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12:15 AM ET, August 27, 2010

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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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ABCNEWS:
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 …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative
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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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” …
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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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Gay Bush Aide?  No Bombshell in Age of Fiscal Issues  —  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 …
Discussion: Power Line
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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.
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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 …
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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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.
Discussion: The Hill
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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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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 …
Discussion: Fox News and Wonkette
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Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Building a Nation of Know-Nothings
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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Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
Third terror suspect was ‘Canadian Idol’ contestant
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and 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.
Discussion: 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
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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?
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.
Discussion: MyDD, GOP 12 and Riehl World View
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:
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.
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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The Huffington Post:
Dodd Questions Elizabeth Warren's Management Experience …
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Chris Cuomo: Christians Shouldn't Condemn Jihad Because of Crusades
CNN:
Blagojevich to be retried in 2011; charges dropped against brother
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Crist nightmare? Rubio agrees to seven debates
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