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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Getting the message on Journolist's controversial postings — To conservatives, it is a pulling back of the curtain to expose the media's mendacity. — To liberals, it is a selective sliming based on e-mails that were supposed to remain private. — But there is no getting around the fact …
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Ezra Klein:
When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist — I hoped to let my quick accounting of the constant inaccuracies in the Daily Caller's selective quotations from Journolist stand as my last word on the matter. But Tucker Carlson's sanctimonious and evasive statement on the way his site has been covering this story deserves a response.
Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
Letter from Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson on The Daily Caller's Journolist coverage — We began our series on Journolist earlier this week with the expectation that our stories would be met with a fury of criticism from the Left. A hurt dog barks, after all.
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 and its adulation …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1...’ — An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to Bush — For a couple of years, it was the love that dared not speak his name. In 2008, Republican candidates hardly ever mentioned the president still sitting in the White House. After the election, the G.O.P. did its best to shout down all talk about how we got into the mess we're in …
Three Fingers of Politics:
Bachmann: Subpoenas and Hearings Are Coming in 2011 — Want a sneak preview for what the 2011 legislative calendar has in store? — The Intrade prediction market is giving the GOP a 57-percent shot of taking back the House of Representatives this fall, meaning it is more likely to happen than not.
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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.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Charles Rangel broke ethics rules, House panel finds — A House ethics subcommittee announced Thursday that it found that Rep. Charles B. Rangel violated congressional ethics rules and that it will prepare for a trial, probably beginning in September. The panel is expected to make the details …
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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.
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
President Obama Said Sec. Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped the Gun’ on Shirley Sherrod's Ouster — President Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed Shirley Sherrod from the Department of Agriculture amid charges of racism. — “He jumped the gun, partly because we now live …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Kerry confident Senate will ratify START this year — The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee expressed confidence Friday that the upper chamber will ratify a key nuclear arms treaty with Russia before the year is up. — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) acknowledged Republicans concerns …
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The Atlantic Online:
RNC Chaos Threatens GOP Chances for House Takeover — The chaos at the Republican National Committee threatens to cost Republicans the chance to take control of the House of Representatives, Republican strategists fear. During midterm elections, the national committee plays two essential roles.
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Tom Gantert / Michigan Capitol Confidential:
The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget — The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art. — That's how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture …
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Eric Dash / New York Times:
Feinberg Says Bonuses Paid by Troubled Banks Were Unmerited — With the financial system on the verge of collapse in late 2008, a group of troubled banks doled out more than $2 billion in bonuses and other payments to their highest earners. Now, the federal authority on banker pay …
New York Times:
Pentagon Faces Growing Pressures to Trim Budget — WASHINGTON — After nearly a decade of rapid increases in military spending, the Pentagon is facing intensifying political and economic pressures to restrain its budget, setting up the first serious debate since the terrorist attacks of 2001 …
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
No Immigration Papers, No School, Many New York Districts Say — Three decades after the Supreme Court ruled that immigration violations cannot be used as a basis to deny children equal access to a public school education, one in five school districts in New York State is routinely requiring …
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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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
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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Boston Herald:
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 …
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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Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:
Russian ‘spy’ Anna Chapman gets her own action figure, plastic doll of sexy secret agent now on sale — She's the Russian Barbie. — Sexy secret agent Anna Chapman may have been deported, but she's now available on U.S. soil in fully jointed plastic. — The doll manufacturer Herobuilders.com …
theblogprof:
Typical: Obama's ambush on Pete Hoekstra in Michigan was coordinated with the media — For just a brief backdrop on this story, Pete Hoekstra voted against the stimulus boondoggle, and rightfully so, but showed up at Obama's campaign speech in Holland, MI July 15 where he touted stimulus money …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Alvin Greene's ‘On the Scene’ — Alvin Greene, the Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina, who emerged at a public campaign event for the first time last weekend, is now out with his first campaign video. The video, called, “Alvin Green Is On the Scene,” is a 3-minute hip-hop mix …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Jump in optimism in ending oil spill — According to a new CNN poll, 33 percent of the public says the situation in the Gulf region is under control. (PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images) — Washington (CNN) - On day 95 of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico …
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