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Alana Goodman / NewsBusters.org:
CNN Host Calls for Crackdown on ‘Bloggers’ in Wake of Sherrod Incident: 'Something's Going to Have to be Done Legally' — Should there be a “gatekeeper” regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that's what CNN promoted on July 23.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
Shirley Sherrod: Beneath The Headlines — CNN is strongly pushing the notion that Shirley Sherrod is a uniter, dedicated to bringing people together. However, her rhetoric beneath the headlines hardly supports that conclusion. … How is it that one unites, while casting …
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Geoff Mohan / LA Times Environment Blog:
Gulf oil spill: Alarms, detectors disabled so top rig officials could sleep [updated] — Critical fire and gas leak alarm systems had been disabled for at least a year aboard the Deepwater Horizon because the rig's leaders didn't want to wake up to false alarms, a rig chief engineer tech told federal investigators.
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Tim Daniels / The Daily Caller:
Ringing the bell at the top: Paging Chris Christie — Consider Bell. A diverse, poor offshoot of Los Angeles, Bell's population in 2000 stood at 37,000 and its median per year household income clocked in at $29,000. But according to a blitz of media reports, city manager Robert Rizzo's yearly salary clocks in close to $800,000.
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James Webb / Wall Street Journal:
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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Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: House Democrat calls on Rep. Charles Rangel to resign — In a major development, Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) on Friday night called on beleaguered Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to resign. — Sutton's statement comes one day after the House ethics committee charged the 80-year-old Democrat with multiple violations.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THERE'S THAT ‘I’ WORD AGAIN.... The far-right Washington Times published two op-eds, on the same page, on the same day, demanding the impeachment of President Obama. One was from the perpetually deranged Jeffrey Kuhner, who insisted, “Obama has betrayed the American people. Impeachment is the only answer.
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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.”
Alan Greenblatt / NPR:
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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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
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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
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Chicago Tribune:
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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Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
Price to attend Obama's birthday bash: $30,000 — $$$$$: Happy Birthday, buddy! — Sneed hears real estate mogul Neil Bluhm is tossing a private birthday party here for President Obama, who turns 49 on Aug. 4. — • The shocker: The dinner invite to the Barack bash at Bluhm's home requires …
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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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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 …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Exhales After Sidestepping Pay Czar's Wrath — Wall Street took the latest government report on its pay practices in stride Friday, saying it would review U.S. pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg's suggestions about compensation while privately expressing relief that the report wasn't tougher on them.
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Journolisters offended by Keith Olbermann's ‘misogynistic,’ ‘predictable,’ and ‘pompous’ show — Salon's Rebecca Traister agreed Olbermann regularly displayed his contempt for women. “Olbermann has a terrible record of going out of his way to talk about young, attractive women he believes …
Nick Pisa / Daily Mail:
Catholic sex scandal as undercover reporter ‘films priests at gay clubs and having casual flings’ — A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out.
Bill Husted / Denver Post:
Debbie Matthews has bottomless respect for her strip club staff — BAR: SHOTGUN WILLIE'S — Shotgun Willie's, 490 S. Colorado Blvd., is Denver's iconic topless bar. It's been taking it off since 1982, and it takes its name from Willie Nelson's album “Shotgun Willie.”
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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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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sharron Angle responds to a question — The day after walking out of her own campaign event when reporters were offered an opportunity to ask questions, Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle on Thursday responded to a question from a reporter — to tell them she wasn't answering the question.
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