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Rush Limbaugh: Fox ‘caved’ on Shirley Sherrod — Rush Limbaugh is blasting Fox News for its coverage of Shirley Sherrod, saying that one of the network's anchors “caved” by not showing the original misleading video fragment that led to the firing of Shirley Sherrod.
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Scott / Power Line:
From Buckley to Breitbart — William Buckley achieved notoriety, if not celebrity, with the publication of God and Man at Yale in 1951. The book was a succès de scandale. In it Buckley attacked the undergraduate education on offer at Yale for its hostility to Christianity …
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The Age of Rage — Here's the optimistic case: The embarrassment of the Shirley Sherrod story — with its toxic convergence of partisan combat and media recklessness — will be a tipping point. It will remind journalists and politicians alike that personal reputations and professional credibility …
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Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege — America still owes a debt to its black citizens, but government programs to help all ‘people of color’ are unfair. They should end. — The NAACP believes the tea party is racist. The tea party believes the NAACP is racist.
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Journalism Legend Daniel Schorr Dies At 93 — This graphic requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player.Get the latest Flash Player. — Gallery: Daniel Schorr — Daniel Schorr, a longtime senior news analyst for NPR and a veteran Washington journalist who broke major stories …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Judge scoffs at pre-emption argument in AZ lawsuit — It didn't take long for federal judge Susan Bolton to zero in on the holes in the Obama administration's argument in their lawsuit against Arizona and its new must-enforce policy on immigration violations.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Forecast: Federal budget gap will exceed $1.4 trillion in 2010, 2011 — A new White House forecast predicts that the federal budget deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion last year, will exceed that figure this year and again in 2011. — The $1.47 trillion budget gap predicted for 2010 …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit
White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit
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Tom Tancredo / Washington Times:
The case for impeachment — Obama has violated his oath of office over immigration — Eleven years ago, like every citizen elected to serve in Congress or any person appointed to any federal position, I swore an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.”
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Conflicting details in Kirk's 1976 lake rescue — (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune / July 15, 2010) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk for a decade has told the story of how he nearly drowned when he was 16 while sailboating on Lake Michigan and how his rescue by the Coast Guard inspired …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Guilt By Association — It seems to me simply wrong to ascribe the bile of flocks of angry commenters that appear on any site that tackles contentious topics to the blogger himself. You can criticize him or her for not deleting them and providing a platform to hate (Ann Althouse's readers routinely mock …
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Left Hand, Right Hand. — Yesterday, Politico's Ben Smith wisely wrote: … Well, yes, this is what happens when you report the capture of the still-free Mullah Omar, smear a respected federal employee, and bring down an organization that for decades helped poor families register to vote and obtain healthcare.
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Andrew Breitbart / The Politico:
The scenemakers — Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder …
The scenemakers — Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Democratic rifts apparent at liberal Netroots Nation conference — LAS VEGAS — For all the talk of a splintered GOP base, with “tea party” conservatives squaring off against establishment Republicans, the Democrats have serious divisions of their own. — Democratic officials were hoping …
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Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
VIDEO: 9/11 Truther Van Jones Gets Standing Ovation at Netroots Nation
VIDEO: 9/11 Truther Van Jones Gets Standing Ovation at Netroots Nation
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Sen. John Kerry skips town on sails tax — Sen. John Kerry, who has repeatedly voted to raise taxes while in Congress, dodged a whopping six-figure state tax bill on his new multimillion-dollar yacht by mooring her in Newport, R.I. — Isabel - Kerry's luxe, 76-foot New Zealand-built Friendship sloop …
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New Angle ad turns Reid slogan upside down — (CNN) - A new ad by Sen. Harry Reid's Republican challenger is using the Senate Majority Leader's own words against him. — “Harry Reid says he does more for Nevada,” says Sharron Angle, Nevada's Republican Senate nominee, in a new television commercial …
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Beware the lame duck — Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform and a near-trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country.
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Dan Roem / Hotline On Call:
Health Care Law Has Wamp Hoping Against Secession — Rep. Zach Wamp (R-03) suggested TN and other states may have to consider seceding from the union if the federal government does not change its ways regarding mandates. — “I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 …
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Analysis of a Proposal to Offer a Public Plan Through the New Health Insurance Exchanges — This morning CBO released a letter to Chairman Fortney Pete Stark analyzing a proposal to add a “public plan” to the options available through the health insurance exchanges that will be established under …
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Journolisters offended by Keith Olbermann's ‘misogynistic,’ ‘predictable,’ and ‘pompous’ show — If you were one of the 400 members of the listserv Journolist, perhaps one of the most vicious insults you could hurl at a colleague is: You're just like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Biden: ‘The heavy lifting is over’ — The “heavy lifting is over” when it comes to the Obama administration's legislative priorities this year, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday evening. — Biden said now that Wall Street reform is finished and signed into law, the administration …
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Pentagon workers tied to child porn — Security agencies were left at risk, investigators say — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography …
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Tom Coburn gives feds evidence on John Ensign — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has turned over e-mails to federal authorities investigating Sen. John Ensign's extramarital affair with a campaign aide, the latest sign that the criminal probe into the embattled Nevada Republican is picking up steam.
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Hidden Danger: How The GOP Could Kill Health Reform Without Repealing It — For all the GOP chest puffing about reversing the new health care law, a full repeal, to put it generously, is a long-term project. Even if they retake the House in November, they almost certainly won't retake the Senate.
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A Primer on the 2010 House Midterm — What I'd like to do in this piece is offer you a sense of how voters will come to their congressional vote choices in November, and in so doing give you an impression of how various factors will affect the outcome. — This is not necessarily the best …