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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” — (updated below - Update II) — Opponents of the Park51 Islamic community center held a rally yesterday in Lower Manhattan, and a 4-minute video, posted below, reveals the true sentiments behind this campaign.
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TPMDC, The Plum Line, National Review, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, Gawker, Unqualified Offerings, loonwatch.com and Taylor Marsh
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists' Fire
Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists' Fire
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NY Daily News, Washington Monthly, Gateway Pundit, City Room, New York Times and Washington Post
Adam Kirk / wokv.com:
Islamic Radicals Threaten Suicide Bombings Against Gainesville Church
Islamic Radicals Threaten Suicide Bombings Against Gainesville Church
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Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
New York mosque controversy worries Muslims overseas
New York mosque controversy worries Muslims overseas
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Patterico's Pontifications
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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Power Line, The Jawa Report, Weekly Standard, National Review, Israel Matzav, Big Journalism, POWIP, Jihad Watch and American Power
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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 …
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Freedom's Lighthouse, Wake up America, Don Surber, Weasel Zippers, Gateway Pundit, Grim's Hall, Atlas Shrugs and New York Times
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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Dan / Riehl World View:
My Response To The Daily Caller's Payola Allegations — May as well tell the whole story around this weak BS from the Daily Caller as regards me. Yeah, I guess I kinda did set them up a bit. But I got pissed when I heard Strong was insinuating my name into a payola story without having contacted me.
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minx.cc, The Daily Caller, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Other McCain, 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
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 …
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.
Orange Squeezer / Nick Egoroff Orlando …:
Was Mike Huckabee Ready To Sell His Endorsement to Rick Scott for $250,000? — I have spoken with a reliable source telling me that a little over a week ago, Mike Huckabee approached the Rick Scott campaign and made overtures that his endorsement could be had for $250,000 dollars.
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The Atlantic Online, Ben Smith's Blog, Weigel and Ballot Box
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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, The Daily Dish, Salon, National Review and Hit & Run
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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Outside the Beltway, Little Green Footballs and Weigel
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tea Party guide to D.C.: Stay Northwest
Colby Itkowitz / Morning Call:
So far, Sestak back on his heels — Aggressive Toomey has sharper campaign message, more money to spread it. — WASHINGTON — Joe Sestak is halfway to learning whether his defeat of Arlen Specter will end with a seat in the U.S. Senate. — But so far Pat Toomey has controlled …
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weaskamerica.com, Commentary and The Swamp
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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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Outside the Beltway, The Fix, Left Coast Rebel, Don Surber, Commentary and Wake up America
Megan McGrath / NBC Washington:
Barack Obama Elementary Opens in Maryland — To view this video you must to have Flash Player 9.0 or later installed. Click to download the most recent version of Flash. — The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George's County.
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Weasel Zippers, JammieWearingFool and NewsBusters.org
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
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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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Real Estate's Gold Rush Seems Gone for Good — Housing will eventually recover from its great swoon. But many real estate experts now believe that home ownership will never again yield rewards like those enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century, when houses not only provided shelter but also a plump nest egg.
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
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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Big Journalism and JammieWearingFool
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.
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Eric Cantor: Mosque builders ‘not interested in healing’ — ASHLAND, Va. — Rep. Eric Cantor, one of the highest-ranking Jewish lawmakers, says Muslims building a community center in lower Manhattan are “insensitive” and “not interested in healing or bringing people together.”
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Commentary and Weasel Zippers
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
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, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog News
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 and Shakesville