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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Judge keeps California gay marriage ruling on hold — The federal judge who last week overturned the state's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, agreed to a continued hold on his ruling while foes appeal. — Reporting from San Francisco — A federal judge Thursday refused to permanently stay …
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TPMMuckraker, ACS Blog, The Foundry, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Rachel Maddow Show, Truthdig, FrumForum and NY Daily News
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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Judge who overturned Prop. 8 extends temporary hold on gay marriage [Updated] — A federal judge Thursday refused to permanently stay his ruling overturning Proposition 8's ban of gay marriage but extended a temporary hold to give supporters time to appeal the historic ruling.
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The Daily Dish, Poliglot, Think Progress, Crooks and Liars, Law Blog, The Page, The Washington Independent and Wonkette
Bmaz / Emptywheel:
Breaking News: Judge Walker's Prop 8 Stay Decision
Breaking News: Judge Walker's Prop 8 Stay Decision
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Washington Monthly and The Volokh Conspiracy
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dem group launches ‘F*ck Tea’ campaign — Last summer, Democrats argued that the Tea Party movement was the astroturf creation of corporate groups. Now that the grassroots conservative resurgence has emerged as a clear force on the right, the left is making a different case: That tea parties are simply the enemy.
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The Last Tradition, Left Coast Rebel, The TrogloPundit, The Daily Caller, Pirate's Cove, Mediaite, iOwnTheWorld.com, RedState, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Political Byline, Another Black Conservative, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gateway Pundit, Da Techguy's Blog, Confederate Yankee, Questions and Observations, Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, NewsBusters.org, Pat Dollard, Riehl World View, The Mahablog, Gawker, Wake up America and JammieWearingFool
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Public favors Tea Party over top Dems
Public favors Tea Party over top Dems
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Left Coast Rebel, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Hot Air, The Politico, Taylor Marsh, NRSC, Weasel Zippers, Wall Street Journal and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
KPIX-TV:
CBS 5 Poll: Fiorina Widens Lead Over Boxer — Dead Heats In Governor, Lt. Governor Races; Marijuana Prop. 16 Passing — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer …
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The Political Carnival, Politics Daily, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Freedom's Lighthouse, Don Surber and GayPatriot
Daily Kos:
Are We At War With All Of Islam? Right Wingers Think So — Nearly every oath of service in this nation includes the phrase “Defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America” in some form or the other. Not having a King we needed an object of loyalty, something bigger than the individual to focus our loyalty on.
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Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Daily Kos Holocaust Denial: 9/11 Attacks ‘Were More About Optics Than Actual Harm’ — While the Ground Zero Mosque controversy strikes the media as an opportunity for “healing” that's being denied by stubborn conservatives, the leftists at the Daily Kos see it as an opportunity for Holocaust Denial.
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
Clifford D. May / National Review:
The Taboo of the Intellectuals
The Taboo of the Intellectuals
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Weekly Standard, Townhall.com, No More Mister Nice Blog, Commentary and Power Line
Ezra Klein:
The Bush tax plan vs. the Obama tax plan in one chart — Source. — United States - Tax - Democratic Party - Accounting - President
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TigerHawk, The Daily Dish and Donklephant
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Legislator resigns after ‘dead Palin’ comment — New Hampshire State Rep. Timothy Horrigan resigned Thursday after making comments about Sarah Palin on Facebook. — (CNN) - A New Hampshire state legislator resigned his office Thursday after becoming the second Democrat in as many days …
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The Swamp, Associated Press, Weasel Zippers, Left Coast Rebel, Conservatives4Palin.com and The Political Carnival
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
N.H. legislator resigns over Palin remark
N.H. legislator resigns over Palin remark
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Washington Post, Politics Daily, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, Now! Hampshire and Right Wing News
The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck: Gay Marriage NOT Threat To America (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Why doesn't Glenn Beck cover gay marriage? Because he doesn't believe it's a threat to the nation. — In a conversation with Bill O'Reilly on why he avoids culture war issues, Beck admitted …
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Washington Monthly, Joe. My. God., Advocate and AMERICAblog Gay
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace — In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by several points …
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The Daily Dish, Mother Jones, Politics Daily, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Hot Air, The Eye, Advocate, Raw Story, New York Magazine, Open Left, Joe. My. God. and CNN
Ezra Klein:
Portrait of a frustrated electorate — Want sure-footed polling analysis? Ask Nate Silver. Want a sort of bemused confusion? Well, then you're in the right place. — I was on “Morning Joe” today talking about the new NBC/WSJ poll (pdf), and I don't think we had time to really dig into how weird the results are.
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Donkeylicious
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Department of Strategery — The latest poll numbers show …
Department of Strategery — The latest poll numbers show …
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A plain blog about politics
Ezra Klein:
The difficulty of opposing gay marriage — When we talk about gay marriage, we should first be clear about what we're discussing: State-sanctioned marriage is a central element in American life. It includes both legal and substantial, important cultural benefits.
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Alan Riquelmy / Ledger-Enquirer.com:
Justice Alito refers Orly Taitz's request to reverse sanctions to U.S. Supreme Court — A request to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito by “birther” attorney Orly Taitz asking that $20,000 in sanctions against her be reversed was referred on Tuesday to the entire court.
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Crooks and Liars, TPMMuckraker and Weigel
Michelle Malkin:
The vulgarity of liberal female “comedians” — Left-wing female comedians are proving that they can be as crude and stupid as their male counterparts. Who knew that striving for gender equality meant pursuing the dream that one day, someday, liberal women would be able to mock …
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Dependable Renegade, bustardblog, Don Surber, The Radio Equalizer, iOwnTheWorld.com, Wonkette, Gateway Pundit and Nice Deb
Joseph Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Adios, Gray Lady — Joseph Epstein cancels his ‘New York Times’ subscription. — The New York Times used to be called the Gray Lady of American newspapers. The sobriquet implied a certain stateliness, a sense of responsibility, the possession of high virtue. But the Gray Lady is far from the grande dame she once was.
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Mediaite and Commentary
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Updated Senate and Governor rankings! — With the 2010 primary season (nearly) over, the Fix and Post senior political reporter — and co-author of “The Battle for America” — Dan Balz sat down to revisit our rankings of the most competitive Senate and governor's races in the country.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
How propagandists function: Exhibit A — Jeffrey Goldberg, in the new cover story in The Atlantic, on an Israeli attack on Iran: … Good news! Israel can successfully end a country's nuclear program by bombing them, as proven by its 1981 attack on Iraq, which, says Goldberg, halted …
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A Tiny Revolution, The Atlantic Online, Democratic Strategist and TBogg
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Strategic Angle — This week, the campaign for Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle will run 1,000 to 1,600 points' — about $575,000 — worth of television advertising. Normally, an advertising onslaught such as this one would be well-suited to the final weeks of a campaign — and a bit much for the dog days of August.
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The Page and Riehl World View
Ian M. / Think Progress:
GOP candidate calls for internment camps for ‘people that snuck into the country.’ — Speaking at a rally sponsored by Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project, GOP state house candidate in Florida, Marg Baker, endorsed building concentration camps for undocumented immigrants: … Watch it:
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Blue Wave News, MiamiHerald.com, The Political Carnival, TBogg and Salon
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The First Wave of Weary Aides Heads for the Exits — WASHINGTON — Linda Douglass slept nearly 12 hours the day after she left her job as a communications aide at the White House. And the day after that and the day after that. It took two weeks until she finally felt rested.
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Daniel W. Drezner, Outside the Beltway, National Review and Mother Jones
BBC:
Iran TV airs ‘confession’ from woman facing stoning — The BBC's Jon Leyne explains what the footage showed — Iranian state TV has aired what it says is a confession by a woman under threat of being stoned to death for adultery. — In the interview shown on Wednesday …
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Sweetness & Light, The Lede and Guardian
City Room:
Dinkins Offers the Finger, and Everybody's Talking — It was not so much the gesture — the raised middle finger is a familiar salute on the streets of New York — but the person who made it and the setting that has set off all the buzz. — The finger belonged to former Mayor David N. Dinkins …
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TPMMuckraker, PostPartisan and New York Times
Ezra Klein:
Who can we blame for job losses? — “Obama's America,” tweets Republican political consultant Patrick Ruffini, linking to this map of economic devastation. — Fairly or not, Ruffini raises an interesting question: How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration?
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The Point and The League of Ordinary …
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
After Fox News hit, Paul avoids local TV reporter - in reporter's own studio — After he sought to put to rest questions stemming from the GQ piece yesterday in a friendly appearance on Fox News, Rand Paul declined to do an on-camera interview with the Lexington, Ky., Fox affiliate where he just taped his national interview.
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Bluegrass Politics
Christina Hoff Sommers / AMERICAN.COM:
Take Back the Sports Page? — The political wing of the women's sports movement is in trouble. These activists are accustomed to challenging timid bureaucrats and university administrators. But in taking on TV sports coverage, they are challenging the market itself.
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The Enterprise Blog and protein wisdom
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
With Off-the-Record Lunch, Obama Extends a Hand — It may seem odd, but the journalists assigned to cover President Obama on a daily basis often have less access to him than the columnists, television personalities and feature writers who cover the president less frequently.
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Beltway Confidential and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Netanyahu, the anti-Obama — Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike — in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies — than Netanyahu …
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Wonk Room, Soccer Dad, Commentary, Solomonia and Israel Matzav
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Not An Ounce Of Contrition” — There is some bizarre notion among the punditocracy that the Obama administration cannot and should not blame Bush and the GOP for the awful recession, looming tax rises and entitlement cuts, endless wars, tainted moral standing, crumbling infrastructure and massive debt that Obama inherited.
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