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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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Fox News:
Armed Man With Bomb Takes at Least One Hostage in Discovery Channel Building — DEVELOPING: Police in Maryland are responding to a hostage situation after reports that a man with a handgun entered the Discovery Channel headquarters building in Silver Spring and fired at least one shot.
Washington Post:
Negotiations underway with James J. Lee in Discovery hostage situation — Authorities are negotiating with a man wearing a suspected explosive device who has taken “a small number” of hostages at the Discovery Communications building in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery County Police said at an afternoon news conference.
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Who Is Daniel Quinn, Favored Author Of James Lee, Discovery Hostage Suspect? — The Discovery Office hostage situation is still a very fluid story that has yet to be resolved. But interesting clues are revealing themselves about the situation. The assailant has been identified as James Jay Lee …
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TBD All News, Weekly Standard, Raw Story, Left Coast Rebel, Townhall.com and Liberty Pundits Blog
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.
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Climate Progress, American Power, Wonkette, Wonk Room, TMZ.com and The Freedomist
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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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 — A former aide to the McCain campaign got in touch with me this morning to cop to being the half-serious progenitor of a story which, embellished almost beyond recognition, appears in Vanity Fair's portrait today of Sarah Palin as monster. — Reports Vanity Fair:
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Pundit & Pundette, Conservatives4Palin.com, Wonkette, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weigel and Taegan Goddard's …
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree: Yes, There's More... Bose headphones. A birthday dress for Bristol. Campaign documents and e-mails reveal the fine print. — The clothes. Few aspects of Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy have been more discussed than the $150,000 worth of clothing …
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Think Progress and Wonkette
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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The Huffington Post, Political Byline, The Reid Report and Dependable Renegade
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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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Achenblog, Right Wing News, No More Mister Nice Blog, Don Surber, Liberty Pundits Blog and NewsBusters.org
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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Bernie Quigley / Pundits Blog:
Joe Miller: America comes into the country
Joe Miller: America comes into the country
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The Politico and CNN
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 …
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Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
No Help On The Horizon For Dems — Labor Day is almost here and Democrats are still waiting for the cavalry to arrive. An exhaustive scan of the horizon reveals no rescuers and none of the things Democrats badly need to save them from tough midterm election losses on Nov. 2.
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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, Mother Jones, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Lede 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 and Politics Daily
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Conservative radio station polls listeners on whether the U.S. should “register” Muslims in a “national database” during “a time of war” — During the seemingly never-ending conservative freak-out over the proposed Park51 community center, right-wing media have dismissed the idea …
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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, Ezra Klein, Liberty Central, National Review, NRSC and Michelle Malkin
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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TalkLeft and Washington Monthly
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 …
NY Daily News:
Miracle! Man plunges from W. Side building, crashes atop of Dodge Charger and lives to tell tale — A young man plunged 39 stories Tuesday from a West Side high-rise, crashed through the windshield of a sports car - and lived to tell about it. — “My leg! My leg!”
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The Huffington Post, Runnin' Scared and Althouse
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.
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Bush-Era Iraq War Architects Emerge To Demand ‘Credit’ For Iraq War ‘Success’ — In April 2006, ThinkProgress produced a report titled “The Architects of War: Where Are They Now?” We wrote at the time, “a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded — not blamed — for their incompetence.”
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NPR, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly, American Power, The Caucus, Guardian and The Daily Beast
American Prospect:
Homegrown Mujahideen — It's tempting to demonize conservatives with hyperbolic comparisons, but liberals have an obligation to the truth. — Observant readers (or bookshelf scanners) will notice that American Taliban, the new book by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas …
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Hullabaloo, The Daily Dish, Mother Jones, TalkLeft and Daily Kos
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 »
David Catanese / The Politico:
Chiles to endorse Sink in Florida — Independent candidate Bud Chiles confirmed Wednesday he would drop out of Florida's race for governor and back Democratic nominee Alex Sink. — In a statement, aide Jim McClellan said Chiles would make the announcement official at a Thursday morning news conference in Tallahassee.
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Florida Times Union, CNN, Politics Daily, The Reid Report and Public Policy Polling
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Mitch Daniels Inner Circle — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels created a minor furor recently when comments he made to the Louisville Courier Journal were initially interpreted as him ruling out a run for president in 2012. — Upon closer inspection, however, Daniels was doing the classic tap dance of any potential presidential candidate.
Lynn Hulsey / Dayton Daily News:
Senate candidate indicted for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor — DAYTON — Eric W. Deaton, a Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate, was indicted Tuesday, Aug. 31, for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, according to Greg Flannagan, spokesman for Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr.
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Eric Lach / TPMDC:
Tancredo: First Lady Wanted To Ban Christmas Artifacts At The White House — Tom Tancredo isn't going away. The former congressman and one-time presidential candidate may have upended the Colorado gubernatorial race with his third-party run, but he's still not shy to air his controversial views on national issues.
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