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Lawyer Says Alleged Cab Driver Stabber Was Not Motivated By Anti-Muslim Hate — Michael Enright, 21, Is Charged With Attempted Murder and Hate Crime For New York Knife Attack — The attorney for Michael Enright, the New York City college student charged with attempted murder as a hate crime …
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The Moderate Voice, NewsBusters.org and TalkLeft
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msnbc.com:
Drunk shouts ‘terrorists,’ urinates on mosque rugs — Some worry NYC mosque controversy could lead to more attacks — msnbc.com staff and news service reports — NEW YORK — In the latest in a spate of anti-Muslim incidents over the last two days, an intoxicated man entered a mosque …
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Jihad Watch, New York Post, Latest Open Salon Blog, Hatewatch and Little Green Footballs
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Far From Ground Zero, Obscure Pastor Is Ignored No Longer
Far From Ground Zero, Obscure Pastor Is Ignored No Longer
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ACS Blog, Guardian, Left Coast Rebel, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker, Sweetness & Light, The Lede and The Awl
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
NY official: Stabbing suspect had war journals
NY official: Stabbing suspect had war journals
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Atlas Shrugs, Little Green Footballs, TPMMuckraker and msnbc.com
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative
Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative
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The Daily Caller, Right Wing News, Pajamas Media and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
Miller: NRSC ‘meddling’ in Alaska race — Joe Miller, currently the leader in Alaska's surprisingly competitive Republican Senate primary, accused the National Republican Senatorial Committee of “meddling” in the contest while charging that his opponent was trying to “pull an Al Franken.”
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Los Angeles Times, Riehl World View and The Other McCain
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican lawyer heads to Alaska for Lisa Murkowski — Alaska attorney Joe Miller leads Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state's Republican Senate primary. AP photo — Sean Cairncross, the general counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is headed to Alaska at the request …
Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Meet Joe Miller: The Alaska Tea Partier Who Has Dems Licking Their Lips
Meet Joe Miller: The Alaska Tea Partier Who Has Dems Licking Their Lips
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Democratic Strategist, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, No Left Turns, New York Times and Anchorage Daily News
Spencer MacColl / OpenSecrets.org:
Joe Miller's Tea Party Cavalry, Parties Chase Campaign Cash …
Joe Miller's Tea Party Cavalry, Parties Chase Campaign Cash …
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FiveThirtyEight, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast and Washington Post
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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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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Tanya Somanader / Think Progress:
An Irksome Arrangement: Glenn Beck Uses Charitable Donations To Pay For Restoring Honor Rally — This Saturday, the polarizing Fox News pundit Glenn Beck is hosting his Restoring Honor Rally in Washington, DC. Even though conservative celebrity and “potential 2012 presidential candidate” …
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Swampland, The Huffington Post and The Political Carnival
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
WATCH: Glenn Beck's egomania reaching comical proportions
WATCH: Glenn Beck's egomania reaching comical proportions
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The Plum Line, The Huffington Post, Wonkette, Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
Levi Johnston Takes Back His Apology To Palin — Levi Johnston Says Last Month's Apology To Sarah Palin Made Him Sound Like A Liar — (AP) 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 …
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Politics Daily, Taegan Goddard's … and The Political Carnival
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Kristin Dos Santos / E! Online:
Exclusive: Bristol Palin Is Coming to Dancing With the Stars — It's the Dancing With the Stars casting that no one saw coming! — We can report to you exclusively that Sarah Palin's 19-year-old daughter Bristol Palin has been cast on the 11th season of DWTS, set to premiere Sept. 20, according to sources.
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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The Huffington Post, Politics Daily and Ben Smith's Blog
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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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Hot Air, Publius Forum, The Hill, Beltway Confidential, Double Dutch Politics, CNN and Conservatives4Palin.com
South Union Street:
Eggs and Issues: Bright's Comments about Pelosi Draw Laughter — U.S. Congressman Bobby Bright, the first-term Democrat and former mayor of Montgomery, was heard having a little fun at U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's expense during his recent participation in the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce's Eggs and Issues.
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The Caucus, Politics Daily, USA Today, The Fix, The Political Carnival, The Hill, Mediaite, theblogprof, Hotline On Call, The Note, Hot Air, TPMDC, msnbc.com and The Plum Line
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Reporter: Blue Dog Dem joked that Pelosi might “get sick and die”
Reporter: Blue Dog Dem joked that Pelosi might “get sick and die”
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Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos, Michelle Malkin and Betsy's Page
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
Comedy Gold: Moonwalking Idol Contestant Indicted for Terror — Best terrorism story evah? It's like watching a real life Da Ali G show. Only, you know, funny. — His name is Khuram Sher and apparently he's the third wheel in a pretty serious domestic terror plot in Canada:
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The Lede, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
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Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
Third terror suspect was ‘Canadian Idol’ contestant
Third terror suspect was ‘Canadian Idol’ contestant
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Jihad Watch
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.
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Hot Air
Michael Grunwald / Time:
How the Stimulus Is Changing America — New juice Obama, right, tours a huge solar array in Nevada. Catching rays is easy; storing and shipping solar energy is harder. — John Locher / Getty Images — The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — President Obama's $787 billion stimulus …
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings
Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings
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Liberty Pundits Blog, NRSC and Commentary
Hotline On Call:
Why Democrats Will Keep The House — House Republicans are measuring the drapes in preparation for big gains in the lower chamber, convinced that Minority Leader John Boehner is going to become the next Speaker of the House. On a macro level, that wouldn't be a bad guess …
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Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
Will Money Save the Democrats?
Will Money Save the Democrats?
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Beltway Confidential and New York Times
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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American Glob, Left Coast Rebel, Beltway Confidential and Power Line
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
KABOOM! TPM Muckraker Comes Clean - Admits Their Blogger Is Suspected Carnahan Firebomber — KABOOM! — Far Left website TPM Muckraker took the offical walk of shame today and admitted that one of their unhinged bloggers was arrested for firebombing Congressman Russ Carnahan's office.
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The Hill
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Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
Ex-Campaign Worker ID'd As Suspect In Carnahan Arson
Ex-Campaign Worker ID'd As Suspect In Carnahan Arson
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RedState, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, thedanashow.wordpress.com and Big Government
Adam Smith / The Buzz:
Crist nightmare? Rubio agrees to seven debates — Soon after Charlie Crist agreed to participate in an Oct. 24 debate presented by CNN and the St. Petersburg Times, Marco Rubio upped the ante by agreeing to that debate - and six more. The first would be on NBC's Meet the Press Sept. 5.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama in the Swing States — Barack Obama expanded the map in 2008 but for the most part you're still going to find Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania as the most important states at the Presidential level because of their size and competitiveness and Obama's numbers in those places right now are brutal.
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MyDD, GOP 12 and Riehl World View
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
President Obama, It's Time to Can the Catfood Commission … Pete Peterson, the hedge fund billionaire who made his money by not paying his fair share of taxes, has pursued a decades-long quest to destroy Social Security and has pledged $1 billion to achieve that goal.
Eleison Group:
National Church Leaders Condemn Misrepresentations of President Obama's Christian Faith — Washington, DC (August 25, 2010)—Over 70 prominent Christian leaders and denominational heads from across the ideological spectrum joined together today to call for a stop to the misrepresentation of President Obama's Christian faith.
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Weasel Zippers, Political Punch, Religion Dispatches and The Political Carnival
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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NewsBusters.org, Metropolis, Jihad Watch, Gothamist, Sadly, No!, Washington Monthly and Patterico's Pontifications
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
How Ken Mehlman's ‘open secret’ stayed hidden — Ken Mehlman says he only recently concluded that he's gay. The media seems to have reached that conclusion years ago. — The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz is one of several journalists to quickly follow up on Mehlman's announcement Wednesday …
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