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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller holds slim lead in early Senate vote — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was battling for her political life against Republican challenger Joe Miller in early primary election returns on Tuesday night. — Miller was leading Murkowski with nearly 52 percent of the vote to her 48 percent …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
How Lisa Murkowski (might have) lost — 1. The stunning news that developed over night in Alaska — with 98 percent of precincts reporting, attorney Joe Miller (R) leads Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) 51 percent to 49 percent — reveals the depth of anti-incumbent sentiment in the country …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
‘Embarrassing defeat for Sarah Palin will happen at any moment (fingers crossed)’ … From a no-doubt-bewildered Becky Bohrer at the Associated Press, just minutes ago: … Note to self: No matter what you think you know about an upcoming election and how much you want one candidate or the other to lose …
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The Fix, NewsBusters.org, Instapundit, Melanie Morgan, JustOneMinute and Weigel
Emi Kolawole / Washington Post:
DNC spokesman can't name Alaska Dem running for Senate — Your Browser DoesNot Support IFrames. — Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee spokesmen were on ABC's “Top Line” Wednesday with dueling messages coming out of last night's primary.
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Michelle Malkin, Ballot Box, Ben Smith's Blog, National Review and The Fix
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Anger trumps accomplishments — Stunning development: Murkowski trails Miller by 1,960 votes in AK GOP Senate primary... We might not know the final result for days... How to explain why McCain easily won in AZ but Murkowski is in trouble: Anger is trumping accomplishments …
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CNN:
Palin also a big winner Tuesday
Palin also a big winner Tuesday
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Elena Isella / FoxNews.com:
If Joe Miller Wins in Alaska, it will be a colossal upset, Huckabee says
If Joe Miller Wins in Alaska, it will be a colossal upset, Huckabee says
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Shushannah Walshe / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Palin Foe Mulls Third-Party Run
Exclusive: Palin Foe Mulls Third-Party Run
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Hot Air, GOP 12 and The Daily Beast
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Lisa Murkowski faces possible upset
Lisa Murkowski faces possible upset
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Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics:
Palinization — First, give the Sage of Wasilla credit.
Palinization — First, give the Sage of Wasilla credit.
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Washington Monthly, Weigel and The Daily Dish
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Alleged anti-Muslim attacker works at pro-Park51 group — The apparent anti-Muslim assault on a New York city cabbie by a man shouting “Assalamu Alaikum. Consider this a checkpoint” produced an immediate round of recriminations over its connection to opposition to a New York Islamic Center and an apparent rising tide of Islamophobia.
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NY1:
A city cab driver is in the hospital after being stabbed by a passenger who allegedly asked if he was Muslim, police tell NY1. — Investigators with the New York City Police Department say it all began Monday night when a 21-year-old man hailed a cab at 24th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan.
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Karen Zraick / City Room:
Man Is Held in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabdriver — A cabdriver was attacked by a knife-wielding passenger who made anti-Muslim remarks on Tuesday evening, the police said. — The passenger, Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, N.Y., hailed the cab at Second Avenue and East 24th Street around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the police said.
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New York Post:
Driver claims his throat was slashed after telling passenger he was Muslim — A drunk upstate man who had recently returned from Afghanistan where he was filming the Marines took his anger out on a cabbie — asking the driver if he was a Muslim before brutally attacking him with a knife, authorities said.
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Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
‘Are You Muslim?’: Passenger Stabs NYC Muslim Cab Driver
‘Are You Muslim?’: Passenger Stabs NYC Muslim Cab Driver
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Eric Lach / TPMMuckraker:
NYPD Charges Man With Hate Crime After He Allegedly Stabbed Muslim Cab Driver
NYPD Charges Man With Hate Crime After He Allegedly Stabbed Muslim Cab Driver
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Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars, TPM LiveWire, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Gothamist, Salon and The Impolitic
Eric Lach / TPMMuckraker:
NY Cab Driver Allegedly Stabbed For Being Muslim: ‘I Feel Very Sad’
NY Cab Driver Allegedly Stabbed For Being Muslim: ‘I Feel Very Sad’
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New York Magazine, Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
The Huffington Post:
Alan Simpson: Social Security Is ‘A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits’ — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Alan Simpson believes that Social Security is “like a milk cow with 310 million tits,” according to an email he sent to the executive director of National Older Women's League Tuesday morning.
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The Huffington Post:
Enough with the Pink Panthers Bit
Enough with the Pink Panthers Bit
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Social Security Group Calls on Simpson to Resign After ‘Sexist’ Remark
Social Security Group Calls on Simpson to Resign After ‘Sexist’ Remark
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The Enterprise Blog
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Key Senate Democrat suggests that he didn't read entire healthcare reform bill — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the chief authors of the healthcare law, suggested Tuesday he did not read the entire piece of legislation. — Speaking at a forum in his home state …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
ObamaCare Threatens College Health Plans
ObamaCare Threatens College Health Plans
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Scott upset ripples beyond Florida — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Millionaire businessman Rick Scott's surprise win in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday left both parties scrambling over how to cope with a candidate who possesses both glaring flaws and considerable assets.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Health care suits didn't save AGs
Health care suits didn't save AGs
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Think Progress, Washington Monthly, Wonk Room and The Politico
Matt Friedman / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie blames Washington bureaucracy for state's failed ‘Race to the Top’ application — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie this morning acknowledged the state made a clerical error that blew its chance at winning $400 million in federal money for schools, but he blamed Obama administration bureaucrats …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Breaking: Major Garrett Leaving Fox News (UPDATED) — Mediaite has learned that Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett is leaving the network effective September 3rd to return to his roots in print journalism. White House correspondents Wendell Goler and Mike Emanuel will assume joint coverage of the WH beat for Fox News.
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Nat Hentoff / Jewish World Review:
Am I also a bigot? Pols clueless on Ground Zero mosque — If one of her sleuths knocks on my door, this opponent will readily state that I need no outside funding as a reporter who is deeply investigating the motivation of Imam Rauf's choice of this site of mass murder for the mosque.
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Solomonia
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
New Forecast Shows Democrats Losing 6 to 7 Senate Seats — The Democratic majority is in increasing jeopardy in the Senate, according to the latest FiveThirtyEight forecasting model. The Democrats now have an approximately 20 percent chance of losing 10 or more seats in the Senate …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
More House Dems fleeing (and bashing) Obama and Pelosi — Little by little, we're starting to see more House Dems running ads distancing them from President Obama and Nancy Pelosi — and even directly taking them on. Some of the spots bash the Obama/Dem agenda in ways that echo GOP talking points.
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Wikileaks:
CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States “exporting terrorism”, 2 Feb 2010 — This CIA “Red Cell” report from February 2, 2010, looks at what will happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an exporter of terrorism; 'Contrary to common belief, the American export …
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Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:
Chris Young's surprise marriage proposal — Chris Young, Rhode Island's perennial gadfly candidate, was relatively well-behaved in tonight's mayoral debate. (And as Dan McGowan points out, sometimes he makes good points.) But he managed to steal the show toward the end when he used …
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Jason Kuznicki / The League of Ordinary Gentlemen:
Cash for Clunkers, Indeed — It wasn't so long ago that everyone just loved Cash for Clunkers. People thought I was a total crank when I scoffed. Even some of my fellow ideologues wavered. — On my now-defunct blog, I wrote, … No, the appropriate course would be to generalize …
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Jack Minor / Greeley Gazette:
Bennet Says We Have Nothing to Show For All of Our Debt, Will Not Commit to Position on Card Check — Sen. Michael Bennet D-Colo. explains the reasons for the $13 trillion debt — Michael Bennet, D-Colo,at a town hall meeting in Greeley last Saturday, Aug 21 said we had nothing to show …
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Elin Nordegren Speaks: ‘I Feel Stronger Than I Ever Have’ — Her divorce is final and she's ready to talk. Elin Nordegren breaks her nine-month silence in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE magazine. — “I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim.” — Get it? “Seedy”? The Nation quotes Franklin Graham: … When religionists talk about semen... Is the author of this piece — Leslie Savan —paying enough attention the the way she is expressing contempt for Muslim beliefs?
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