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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
No, Mr. President — Penetrating commentary on President Obama's remarks last night on Islam, 9/11, and Ground Zero is already available. — The lawyers at Powerline dissect Obama's high-flown rhetoric: “a classic of brain-dead multiculturalism,” “the ultimate destination of multiculturalism is platitudinous stupidity.”
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Coalition to Honor Ground Zero, Power Line and Wake up America
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Obama strongly backs ‘Ground Zero’ mosque - Michael Gerson agrees - GOP aide: ‘will drive Middle America crazy’ - W.H. official: ‘inconvenient,’ but Obama wouldn't duck it — E-MAIL FROM AUTUMN: The beautiful and perfect Allie Ross Thomas was born at Sibley Hospital yesterday …
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The Daily Dish, The Plum Line and The Page
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
At Ramadan Iftar dinner, Obama supports new mosque on private property near Ground Zero — Text of President Obama's remarks at the White House Iftar dinner on Ramadan — Good evening. Welcome to the White House. To you, to Muslim Americans across our country, and to more than one …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Strongly Backs Islam Center Near 9/11 Site — WASHINGTON — President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan to proclaim that “as a citizen …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama defends “Ground Zero mosque” — (updated below) — This is one of the most impressive and commendable things Obama has done since being inaugurated: … What makes this particularly commendable is there is virtually no political gain to be had from doing it, and substantial political risk.
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Politics Daily, News Hounds, Matthew Yglesias, Washington Monthly, Unqualified Offerings, The Hill, Swampland and AMERICAblog News
Associated Press:
Obama Comes Out in Favor of Allowing Mosque Near Ground Zero — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less. — “As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Hear Washington Speak — We now have official Washington's response and take on the President's speech last night stating that Muslim-Americans have every right to build an Islamic center on private property near Ground Zero. It comes in the form of Politico's ubiquitous and closely followed “Playbook” email.
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Newshoggers.com and Balloon Juice
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Fox Hosts Agree With Obama's Defense Of Mosque: ‘He Has To Stand Up For Our Constitution’ — Reacting to President Obama's forceful defense of Muslims' rights to build a new Islamic community center near Ground Zero, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) — who believes there are “too many mosques in this country” …
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Financial Times, Mediaite and Bloomberg
Fox News:
Obama's Support for Ground Zero Mosque Draws Fire
Obama's Support for Ground Zero Mosque Draws Fire
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New York Times and Jihad Watch
Andy McCarthy / National Review:
9/11 Families Stunned by President's Support of Mosque at Ground Zero
Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Obama defends Ground Zero mosque
Obama defends Ground Zero mosque
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Don Surber, Washington Wire, Power Line and New York Magazine
Washington Post:
At Ramadan dinner, Obama defends plans for Ground Zero mosque
At Ramadan dinner, Obama defends plans for Ground Zero mosque
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Creeping Sharia
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 64 Percent Think It's Wrong to Build Mosque Near Ground Zero
Fox News Poll: 64 Percent Think It's Wrong to Build Mosque Near Ground Zero
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Weasel Zippers and Swampland
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Obama Sides with Ground Zero Mosque Builders vs. Americans
Obama Sides with Ground Zero Mosque Builders vs. Americans
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alicublog, The Other McCain, Pajamas Media, Wizbang and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Defends Plan for Mosque Near Ground Zero
Obama Defends Plan for Mosque Near Ground Zero
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Washington Wire, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Doug Ross, Say Anything and Althouse
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Man Scrawls World's Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ — One man drove 12,238 miles across 30 states to scrawl a message that can only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” — Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
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theblogprof, Lean Left, Hullabaloo, Hit & Run, Wonkette and The New Republic
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks — The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus. — This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:
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Sweetness & Light, Wizbang, Nice Deb and Freedom's Lighthouse
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity — No more than 25% say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% …
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WaPo Columnist Ruth Marcus Calls Left, Blogosphere ‘Deranged’ — During an appearance on Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie's Daily Rundown, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus may have one-upped Robert Gibbs' “Professional Left” comments. Having already written a column agreeing with Gibbs …
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AMERICAblog News, Red Dog Report, PostPartisan, NewsReal Blog and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Van Helsing / Moonbattery:
Attention Google Moonbats... ...you might want to fix your autocomplete: — On a tip from John Lohman. — If you scroll further, it will say, “Obama is anti-Christ”. — ROFLMAO! — I thought it was a photoshop. Nope. I went to Google and typed it in............... ROFLMAO!
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Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Madeline Brooks / Pajamas Media:
Terror Ties: Ground Zero Imam Attended Hizb-ut Tahrir Conference — The Marxist-Leninist/Islamist terror group has been banned in Germany, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Saudi Arabia. — In an earlier piece for Pajamas Media, I wrote about how the imam behind …
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Weasel Zippers and Riehl World View
Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
“WAR” Breaks Out at Civil Rights Commission Meeting Re: Black Panther Case Follow-up — The US Commission of Civil Rights investigation of a possible Justice Department cover-up relating to the New Black Panther voter intimidation case is heating up big time.
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FoxNews.com, Breitbart.tv, POWIP and Riehl World View
Washington Post:
In weekly address, Obama returns to campaign chestnut: Warning of threat to Social Security — Reviving a scare tactic that Democrats have used before, President Obama said in his radio address Saturday that “some Republican leaders in Congress” want to privatize Social Security.
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Firedoglake, The Caucus, Associated Press, New York Times, Pirate's Cove, Prairie Weather, Congress Blog and PERRspectives
Ben Geman / The Hill:
U.S. Chamber lawsuit attacks basis for EPA emissions limits — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday filed a lawsuit that challenges EPA's recent rejection of its petition for reconsideration of the agency's 2009 “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases threaten humans.