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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism-2010 — Context is everything. — In this piece you will see video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient and in another clip from the same event a perfect rationalization for why the Tea Party needs to exist.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Racist New Hampshire State House Candidate Advises Tea Party To Be More Open With Its Racism — While the tea party movement is desperately trying to fight off charges of “racist elements” from the NAACP, Ryan J. Murdough, a Republican candidate for New Hampshire State House, has no qualms about expressing his views on race.
Fox News:
Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give ‘Full Force’ of Help to White Farmer — Shown here is USDA Georgia official Shirley Sherrod. (YouTube) — Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breitbart hits NAACP with promised video of racism — The NAACP is about to learn one of the most basic of all lessons in life — those who live in glass houses should avoid provoking a stone-throwing war. After the civil-rights organization threatened to issue a condemnation of Tea Party activism …
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
A short video from PBS's FRONTLINE on The Post's two-year investigation. An hour-long documentary film will run in October. Watch the trailer » — Investigative reporter Dana Priest has been The Washington Post's intelligence, Pentagon and health-care reporter.
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Washington Post:
A hidden world, growing beyond control — The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Real U.S. Government — The Washington Post's Dana Priest demonstrates once again why she's easily one of the best investigative journalists in the nation — if not the best — with the publication of Part I of her series, co-written with William Arkin, detailing the sprawling …
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Palin's “Refudiate” Tweet on Mosque Near Ground Zero Draws Fire (for Substance and Style) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin weighed in on Sunday on the controversy over a mosque planned near ground zero, but her remarks were met with a wave of criticism over her sentiment and her choice of words.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Is Palin Lucky, Good, or ... When she writes on her palm and uses words like refudiate, Sarah Palin is lucky. That is, all her success, all the adulation, her approval rating with Republican voters — all of these pieces of evidence suggest that she needs more seasoning and is resonating …
Max Read / Gawker:
Sarah Palin Invents New Word: ‘Refudiate’
Sarah Palin Invents New Word: ‘Refudiate’
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Democrats Jump Into Six-Point Lead on Generic Ballot — At the same time, Republican enthusiasm for voting in November surges — PRINCETON, NJ — In the same week the U.S. Senate passed a major financial reform bill touted as reining in Wall Street, Democrats pulled ahead of Republicans …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
The Monthly Generic — Barack Obama's approval numbers hit a record low in PPP's national survey this month, but that doesn't seem to be having too much impact on how his party does in generic Congressional polling. We find a 43/43 tie on this month's look at the generic ballot.
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama hammers GOP on stalling unemployment benefits for jobless — President Obama told Republicans on Monday morning that they should “do the right thing” and extend unemployment insurance regardless of election-year politics. — Republicans quickly cried foul and accused the president of playing politics and grandstanding.
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Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Sees Path to Control of Senate — WASHINGTON—Democrats for the first time are acknowledging that Republicans could retake the Senate this November if everything falls into place for the GOP, less than two years after Democrats held a daunting 60-seat majority.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Forecast, 7/18: Republican Outlook Improves with Focus on Likely Voter Polls
Senate Forecast, 7/18: Republican Outlook Improves with Focus on Likely Voter Polls
Ry Rivard / Charleston Daily Mail:
Manchin could proclaim election
Manchin could proclaim election
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John Harwood / The Caucus:
Mystery for White House: Where Did the Jobs Go? — Welcome as it is, progress toward finally capping the gulf oil leak hasn't resolved the biggest conundrum facing President Obama before the midterm elections. — That conundrum, which reclaims center stage in Washington this week, is this: Why is unemployment so high?
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun:
How the race has turned sour for Sharron Angle — Sharron Angle is dead, one in an occasional series: — With Angle's hot air balloon leaking helium about as rapidly as oil left that Gulf well — 45 days and counting and the GOP Senate nominee still has not plugged it — the question is whether she can survive the fall to earth.
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Another Senate Charade — This note comes courtesy of my friend David Sirota out in Colorado. This is a classic example of how the Senate works. If the public understood better how rigged this game is, and how few issues are actually left to an honest vote in the legislature …
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David Sirota / The Huffington Post:
C-SPAN As Red Pill: Camera Catches Senate Vote-Switching to Protect …
C-SPAN As Red Pill: Camera Catches Senate Vote-Switching to Protect …
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Ezra Klein:
Republicans now blaming Democrats for Bush tax cuts — The new Republican line is that there's a “Democrat tax hike” on the way. And it's a big 'un: “An unprecedented $3.8 trillion increase” that will affect — and this is their bold and underline, not mine — “every American who pays income taxes!”
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Annie Lowrey / The Washington Independent:
The ‘Democrat Ticking Tax Bomb’ Canard
The ‘Democrat Ticking Tax Bomb’ Canard
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Wayne Besen / Truth Wins Out:
Breaking News: Major ‘Ex-Gay’ Life Coach Accused of Sexual Misconduct By Former Clients — Contact: Wayne Besen, TWO Executive Director — Therapist Alan Downing, A Key Figure In JONAH and People Can Change, Allegedly Made Clients Get Naked And Touch Genitals
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
TARP audit claims Obama admin destroyed “tens of thousands” of jobs in dealer closures — Last year, while the Obama administration seized two of the nation's three main domestic auto manufacturers, it also shut down thousands of dealerships across the country, supposedly to stabilize GM and Chrysler.
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lexisnexis.com:
Back to Document List — All Rights Reserved. — CNN — SHOW: AMERICAN MORNING 7:00 AM EST — 071902CN.V74 — NEWS; Domestic — 7371 words — BP and Government Fear Seepage Below Capped Oil Well; “Washington Post” Reports U.S. Intelligence Community Too Large And Unwieldy To Be Effective …
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Andrew Quinn / Front Row Washington:
Hillary's mango diplomacy in Pakistan
Hillary's mango diplomacy in Pakistan
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Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Glenn Beck Tells Audience He Might Be Going Blind — During a tearful and passionate speech at his “American Revival” meeting in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Fox News host Glenn Beck revealed that he may be going blind. — During his speech (video below), Beck told the audience, “I can't focus my eyes.”
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Brandon Loomis / Salt Lake Tribune:
Put God back in public life, Glenn Beck says
Put God back in public life, Glenn Beck says
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San Francisco Chronicle:
I-580 shootout suspect mad at left-wing politics — (07-18) 17:59 PDT Oakland — A 45-year-old parolee, described by his mother as angry at left-wing politicians, opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway early Sunday and was hit by return fire while wearing body armor, authorities said.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dodd doubts Warren's confirmability for job of consumer guardian — Elizabeth Warren might not have the votes to win confirmation as head of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) suggested Monday. — Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee …
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