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4:10 PM ET, August 7, 2010

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Newsweek:
Fareed Zakaria's Letter to the ADL  —  Five years ago, the ADL honored me with its Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize.  I was delighted and moved to have been chosen for it in good measure because of the high esteem in which I hold the ADL.  I have always been impressed by the fact …
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Fareed Zakaria / ADL:
ADL Letter to Fareed Zakaria  —  Dear Fareed:  —  I received your letter today and must say I am not only saddened but stunned and somewhat speechless by your decision to return the ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize, you accepted in 2005.
Discussion: Mediaite and Media Decoder
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Zakaria Returns ADL Prize  —  Fareed Zakaria is a mensch: … The details of the return aside, just think about the fact that the Anti-Defamation League has traditionally been in the business of doing things like handing out first amendment awards named after Hubert Humphrey to dudes with names like “Fareed Zakaria.”
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
ADL: If mosque-builders really wanted to promote reconcilation, they'd move  —  Via Steve Benen, I see that Fareed Zakaria has decided to return an award betowed on him by the Anti-Defamation League in order to protest the organization's deeply misguided opposition to the Islamic center near Ground Zero.
Cathy Young / Real Clear Politics:
The Mosque Controversy & Religious Freedom
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Moderate Voice
Sacramento Bee:
Let gays begin marrying, Schwarzenegger urges  —  In an extraordinary court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
GOP avoids gay marriage ruling
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Paul Elias / Associated Press:   Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings
Scott / Power Line:
Franken most foul  —  When there is a local angle to a national story, the local press usually has a field day with it.  That hasn't proved to be the case with the story regarding Minnesota Senator Al Franken's outrageous behavior in the Senate during Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's speech opposing …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Kagan Sworn In as 112th Supreme Court Justice  —  WASHINGTON — Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the 112th person and the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court, continuing a generational and demographic transformation of the nation's highest bench.  —  In keeping with tradition …
Discussion: The Caucus and Mediaite
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Appeals court limits use of GPS to track suspects
Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
International Assistance Mission slayings: part of Taliban war strategy  —  The Taliban in Afghanistan are claiming responsibility for the attack on an International Assistance Mission medical team, in which 10 people died.  The attack is one of the deadliest for American aid workers since the Afghanistan war began.
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Media Matters Gives Glenn Beck's Co-Hosts The Shirley Sherrod Edited Audio Treatment (Update)  —  Let's end the week with some Shirley Sherrod-ing - editing a clip to make it sound like a person is saying something that is actually the complete opposite of what they're saying.
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
Voinovich: Gas tax hike would pump up the job market, help close deficit  —  Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) is pressing his case for an increase in the gas tax as a way to help close the federal budget deficit and create additional jobs.  —  In a letter to a panel considering changes …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Serena Chaudhry / Reuters:
Iraq forces take over from last U.S. combat brigade  —  Iraq (Reuters) - The United States handed over control of all combat duties to Iraqi security forces on Saturday in a further sign its withdrawal is on track despite a political impasse in Iraq and a recent rise in violence.
Ynetnews:
American VIP humiliated at airport  —  Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton's secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name  —  Itamar Eichner  —  This is not how she imagined her visit to
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
RNC adopts new 2012 presidential primary schedule  —  KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Republican National Committee adopted a new schedule for the 2012 presidential primaries Friday, agreeing to a plan worked out in concert with Democrats and designed to delay the start of the campaign season.
Discussion: MyDD
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Steele: Pelosi ‘in the back of the bus’
 
 
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