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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Defining Lynching Down. — My apologies for being in Shirley Sherrod overdrive recently, but this piece from Jeffrey Lord nearly made my eyes pop out of my head. After reviewing the Screws case, Lord concludes that Sherrod lied about Sheriff Claude Screws lynching Bobby Hall …
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Sherrod Story False — It isn't true. — Shirley Sherrod's story in her now famous speech about the lynching of a relative is not true. The veracity and credibility of the onetime Agriculture Department bureaucrat at the center of the explosive controversy between the NAACP …
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TPM Exclusive: Steele To Hold RNC Event — Co-Starring Andrew Breitbart — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has a party fundraising event coming up in August that is scheduled to feature a very special guest: Conservative media activist Andrew Breitbart …
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Sherrod: “We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle Toms ...” — First, a note of heartfelt appreciation for Joan Walsh of Salon. Her moving post on Charles Sherrod - in defense of his wife, Shirley - provided the inspiration required to dust off my Google skills.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Enough right-wing propaganda — The smearing of Shirley Sherrod ought to be a turning point in American politics. This is not, as the now-trivialized phrase has it, a “teachable moment.” It is a time for action. — The mainstream media and the Obama administration must stop cowering …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Fact Checking Bob Schieffer's Call For Better Fact Checking
Fact Checking Bob Schieffer's Call For Better Fact Checking
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Tancredo will run for governor as American Constitution Party candidate — Republican Tom Tancredo, right, supported Scott McInnis' gubernatorial bid last November. Now, Tancredo is saying he will run for governor. (Matt McClain, Special to the Denver Post)
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wikileaks.org:
Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 — 25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. — The reports, while written by soldiers …
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New York Times:
View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan
View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
On the AfPak / Wikileaks Documents
On the AfPak / Wikileaks Documents
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The Daily Caller:
Raw Journolist emails on 'Palin's Downs child' — I actually hesitate to bring this up... But is anyone following this: — Adam Serwer — Dylan Matthews — Obama absolutely cannot touch this. Even if it's true. — I think the press would justify covering it on the issue of trust …
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Journolist debates making its coordination with Obama explicit — Sarah Palin's speech to the 2008 Republican convention impressed more than a few doubters, including even some members of Journolist, an online community for liberal journalists. — “This speech is gangbusters,” wrote Ari Melber of the Nation.
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Senate hopeful Buck regrets criticism of Tea Party birthers — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Buck called Tea Partyers questioning the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate “dumba—s” to a Democratic operative recording his comments without his permission.
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Alana Goodman / NewsBusters.org:
Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish-Dominated Media’ Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed ‘in Context’ — Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the “Jewish domination of the media.”
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration — In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
More States “Competitive” in Terms of Party Identification — Democrats lose ground, while Republicans gain — PRINCETON, NJ — More states are politically competitive this year than was the case in 2009, as fewer Americans nationwide identify with the Democratic Party.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
GOP lawmakers optimistic about ‘no’ votes — In February, when unpredictable Sen. Jim Bunning single-handedly stalled extensions of unemployment benefits for several days, his Republican colleagues quickly abandoned him, worried that the GOP would be cast as the party against helping people who are out of work.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate — Arizona Republican Primary: McCain 54%, Hayworth 34% — Senator John McCain has opened a 20-point lead over former Congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona's Republican Senate Primary race. — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey …
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Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:
John McCain Appears Headed to Easy GOP Primary Victory in Arizona
John McCain Appears Headed to Easy GOP Primary Victory in Arizona
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The Democratic Fisc — The White House budget office offers a scorecard on Obamanomics. — Democrats have been running Congress for nearly four years, and President Obama has been at the White House for 18 months, so it's not too soon to ask: How's that working out?
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The Care and Feeding of the Liberal Psyche — I have a Netroots Nation wrap piece up at The Daily Beast saying that progressive activists are depressed and the White House hasn't done very much to offer the kind of psychic goodies that keep people's spirits up: … My prescription to cure the malaise is Elizabeth Warren:
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McCain On The Iraq War: ‘We Already Won That One’ — Earlier this month, law professor Marjorie Cohn and Iraq Veterans Against the War board chairman Geoff Millard attended a reception to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Vietnam and spoke with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Ezra Klein:
What went wrong with stimulus — The original stimulus package should've been bigger. Rep. David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, says the Treasury Department originally asked for $1.4 trillion. Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wanted $1.2 trillion.
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Tennessee Lt. Gov: Religious Freedom May Not Count For Muslims (VIDEO) — Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, currently running third in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary race, says he's not sure if Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion apply to the followers of the world's second-largest faith, Islam.
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BP boss Hayward to get immediate £600,000 pension — Mr Hayward has been the public face of BP's response to the spill — BP chief executive Tony Hayward will get an immediate annual pension worth about £600,000 ($930,000) when he leaves in October, the BBC has learned.
James W. Ceaser / Weekly Standard:
The Unpresidential President — Barack Obama has managed a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he diminishes in stature. — From charisma to populism—this is the slippery slope down which Barack Obama has been sliding over the past two years.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who Cooked the Planet? — Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they're still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died — the hottest such stretch on record.
Richard / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers — San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections …
Howard Dean / The Huffington Post:
No More Apologies — It's Time to Stand Up for Our Convictions — For some time now, various “reporters” and on-air personalities on the Fox News Network have failed to report the full story or relevant facts, instead indulging in race baiting in order to exploit people's fears and crank up the fringe of their audience.
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