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msnbc.com:
Police kill Discovery building gunman — Three hostages safe, police say; man told NBC he had several bombs — on msnbc.com -
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Andrea Nill / Think Progress:
Purported Eco-Terrorist Angered Over ‘Immigration Pollution And Anchor Baby Filth’ — This afternoon, a gunman entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, MD and appears to have taken at least one person hostage. Among his various bizarre, eco-related demands, one relates directly to immigration.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Who Is Daniel Quinn, Favored Author Of James Lee, Discovery Hostage Suspect?
Who Is Daniel Quinn, Favored Author Of James Lee, Discovery Hostage Suspect?
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TBD All News, Runnin' Scared, Weekly Standard, Townhall.com, Left Coast Rebel and Right Wing News
ABCNEWS:
Environmental Militant Killed by Police at Discovery Channel Headquarters
Environmental Militant Killed by Police at Discovery Channel Headquarters
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The Wire, The Freedomist, TMZ.com, Runnin' Scared, Pajamas Media and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Negotiations underway with James J. Lee in Discovery hostage situation
Negotiations underway with James J. Lee in Discovery hostage situation
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Althouse, msnbc.com, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weigel, Post Now, The Wire, Guardian, TBD All News, Dr. Gridlock, New York Times, Mediaite, Grist, Gates of Vienna, Pajamas Media and Outside the Beltway
TBD All News:
Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring evacuated; gunman inside
Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring evacuated; gunman inside
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CNN, This Just In, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Weekly Standard, Political Byline, Gawker and The Moderate Voice, more at Mediagazer »
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper — The Fox host says he held the inaugural address of the famously truthful founding father. Yeah right, says the National Archives. — Post Comment — During his much-ballyhooed “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday, Glenn Beck told a whopper involving …
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Donklephant, The Huffington Post, Political Byline, The Reid Report and Dependable Renegade
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Deval Patrick on Beck rally: “It's a free country. I wish it weren't.” — And you thought that a libtalker declaring a public space too sacred for God would be the dumbest quote from the Left on the Restoring Honor rally hosted by Glenn Beck. Michael Graham from Boston's WTKK posts a clip …
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American Glob, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and Chicago Boyz
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Put up or shut up — We already know the numbers. Pew finds that 18% of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim. A new Newsweek poll, taken after the controversy over the New York mosque, places that figure at 24%. Even if he's not a Muslim, Newsweek finds, 31 percent think it's …
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Weasel Zippers, nancynall.com and NewsBusters.org
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
My name is Glenn Beck, and I need help
My name is Glenn Beck, and I need help
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Achenblog, NewsBusters.org, Right Wing News, Don Surber and Liberty Pundits Blog
Tim Mak / FrumForum:
Romer: My Plan Failed — Dr. Christina Romer's economic speech today, marking her last speech as an administration official, is an admission that the fiscal stimulus package that she helped craft has failed. — Calling the economic recovery “insufficient”, she noted that a .6% drop …
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Sister Toldjah and National Review
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Silla Brush / The Hill:
Obama adviser calls for tax cuts, spending ahead of resignation — Christina Romer, in her final speech as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, called on Wednesday for new tax cuts and government spending to boost the economy. — Romer defended the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus bill …
Ann Coulter / Townhall.com:
Obama is Not a Muslim — The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. — Leave aside Obama's fanatical opposition to allowing Illinois hospitals to save the lives …
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Hot Air
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury — Even as Sarah Palin's public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor's road show …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Saying anything about Palin
Saying anything about Palin
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Pundit & Pundette, Wonkette, Conservatives4Palin.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weigel and Taegan Goddard's …
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree: Yes, There's More...
Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree: Yes, There's More...
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Think Progress and Wonkette
Pew Hispanic Center:
U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade — The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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New York Times, The New Republic, Online NewsHour and ImmigrationProf Blog
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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Illegal immigration declines sharply in California, across the country, report says
Illegal immigration declines sharply in California, across the country, report says
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Mother Jones
Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:
Illegal immigration to U.S. down almost 67% since 2000, report says
Illegal immigration to U.S. down almost 67% since 2000, report says
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Hot Air, Wonkette, Outside the Beltway, The Plum Line, The Atlantic Online, New York Times and FrumForum
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Alaska Senate — Alaska Senate: Miller (R) 50% McAdams (D) 44% — In Rasmussen Reports' first look at the U.S. Senate race in Alaska, Republican newcomer Joe Miller holds a six-point lead over Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams. — The latest statewide telephone survey …
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Aharding / CNN:
Miller questions GOP ‘courage and leadership’
Miller questions GOP ‘courage and leadership’
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Pundits Blog and Gateway Pundit
The Huffington Post:
Wyden Pushing For Oregon Waiver From Health Care Law, Individual Mandate — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — One of the most innovative voices in the health care debate, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is accelerating the process of exempting his state from some of the national reforms passed under President Barack Obama.
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Firedoglake, Liberty Central, National Review, Michelle Malkin and NRSC
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Give GOP Edge on Most Election Issues — Greatest Republican advantages on terrorism, immigration, federal spending — PRINCETON, NJ — A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans saying the Republicans in Congress would do a better job than the Democrats in Congress of handling seven of nine key election issues.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Gloom for Democrats as they look to November
Gloom for Democrats as they look to November
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Democratic Strategist, Blogcritics, The Confluence and Liberty Pundits Blog
The Huffington Post:
Obama Should Feel ‘Uncomfortable’ That Conservatives Are Co-opting Gay Rights Issues: Top Dem — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The notion that the gay rights community would abandon the Obama White House over its unwillingness to fully embrace their legislative priorities may seem absurd to the casual political observer.
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Wonk Room, AMERICAblog Gay and Towleroad News #gay
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Matthews: Obama Needs To Get Rid Of ‘Damn Teleprompter’ — This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.
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The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
Labor and liberal groups to hold Oct. 2 rally on Mall to counter Beck, Tea Party — Labor leaders, liberal religious leaders and the NAACP will hold a rally on the National Mall on October 2, one month before the fall midterm elections, in an attempt to show they too have political clout …
Tony Blair / Telegraph:
George Bush did not recognise Belgian prime minister — George W Bush did not recognise the prime minister of Belgium or understand why he was at a G8 meeting, Tony Blair has disclosed. — In his new book, A Journey, Mr Blair writes that the former US president was confused by the presence …
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Guardian, The Lede, iOwnTheWorld.com, Mother Jones and National Review
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Simon Hooper / CNN:
Blair: Bush world view had ‘immense simplicity’
Blair: Bush world view had ‘immense simplicity’
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New York Times, New York Times, Hot Air, Politics Daily and The Daily Beast
Paul Krugman:
The Economic Narrative — Why do people like me feel the need to revisit the fateful decision to go for an underpowered stimulus right at the beginning of the Obama administration? It's not about “I told you so”, or at least not mainly. It's about the economic narrative …
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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly and TalkLeft
New York Times:
Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond — IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain's royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved.
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New York Magazine and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Case for Why Sarah Palin Won't Run for President — When news surfaced yesterday that Sarah Palin would be venturing to Iowa to headline the GOP's annual Reagan Day Dinner on September 17, she sparked a new round of media speculation about her 2012 presidential ambitions.
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Des Moines Register, The Sarah Palin Blog, The Fix and GOP 12
David Weigel / Weigel:
A Good Get for the Birthers — I try to ignore the birther movement unless it inducts someone important — a congressman, for example. The (sigh) American Patriot Foundation's announcement that Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (ret.) has signed an affidavit supporting court martialed birther …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, TPMMuckraker, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Belinda Luscombe / Time:
Study: Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men — The fact that the average American working woman earns only about 8o% of what the average American working man earns has been something of a festering sore for at least half the population for several decades.
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ParaPundit, msnbc.com, National Review, Shakesville and Real Time Economics