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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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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Judge who overturned Prop. 8 extends temporary hold on gay marriage [Updated]
Judge who overturned Prop. 8 extends temporary hold on gay marriage [Updated]
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Poliglot, Law Blog, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Dish, Think Progress, The Page, The Washington Independent and Wonkette
David Lat / Above the Law:
Breaking: Judge Walker Won't Stay Prop 8 Ruling Pending Appeal!
Breaking: Judge Walker Won't Stay Prop 8 Ruling Pending Appeal!
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Daily Kos, L.A. NOW, The Awl and skippy the bush kangaroo
msnbc.com:
Foes seek to block start of gay weddings in Calif.
Foes seek to block start of gay weddings in Calif.
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Emptywheel, The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly and Associated Press
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Green Light and Delay on Same-Sex Marriage
Green Light and Delay on Same-Sex Marriage
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Outside the Beltway and New York Magazine
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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Weasel Zippers, The Swamp, Macsmind, Left Coast Rebel, Associated Press, Conservatives4Palin.com and The Political Carnival
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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 …
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neo-neocon and New York Magazine
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 and Now! Hampshire
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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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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iOwnTheWorld.com, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
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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Weasel Zippers, The Political Carnival, Hot Air, Freedom's Lighthouse, Politics Daily, GayPatriot and Don Surber
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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MiamiHerald.com, TBogg, The Political Carnival and Salon
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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 Daily Caller, iOwnTheWorld.com, The TrogloPundit, RedState, Hot Air, Pirate's Cove, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, Outside the Beltway, Pajamas Media, Gateway Pundit, Fausta's Blog, Political Byline, Michelle Malkin, Another Black Conservative, The Hill, Da Techguy's Blog, Confederate Yankee, Questions and Observations, Weasel Zippers, NRSC, NewsBusters.org, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Pat Dollard, Riehl World View, The Mahablog, Gawker, Wake up America and JammieWearingFool
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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The Huffington Post, First Draft, Left Coast Rebel and Feministe
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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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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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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The Atlantic Online, TigerHawk, Politics Daily, Wonk Room, Donklephant, Newshoggers.com, Washington Post, AMERICAblog News, TalkLeft and Beat the Press
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
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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A plain blog about politics
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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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Economist's View
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 »
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.
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.
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Israpundit and Israel Matzav
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
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
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
Paul Bedard / US News:
Obamas Plan Fifth Vacation Since July — There they go again. For the fifth time since July, the first family has set plans to board Air Force One for a frilly vacation, a 10-day return trip to exclusive Martha's Vineyard where they are expected to stay at the 28-acre oceanfront Blue Heron Farm that rents for up to $50,000 a week.
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Fausta's Blog, Don Surber and NewsBusters.org