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John R. Parkison / ABCNEWS:
Tea Party Spells KKK, Rights Leader Says — Black Leaders Outraged Over ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally — A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Tea Party Rocks Primaries — Some shocking electoral results this week are providing new proof that the loony Tea Party movement has surged to levels of influence far beyond anything most of us could ever have imagined possible, with the key results coming in Arizona and Alaska.
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Tanya Somanader / Think Progress:
An Irksome Arrangement: Glenn Beck Uses Charitable Donations …
An Irksome Arrangement: Glenn Beck Uses Charitable Donations …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
This Is Not a Recovery — What will Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, say in his big speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo.? Will he hint at new steps to boost the economy? Stay tuned. — But we can safely predict what he and other officials will say about where we are right now …
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Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Weak GDP raises stakes for Obama, Fed — Growth figures are expected to show the economy is almost at a standstill, but the government is running out of options to rebuild momentum. — Reporting from Washington — The widening consensus that the U.S. economy has slowed to a crawl …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is Michael Enright? — The suspect in an anti-Muslim hate crime worked for an outfit that backs the Ground Zero mosque. — “It's not even Islamophobia, it's beyond Islamophobia,” Daisy Khan, wife of Ground Zero mosque planner Feisal Abdul Rauf, told ABC's Christiane Amanpour Sunday.
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msnbc.com:
Drunk shouts ‘terrorists,’ urinates on mosque rugs
Drunk shouts ‘terrorists,’ urinates on mosque rugs
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ABCNEWS:
Lawyer Says Alleged Cab Driver Stabber Was Not Motivated By Anti-Muslim Hate
Lawyer Says Alleged Cab Driver Stabber Was Not Motivated By Anti-Muslim Hate
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative
Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative
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Tom Hays / Associated Press:
NY official: Stabbing suspect had war journals
NY official: Stabbing suspect had war journals
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Chris Pizzello / Associated Press:
Levi Johnston takes back his apology to Palin … ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson, says he wishes he hadn't apologized for telling lies about the former Alaska governor because he's “never lied about anything.” — Johnston said in an interview on CBS' …
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Kristin Dos Santos / E! Online:
Exclusive: Bristol Palin Is Coming to Dancing With the Stars
Exclusive: Bristol Palin Is Coming to Dancing With the Stars
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Miller says he is concerned Murkowski will ‘pull an Al Franken’ — Joe Miller, the Republican candidate who is poised to knock off Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) in a primary contest, said Thursday he is concerned she will launch a protracted legal battle to save her seat.
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Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
Miller: NRSC ‘meddling’ in Alaska race
Miller: NRSC ‘meddling’ in Alaska race
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Gay Bush Aide? No Bombshell in Age of Fiscal Cares — Had a former chairman of the Republican National Committee announced in 2004 that he was gay, it would have been a bombshell. In that hard-fought election year, Republicans and Democrats were rushing to condemn a court for establishing …
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Opponents of same-sex marriage target Iowa judges
Opponents of same-sex marriage target Iowa judges
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
How Ken Mehlman's ‘open secret’ stayed hidden
How Ken Mehlman's ‘open secret’ stayed hidden
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause! — Two years ago almost to the day, I was thrilled to meet with union members at the Alaska AFL-CIO Convention in Anchorage to sign important job-creation legislation related to the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Trumka: Palin will ‘go down in history like McCarthy’
Trumka: Palin will ‘go down in history like McCarthy’
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John / Power Line:
Who's Stupid? — Lately there has been a rash of news stories and columns decrying the stupidity of Americans, mostly based on a finding by the Pew Research Center that 18 percent of Americans think that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Predictably, the New York Times joined the pile-on with this column …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Among Democrats, economic pressures are changing tax-cut dynamics — With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation's wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array …
Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
Cramer: ‘Mass Panic’ in Markets Tomorrow After ‘Shocker’ GDP Released — It is a curious phenomenon - the way the media have handled the economy since President Barack Obama has taken office. Generally the coverage has been on the optimistic side over the last 18 months.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The last refuge of a liberal — Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat.
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Garance Burke / Associated Press:
SPIN METER: What Biden didn't mention on stimulus — FRESNO, Calif. — Vice President Joe Biden said this week that the Obama administration “hit the accelerator” toward spending $5 billion under the economic stimulus law to weatherize people's homes, create thousands of jobs …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
‘Debate Marriage Proposal’ Segment Goes From Sweet to Awkward...to Weird — On MSNBC Live this morning, anchor Tom Roberts thought he was introducing an airy bit of news cotton candy in the story of Providence, RI mayoral candidate Chris Young's mid-debate marriage proposal to girlfriend Kara Russo.
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Daniel Foster / National Review:
How Vindictive Is This Administration? — I'm not usually the conspiratorial type, but watch Gov. Chris Christie explain how the Obama administration disqualified the state of New Jersey from hundreds of millions in education funds because some clerk in Trenton turned in the wrong excel spreadsheet:
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Maddow Mocks Gov. Christie's Math Skills Before Making Same Subtraction Error
Maddow Mocks Gov. Christie's Math Skills Before Making Same Subtraction Error
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Wall Street Journal:
Scapegoating For-Profit Colleges — Obama tees up another private industry for punishment. — President Obama says he wants the U.S. to have the world's highest percentage of college graduates by 2020, yet his Administration is slapping new regulations on for-profit colleges that would make reaching that goal more difficult.