won the Republican nomination more than a week ago.
Jennifer Robison / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada's unemployment rate tops in nation
Nevada's unemployment rate tops in nation
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Senior Official: Obama Administration Will Challenge Arizona Immigration Law — Updated 1:56 p.m. Eastern Time — As Hotsheet reported yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a television interview in Ecuador this month that the Obama Justice Department “will be bringing a lawsuit” …
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Sally Quinn / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton should be Obama's vice president
Hillary Clinton should be Obama's vice president
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Fox News:
Gov. Brewer Very Disappointed in Obama Snub, Vows to Beat Feds …
Gov. Brewer Very Disappointed in Obama Snub, Vows to Beat Feds …
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BBC:
Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter — Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff uses Twitter to get his message out — It was a very modern way to announce a very old-fashioned death. — Shortly after midnight in the US state of Utah, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff picked up his Apple iPhone …
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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Utah Executes Murderer by Firing Squad — DENVER — A five-member firing squad at the Utah State Prison took aim and fired .30-caliber bullets at a target pinned on the chest of Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted murderer, just after midnight on Friday. He was pronounced dead at 12:20 a.m. Mountain Time …
Nate Carlisle / Salt Lake Tribune:
Firing squad: An eyewitness account of Gardner's execution
Firing squad: An eyewitness account of Gardner's execution
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John Krahnert III / Pilot:
Former Resident Recalls Run-In With Etheridge — A video of Rep. Bob Etheridge physically confronting a college student in Washington brought back unpleasant memories for one former Moore County resident. — Brandon Leslie, who moved away seven years ago and is now an attorney in Oxford …
The Politico:
Issa has eye on subpoena team — HERSHEY, Pa.—Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall.
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ABCNEWS:
Who's In Charge?: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Oil-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard — 59 Days Into Oil Crisis, Gulf Coast Governors Say Feds Are Failing Them — Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
VIDEO COMPILATION: Conservative Pundits Rush To Defend Barton, Praise Him As Courageous — Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has been widely condemned for telling BP executives yesterday that he is “sorry” for the Obama administration's “shakedown” of their company, which resulted in a $20 billion …
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Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
Senate Makes Medicare Fix for Doctors — With lawmakers worried that older Americans relying on Medicare could begin losing access to health care, the Senate on Friday approved a six-month plan to prevent a steep cut in doctor fees paid by the federal health program.
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Sky News:
Exclusive: BP Chairman Talks To Sky — Pete Norman, Sky News Online — BP's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has told Sky's Jeff Randall that embattled chief executive Tony Hayward is to have a changed role in dealing with the oil spill. … Asked by Randall about Mr Hayward's ongoing role …
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FITSNews:
ENDORSEMENT: HALEY FOR GOVERNOR — So let's get this straight ... we know for a fact that S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley is lying through her teeth every time she denies our founding editor's claim that she had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with him in the Spring of 2007.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
That '30s Feeling — Suddenly, creating jobs is out, inflicting pain is in. Condemning deficits and refusing to help a still-struggling economy has become the new fashion everywhere, including the United States, where 52 senators voted against extending aid to the unemployed despite …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Twisting Arms at BP, Obama Sets Off a Debate on Tactics — WASHINGTON — First there was General Motors, whose chief executive was summarily dismissed by the White House shortly before the government became the company's majority shareholder. Chrysler was forced into a merger.
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base — FILE: Air traffic controllers from the 37th Operations Support Squadron prepare to navigate F-16 Falcons down the runway on Lackland Air Force Base. — A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members …
Bob Parks / NewsBusters.org:
Newsweek's Reed: Obama ‘Out of His Cotton-Picking Mind’ — The left's strategy is clear: any opposition to President Obama is not driven by ideological and/or political disagreement. No, it's driven by racism and whole groups of people have been strategically tarnished.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama and the vision thing — Barack Obama doesn't do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing, a bit of faux-Clintonian …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Public Wants More Stimulus — It's become conventional wisdom on the Hill (see, e.g., Ben Nelson) that the public is opposed to additional government stimulus spending. But the latest Gallup poll says otherwise: — Obviously just because the public supports something (health care repeal …