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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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Mike Allen / The Politico:
What Speaker Boehner would do first — Matt Bai thinks Obama may have missed his Mt. Rushmore moment - Kinsley and Scarborough to write columns for POLITICO — Ceci Connolly to McKinsey — “THE PRESIDENT TAKES ON THE PASTOR” — PRESIDENT OBAMA on “Good Morning America,” …
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and The Foundry
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Speaks Out Against Pastor's Plan to Burn Koran — WASHINGTON— President Obama sharply criticized a Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, calling it a “stunt” that threatens the lives of American troops in Afghanistan …
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The Huffington Post, The Lede, TPMCafe, JustOneMinute, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and ACS Blog
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: President Obama Says Terry Jones' Plan to Burn Korans Is ‘A Destructive Act’ — President: Pastor's ‘Stunt’ Could Endanger Lives Here and Abroad — A Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 could result in “serious violence” …
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Think Progress, Washington Monthly, Weekly Standard, National Review, Firedoglake and Politics Daily
Amir Shah / Associated Press:
Quran burning plan stirs outrage in Muslim world
Quran burning plan stirs outrage in Muslim world
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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Vox Popoli
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Opposition to ‘mosque’ directly linked to anti-Islam sentiment, poll shows — We now have clear evidence that there's a direct link between public anti-Islam sentiment and public opposition to the construction of Cordoba House, a.k.a. the “Ground Zero mosque.”
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Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
Colin Powell Says Ground Zero Mosque Should Go Forward
Colin Powell Says Ground Zero Mosque Should Go Forward
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Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Ground Zero Mosque Imam: If You Don't Build It, They Will Attack
Ground Zero Mosque Imam: If You Don't Build It, They Will Attack
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protein wisdom, Pajamas Media, Atlas Shrugs, Don Surber and Right Wing News
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Imam Rauf on CNN
Imam Rauf on CNN
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Power Line, CNN, Top of the Ticket and Sweetness & Light
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
More House Dems balking at ending Bush tax cuts for rich — Even as President Obama is mounting a strong stand in favor of letting the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire, and even as he's signaling that it will be a major campaign issue, more and more vulnerable House Dems are bolting in the other direction.
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bizjournals, TPMDC, Hot Air and The Washington Independent
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The Hill:
Momentum builds for extending all of President Bush's tax cuts — Momentum built Thursday for extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts after President Obama avoided a veto threat and a key Senate Democrat voiced support for the extension. — Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), a centrist who has been a key vote …
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Washington Monthly and Oliver Willis
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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Hit & Run, Hot Air, White House.gov Blog Feed, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, NRSC and Taegan Goddard's …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Republicans Dominate Medicare Discussions On White House Fiscal Commission
Republicans Dominate Medicare Discussions On White House Fiscal Commission
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Matthew Yglesias, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Plan Won't Fuel Big Spending, Report Says
Health Plan Won't Fuel Big Spending, Report Says
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Wonk Room, Right Wing News and Democracy in America
Kenric Ward / sunshinestatenews.com:
Marco Rubio Holds Double-Digit Lead in Senate Race — GOP candidate even beats Crist among independent voters, poll finds — Republican Marco Rubio, garnering surprising strength among independent voters, holds a double-digit lead over his two chief rivals in Florida's U.S. Senate race, a new Sunshine State News Poll reports.
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Washington Wire, Weekly Standard, Hot Air, TPMDC, National Review, Ballot Box, Don Surber, The Buzz and NRSC
Ezra Klein:
Forum: Andy Stern's plan to create 12 million new jobs — Late last week, I spoke with former SEIU president and current Georgetown fellow/fiscal commission member Andy Stern about hosting a series of pieces laying out different ideas to kick-start job creation.
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National Review
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Obama's MIA Volunteers: Organizing for America Shrinks — 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.
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RedState, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Swampland, The Moderate Voice, Tammy Bruce and The Page
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Murkowski Likely to Lose Leadership Spot if Campaign Continues — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will likely be forced out of her party leadership position should she decide to launch a write-in or third-party candidacy, a Senate Republican said Wednesday. — Murkowski, who conceded …
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The Politico, Fox News, Guardian and Firedoglake
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Untamed Prince — Marc Ambinder reports on the dictatorial powers held by many in government and upheld yesterday by a judiciary that gives unaccountable power - even the power to torture and kill - a drop-shadow, not a check. Marc has been following this state secrets issue for a long time …
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Newshoggers.com and New York Times
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Ben White / The Politico:
Warren delay has Wall St. wondering — What's taking so long? — That is what some on Wall Street are asking about the lack of a nominee from the White House for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the new financial watchdog agency created by the Wall Street reform bill.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CRISIS ON THE COURTS.... Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy recently noted the problems with the Senate's inability to confirm judicial nominees. “It's important for the public to understand that the excellence of the federal judiciary is at risk,” Kennedy said.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Prairie Weather and Patterico's Pontifications
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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Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, CNN and Wake up America
Henry Blodget / The Wire:
Sulzberger Concedes: “We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future” — At a conference in London, Arthur Sulzberger Jr conceded that someday the New York Times Company will be forced to stop publishing a printed paper. This sounds obvious, but it's a big deal.
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Mashable, Editors Weblog, The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Bryan Fischer / RenewAmerica:
Handle Muslims just like we handle the neo-Nazis — Germany is giving us a template on how we handle Muslims: just like we handle neo-Nazis. — According to Bloomberg, German police carried out 30 predawn raids against the nation's largest neo-Nazi group two days ago. — Why?
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Little Green Footballs and TPMMuckraker
Bloomberg:
Super PACs Flourish to Influence U.S. Vote After Companies Freed to Give — At least 25 “super PACS,” including one linked to Karl Rove, are fueling a surge in money for this year's elections following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on corporate campaign spending.
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The Moderate Voice, Donklephant, The Political Carnival and Shakesville
David Weigel / Weigel:
Meg Whitman Attacks Jerry Brown With the Ghost of Bill Clinton* — Meg Whitman's Republican campaign for governor of California, clearly not done with the decades of video tape they have on Jerry Brown, bring us back to the good old days of the 1992 presidential campaign.
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Outside the Beltway
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in back taxes last year, data show — Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but one with potential political ramifications for members of Congress.
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Politics Daily and National Review
Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Christine O'Donnell, running for U.S. Senate in Delaware, has a new TV ad bashing her Republican primary opponent, Rep. Mike Castle. — But O'Donnell's ad looks eerily similar to one recently produced by Intrepid Media for Americans for New Leadership, in support of Nevada candidate Sharron Angle …
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National Review and Riehl World View
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Md. flier ban may be unconstitutional — A Maryland judge's ban on distribution of campaign literature that state officials contend is misleading likely amounts to a prior restraint that runs afoul of the First Amendment, two prominent lawyers in the field told POLITICO.
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The Moderate Voice and The Volokh Conspiracy
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Lobbyists Rush to Hire G.O.P. Staff Ahead of Midterm Vote — WASHINGTON — With Democrats in danger of losing control of Congress, some prominent lobbying shops, trade groups and contractors are already moving to bring more Republicans on board to bolster their political fortunes.
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Oliver Willis, Don Surber and Prairie Weather
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Fired Up — This may win the prize for the worst stump speech ever. Oh my. — Here's the video via Oliver Willis:
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Zandar Versus The Stupid and Gawker