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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.
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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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
More Incompetence... Crude-Sucking Barges Ordered By Gov. Jindal Shut Down By 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
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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 …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Republican Backpedals From Apology to BP — WASHINGTON — Representative Joe L. Barton had to be truly sorry by the time he apologized for his apology on Thursday. — In the four hours between his televised apology to BP — for what he called a $20 billion “shakedown” …
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
All Republicans should apologize for the oil spill — If Republicans were still in control, they would favor a BP bailout for the oil spill, as the last Republican president created the bailout for the banks. And the Tea Party people should demand a Republican apology, or they are simply Republican hacks wearing Tea Party costumes.
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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.
Washington Post:
Jobs bill blocked in Senate — The Senate effectively rejected a slimmed-down package of jobless benefits and state aid late Thursday, rebuffing President Obama's call for urgent action to bolster the economic recovery. — Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Twists Arms at BP, Setting 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.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pelosi yanks campaign finance bill — Following a rebellion by two important factions of rank-and-file House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has pulled a campaign-finance bill opposed by a broad coalition of special interest groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Elliot Abrams Denounces American Jews for Not Exhibiting Sufficient “Dual Loyalties” — One of the hottest charges in any ethnic community with substantial ties to a foreign country is that its members are exhibiting “dual loyalties,” eager to advance the interests of Armenia or Ireland over those of the United States of America.
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.
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Sally Quinn / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton should be Obama's vice president — Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden should switch jobs. — Really. — It makes sense for the Democrats, actually. Clinton has done an incredible job as secretary of state. First of all, she has worked harder than anyone should ever be expected to.
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Globe and Mail:
Margaret Wente — After the sensational 2007 murder of Aqsa Parvez, the 16-year-old girl who disobeyed her traditional family, many Muslim girls in Canada discussed the story on Facebook. “That's my story too,” some of them wrote. — This week, Aqsa's father and brother pleaded guilty …
Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
Obama Admin. Argues in Court That Individual Mandate Is a Tax — In order to protect the new national health care law from legal challenges, the Obama administration has been forced to argue that the individual mandate represents a tax — even though Obama himself argued the exact opposite while campaigning to pass the legislation.
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Wall Street Journal:
A Snakebit President — Americans want leaders on whom the sun shines. — The president is starting to look snakebit. He's starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn't Mr. Carter's fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered.
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