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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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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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ABCNEWS, Atlas Shrugs, Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, National Review and Riehl World View
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 Two Malcontents and Hot Air
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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Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers, Associated Press and Fox News
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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Mediaite, Tammy Bruce, PolitiCal, Wonkette, Pajamas Media, Left Coast Rebel and Washington Post
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CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: All tied up in California races
CNN/Time Poll: All tied up in California races
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Doug Ross, Associated Press and The Moderate Voice
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Paul campaign: Online impersonator was impersonated
Paul campaign: Online impersonator was impersonated
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Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online and Little Green Footballs
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.
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The Other McCain, Hullabaloo, Newshoggers.com and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
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New York Times:
Obama, in Rally Mode, Steps Up Jabs at G.O.P. — CLEVELAND — Seeking to rally his struggling party for the final weeks of the midterm election, President Obama delivered his most partisan speech of the campaign so far on Wednesday, casting Democrats as fighters for the middle class …
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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Guardian, Emptywheel, The BRAD BLOG, The Talking Dog, Hot Air, Salon, American Power, Politics Daily, Prairie Weather 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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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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Pajamas Media, Harry's Place, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, Reuters, The Daily Dish, Little Green Footballs, The Blaze, TalkLeft and Fausta's Blog
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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Weasel Zippers
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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 and YID With LID
National Review:
This Is Where We Begin to Say No — On the Ground Zero mosque, Americans reject the opinion elites that empower the Islamists. — A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West.
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INSTAPUTZ, Firedoglake and Power Line
CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Heated battle for Florida Senate — Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek are part of a close three way race for Senate in Florida. — (CNN) - A new poll indicates that the three way-battle for Florida's open Senate seat, arguably the most fascinating Senate contest this year, is deadlocked at the top.
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National Review, The Washington Independent, Hot Air and Post on Politics
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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The Other McCain, National Review, Ben Smith's Blog, NewsBusters.org, NewsReal Blog and Conservatives4Palin.com
Karen Farkas / Plain Dealer:
Tri-C students recruited to fill the seats for Obama's appearance — PARMA, Ohio - With less than an hour before President Obama's scheduled speech, 75 seats remained empty in the recreation center at Cuyahoga Community College's Western Campus. — So organizers went around campus and recruited more students to fill the seats.
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, AmSpecBlog and Conservatives4Palin.com
Asra Q. Nomani / The Daily Beast:
Get Over the Quran Burning — As a Florida pastor plans a Quran-burning bonfire on September 11, The Daily Beast's Asra Q. Nomani, herself a Muslim, says there are a few brutal passages in the Quran that need to go up in smoke. — On the plan to burn Qurans this weekend, I say to Muslims …
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The Politico, The Daily Beast, Michelle Malkin, Jihad Watch and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Why aren't politicians speaking out against the would-be Quran …
Why aren't politicians speaking out against the would-be Quran …
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Washington Post, ECHIDNE of the snakes, The Huffington Post and Guardian
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
“Middle Class” Tax Cuts — I know I saw this on some of the other wonky progressive blogs last week (or maybe the week before) but it didn't really hit home until I saw it again. The point is that when we talk about a distinction between the “Bush tax cuts for the rich” and the …
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Political Byline, The Plum Line, Firedoglake and Guardian
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CNSNews:
Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov't Data — (CNSNews.com) - In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total …
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Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Ezra Klein:
Why did Barack Obama do health care first? — Joe Romm says that “future generations are likely to view Obama's choice of health care over energy and climate legislation as a blunder of historic proportions,” which is certainly possible. But like Matthew Yglesias, I don't think it was a choice at all.
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A plain blog about politics, Balloon Juice, Matthew Yglesias and Whiskey Fire
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 and Pajamas Media
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
On Clean Energy, China Skirts Rules — CHANGSHA, China — Until very recently, Hunan Province was known mainly for lip-searing spicy food, smoggy cities and destitute pig farmers. Mao was born in a village on the outskirts of Changsha, the provincial capital here in south-central China.
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The Atlantic Online and Balloon Juice
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Climate lobby shop shutters — Climate advocates stung by defeat in the Senate are folding one of their big umbrella lobbying groups. — Clean Energy Works, a coalition of 80 environmental, religious, veteran and labor groups, will phase out its operations this fall as Democratic congressional …
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AmSpecBlog
DrewM / Ace of Spades HQ:
Obama In Ohio: Hello Illinois! — Ooops. — Obama is giving a speech about the economy and attacking John Boehner but mostly attacking Boehner. — I asked on Twitter what Boehner's name recognition was, since as we all know punching down is a bad idea. Just as I asked that Philip Klein put this out on Twitter.
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Beltway Confidential, Michelle Malkin, Fausta's Blog and CNN
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
Mark Liberman / Language Log:
“They talk about me like a dog” — President Obama went off script, briefly, on Labor Day in Milwaukee: — That's been at the heart of what we've been doing over these last twenty months, building our economy on a new foundation, so that our middle class doesn't just survive this crisis, I want it to thrive.
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Wonkette