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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) — What's Your Reaction: … Dr. Laura Schlessinger has apologized after a shocking rant on her radio show this week during which she said the n-word 11 times over the course of five minutes.
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BuzzFlash.org, Pam's House Blend and New York Magazine
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).
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Swampland, The New Republic, Mondoweiss, Weekly Standard, Betsy's Page and Gateway Pundit
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 …
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Pentagon push to phase out top brass causing much consternation
Pentagon push to phase out top brass causing much consternation
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Bloomberg
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE CAMPAIGN: Angle, Reid race still tight — More voters picking sides as senator's clout comes into play — Locked in a dead heat, both U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Sharron Angle picked up support in the past two weeks, according to a poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 8NewsNow …
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Ballot Box, RealClearPolitics, National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Taegan Goddard's …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Strategic Angle — This week, the campaign for Nevada GOP …
The Strategic Angle — This week, the campaign for Nevada GOP …
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The Page and Riehl World View
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 …
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?”
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Ezra Klein, Prairie Weather, Clusterstock, Daily Kos and Economist's View
Fhardingj / CNN:
Legislator resigns after ‘dead Palin’ comment — State Rep. Timothy Horrigan made the remarks Wednesday night in a thread discussing the Alaska plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens. — “Well a dead Palin wd be even more dangerous than a live one...she is all about her myth …
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Economist:
Disappointed, down, despondent — And not about to rush to the polls in November, either — WHY, asks a Democrat leading a training session for fellow activists, doesn't “Yes we can” work as a slogan any more? “Because we haven't,” a jaded participant responds.
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 …
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Ezra Klein, The Plum Line, Wonk Room, Washington Wire, The Hill, The BLT, TBogg, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Balloon Juice
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
‘Professional left’ not ready to back an Obama primary challenger in '12 — As angry as they might be, the professional left isn't ready to back a primary challenger to President Obama just yet. — Two high-profile liberals on Thursday said they are not interested in running against the president in 2012 …
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The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online and Left Coast Rebel
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
Fun With Paul Ryan and the Washington Post — The Washington Post really really hates Social Security. They hate Medicare almost as much. Therefore they are willing to give its critics space to say almost anything against the program (the real cause of September 11th) …
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Paul Krugman, The New Republic, DownWithTyranny! and Weekly Standard
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Paul Ryan / Washington Post:
A road map to saving Medicare
A road map to saving Medicare
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The Atlantic Online, Townhall.com and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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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Ballot Box, RedState, theblogprof, Scared Monkeys, The Political Carnival, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Politics Daily, Freedom's Lighthouse, Don Surber and GayPatriot
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
AFL-CIO chief to assail Whitman and Fiorina as ‘clueless CEOs’
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Obama to host Ramadan meal — President Obama will host an iftar — the special evening meal observed during Ramadan — on Friday night in the White House dining room. — Obama participated in a similar gathering last year. — Celebrations like iftar dinners “remind us of the principles …
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
With Off-the-Record Lunch, Obama Extends a Hand
With Off-the-Record Lunch, Obama Extends a Hand
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Beltway Confidential and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Gary Fields / Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Seats Vulnerable on Jobs — ALBION, Mich.—Michelle Rena Jones cheered when candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden visited south-central Michigan in 2008. She supported Mr. Obama that November along with a slate of Democrats, including Mark Schauer in the 7th congressional district.
Julian Assange / Reporters Sans Frontières:
OPEN LETTER TO WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE: “A BAD PRECEDENT FOR THE INTERNET'S FUTURE” — Reporters Without Borders, an international press freedom organisation, regrets the incredible irresponsibility you showed when posting your article “Afghan War Diary 2004 - 2010” …
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The Jawa Report
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Lessig On Obama — Very nicely put: … I am crestfallen over two profound issues: civil rights and accountability for war crimes. Maybe in the long run, it will come out all right. And I understand the necessity of pragmatism and the awful legacy this president inherited.
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The Huffington Post and The Reaction
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.
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TalkLeft and Betsy's Page
Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
San Francisco proposal would limit toys in kids' meals — A serious move is afoot to force fast-food giants to make kids meals more nutritionally viable if they want to sell them with kid-luring toys. — In San Francisco, newly proposed legislation would ban toys from most kids meals sold at McDonald's …
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Pirate's Cove, Sister Toldjah and Gawker
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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Sister Toldjah and The Mahablog
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer's — In 2003, a group of scientists and executives from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the drug and medical-imaging industries, universities and nonprofit groups joined in a project that experts say had no precedent …
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Beat the Press
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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Left Coast Rebel, Salon, MiamiHerald.com, Zandar Versus The Stupid, TBogg and The Political Carnival
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