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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.
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Watts Up With That?, Macsmind, Climate Progress, The Freedomist, American Power, Wonk Room, Left Coast Rebel, Wonkette and Pirate's Cove
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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Weekly Standard, TBD All News, Left Coast Rebel, Townhall.com and Liberty Pundits Blog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gunman holding people hostage in Discovery Channel building …
Gunman holding people hostage in Discovery Channel building …
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Associated Press, Weigel, CBS News, Salon, About.com Conservative …, msnbc.com, TMZ.com, JustOneMinute, Patterico's Pontifications and Pajamas Media
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, Pajamas Media, The Freedomist, Runnin' Scared, Raw Story and TMZ.com
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, Post Now, The Wire, Guardian, Reuters, Mediaite, New York Times, Grist, Dr. Gridlock, TBD All News, Beltway Confidential, Gates of Vienna, The Other McCain and Outside the Beltway
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Achenblog, Right Wing News, NewsBusters.org, Don Surber and Liberty Pundits Blog
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Put up or shut up — We already know the numbers.
Put up or shut up — We already know the numbers.
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Weasel Zippers, nancynall.com 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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Red Dog Report, Fox News, Politics Daily, Hot Air, The Mudflats, Weekly Standard, TPMDC, Washington Wire, Politics PA, Riehl World View, Daily Kos, HotAirPundit and Don Surber
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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
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Murkowski not yet endorsing Miller
Murkowski not yet endorsing Miller
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CNN, Daily Kos and Public Policy Polling
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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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
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
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
Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
No Help On The Horizon For Dems
No Help On The Horizon For Dems
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Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, YID With LID, FoxNews.com and NRSC
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, FrumForum and New York Times
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, Taegan Goddard's …, Liberty Central, Ezra Klein, National Review, Michelle Malkin and NRSC
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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Hot Air, New York Times, Politics Daily and The Daily Beast
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 …
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
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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TPMMuckraker, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
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
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Raw Story and The Hinterland Gazette
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
Brian / Freedom's Lighthouse:
Mark Halperin Says GOP Could Gain as Many as 60 Seats in Midterm “Tidal Wave” - Video — Here is video of Time's Mark Halperin talking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews about his prediction that the GOP could pick up as many as “60 seats” in this Fall's Midterm Elections. — Halperin said:
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