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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
NRA backs Tea Party candidate in Delaware — The National Rifle Association endorsed conservative commentator Christine O'Donnell Friday in Delaware's Republican Senate primary. The Tea Party-backed O'Donnell is looking to upset Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) on Tuesday.
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DeMint backs O'Donnell, Lamontagne — South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint is bucking his party's establishment yet again, endorsing two insurgent Senate picks just ahead of their competitive primaries Tuesday. — In a series of late Friday night tweets, the conservative senator announced …
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O'Donnell picks up another big endorsement — (CNN) - Add another prominent Republican to the list of conservatives and conservative organizations who have endorsed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell. — South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint announced Friday night his endorsement of the Tea Party-endorsed candidate.
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Florida pastor's daughter says “he needs help” — BERLIN — The estranged daughter of a U.S. pastor who has threatened to burn copies of the Koran believes he has gone mad and needs help, she said in a German media interview conducted on Friday. — Emma Jones, who lives in Germany …
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PRESIDENT OBAMA GOES RINGLESS AT PRESSER — Sometimes, a White House press conference can be a chance for a president to take some weight off his shoulders ... but weight off his fingers? — Eagle-eyed reporters noticed that President Barack Obama wasn't sporting his wedding ring during Friday's White House press conference.
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JOSHUAPUNDIT, Althouse and Don Surber
Samuel G. Freedman / New York Times:
Muslim Prayer Room Was Part of Life at Twin Towers — Sometime in 1999, a construction electrician received a new work assignment from his union. The man, Sinclair Hejazi Abdus-Salaam, was told to report to 2 World Trade Center, the southern of the twin towers.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services:
Sebelius calls on health insurers to stop misinformation and unjustified rate increases — Affordable Care Act will help lower costs and crack down on unjustified rate increases — WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote America's …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Sebelius: insurers who criticize ObamaCare may get locked out of system
Sebelius: insurers who criticize ObamaCare may get locked out of system
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Weasel Zippers, The Moderate Voice, Sister Toldjah and Associated Press
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Mississippi Congressional Race Shows Futility of Making Benefit Cuts to Social Security — RJ Eskow reported yesterday on a rumored deal coming out of the deficit commission on Social Security. It sounds like a really bad version of progressive price indexing, where benefits are cut …
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NEMS360.com and Hullabaloo
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Did Megan McArdle Really Graduate from a Business School?
Did Megan McArdle Really Graduate from a Business School?
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Paul Krugman, Open Left and The Atlantic Online
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Effingham deputies call feds after arresting Russians with shovel, wire cutters outside Georgia Power plant — SPRINGFIELD — Effingham County sheriff deputies have reported the early Sunday morning arrest of three men to the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
The whole story: How Angle asked for a debate with Reid, how Reid agreed and Angle backed out — UPDATE: Here is the statement I received this morning from Angle spokesman Jarrod Agen: — “We obviously gave you the wrong signal and I apologize for that. We have other events planned …
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Daily Kos, Ballot Box, The Eye, Ben Smith's Blog, CNN and Washington Post
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
G.O.P. Has 2-in-3 Chance of Taking House, Model Forecasts — Republicans have a two-in-three chance of claiming a majority of House seats in November, the FiveThirtyEight forecasting model estimates. And their gains could potentially rival or exceed those made in 1994, when they took a net of 54 seats from the Democrats.
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Hot Air, The Atlantic Online, The Capitol Fax Blog, Politics Daily, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Don Surber
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Christianist Watch: The Fire Next Time — And a deeply serious one: … I think the demagoguing of Park51 is a direct result of the GOP's turn toward Christianism. It's a tipping point where mainstream American Muslims become indistinguishable from the mass murderers of 9/11 in the psyches …
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Self-Described ‘Christian Counterpart To Osama Bin Laden’ …
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Ryan Seals / News-Record.com:
Concord man charged in plot to bomb abortion clinic
Concord man charged in plot to bomb abortion clinic
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pandagon.net and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Monica Potts / American Prospect:
How is Lincoln Losing? — Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep. John Boozman met for their first official debate in the Arkansas state Senate race. The particulars of this race are interesting but frustrating: it's hard to see how, whatever the climate, the soft-spoken …
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Arkansas Online, Politics Daily and TalkLeft
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Read's Top 10 Senate takeovers — From NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro — *** First Read's Top 10 Senate Takeovers: Chew on this: Right now, Republicans have a better chance of flipping West Virginia's Senate seat than Democrats have in picking up the one in Ohio.
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Mother Jones
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
'IT'S JUST US'.... President Obama hosted an unusually-long White House press conference this morning, which I thought went extremely well for him. And for the most part, the press corps stuck to substantive issues and avoided some of the more sensationalistic issues of the day. — But there were exceptions.
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The White House:
Press Conference by President Obama — THE PRESIDENT: Have a seat, everybody. Good morning. Before I take your questions, I just want to talk a little bit about our continuing efforts to dig ourselves out of this recession and to grow our economy. — As I said in Cleveland on Wednesday …
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The Foundry, American Power, Washington Post, Lawfare, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online and New York Times
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Robert Spencer: Jesus Would Have Burned Qurans Too — Jihad Watch “director” Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day of rabble rousing tomorrow; usually he's more careful with his rhetoric. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans just like psycho preacher Terry Jones.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
The White House:
Readout of the President's call with Specialist Salvatore Giunta — Yesterday, President Obama spoke with Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta to inform him that he will be awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of gallantry at the risk of his life that went above and beyond the call of duty.
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New York Times, White House.gov Blog Feed, Outside the Beltway and Swampland
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