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Sharron Angle's Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has moderated a host of policy positions in her transition from a primary candidate to general election contender battling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Sharron Angle: The $20 billion in BP escrow cash was “slush fund” — Looks like Sharron Angle has now had her ultimate Rand Paul moment: During a radio appearance she labeled the $20 billion BP escrow fund secured by the White House as a “slush fund.” — Angle also seemed to agree …
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Octavia Nasr's firing and what the liberal media allows — (updated below) — CNN yesterday ended the 20-year career of Octavia Nasr, its Atlanta-based Senior Middle East News Editor, because of a now-deleted tweet she wrote on Sunday upon learning of the death of one of the Shiite world's …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Policing Of The Discourse
The Policing Of The Discourse
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Rasmussen Reports:
56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State — Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department's decision to challenge the legality of Arizona's new immigration law in federal court. Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact …
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New York Times:
The Constitution Trumps Arizona — The Obama administration has not always been completely clear about its immigration agenda, but it was forthright Tuesday when it challenged the pernicious Arizona law that allows the police to question the immigration status of people they detain for local violations.
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Blago trial could singe W.H. — It's the trial the White House hopes you won't watch. — The federal corruption saga of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been rattling along during the sweltering Chicago summer, offering a daily dose of low-grade theatrics, low-impact bombshells and low-brow humor.
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S.F. considers banning sale of pets except fish — Sell a guinea pig, go to jail. — That's the law under consideration by San Francisco's Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. If the commission approves the ordinance at its meeting tonight, San Francisco could soon have what is believed …
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth / RealClearMarkets:
Gender Quotas In the Financial Sector? — WASHINGTON - What one finds when reading congressional legislation is invariably surprising. Take the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, for instance, which was created by merging Senate and House bills. When the Senate returns from recess …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Financial regulation bill dictates ethnic, gender quotas
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Who Will Investigate the Investigators? — Another voter fraud scandal involving the Justice Department. — J. Christian Adams,, a former career Justice Department lawyer who resigned recently to protest political interference in cases he worked on, made some news yesterday in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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10 Plead Guilty in Spy Case Ahead of Expected Swap With Russia — July 1: Russian spy suspects Vicky Pelaez, Richard Murphy, Cynthia Murphy and Juan Lazaro, are seen in this courtroom sketch during an appearance at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York. — DEVELOPING: Ten people accused …
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Ann Coulter / Human Events:
Bill Kristol Must Resign — Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama's war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn't likely to turn out well. — It has been idiotically claimed that Steele's statement …
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Boxer's approval ratings sink, Field Poll says — California voters are giving U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer some of the lowest approval ratings of her career, as the three-term Democrat is in a statistical dead heat against first-time GOP office-seeker Carly Fiorina, according to a new Field Poll released today.
Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
WV Atty. Gen. clears way for special election — One day after Gov. Joe Manchin (D) sought his opinion on the state's Senate succession law, West Virginia's attorney general said that the governor is authorized to call for a special election to fill the seat once held by Robert Byrd.
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Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
W.Va. AG: Special election OK for Byrd's seat
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Steele: 'I ain't going anywhere' — Live Poll — Do you think Michael Steele should resign as RNC Chairman? — Yes — No — Not sure/I don't know — VoteView Results — AP — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. — NBC's Sarah Blackwill reports …
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Palin makes exception for military spending — Sarah Palin is waging a battle inside the “tea party” movement to exempt defense spending from the group's small-government, anti-deficit fervor. — There's growing concern among Republicans — and especially among the pro-defense neoconservative wing …
Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
Obama ramps up campaign efforts — President Obama is back on the political circuit, with fundraisers planned in the next two days for Democratic Senate candidates in Missouri and Nevada. Obama has already held events for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Carnahan Drops Prices For Obama Event
Carnahan Drops Prices For Obama Event
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Norway no longer safe from harm — Most Norwegians reacted with disbelief when al-Qaeda - seemingly out-of-the-blue -threatened to attack the Scandinavian country back in 2003. — There was even speculation al-Qaeda had mistaken Norway for neighbouring Denmark, which at the time had sent troops to support the US invasion of Iraq.
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We're in a Recession Because the Rich Are Raking in an Absurd Portion of Wealth — Our economy can't thrive when the richest 1% get an ever larger share of the nation's income and wealth, and everyone else's share shrinks. — Wall Street's banditry was the proximate cause of the Great Recession, not its underlying cause.
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Arthur B. Laffer / Wall Street Journal:
Unemployment Benefits Aren't Stimulus — Let's not reduce the incentive to find work. A federal tax holiday is a better way to cut the high jobless rate. — The current debate over extending and increasing federal unemployment benefits encapsulates the disagreement between the Democrats …
Christopher Edley Jr / New York Times:
Let Treasury Rescue the States — HERE in California, where people tiresomely boast that the state's gross domestic product exceeds that of all but seven nations, I keep expecting a ballot initiative demanding admission to the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
David Weigel / Esquire:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Sarah Palin (Kinda) — I hailed the cab outside the offices of The Huffington Post around 10:30 P.M., bone-tired, slumping into my seat. Five seconds later, the call came in from a number I didn't recognize. At that moment, I knew I was screwed.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Moms Just Know When There's Something Wrong” Ctd — Several readers have remarked that there are no black or Hispanic or indeed any minority faces in the Palin presidential campaign web ad that has just been unveiled. This is odd because there are usually a token few thrown into the mix.
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The Other McCain
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Democrats Fear They Can't Match $200 Million GOP Campaign Avalanche — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Over the past few weeks, top strategists throughout the Democratic Party have been passed a chart by a concerned, well-respected operative underscoring the daunting task they face in the 2010 elections.
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World Recovery Continues, But Risks Increase, Says IMF — Balancing the strong growth numbers for the first half of 2010 and the adverse impact of increased financial turbulence, the IMF forecasts world growth to rise to 4 ½ percent this year, before falling somewhat to 4 ¼ percent in 2011 …
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National Public Radio is changing its name to NPR — No need for formalities here: National Public Radio now says it wants to be known simply as NPR. — So the Washington-based organization has quietly changed its name to its familiar initials. Much like the corporate names KFC or AT&T, the initials now stand for the initials.
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