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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.
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msnbc.com:
Man holds hostages at Discovery TV building — A gunman with a possible explosive device strapped to himself entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Md., and is holding an undetermined number of hostages, police say. Full story — Holding hostages
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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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Weekly Standard, Left Coast Rebel and Liberty Pundits Blog
TBD All News:
Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring evacuated; gunman inside — UPDATE 2:15 p.m. Angela Gates, a Metro spokeswoman, said the SIlver Spring Metro station remains open, though the south entrance is closed. Buses that service the Silver Spring Transit Center are being detoured around closed streets, she said.
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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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Instapundit, The Wire, Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Raw Story, Althouse and Outside the Beltway
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Shots, “Explosive Device” Clears Discovery Channel HQ Near DC
Shots, “Explosive Device” Clears Discovery Channel HQ Near DC
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The Wire, JustOneMinute, Townhall.com, Pharyngula, Beltway Confidential and Riehl World View
Michelle Malkin:
Hostage situation at Discovery Channel; alleged gunman ID'ed as …
Hostage situation at Discovery Channel; alleged gunman ID'ed as …
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Think Progress, Silver Spring, Singular, Wonk Room and The Powers That Be
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gunman holding people hostage in Discovery Channel building …
Gunman holding people hostage in Discovery Channel building …
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Weigel, CBS News, msnbc.com, About.com Conservative …, Runnin' Scared, Pajamas Media and Patterico's Pontifications
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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Hot Air, Think Progress, Shakesville, Conservatives4Palin.com, NewsBusters.org, sisu, The Reid Report, Wonkette, TPMMuckraker, Raw Story, Mediaite, Tammy Bruce, GOP 12, The Daily Dish and The Right Scoop
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Wonkette, Conservatives4Palin.com, Weigel and Taegan Goddard's …
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, The Mudflats, TPMDC, Politics PA, HotAirPundit, Don Surber and The Other McCain
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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
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Lisa Murkowski loses, do Democrats sense opportunity?
Lisa Murkowski loses, do Democrats sense opportunity?
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Washington Post, Swing State Project, GOP 12 and Hotline On Call
Wall Street Journal:
Tax Cuts Weighed to Spur Economy — The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure program, according to people familiar with the discussions. — The president's economic team has met frequently …
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The Hill, Washington Wire, Open Congress, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly and iOwnTheWorld.com
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Tax Cuts That Make a Difference
Tax Cuts That Make a Difference
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The Confluence, Jay Bookman, JustOneMinute, Washington Post, NPR Blogs and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Note to My Fellow Hawks — President Obama opposed the war in Iraq. He still thinks it was a mistake. It's therefore unrealistic for supporters of the war to expect the president to give the speech John McCain would have given, or to expect President Obama to put the war in the context we would put it in.
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National Review, New York Times, Hot Air, Slate, The New Republic, Fox News, RedState, American Power, Guardian, Moe Lane, Public Secrets, Politics Daily, Political Byline, PostPartisan, Washington Wire, Commentary, JustOneMinute, Outside the Beltway, Right Wing News, Swampland, Betsy's Page, Pajamas Media, Instapundit, The Page, The Politico and CNN
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Bush-Era Iraq War Architects Emerge To Demand ‘Credit’ For Iraq War ‘Success’
Bush-Era Iraq War Architects Emerge To Demand ‘Credit’ For Iraq War ‘Success’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NPR, Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Guardian and The Daily Beast
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Iraq Through the Looking Glass
Iraq Through the Looking Glass
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Matthew Yglesias, New York Times, ATTACKERMAN, Theo Spark, Commentary, Neptunus Lex, The Camp Of The Saints, Salon and Wonk Room
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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Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
No Help On The Horizon For Dems — The Midterm Outlook Remains Grisly — 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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Outside the Beltway, Liberty Pundits Blog, YID With LID, NRSC and FoxNews.com
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
My name is Glenn Beck, and I need help — Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck's tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight. — Beck's “Restoring Honor” gathering on the Mall was right out of the Alcoholics Anonymous playbook.
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Don Surber, Achenblog, Right Wing News, Liberty Pundits Blog, No More Mister Nice Blog and NewsBusters.org
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper
Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper
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The Huffington Post, The Reid Report and Dependable Renegade
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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Politics Daily and New York Times
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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The New Republic, New York Times, ImmigrationProf Blog and Online NewsHour
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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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The Atlantic Online, Wonkette, Outside the Beltway, The Plum Line and New York Times
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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Washington Monthly
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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Michelle Malkin, Liberty Central and National Review
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 …
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The Powers That Be, Raw Story, The Right Scoop, AmSpecBlog, NewsBusters.org, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Liberty Pundits Blog
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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Crooks and Liars, WHIO-TV, TPMMuckraker, Indecision Forever, Talking Points Memo, Wonkette, Taegan Goddard's … and JammieWearingFool
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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TalkLeft, Hullabaloo, The Daily Dish, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
Joshua Treviño / The Huffington Post:
Why the President's Partisans Talk Down Islam — What's Your Reaction: — Among the more pernicious rumors swirling about Obama are those dealing with his Muslim connections. Or so we're told: the persons who denounce — and not coincidentally promulgate — these rumors are generally …
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Daily Kos, alicublog, The Reaction and Liberal Values
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
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, Politics Daily and Public Policy Polling
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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New York Magazine
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Bloomy: Only ‘total incapacitation’ or death would end term early — After today's Page Six float about the possibility of Mayor Bloomberg serving as Treasury Secretary for President Obama - and a WSJ story suggesting the white House is cozying up to the mayor to keep him from running himself …