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8:30 AM ET, August 31, 2010

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ABCNEWS:
ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Two Men on United Flight from Chicago Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam  —  Suspects Had Been Cleared Sunday by TSA in Chicago, Birmingham Despite Security Concerns  —  Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Two men arrested in Amsterdam on terror charges …
Discussion: HillBuzz
New York Times:
Airline Passengers Held on Fears of Terrorist Plot
Discussion: Biased BBC
Frank Newport / Gallup:
GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot  —  Republicans also maintain wide gap in enthusiasm about voting  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences.
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The Politico:
Tidal wave? 10-point poll edge for GOP  —  Democrats thought things couldn't get much worse on the electoral front — and then they went home to campaign.  —  A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the “generic ballot” test …
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Lisa Gartner / Washington Examiner:
Education secretary urged his employees to attend Sharpton's rally  —  President Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.  —  “ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan …
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan Urged Gov't Employees …
Discussion: American Glob and msnbc.com
Joe Schoffstall / The Blast:
Amazing: Aerial Shot of Glenn Beck's ‘Restoring Honor’ …
Discussion: Macsmind and Gateway Pundit
Gerry Mullany / The Caucus:
Boehner Assails Obama on Iraq  —  In advance of President Obama's Tuesday night speech on Iraq, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, was set to remind thousands of veterans attending the national convention of the American Legion that Mr. Obama and other Democrats …
Discussion: The Hill
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:   Boehner's spending-cut savings canceled out by tax-cut extension
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Eric Dondero / Libertarian Republican:
BREAKING!!  Alaska Libertarian Party votes to deny Lisa Murkowski ballot line
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Palin's Speaking Demands Confirmed: $75K, SUVs, Deluxe Hotel Suites, Bendable Straws, And No Public Access  —  In April, two students at Cal State Stanislaus found a partial copy of a speaker's contract for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.  The partial copy revealed that Palin …
The Note:
Sebelius: Time for ‘Reeducation’ on Obama Health Care Law  —  ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports:  —  With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats' health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius …
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Sebelius: Administration Has a Lot of ‘Reeducation’ To Do on Obamacare
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Betsy's Page
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
Confirmed: Sarah Palin to Headline Iowa GOP Dinner in September  —  Well-placed sources tell TheIowaRepublican.com that Sarah Palin is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Republican Party of Iowa's Ronald Reagan Dinner on Friday, September 17th.  The state party is slated to release more details about the event tomorrow.
Discussion: The Hill, Ben Smith's Blog and Hot Air
John Cloud / Time:
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?  —  Jodi Cobb / National Geographic Creative / Getty Images  —  One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do.
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Glenn Beck Launches “News And Opinion” Website, The Blaze, Tonight  —  Having conquered TV, radio, book publishing and now live events, Glenn Beck is looking to expand his media empire into a new arena - the web (obviously GlennBeck.com is thriving too).
The Hill:
Wealthy lawmakers increased their riches as economy sputtered in '09  —  The wealthiest members of Congress grew richer in 2009 even as the economy struggled to recover from a deep recession.  —  The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth almost $1.4 billion in 2009, about $85.1 million …
Little Green Footballs:
Palin: Babies - Guns - Jesus  —  Here's another photo from the Glenn Beck Restoration Minstrel Show; the rally's organizers banned signs, so the audience brought t-shirts.  —  SanFranciscoZionist ::  5 seconds ago  —  Tags: Glenn Beck, Kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Tea Party, Racism, Bad Craziness, Sarah Palin
Andrew M. Harris / Bloomberg:
ACLU Sues U.S. Over Targeted Killing of Citizens  —  The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government over an alleged policy of killing American citizens who are suspected of terrorism.  —  The lawsuit, filed today in federal court in Washington, argued that such targeted assassinations …
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Salon:
Lawsuit challenges Obama's power to kill citizens without due process
Juliette Jowit / Guardian:
Lomborg: $100bn a year to fight global warming  —  Exclusive ‘Sceptical environmentalist’ and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world  —  • Climate change voice who changed his tune  —  • Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to stand aside
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bill Press: Talking about God not appropriate for “sacred” spot  —  Greg Hengler captures the moment in which “incoherence” is defined, during CNN's “Reliable Sources” yesterday.  Howard Kurtz notes that libtalker Bill Press had spent the last several weeks crusading against Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally …
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle in 2005: I would have voted “no” on Katrina relief funds  —  I have previously wondered how many Angle tapes are out there to compete with the jobs/Social Security/slush fund/Government is not God classics.  I know the answer is: A lot.  But I am starting to think there may be one a week …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
How Sharron Angle can (still) win
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Elisa Crouch / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Big incentive for school attendance: Cash  —  ST. LOUIS  • Stacey Wright had more than a dozen choices when it came to enrolling three of her children in an elementary school, from charters to magnets to traditional public schools in every corner of the city.
Fox News:
CBO: Eight Years of Iraq War Cost Less Than Stimulus Act  —  As President Obama prepares to tie a bow on U.S. combat operations in Iraq, Congressional Budget Office numbers show that the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democratic-led Congress in 2009.
Discussion: Brain Rage and Gateway Pundit
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org:
Rick Sanchez Apologizes After Labeling Obama the ‘Cotton-Picking President’  —  CNN's Rick Sanchez quickly apologized on his Rick's List program on Monday after inadvertently labeling Barack Obama the “cotton-picking president of the United States.”  Sanchez used the racially-tinged term …
Honest Reporting:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dramatic Reunion Ten Years After The Photo That Started It All  —  Exclusive: Tuvia Grossman Interviewed by HonestReporting … HonestReporting: How have things changed for you since your picture appeared in the NY Times?  —  Tuvia Grossman: Ten years ago …
Discussion: Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Women set to bear 72% of British austerity cuts, report shows  —  LONDON - As Britain prepares for the deepest budget cuts in generations to tackle a crippling mound of public debt, the government is facing a pressing legal question: Is its austerity plan sexist?
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Sun Tzu / Big Peace:
Captured on Video: Fundraising for Hamas in U.S. Mosque  —  An alarming, must-see video at Big Peace shows prominent leaders of the Islamic community in the United States openly raising money for terrorism at a Saudi-funded mosque in central Florida.  —  Organized by the Islamic Society …
 
 
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Paul Bedard / US News:
Rewriting History on Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Accident
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More would-be interns paying thousands to land a coveted spot
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The Gibson theory of the Great Depression
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James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
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The Onion:
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WFMJ-TV:
Right Now  —  MAHONING COUNTY, Ohio - Jim Traficant now appears …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Folly of Needless Alcohol Laws
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Builds a Big Tent . . . for Conservatives
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Bigot starts ground zero church: Where's the outrage?
Discussion: The Lede and Washington Monthly