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7:25 AM ET, August 13, 2010

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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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Fox News:
New Hampshire Democrat Says He's Sorry for Palin Death Wish  —  June 29: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks in Duluth, Ga.  —  A New Hampshire Democratic candidate has apologized for a Facebook post in which he wished Sarah Palin and the father of her grandchild, Levi Johnston …
Discussion: neo-neocon and New York Magazine
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
N.H. legislator resigns over Palin remark
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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Ed Whelan / National Review:
Walker Rejects Stay Request
Discussion: Hot Air and Power Line
CNN:
Prop 8 stay lifted by judge
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Jeremy Holden / Media Matters for America:
FULL AUDIO: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word rant  —  On August 10, Dr. Laura Schlessinger launched into a racially charged rant, during which Schlessinger — in her own words — “articulated the ‘n’ word all the way out — more than one time.”  Among other things, Schlessinger also told …
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Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Dr. Laura's N-Word Rant: Radio Host Apologizes For Offensive Language (AUDIO)
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.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and The Mahablog
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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.
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 …
Eric Hague / McSweeney's:
OUR DAUGHTER ISN'T A SELFISH BRAT; YOUR SON JUST HASN'T READ  —  ATLAS SHRUGGED.  —  I'd like to start by saying that I don't get into belligerent shouting matches at the playground very often.  The Tot Lot, by its very nature, can be an extremely volatile place—a veritable powder keg …
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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Elise / Blue Wave News:
Republican FL State House Candidate Marg Baker Wants 1940s Style Camps …
Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Obama Democrats  —  Democrats in deep-red states who voted against health reform and higher spending may yet survive the midterm.  —  It's 81 days to the election.  Expect many of them to be filled with the explanations Democrats are now serving up as to why Nov. 2 is likely to be a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Paralysis at the Federal Reserve  —  Ten years ago, one of America's leading economists delivered a stinging critique of the Bank of Japan, Japan's equivalent of the Federal Reserve, titled “Japanese Monetary Policy: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?”
Discussion: Clusterstock and Economist's View
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings  —  Somewhere along the line, Elizabeth Warren became a symbol.  —  She's either the plain-spoken, supremely smart crusader for middle-class families that her supporters adore, or she's the power-hungry headline seeker …
Discussion: TBogg and Balloon Juice
Julieparise / CBS New York:
Passenger: Slater Gave Impression He Was Drinking  —  BELLE HARBOR, N.Y. (CBS 2) - On Thursday afternoon flight attendant Steven Slater came out of his house and thanked his supporters.  —  But, as CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman reports, where he has told “one” story, passengers are saying …
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David S. Cloud / Los Angeles Times:
Defense chief Gates orders review of Marines' role  —  Acknowledging concerns among current and former Marines that the Corps has evolved into another ground combat force, the Defense secretary aims to define the service's future path.  —  Reporting from San Francisco …
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.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Department of Strategery  —  The latest poll numbers show the same thing that poll numbers have shown since January of 2009.  Barack Obama is more popular than congressional Democrats who are more popular than congressional Republicans:  —  The vast majority of congressional Democrats have …
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Ezra Klein:
Portrait of a frustrated electorate
Reihan Salam / National Review:
Brief Post on Immigration  —  The Pew Research Center has a new report on the children of unauthorized immigrants: … I've noticed that defenders of the birthright citizenship status quo are emphasizing that unauthorized immigrants can't immediately obtain citizenship by virtue of giving birth …
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.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Sacrilege at Ground Zero  —  A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz).
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Kristol group's game plan: Make it politically toxic for Dems to criticize Israel  —  Bill Kristol's hawkish, pro-Israel group, which has been running ads blasting Dems as anti-Israel, is now making it explicit: It is targeting Dems with paid media for the express purpose of making it politically toxic for them to criticize Israel.
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Israpundit
Fast Company:
Inside the World's MOST EXCLUSIVE (and Most Accessible) CLUB with SPECIAL GUESTS including  —  The other day, I got an email from a new friend.  The subject line read “Are you a TED talk person?”  —  It linked to an 18-minute video of MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely talking about the bugs in our moral codes.
Discussion: National Review
Ynetnews:
The power of aliyah  —  Op-ed: Israel's demographic optimism can be further boosted by growing Jewish immigration  —  In 2010, a surge in the Israeli Jewish fertility rate is a long-term, unique, global phenomenon, while fertility rates decline sharply in the Third World in general and in Muslim countries in particular.
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Israpundit
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.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Turkey to continue sending fuel to Iran
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Huck: Don't change 14th Amendment
Ezra Klein:
The difficulty of opposing gay marriage
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
How propagandists function: Exhibit A
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Strategic Angle  —  This week, the campaign for Nevada GOP …
Discussion: The Page and Riehl World View
Joseph Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Adios, Gray Lady
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Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
After Fox News hit, Paul avoids local TV reporter - in reporter's own studio
Discussion: Bluegrass Politics
Ezra Klein:
Who can we blame for job losses?
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
Race Card Is Maxed Out
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Not An Ounce Of Contrition”  —  There is some bizarre notion among …
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