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AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque — Associated Press Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent sent the following note to the staff about covering the New York City mosque story: — Colleagues,
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
‘Ground Zero’ Imam: ‘I Am a Jew, I Have Always Been One’ — The right-wing campaign against the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” includes vicious personal attacks on the Muslim cleric who leads the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the plan. I know Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf …
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Palin to AP: It's ‘Ground Zero mosque’ — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) called out The Associated Press on Twitter Thursday for its decision to avoid the term “Ground Zero mosque” in its coverage. — She also knocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for suggesting Wednesday …
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The Huffington Post:
Ted Olson, Former Bush Solicitor General And Husband Of 9/11 Victim …
Ted Olson, Former Bush Solicitor General And Husband Of 9/11 Victim …
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Washington Post Headline Incites Violence Against Ground Zero Mosque Opponents
Washington Post Headline Incites Violence Against Ground Zero Mosque Opponents
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Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Help AP Writers Find a Substitute Phrase for ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ …
Help AP Writers Find a Substitute Phrase for ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
New Dem message: ‘Improve’ health care, don't talk cost — Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit and instead stressing a promise to “improve it.”
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near — Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) is no stranger to Greenspring Village, a gated retirement community in Springfield that is a frequent stop for local politicos. It leans Democratic, but that tilt is being tested in a year …
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The Eye
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Appeasing the Bond Gods — As I look at what passes for responsible economic policy these days, there's an analogy that keeps passing through my mind. I know it's over the top, but here it is anyway: the policy elite — central bankers, finance ministers, politicians who pose as defenders …
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Spencer Abraham / The Politico:
Obama's energy meltdown — The decision by congressional Democrats to not try to pass a major energy bill in this Congress, while receiving a modest amount of media attention, actually constitutes one of the sharpest rebukes to a sitting president in recent memory.
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Darren Goode / The Hill:
NOAA official: Roughly three-quarters of spilled oil still in Gulf
NOAA official: Roughly three-quarters of spilled oil still in Gulf
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
White House Defends Obama's Faith
New York Times:
U.S. Persuades Israel That Iran's Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran's nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete …
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Nicole Allan / The Atlantic Online:
The Most Sexist Ad, Well, Ever — In an act of shockingly retro, sexist stupidity, a local unit of the Republican Party of Minnesota has broadcast a new reason you should vote Republican: GOP women are hot, and Democratic women are not. — The group has made a web video contrasting photos of attractive …
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Howard Dean / Salon:
Why I back a mosque compromise — The builders want to build it as a healing gesture, but healing is impossible without dialogue — First of all, I am not going to back off. The reaction did surprise me because most of the negative reaction had to do with defending the constitutional rights of the builders of the center.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Video discussion with Gov. Howard Dean
Video discussion with Gov. Howard Dean
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Mitch Daniels / Economist:
The right stuff — Indiana's governor is a likeable wonk. Can he save the Republicans from themselves and provide a pragmatic alternative to Barack Obama? — CLAY COUNTY — THE governor does not like to keep people waiting. On a recent morning this small man leapt out of a trooper's Toyota …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Media: Maybe Obama Should Go To Church More Publicly So People Know He's Christian — Today, Pew put out a poll showing that 18 percent of the American public believes President Obama is a Muslim. That number includes 31 percent of Republicans. Only 34 percent of the adult public says Obama …
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Michael Walsh / Big Hollywood:
The Most Lethal Weapon the United States Returns in ‘Early Warning’ — Thanks to all of you, my new novel, Early Warning, is in stores today, as well as on Kindle. It's the sequel to last year's thriller, Hostile Intent, which went to No. 1 on Kindle upon its debut, sat high …
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Power Line
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Deal — Bob Somerby is following the latest Social Security chatter and hopes that Paul Krugman can explain how the trust fund works in an understandable way: … Well, hell, I'll take a crack at it. Here's the simple version. — In 1983, when we last reformed Social Security …
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Jeremy P. Jacobs / Hotline On Call:
DSCC Planning Ads For Carnahan, Conway — The DSCC has reserved air time in October for KY and MO SEN, sources tell Hotline On Call. The committee is planning to spend $4M in MO for a statewide broadcast ad and $1.3M in KY for a statewide ad campaign. — The ads buys will bolster …
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Get Feature Film Treatment — EXCLUSIVE: The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dems hit at Bush in new cable ad — Democrats again used former President George W. Bush as a foe in their latest TV ad campaign, driving home the point Republicans would restore policies that helped create the economic downturn. — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
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msnbc.com:
Arizona prison escapee, fiancée-cousin caught — Pair on lam since July 30, accused of killing elderly Oklahoma couple — Escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée-cousin Casslyn Welch were captured in the northeast Arizona's Apache County, the U.S. Marshals Office said late Thursday.
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The Politico:
The new battle: What it means to be American — It's a classic case of be careful what you wish for. President Barack Obama wanted to end the baby boomer-era culture wars — and he's done it. — But along the way, Obama has sparked an even more visceral values debate about whether he's moving …
Ed Tibbetts / Pantagraph:
Thomson prison appraisal, fed's offer differ — THOMSON — The three appraisals of the Thomson Correctional Center have been completed, and the average value assigned to the vacant prison is far higher than what the Obama administration budgeted to buy the facility.
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Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
An Airline Magazine That Makes Travelers Want to Pull the Rip Cord — Safi Shows the Real Afghanistan, From Dog Fighting to Dry Swimming Pools — KABUL—Safi Airways, a start-up Afghan airline, ventures where few air carriers dare to go: Its in-flight magazine tells the ugly truth about the place where you're about to land.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
BP Settlements Likely to Shield Top Defendants — WASHINGTON — People and businesses seeking a lump-sum settlement from BP's $20 billion oil spill compensation fund will most likely have to waive their right to sue not only BP, but also all the other major defendants involved with the spill …
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