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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 …
Breaking: Two men arrested in Amsterdam on terror charges …
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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 …
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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Gateway Pundit, Red Dog Report and Michelle Malkin
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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).
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Philly.com, Political Byline, Gawker, New York Magazine and News Hounds, more at Mediagazer »
ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan Urged Gov't Employees …
Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan Urged Gov't Employees …
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American Glob and msnbc.com
Joe Schoffstall / The Blast:
Amazing: Aerial Shot of Glenn Beck's ‘Restoring Honor’ …
Amazing: Aerial Shot of Glenn Beck's ‘Restoring Honor’ …
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Gateway Pundit
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Builds a Big Tent . . . for Conservatives
Obama Builds a Big Tent . . . for Conservatives
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Chicago Boyz
Adam Serwer / The Plum Line:
Was the Glenn Beck rally turnout really that impressive?
Was the Glenn Beck rally turnout really that impressive?
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Firedoglake, Indecision Forever, Big Journalism, Theo Spark, News Hounds and Pajamas Media
Eric Dondero / Libertarian Republican:
BREAKING!! Alaska Libertarian Party votes to deny Lisa Murkowski ballot line — From Eric Dondero: — The Executive Committee of the Alaska Libertarian Party held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the contested primary results in the Republican Senate primary.
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Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller campaign alleges possible vote tampering and wants state …
Miller campaign alleges possible vote tampering and wants state …
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Fox News, The Note, The Politico, The Caucus and The Mudflats
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Tea Party Express ready to spend on Rep. Castle challenger
Tea Party Express ready to spend on Rep. Castle challenger
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Public Policy Polling, TPMDC, CNN, Daily Kos, Salon, The Atlantic Online, Swing State Project and Weigel
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Alaska Libertarians: No ballot switch
Alaska Libertarians: No ballot switch
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JOSHUAPUNDIT, CNN, Daily Kos, Riehl World View, Swing State Project, Ballot Box, Red Dog Report, The Other McCain and Sister Toldjah
Booman Tribune:
Wrong Answer — This is not good enough: Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs says: “I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. ... Nobody had, in January of 2009, a sufficient grasp of ... what we were facing.”
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Paul Krugman, The Confluence, Grasping Reality … and The Democratic Daily
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama may call Bush before Iraq speech
Obama may call Bush before Iraq speech
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The Democratic Daily, The Politico, Pundits Blog, Weasel Zippers, The Hill and The Page
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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JammieWearingFool and American Spectator
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Sebelius: Administration Has a Lot of ‘Reeducation’ To Do on Obamacare
Sebelius: Administration Has a Lot of ‘Reeducation’ To Do on Obamacare
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Weasel Zippers
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.
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Runnin' Scared, Balloon Juice and Gawker
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.
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Ben Smith's Blog and Hot Air
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 …
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News Hounds and The Reid Report
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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The Reaction, No More Mister Nice Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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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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Pajamas Media and Don Surber
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Are you ready for President John Bolton?
Are you ready for President John Bolton?
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ThreatsWatch, Wonkette, Ben Smith's Blog and The Blaze
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
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Telegraph, EU Referendum and Firedoglake
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
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 …
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Pajamas Media, Inside Cable News and msnbc.com
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.
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The Hinterland Gazette
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Bigot starts ground zero church: Where's the outrage? — A bigoted pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center site this Sunday, but so far the project hasn't drawn a peep of protest …
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The Lede and Washington Monthly
Capitol Confidential:
The Gibson theory of the Great Depression — Chris Gibson, a retired Army colonel from Kinderhook who is the Republican candidate against Rep. Scott Murphy, said that government intervention before the Great Depression “had a lot to do with exacerbating the situation.”
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Pajamas Media and The Future of Capitalism
The Onion:
Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims — SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.
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The New Republic, Indecision Forever and The Plum Line
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
More would-be interns paying thousands to land a coveted spot — Each year, thousands of college students descend on Washington for unpaid internships. It can be a nerve-racking process: sending out résumés, trying to make contacts, interviewing again and again.
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Suburban Guerrilla and Corrente
Andrew Clark / Guardian:
US homeowners flock to Florida — More than 20,000 American mortgagees to hit Palm Beach as Naca's five-day mortgage modification marathon gets under way — In the pre-dawn darkness of a steamy night of sub-tropical rain, a queue of anxious, soggy people snakes around the palm trees outside a cavernous Florida convention centre.
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naked capitalism
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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YID With LID, Israel Matzav and The Jawa Report