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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay — Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay. — Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview.
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Michael Luo / New York Times:
Former G.O.P. Leader Says He Is Gay — Ken Mehlman, President George W. Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has revealed to family and friends over the last few months that he is gay, he said in an interview Wednesday.
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman: I'm gay — Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the former campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 re-election bid, has told his family and colleagues that he is gay, according to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder. — From Ambinder's report:
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller's lead slims; Murkowski awaits absentees — Joe Miller's lead over U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski slightly narrowed to 1,668 votes with all the election precincts counted Wednesday. A stunned Murkowski said she is not giving up hope until absentee ballots are counted starting next week.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Tuesday's tutorial: a GOP too far right — Republicans are in the midst of an insurrection. Democrats are not. This vast gulf between the situations of the two parties — not some grand revolt against “the establishment” or “incumbents” — explains the year's primary results …
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Shushannah Walshe / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Palin Foe Mulls Third-Party Run — There's a new wrinkle in Alaska's hotly contested GOP Senate primary. With Senator Lisa Murkowski trailing Palin-endorsed insurgent Joe Miller, a source inside Murkowski's campaign tells The Daily Beast the senator may abandon the GOP for a third party run.
Anchorage Daily News:
Miller on verge of toppling Murkowski
Miller on verge of toppling Murkowski
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Murkowski won't ditch GOP yet
Murkowski won't ditch GOP yet
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The Caucus, Conservatives4Palin.com, The Other McCain, RedState and CNN
The Politico:
Democrats privately fear House prospects worsening — Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.
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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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Muslim cab driver slashed by boozed-up bigot just back from filming …
Muslim cab driver slashed by boozed-up bigot just back from filming …
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THEROOT.COM, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Michelle Malkin
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Enright made ‘nonsensical’ statements to cops; no warning signs at work
Enright made ‘nonsensical’ statements to cops; no warning signs at work
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City Room:
Student Arraigned in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabdriver
Student Arraigned in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabdriver
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Paul Bedard / US News:
Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats — One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections.
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Shaping Tea Party Passion Into Campaign Force — WASHINGTON — On a Saturday in August when most of the political class has escaped this city's swelter, 50 Tea Party leaders have flown in from across the country to jam into a conference room in an office building on Pennsylvania Avenue …
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Stephen Prothero / CNN:
TRENDING: New York's Bloomberg: We are all Muslims — Editor's Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of “God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World,” is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor. — By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN
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The Politico:
Party-less Charlie Crist faces harsh reality — WEST MIAMI, Fla. — First, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was supposed to be the Republican nominee for Senate. Then he seemed on track to be the de facto Democratic candidate. Now, following Rep. Kendrick Meek's victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary …
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Paul Krugman:
Fire Alan Simpson — I always thought that the deficit commission was a bad idea; it has only looked worse over time, as the buzz is that Democrats are caving in to Republicans, leaning ever further toward an all-cuts, no taxes solution, including a sharp rise in the retirement age.
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Ashley Carson / National Commission …:
Sen. Simpson apologizes to OWL for his remarks
Sen. Simpson apologizes to OWL for his remarks
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Glenn Beck rally will be a measure of the tea party's strength — When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to “restore honor” to America, he will test the strength - and potentially expose the weaknesses …
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Townhall.com, Associated Press and The Page
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Quayle surprises even himself — After a cascade of accusations and ever-shifting denials that he wrote for a raunchy website under the name of a fictional porn star, it seemed even Ben Quayle thought he was going to lose a 10-way Republican primary in Arizona.
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Ben Quayle hammers Obama in victory speech
Ben Quayle hammers Obama in victory speech
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Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Tom Murse / LancasterOnline.com:
Corbett, Toomey leading, poll says — F&M poll director says the only question is how badly Democrats will lose in November election — Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era — Republicans Pat Toomey and Tom Corbett are running far ahead of their Democratic opponents in congressional …
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New York Times:
Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to C.I.A. — KABUL, Afghanistan — The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials.
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CNN:
10 week to-do list: Your ideas for Obama, Republicans — (CNN) — Strategists on both sides of the political aisle weighed in this week on what President Obama and Republicans must do before the November midterms to give their parties a boost. — The 10-week to-do lists resulted in thousands …
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New York Post:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz goes bonkers — MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network's 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, “I'm going to torch this [bleep]ing place.” — The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding.
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Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Stimulus assessments overly optimistic — WASHINGTON - The Obama administration claimed this week that $100 billion invested in innovative technologies under the economic stimulus law is “transforming the American economy” by putting the nation on track for technological breakthroughs …
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Hot Air, Time and Riehl World View
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
LA GOPer: November A Choice Between An Atheist Society And A Christian Nation — Appearing before the Republican Women of Bossier with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) cast the November elections as a choice between godlessness and Christianity. He also called bipartisanship impossible.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Another ‘Moderate’ GZ Mosque Supporter Can't Bring Himself to Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization — Last night, I was on David Asman's Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter.
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Weasel Zippers, American Glob and American Power
New York Times:
Despite Reform, Banks Have Room for Risky Deals — When Congress passed a new financial regulation bill last month, it sought to prevent federally insured banks from making speculative bets using their own money. But that will not stop banks from making bets that some critics deem risky …
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Douglas H. Shulman / Z STREET:
Z STREET v IRS Commissioner — IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA — Z STREET, — Plaintiff, — v. — IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS — COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, — Defendant. — COMPLAINT — COMES NOW the Plaintiff …
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