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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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Taylor Marsh, Gothamist, Mediaite and The Daily Politics
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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.
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Mediaite and Media Decoder
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.
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Weekly Standard, Gothamist and Washington Monthly
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.”
David Montalvo / Crain's New York Business:
Museum of Tolerance backer: No to WTC mosque — There's tolerance and then there's tolerance, argues Wiesenthal Center's leader as he celebrates grand opening of group's anti-prejudice museum in Manhattan. Planned Islamic center is too close to 9/11 site, he insists.
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Raw Story, TPMMuckraker, TalkLeft, Think Progress and The Reality-Based Community
Stephen Chernin / Newsweek:
Build the Ground Zero Mosque
Build the Ground Zero Mosque
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Financial Times, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Think Progress, Jihad Watch and xpostfactoid
Tanya Somanader / Think Progress:
Reminder to critics who think a mosque is offensive to the legacy …
Reminder to critics who think a mosque is offensive to the legacy …
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The Blotter, JustOneMinute, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and American Power
Cathy Young / Real Clear Politics:
The Mosque Controversy & Religious Freedom
The Mosque Controversy & Religious Freedom
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Jihad Watch and The Moderate Voice
Danny Shea First / The Huffington Post:
Fareed Zakaria Returns Anti-Defamation League Award Over Ground Zero Mosque
Fareed Zakaria Returns Anti-Defamation League Award Over Ground Zero Mosque
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The Washington Note, Political Byline 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 — A U.S. district court judge's ruling to overturn Proposition 8 is garnering little protest from both parties. AP — When a federal judge in California last week ruled the state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, several political observers braced …
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Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown urges judge to allow same-sex marriages …
Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown urges judge to allow same-sex marriages …
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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 …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Minneapolis Star Tribune, alicublog and Right Wing News
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Appeals court limits use of GPS to track suspects — A federal appeals court ruled for the first time Friday that police cannot use a Global Positioning System device to track a person's movements for an extended time without a warrant, clearing the way for the Supreme Court to decide …
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TalkLeft, The Volokh Conspiracy, The BLT and Hullabaloo
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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.
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Michelle Malkin, Sister Toldjah and Right Wing News
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.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Truthdig
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 …
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Bloomberg
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
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The Washington Note, Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington Wire and Mondoweiss
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.
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Steele: Pelosi ‘in the back of the bus’
Steele: Pelosi ‘in the back of the bus’
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Talking Points Memo and TPMDC