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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
ATLAS EXCLUSIVE! GROUND ZERO MOSQUE IMAM FEISAL'S EXTREMISM EXPOSED: IN HIS OWN WORDS: “the United States has more blood on its hands than al Qaida,” Elimination of Israel, the N-Word, “Fahrenheit 911” — The media frenzy to destroy good, decent Americans who oppose a 15-story mega-mosque on Ground Zero is rabid.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Many More Now Following Mosque Controversy - And Don't Like It — A lot more voters are paying attention to the plans to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, and they don't like the idea. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds …
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
Ground Zero Imam Says U.S. Worse than al-Qaeda
Ground Zero Imam Says U.S. Worse than al-Qaeda
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Michelle Malkin, Breitbart.tv, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash — Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola …
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The Other McCain, Salon, Outside the Beltway, Right Wing News, Riehl World View and The League of Ordinary …
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Dan / Riehl World View:
My Response To The Daily Caller's Payola Allegations
My Response To The Daily Caller's Payola Allegations
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minx.cc, POWIP, Liberty Pundits Blog, Don Surber and Right Wing News
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Blogger payola? — Election season usually means better ad rates …
Blogger payola? — Election season usually means better ad rates …
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Townhall.com and The Other McCain
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash
True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash
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POWIP
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Anti-Semitic Incident at Ground Zero Mosque Counter Protest — At Sunday's Ground Zero mosque protest, I spoke to one man who had been with the counter-protesters, Joey “Boots” Bassolino, immediately after the police pulled him out from the crowd. What happened, I asked?
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Big Peace, Breitbart.tv, Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
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Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
Rage Against Teh Joos! WTC Supporters Attack Man at Rally — The OMG irony of a group of people screeching about bigotry against Islam while blaming “teh joos!"/"teh ZIONIST JOOS!" — That first broad's voice, aye aye aye. — So ... they're protesting what they perceive as “bigotry” with actual bigotry?
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American Power and Gateway Pundit
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Thousands Protest Ground Zero Mosque
Thousands Protest Ground Zero Mosque
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Solomonia and Keep America Safe
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Far from Ground Zero, other plans for mosques run into vehement opposition — MURFREESBORO, TENN. — For more than 30 years, the Muslim community in this Nashville suburb has worshipped quietly in a variety of makeshift spaces — a one-bedroom apartment, an office behind a Lube Express …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The “mosque” debate is not a “distraction”
The “mosque” debate is not a “distraction”
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The Plum Line, TPM LiveWire, Unqualified Offerings, Outside the Beltway, loonwatch.com, Gawker, Think Progress and Scared Monkeys
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Rand vs. Ron? Cordoba House Drives Wedge Through The Paul Family
Rand vs. Ron? Cordoba House Drives Wedge Through The Paul Family
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, National Review, Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, Weasel Zippers and Taylor Marsh
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Now That's Rich — We need to pinch pennies these days. Don't you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy.
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The Politico, The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, PERRspectives, AMERICAblog News, The Enterprise Blog, Think Progress, National Review, The Mahablog, Clusterstock, Beltway Confidential, MyDD, American Thinker, Prairie Weather, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonk Room
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Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Responding to Dr. Krugman's column on tax cuts for the rich
Responding to Dr. Krugman's column on tax cuts for the rich
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Ezra Klein and Chicago Boyz
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. — David H. Koch in 1996. He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes. — KEYWORDS … On May 17th, a black-tie audience …
David Weigel / Weigel:
A Purge at the Cato Institute? — The libertarian Cato Institute is parting with two of its most prominent scholars. Brink Lindsey, the institute's vice president of research and the author of the successful book The Age of Abundance, is departing to take a position at the Kauffman Foundation.
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Washington Monthly, Will Wilkinson, The Daily Dish, Salon, National Review and Hit & Run
Ann McElhinney / Not Evil Just Wrong:
James Cameron—King of Hypocrites — Last March James Cameron sounded defiant. — The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed.
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RedState and Right Wing News
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organized
Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organized
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Weasel Zippers
Reuters:
U.S. Court Rules Against Obama's Stem Cell Policy — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue.
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TalkLeft, Weekly Standard and ACS Blog
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Andrew Ian Dodge / paintmainered.ning.com:
So you are coming to the 8/28 Glenn Beck March on Washington? — by Bruce Majors — Herein a visitors' guide. I will be updating it daily. Please post any issues you want addressed or researched. — I am told (but did not check) that hotels are very full.
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Ben Smith's Blog, DCist, TPMDC, Gawker, Outside the Beltway, Little Green Footballs and Weigel
The Smoking Gun:
Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts — DEA wants “Black English” linguists to decipher bugged calls … The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
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iOwnTheWorld.com, Gawker, Colorlines, Gothamist and Weasel Zippers
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The best (positive) campaign ad of the cycle? — Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) is out with a new ad in his bid for the state's open governorship that perfectly captures the anti-politician sentiment coursing through the electorate. — “I'm John Hickenlooper and I guess …
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New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Atlantic Online and Hot Air
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Islamic group calls Boehner's mosque stance ‘un-American’ — An Islamic organization is urging its supporters to contact House Minority Leader John Boehner's office to object to his stance on the Lower Manhattan mosque, calling his stance “un-American.” — The Cincinnati chapter of the Council …
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Politics Extra, CNN and Weasel Zippers
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Sessions: ‘Sick to my stomach’ over Miller attacks — National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions is trying to referee an increasingly bitter Florida 24th District primary, criticizing a new mailer from Florida Republican Craig Miller questioning rival Karen Diebel's mental fitness as out of bounds.
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Orlando Sentinel and Riehl World View
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Rep. Jordan: If GOP wins the House, we won't get anything done except frame the 2012 election. — Last Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) held a town hall with his constituents in Shelby, Ohio, and fielded questions on a variety of topics ranging from health care to the economy.
Washington Monthly:
College Dropout Factories — It was money—or the lack of it—that determined where Nestor Curiel chose to go to college. The third of six children in an immigrant Mexican family, Nestor grew up in Blue Island, a gritty working-class suburb near Chicago's South Side.
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Economix and The Daily Dish
Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of TWT offices — White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan joined President Barack Obama and the rest of the First Family in Martha's Vineyard, while the President and his family vacationed. As I wrote in my Friday post on Mr. Brennan …
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Solomonia, Potluck and AmSpecBlog
Kristi Keck / CNN:
10 things Obama must do in 10 weeks — (CNN) — President Obama is facing criticism that his message has gone off track at a crucial time for his party and administration. With the midterm elections just 10 weeks away, the president's approval ratings are at their lowest.
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Sister Toldjah, Right Wing News and Shakesville
Boston Herald:
Obama: Tee-ing off nation, 1 Sunday at a time — EDGARTOWN - Another Sunday, another missed opportunity for President Obama to prove to America he's not a Muslim. — But instead of attending church services at one of the dozens and dozens of quaint, island Christian churches yesterday morning …
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The Politico, Big Journalism and JammieWearingFool
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Poll numbers in 1994, a bad year for Democrats, don't bode well for them in 2010 — Is it deja vu all over again for Democrats? — Some neutral observers and senior strategists within the party have begun to believe that the national political environment is not only similar to what they saw in 1994 …
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American Glob, Outside the Beltway, The Fix, Don Surber, Commentary, Left Coast Rebel and Wake up America
The Huffington Post:
RNC Committeewoman Kim Lehman Claims Obama Told Muslims That He Was A Muslim — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The Republican ranks have, by and large, cautiously avoided weighing in on recent poll numbers showing that a healthy portion of the American public believes that President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
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Des Moines Register, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Blogger beware: Postings can lead to lawsuits — A false sense of Internet security can mean legal quagmires for critics who are careless about facts. — Reporting from Washington — The Internet has allowed tens of millions of Americans to be published writers.
Anita Kumar / Virginia Politics Blog:
Cuccinelli: State can regulate abortion clinics — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who is anti-abortion, has issued a legal opinion allowing greater restrictions on abortion clinics, drawing swift criticism from providers who say it could cause some of the facilities to close.
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Think Progress, Wonk Room, Shakesville and The TrogloPundit
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Raising the Ceiling of the House Projections — Patrick Ruffini wants a new update on the overall outlook for the House. — I had a list of 99 back in May. A few races have been added since then (Bob Etheridge had not grabbed anyone by the neck back then), and the outlook has shifted a bit.
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Hot Air, Moe Lane and PoliPundit.com