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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
President Obama blasts lies, disinformation — Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy — President Barack Obama dismissed a recent poll showing that a third of Americans don't know he's a Christian - and blamed an online campaign of misinformation …
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Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
Glenn Beck regrets calling Obama a ‘racist’ — Fox News host Glenn Beck said Sunday that he misspoke last year when he characterized President Obama as a racist. — “I have a big fat mouth sometimes and I say things,” Beck said during an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
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The Reaction, Gawker and Dependable Renegade
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
After Washington rally, Glenn Beck assails Obama's religion — Conservative commentator Glenn Beck voiced sharper criticism of President Obama's religious beliefs on Sunday than he and other speakers offered from the podium of the rally Beck organized at the Lincoln Memorial a day earlier.
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NewsBusters.org, Raw Story, Firedoglake, News Hounds and Connecting.the.Dots
Laura Meckler / Washington Wire:
Obama Comments on Mosque Debate, Glenn Beck — President Barack Obama blamed a “network of misinformation” for causing a growing number of Americans to question his Christianity or to persuade some that he was not born in the United States. He said he was not particularly worried about either misconception.
Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
Jindal calls for greater ‘urgency’ from Obama on ending drilling moratorium
Jindal calls for greater ‘urgency’ from Obama on ending drilling moratorium
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Taylor Marsh and HotAirPundit
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
59 percent think Palin lacks ability to be effective as president — Almost three out of five Americans believe former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) would not be an effective president, a new poll found Monday. — 59 percent of U.S. adults said they don't think Palin, the 2008 Republican …
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CNN, Outside the Beltway and GOP 12
Brian O'Connor / Red Dog Report:
Alaska's Joe Miller on Face the Nation — “Everybody in this instance is going to have to so some belt tightening.” — Alaska's next Senator? — Tuesday's results and today's polls seem to say so. — Alaska US Senate candidate Joe Miller (R) appeared on CBS's Face The Nation this weekend.
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sisu and The Other McCain
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
The Alaska Senate Race
The Alaska Senate Race
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Washington Monthly, Think Progress, Conservatives4Palin.com and The Other McCain
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
More accusations made in close Senate race
More accusations made in close Senate race
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Ballot Box, American Spectator, The Other McCain, The Mudflats and Riehl World View
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Witch-Hunt Season — The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress …
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Daily Kos and The Mahablog
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The saving mentality is hurting the economy's recovery — The logic of the economic recovery isn't working — or, at any rate, not well. By that logic, over-borrowed Americans would repay loans and replenish depleted savings, creating a temporary drop in consumer spending and economic activity.
Mark Helprin / Wall Street Journal:
The World Trade Center Mosque and the Constitution — The plan to erect a mosque of major proportions in what would have been the shadow of the World Trade Center involves not just the indisputable constitutional rights that sanction it, but, providentially, others that may frustrate it.
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Commentary and The Future of Capitalism
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Orange County Is No Longer Nixon Country — SANTA ANA, Calif. — Orange County has been a national symbol of conservatism for more than 50 years: birthplace of President Richard M. Nixon and home to John Wayne, a bastion for the John Birch Society, a land of orange groves and affluence …
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ocgov.com, Philly.com and City of Irvine Website
NewsReal Blog:
11 Chapters Meghan McCain's Editor Axed From Dirty Sexy Politics — Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain is scheduled for release on August 31. But you don't have to wait until Tuesday to see what didn't make the final editorial cut. NewsReal Blog has obtained exclusive excerpts from the chapters rejected by Meggie Mac's editors.
Brian Murphy / Associated Press:
New York imam: Politics behind mosque opposition … DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York believes the fierce opposition is closely linked to the U.S. elections in November, according to comments published Monday.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Environmental groups face their future in climate-change debate — On Thursday, some of the country's most respected environmental groups - in the midst of their biggest political fight in two decades - sent a group of activists to Milwaukee with a message. — We're losing.
Ashley Fantz / CNN:
Stabbed cabbie out of work, worries about feeding family — (CNN) — New York cab driver Ahmed Sharif cannot bring himself to talk about the young man who allegedly cut his throat and nearly killed him last week, a taxi union representative said Sunday. — “Ahmed is a strong man …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Magazine, Suburban Guerrilla and Gawker
Sean O'Reilly / ABC Action News WFTS-TV:
Man arrested for attempting to spray mace on anti-gay protestors at a Leesburg High grad's funeral — Staff Sgt. Michael Bock died in Afghanistan — OMAHA, Neb. - A Nebraska man is jail after police believe he tried to spray mace on protestors outside the Omaha funeral of a Leesburg High graduate.
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Towleroad News #gay, Gawker and Joe. My. God.
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