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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Koran Burning Is Insensitive, Unnecessary; Pastor Jones, Please Stand Down — Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
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ABCNEWS:
FBI Says Retaliation for Koran Burning ‘Likely’ — Intel Bulletin Cites ‘High Confidence’ of Backlash — The FBI is concerned that Islamic extremists might attack and retaliate at this Saturday's Koran burning planned by radical Florida pastor Terry Jones, ABC News has learned.
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The Jawa Report, Think Progress, The Note, The Two Malcontents and Hot Air
Liberty Pundits Blog:
BREAKING: Qu'ran Burning Church Linked To Westboro Baptist Church-UPDATED — By Guest Author Tom Reynolds aka Beregond — I'll never be a tenth the expert on cults that my late wife was, but you can't be married to someone for almost 20 years without learning something about their passions.
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The Lede, ABCNEWS, Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs, National Review and Riehl World View
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
‘The Miracle of the 1940s’ — A former Enron adviser's improbable history.
‘The Miracle of the 1940s’ — A former Enron adviser's improbable history.
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NewsBusters.org, AMERICAblog News, Bookworm Room, CNN, Crooks and Liars and The Blaze
Michael Sheridan / NY Daily News:
Attorney General Eric Holder calls Rev. Terry Jones' 'International …
Attorney General Eric Holder calls Rev. Terry Jones' 'International …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers, Associated Press and Fox News
CNN:
Imam: Handling of Islamic center plan a matter of national security — (CNN) — The religious leader behind plans to erect an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero said Wednesday night that America's national security depends on how it handles the controversy.
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ABCNEWS, Left Coast Rebel, The Daily Caller, Right Wing News, RedState and Weasel Zippers
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Associated Press:
Imam fears moving NYC mosque could inflame tension — NEW YORK - The imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero cautioned Wednesday that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security.
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JammieWearingFool, Associated Press and Jihad Watch
National Review:
This Is Where We Begin to Say No — On the Ground Zero mosque …
This Is Where We Begin to Say No — On the Ground Zero mosque …
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INSTAPUTZ, Firedoglake and Power Line
Paul / Power Line:
Feisal Abdul Rauf then and now — positively the same guy
Feisal Abdul Rauf then and now — positively the same guy
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Whiskey Fire
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
President Obama to Pastor Jones: ‘Stunt’ Endangers Troops - Full Transcript of Exclusive Interview — I covered a lot of ground with the president in Cleveland yesterday: His decision to make John Boehner the midterm punching bag. Will he veto a sanction of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy?
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The Hill, TPMMuckraker, ABCNEWS, Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obama vs. the Republicans (With Full Speech Text) — I think it's safe to say that President Obama has given up on bipartisanship, at least for the foreseeable future. — The White House just released prepared text of his economic speech to the City Club of Cleveland.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Obama raises stakes and redefines debate for the midterm election
Obama raises stakes and redefines debate for the midterm election
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Washington Monthly, The New Civil Rights Movement, Politics Daily, Osborne Ink, Eunomia and Prairie Weather
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Barbara Boxer aide charged with possession of pot — A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports. — Marcus Stanley, who served as a senior economic adviser …
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RedState, Tammy Bruce, Mediaite, Washington Wire, PolitiCal, Pajamas Media, Wonkette, Left Coast Rebel, TPMMuckraker and Washington Post
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A. — WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C.I.A. could not sue over their alleged torture in overseas prisons because such a lawsuit might expose secret government information.
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Weekly Standard, The Talking Dog, Emptywheel, Guardian, Hot Air, Salon, The BRAD BLOG, Politics Daily, Prairie Weather, American Power and BLACKFIVE
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Florida College Shuts Down Conservative Event After Seeing Anti-Obama Literature (Video) — It begins... School officials at Palm Beach State College kicked members of the Young America's for Freedom off campus after they saw anti-Obama literature at their table. — It was offensive.
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Power Line
Paul Haven / Associated Press:
Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work — HAVANA - Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.
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Questions and Observations, Sweetness & Light, Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Babalú Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'
Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'
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Guardian, Pajamas Media, Harry's Place, Left Coast Rebel, Hot Air, The Daily Dish, Reuters, Little Green Footballs, The Blaze, TalkLeft and Fausta's Blog
The Hill:
Wall Street fills coffers of top GOP candidates — Wall Street and financial interests are putting their money behind a handful of top-tier Senate Republican candidates as the GOP looks to win back power in the midterm elections. — The industry's contributions, which favored Democrats …
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The Politico and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Biden: Bush deserves ‘a lot of credit’ — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday night said that former President George W. Bush deserves ‘a lot of credit’ for his handling of the initial Iraq war drawdown. — Speaking to Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who conducted a rare …
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CNN
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican Governors Association moves $500,000 to New Mexico — 1. The Republican Governors Association in recent days has donated $500,000 to Dona Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez's gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico, the latest sign that national GOP strategists believe …
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Hotline On Call
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Jerry Brown: 'I Have a Plan, I'll Tell You After the Election' — While speaking to business leaders in Silicon Valley, California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown announces that he has a plan for the State's fiscal crisis, but he won't reveal it until after the election.
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theblogprof, protein wisdom, The Other McCain and Pajamas Media
BBC:
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs fined £17.5m by FSA — Goldman Sachs settled fraud charges in the US by paying $550m — Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs has been fined £17.5m ($27m) by the UK's City regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
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The First Post and Truthdig
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Health Outlays Still Seen Rising — The health-care overhaul enacted last spring won't significantly change national health spending over the next decade compared with projections before the law was passed, according to government figures set to be released Thursday.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Michael Joseph Gross Responds to Criticism of His Article on Sarah Palin — It has been only a few days since the appearance of my Vanity Fair article “Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury,” and the response, to put it mildly, has been considerable. I won't address simple differences …
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Wonkette, The Other McCain, National Review, Ben Smith's Blog, NewsBusters.org, Conservatives4Palin.com and NewsReal Blog
Alissa Torres / Salon:
9/11 widow: The media duped us — As I watch other victims argue over Park51, I feel like reporters turned us into the experts we never were — The first time I heard about the Park51 Islamic community center was on May 6, 2010, when I received the following e-mail from a New York TV reporter:
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Firedoglake and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Whatever Happened to Obama's Army? — What happened to Barack Obama's once vaunted political machine? The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008 — known as Organizing for America — is a ghost of its former self. Its staff has shrunk from 6,000 to 300 …
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The Moderate Voice
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages — Says Translators Failed Language Tests, Were Still Embedded With US Troops In Afghanistan — More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams …
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TPMMuckraker, Osborne Ink and Crooks and Liars