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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE RACE: Reid takes lead on Angle — New poll shows Republican losing support among every voter group — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has opened a strong lead over Republican opponent Sharron Angle after pummeling her in a ubiquitous TV and radio ad campaign that portrays the Tea Party favorite as …
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The Huffington Post:
Tim Geithner Opposes Nominating Elizabeth Warren To Lead New Consumer Agency — What's Your Reaction: … Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has expressed opposition to the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a source with knowledge of Geithner's views.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin aide swats Romney team — In possibly the first inter-staff dust-up of the 2012 presidential race, an aide of Sarah Palin is hitting back at Mitt Romney's camp for saying the former Alaska governor is “not a serious human being.” — A “Romney intimate” was quoted by “Time” …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Palin's 76% Favorable Among Republicans Tops Others in GOP — Former Alaska governor's image more mixed among all Americans — PRINCETON, NJ — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the best known and most positively rated of five possible contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Associated Press:
Report: Goodwin choice as Byrd's replacement in Senate — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Joe Manchin is tapping his former chief counsel and a member of a prominent West Virginia family, Carte Goodwin, to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Democratic officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Joe Manchin to pick Carte Goodwin to replace Byrd — The governor's office declined to confirm the pick to replace the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), saying only to stay tuned until a 2 p.m. Eastern news conference. The AP has also reported that Goodwin is the pick, citing anonymous sources.
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Report: West Virginia governor picks former counsel for Byrd seat
Report: West Virginia governor picks former counsel for Byrd seat
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's next act — In the political marketplace, there's now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday …
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New York Post:
Attorney who helped terrorist gets 10 years in prison — A judge had resentenced a 70-year-old civil rights lawyer to 10 years in prison for letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers. — Federal Judge John Koeltl sentenced Lynne Stewart in Manhattan after she pleaded …
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Bloomberg:
Greenspan Says Lawmakers Should Let All Bush's Tax Cuts Lapse — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose endorsement of George W. Bush's 2001 tax cuts helped persuade Congress to pass them, said lawmakers should allow the cuts to expire at the end of the year.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Dem Rep Sheila Jackson Lee Tells NAACP: “All Those Who Wore Sheets a Long Time Ago Lifted Them Off to Wear Tea Party Clothing” (Applause!) — Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) told the NAACP this week that those who wore sheets lifted them off and are now wearing tea party clothing.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
AFFIDAVITS: Former DOJ Colleagues Confirm Whistleblower Adams' Accusations. “Sworn affidavits from Hans A. von Spakovsky and Karl Bowers, who worked with J. Christian Adams in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, offer broad confirmation of the whistleblower's accusations of bias in enforcing voting rights.”
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
News Analysis: Obama Pushes an Agenda, Disregarding Polls That Disapprove — WASHINGTON — If passage of the financial regulatory overhaul on Thursday proves anything about President Obama, it is this: He knows how to push big bills through a balky Congress.
New York Times:
Oil Spill Capped for a Second Day, Offering Some Hope — NEW ORLEANS — The hemorrhaging well that has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico remained capped for a second day Friday, providing some hope of a long-term solution to the environmental disaster.
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Earthquake in Maryland felt across area — A 3.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the Washington area early Friday, with thousands of residents reporting that they felt the ground shake as they slept or were waking. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered in Montgomery County and struck at 5:04 a.m.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Gospel of Mel Gibson — Let us enter, you and I, into the moral universe of the modern narcissist. — The narcissistic person is marked by a grandiose self-image, a constant need for admiration, and a general lack of empathy for others. He is the keeper of a sacred flame, which is the flame he holds to celebrate himself.
Peggy Noonan / Telegraph:
David Cameron, don't follow Barack Obama — When David Cameron visits America next week he will learn a lot - about how not to run a country, says Peggy Noonan. — Dear Mr Cameron, welcome young friend. Welcome to America. Bring your bright, dashing self to our shores.
Ezra Klein:
The scariest jobs graph you've seen yet — That's job growth per month on the X axis, and how many months that level of job growth would take to get us back to pre-recession levels on the Y axis. Notice that adding new jobs at a rate of 200,000 a month would take us 150 months — or 12.5 years — to get back to normalcy.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Scott Brown slams Kathy Griffin for calling daughters ‘prostitutes’ — Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) lashed out at comedienne Kathy Griffin on Thursday for describing his daughters as “prostitutes.” — Brown strongly condemned remarks Griffin made on CNN in which she mocks Brown's daughters, Ayla and Arianna.