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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 Politico:
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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Andy Barr / The Politico:
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.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama touts ‘enormous progress’ as he urges focus on economy — President Obama sought to promote his administration's accomplishments on the economy this past week after spending it mired in the controversy over Shirley Sherrod. — Obama made remarks early Friday afternoon touting …
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
The Shirley Sherrod Saga: Lessons From Bureaucratic Blunders
The Shirley Sherrod Saga: Lessons From Bureaucratic Blunders
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
President Obama Said Sec. Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped the Gun’ on Shirley Sherrod's Ouster
President Obama Said Sec. Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped the Gun’ on Shirley Sherrod's Ouster
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.
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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When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist
When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist
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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.
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 …
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 …
Andrew Breitbart / The Politico:
The scenemakers — Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but blogger Andrew Breitbart says it definitely boosts his buzz. — “The secret sauce and the added value is the inadvertent mystery that is born from being absent from the scene,” Breitbart told POLITICO …
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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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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 …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BLAME WHERE BLAME IS DUE.... What's become of the Senate energy bill is a profound disappointment to anyone who takes policy seriously. It's a shell of its former self, and it's painful to see this rare opportunity to make meaningful progress slip away. It's not that the legislation's remaining provisions …
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
What's the critical debt-gdp ratio? — Krugman (here), Rogoff, DeLong, and others all have recent writings on this topic. My general view on these matters is the following: — 1. There is nothing sacred about “90 percent” as a cut-off ratio and in any case such structural quantitative estimates are not stable over time.
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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 …
Felix Salmon:
Why Obama will nominate Warren — The nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seems to be a foregone conclusion at this point. Warren and the large team of Warren enthusiasts have been pushing her nomination aggressively, to the point …
Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
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 …
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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CNN:
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 …
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.
Mark Knoller / CBS News:
Obama Changes Tune on Paying for Unemployment Benefits Extension — In signing the bill restoring unemployment benefits to 2 ? million Americans jobless for more than 26 weeks, President Obama is also adding $34 billion to the deficit and the National Debt. — That's the reason nearly all Republicans voted against the measure.
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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 …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
TAPPER'S SUNDAY SIGN OFF — This Sunday marks ABC News' White House correspondent Jake Tapper's last appearance as host of “This Week.” In the wake of George Stephanopoulos' move from the Sunday show to “Good Morning America,” Tapper was named interim host; former CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour …
Ian Johnston / msnbc.com:
$765-a-bottle beer sold in dead animals — Bodies of squirrels, weasels and a hare used to package ale costing $765 a bottle — You'd expect a lot from a bottle of beer costing $765. What you get is 55 percent alcohol — and served in a squirrel. — According to Scottish firm BrewDog …
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Isolde Raftery / City Room:
State Plans to Eliminate 170,000 Canada Geese — It's a doomsday plan for New York's geese. — A nine-page report put together by a variety of national, state and city agencies shows that officials hope to reduce the number of Canada geese in New York to 85,000 from 250,000.
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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