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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin gets in dustup with teacher — Sarah Palin was involved in a short argument over the weekend with an Alaska teacher over her decision to leave her post as governor of Alaska. AP — Sarah Palin was involved in a brief argument over the weekend with an Alaska teacher …
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CNN, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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Shannyn Moore / The Huffington Post:
Palin's Homer Moment: Celebrity Sarah Confronted by Citizen (WATCH) — I'm really proud of my home town. When I say, “I'm just a girl from Homer” on my blog, radio or television show, I like to think it's not so much self-deprecation as it is a friendly warning.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite, SHANNYN MOORE, Crooks and Liars, Political Byline, Brilliant at Breakfast and Wonkette
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Did Sarah Palin Roll Her Eyes at Teaching? — Sarah Palin was up in Homer, Alaska, recently, fishing with her Discovery Channel crew in tow, when she was met with an unpleasant protest: a giant banner reading “Worst Governor Ever,” unfurled nearby by local Kathleen Gustafson.
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Ballot Box and Towleroad News #gay
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Palin laughs and rolls her eyes when demonstrator says she's a teacher.
Palin laughs and rolls her eyes when demonstrator says she's a teacher.
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SHANNYN MOORE, Daily Kos, Gawker and Digital Spy
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Marriage Ideal — Here are some commonplace arguments against gay marriage: Marriage is an ancient institution that has always been defined as the union of one man and one woman, and we meddle with that definition at our peril. Lifelong heterosexual monogamy is natural; gay relationships are not.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Marriage and the role of the state — (updated below) — Ross Douthat uses his New York Times column today to put what he undoubtedly considers to be the most intellectual and humane face on the case against marriage equality. Without pointing to any concrete or empirical evidence …
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Cato Unbound, GayPatriot, National Review, Cato @ Liberty, Left in the West and The Awl
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Judge Vaughn Walker Gets Smeared By the Media — The way that the sexual orientation of Judge Vaughn Walker — the federal judge who overturned Proposition 8 last week — has been targeted and exploited by proponents of Prop 8 is not only an example of the ugly smear tactics of the theocratic thugs …
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Firedoglake, Angry Bear and Advocate
Steve Chapman / Reason:
Overreaching on Gay Marriage
Overreaching on Gay Marriage
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protein wisdom, GayPatriot, Balloon Juice and Hit & Run
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Unique Quality Of “Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy”
GQ:
GQ Exclusive: Rand Paul's Kooky College Days (Hint: There's a Secret Society Involved) — When the Lexington Herald-Leader reported last week that Rand Paul was, in effect, a college dropout, it looked like the 2010 midterms might feature yet another fabulist.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Crooks and Liars, TPMDC, Donkeylicious, Weigel, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air, Harry's Place, Indecision Forever, Washington Monthly, Salon, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Wonkette, New York Magazine, Riehl World View, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Mouth of the Potomac, Liberal Values and Boing Boing
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Charge: Rand Paul tied up teammate, tried to ‘force her to take bong hits’ — This allegation from Jason Zengerle's GQ profile of Rand Paul is a bit too big a deal to be left in its ether of anonymity and non-denial: — The strangest episode of Paul's time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Mediaite
Michael P. Fleischer / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Not Hiring — When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally's pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. — With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it's going to be later—much later.
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Sean Gardiner / Metropolis:
Flight Attendant Pops Emergency Chute, Escapes Plane at JFK … A jetBlue flight attendant upset because a passenger refused to apologize after accidentally striking him with luggage, allegedly spewed obscenities over the PA system, then activated and slid down a plane's emergency chute …
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Gawker, Hot Air, Gothamist and Clusterstock
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Ray Rivera / City Room:
Flight Attendant Uses Emergency Slide to Escape Dispute — A JetBlue flight attendant activated an emergency-exit chute after a dispute with a passenger and slid off a plane that had just pulled up to a gate at Kennedy International Airport on Monday, a law enforcement official said.
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New York Magazine, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite, New York Times, Towleroad News #gay, The Awl and Clusterstock
David Weigel / Weigel:
Tea Party Infiltration Done Wrong — It's rarely convincing when Tea Party activists brush off attacks on the movement by claiming that the bad apples at their rallies are really agents provocateurs. That's just too convenient. Sometimes, the people who make you look bad actually are part of your movement.
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AmSpecBlog, The Other McCain, NRSC, The Politico and The Caucus
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Ed Rendell: Many Republicans ‘are nuts’ — Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday said that Republican desires to repeal the 14th Amendment are “cuckoo” and prove that many in the GOP “are nuts.” — Asked during an MSNBC interview about many Republicans' calls to repeal the portion …
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Congress Blog, Weasel Zippers and The Political Carnival
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Rmcneely / Matthew Yglesias:
GOP Fantasy Agenda Leaves Public in the Dark
GOP Fantasy Agenda Leaves Public in the Dark
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, Ezra Klein and Gawker
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
SOAK THE VERY, VERY RICH — The fight on Capitol Hill over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts is about many things: deficit reduction, economic stimulus, supply-side ideology. But at its core is a simple question: who counts as rich? The Obama Administration's answer is that you're rich …
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Ezra Klein, The Atlantic Online, Clusterstock and Democratic Strategist
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Much Revenue Would a Millionaires' Tax Raise?
How Much Revenue Would a Millionaires' Tax Raise?
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TalkLeft, The Atlantic Online and JustOneMinute
CNN:
Obama to GOP: I'm pretty good at politicking, remember? — (CNN) — President Barack Obama warned Republicans on Monday that he is back in campaign mode. — In a fundraising speech in Austin, Texas, Obama complained that while his administration has been governing the country since January 2009 …
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The Hill and Erick's blog
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Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:
Why Michelle Obama Vacationed in Spain: To Be With Grieving Friend — Michelle Obama returned to Washington on Sunday from five days on Spain's Mediterranean coast, taking a mother-daughter trip with Sasha, 9, that stirred controversy. A White House source told me, however …
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Michelle Malkin, JustOneMinute, PunditMom, Balloon Juice and About.com US Liberal Politics
Google Public Policy Blog:
A joint policy proposal for an open Internet — Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications — The original architects of the Internet got the big things right.
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The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Telegraph, Post Tech, Truthdig, Gawker, Free Press, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Mashable! and The Official Google Blog, more at Techmeme »
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
America Goes Dark — The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Ryan Rips Krugman: ‘Intellectually Lazy’ and ‘Bizarre’ Attack — Talking late this afternoon with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Republican congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin blasted New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “intellectualy lazy” attack on Ryan's fiscal “Roadmap.”
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and The Huffington Post
Paul Krugman:
Self-induced Paralysis — Reading Jon Hilsenrath's column today, I was initially a bit skeptical about this assertion: … I knew that I had pushed that option (pdf); I was less sure that Bernanke had, since he often focused more on quantitative easing. But Hilsenrath is right …
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Calculated Risk, Free exchange, Matthew Yglesias, Wall Street Journal, Tim Duy's Fed Watch and Economist's View
NY Daily News:
Republican Party starts to kill its own: S.C. Rep. Bob Inglis ousted for not hating Obama enough — There are landmarks all over our city named after LaGuardia and Javits and Rockefeller, names out of the city's great Republican past, when the party was one of intelligence, not fear-mongering and hate.
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About.com Conservative …, The Impolitic, Don Surber and JammieWearingFool
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Gates announces major job cuts as Pentagon looks to cut spending — Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Monday dozens of cuts to senior military and contractor positions and the elimination of a major military command. — The moves are part of an effort to streamline Pentagon spending.
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The Politico
David Frum / CNN:
Frum: Bristol-Levi more significant that Prop 8 ruling — Editor's note: David Frum writes a weekly column for CNN.com. A special assistant to President George W. Bush in 2001-02, he is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again,” and is the editor of FrumForum.
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Box Turtle Bulletin and FrumForum
Mike Mandel / Mandel on Innovation and Growth:
Where Americans Are Spending More.. — Since the recession started in the fourth quarter of 2007, the common theme has been about Americans cutting back on their spending. But the latest numbers from the BEA show aggregate personal consumption expenditures are up 2.9%, or $285 billion.
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The Atlantic Online
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Tim Johnson hospitalized with fever — Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) was hospitalized over the weekend with a fever, his office said Monday. — Johnson was admitted to a Sioux Falls hospital on Sunday for a fever possibly due to an adverse reaction to an antibiotic, and is in stable condition.
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CNN and U.S. Senator Tim Johnson
Joel Kotkin / Newgeography.com:
The Golden State's War on Itself — California has long been a destination for those seeking a better place to live. For most of its history, the state enacted sensible policies that created one of the wealthiest and most innovative economies in human history.
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Hit & Run
The Politico:
Rep. Maxine Waters charged with three violations — The House ethics committee released its formal charges against Rep. Maxine Waters Monday. AP — The House ethics committee released its formal charges against Rep. Maxine Waters Monday, accusing her of three counts of violating the letter …
Hogan / RedState:
Ted Olson Pushes for Judicially Mandated Gay “Marriage” — I am sad to report that Ted Olson is no longer worth listening to on legal matters or worth hiring by anyone who respects the Constitution. In his quest to legalize gay “marriage,” Olson is heading the challenge in court …
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Open Left, Washington Monthly, TalkLeft and msnbc.com