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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Missouri Votes Against Health Law — Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box.
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Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Prop C passes overwhelmingly — ST. LOUIS • Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn …
Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal:
Missouri Voters Oppose Mandatory Health Insurance — Voters in Missouri overwhelmingly opposed requiring people to buy health insurance, in a largely symbolic slap at the Obama administration's health overhaul. — The referendum was the first chance for voters to express a view on the overhaul …
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Los Angeles Times, Right Wing News, Scared Monkeys, NewsBusters.org, Questions and Observations and Pajamas Media
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
WOW! “SHOW ME STATE” SHOWS OBAMACARE THE DOOR... Prop C Passes By Over 70%
WOW! “SHOW ME STATE” SHOWS OBAMACARE THE DOOR... Prop C Passes By Over 70%
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Hot Air, Freedom's Lighthouse, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, Big Government and iOwnTheWorld.com
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Mo. voters reject key provision of health care law
Mo. voters reject key provision of health care law
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Townhall.com, Liberty Central, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and theblogprof
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Top Republicans trumpet Missouri ballot initiative on health reform
Top Republicans trumpet Missouri ballot initiative on health reform
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Weekly Standard, The Note and Swampland
Conservatives4Palin.com:
EXPLOSIVE: New Video of Couric Mocking Palin on the Day She was Named as McCain's Running Mate! — The following video was sent to C4P's tips account. — As you can see, the video shows Katie Couric preparing to go on the air on the day John McCain announced Governor Palin as his running mate.
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Bernie Quigley / Pundits Blog:
Katie Couric mocks Sarah Palin's children — Katie Couric, whose real name is Katherine Anne Couric, mocked the names of Sarah Palin's children during a rehearsal in her studio [this week . ] Her comments, made[ ]during the 2008 presidential campaign, are being discussed in the blogosphere today after being leaked.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Gawker and Raw Story
Christopher Hitchens / Vanity Fair:
JOINING THE RESISTANCE? — I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually shackled to my own corpse. The whole cave of my chest and thorax seemed to have been hollowed …
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Ezra Klein, The Daily Dish, Hit & Run, Althouse, New York Magazine and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Ynetnews:
IDF: Journalists were tipped off — Presence of cameramen, journalists at site of deadly clash proves it was planned ambush, IDF says — Journalists and photographers were briefed in advance of the intention to ambush IDF troops and were therefore present at the site of Tuesday's deadly …
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Gateway Pundit, BBC, Israellycool and Pajamas Media
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Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11 — The enlightened class can't understand why the public is uneasy about the Ground Zero mosque. — Americans may have lacked for much in the course of their history, but never instruction in social values. The question today is whether Americans …
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Justin Elliott / Salon:
Michael Bloomberg delivers stirring defense of mosque
Michael Bloomberg delivers stirring defense of mosque
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The Daily Dish, The Atlantic Online, Hit & Run, Tablet Magazine, The Reaction, Lean Left, Washington Post, USA Today, Right Wing News, American Spectator, The Impolitic, The Daily Hurricane, Top of the Ticket, Gawker, Will Wilkinson, Newshoggers.com, Weasel Zippers, Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Little Green Footballs, Tom Watson, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and New York Magazine
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gibbs on Ground Zero mosque: I'm not going to meddle in local decisions
Gibbs on Ground Zero mosque: I'm not going to meddle in local decisions
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iOwnTheWorld.com, Right Wing News, Indecision Forever and PrawfsBlawg
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
U.S. Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk — WASHINGTON — The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Stupid or Venal? — The Cordoba Initiative is an organization in New York City that wants to tear down an old building a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center site and convert it into a community center and mosque. Recently this has become famous as the Ground Zero Mosque …
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The Huffington Post, The Daily Dish, The Daily Politics and Swampland
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bush and the Cordoba Initiative
Bush and the Cordoba Initiative
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and The League of Ordinary …
Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Federal judge to rule on whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry [Updated] — A federal judge in San Francisco will decide Wednesday whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. — U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who presided …
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The Foundry and Law Blog
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ABCNEWS:
President Obama Grudgingly Celebrates His 49th Birthday — Chicago-Bound President to Ring in Another Year With Little Fanfare, but More Gray Hair — President Obama turns 49 years old today, and while it's not quite the milestone of the big 5-0, clearly he is ringing in another year only grudgingly.
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CNN and Political Punch
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Keith Koffler / The Politico:
Don't celebrate President Obama's birthday
Don't celebrate President Obama's birthday
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American Power and Washington Post
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle: “What's happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.” — That's what Sharron Angle, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, said in an April 21 interview with TruNews Christian Radio's Rick Wiles.
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Politics Daily, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Plum Line, The Political Carnival, Talking Points Memo and TPMDC
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Bristol Palin to Levi Johnston: 'It's Over' — And just like that, they were off again. “It's over. I broke up with him,” Bristol Palin tells PEOPLE exclusively of her second try at an engagement to Levi Johnston, father of her 19-month-old son Tripp. — Palin, 19, says the relationship soured …
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The Politico:
GOP puzzled as Michael Steele courts diplomats — The Republican National Committee is trying to set up meetings between Chairman Michael Steele and foreign ambassadors to the United States, according to an email obtained by POLITICO - an effort that has puzzled diplomats as well as fellow Republicans.
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CNN, The Atlantic Online, Wonkette, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, FP Passport and TPMDC
Paul Krugman:
Beinart On The ADL — Peter Beinart has an excellent piece on how the Israeli occupation of the West Bank inexorably led the Anti-Defamation League into abandoning its principles, culminating in the awful decision to call for banning the Islamic Center in lower Manhattan. — Let me add two thoughts.
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The Nation, Mondoweiss and Suburban Guerrilla
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
More Workers Face Pay Cuts, Not Furloughs — The furloughs that popped up during the recession are being replaced by a highly unusual tactic: actual cuts in pay. — Local and state governments, as well as some companies, are squeezing their employees to work the same amount for less money …
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Above the Law and naked capitalism
Christopher N. Osher / Denver Post:
Bike agenda spins cities toward U.N. control, Maes warns — Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”
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Think Progress, pandagon.net, TPMDC, Talking Points Memo, The Spot and Climate Progress
Anthony Weiner / New York Times:
Why I Was Angry — LAST week I got angry on the floor of the House. In this age of cable and YouTube, millions of people evidently saw the one-minute-plus clip. But there has been relatively little focus on why the substantive debate that sparked it matters.
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The Moderate Voice and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
CNN:
TRENDING: CNN Poll: Quarter doubt Obama was born in U.S. — President Obama's birth certificate (left) has been certified authentic by the Republican governor of Hawaii. His birth announcement (right) appeared in print in 1961. (PHOTO CREDIT: State of Hawaii)
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The Hill
David Rogers / The Politico:
Maine, pain drive Senate vote today — Maine and pain. — That's what it comes down to Wednesday as Senate Democrats try to get to 60 votes for new state aid and offer up cuts from programs dear to themselves — not to mention House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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CNN, USA Today, The Washington Independent, Salon, Washington Post, Wonk Room, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, The Note, MyDD, The Hill and National Review
Brian Faughnan / Liberty Central:
GQR Poll: Obama & Democrats Collapsing; GOP Leads by 11 — These charts - by Democratic pollster Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner for Citizen Opinion - are quite stunning. They show an electorate that seemed to be seeing economic improvement - at least until a few months ago.
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Hot Air