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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
O'Donnell In 1996: Investigate Bill Clinton For Murder Of Vince Foster (VIDEO) — Here's another wonderful gem from Christine O'Donnell's past as a frequent guest on TV shows. Back in 1996, when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's finances were being investigated, O'Donnell complained that people …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
O'Donnell In 2007: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains! — Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell has previously sounded the alarm against cloning and stem-cell research — and what she's described as the current terror of human-mouse hybrids.
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Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
My Ex-Gay Life With the Tea Party Queen
My Ex-Gay Life With the Tea Party Queen
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MoJo Articles:
A Tale of Two Sisters — Tea party/Christian right Senate …
A Tale of Two Sisters — Tea party/Christian right Senate …
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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
O'Donnell: Evil Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids
O'Donnell: Evil Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Krugman: Republicans Are Fiscally Irresponsible for Pushing Smaller Tax Cut, Threatening Much Larger One — This is sort of impressive: Paul Krugman simultaneously castigates Republicans for the fiscal irresponsibility of wanting to extend tax cuts for the rich that cost about $700 billion …
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Democrats Can't Win on Taxes — Many Democrats up for re-election do not want to vote for any tax increases, but Obama has drawn a line in the sand against tax cuts “for the rich.” — To listen to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrats are fired up for a tax debate.
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Gene / The Hill:
WHIP COUNT: Democrats in favor of extending all of the Bush tax cuts
WHIP COUNT: Democrats in favor of extending all of the Bush tax cuts
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Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
DADT Held Hostage?
DADT Held Hostage?
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Lisa Lerer / Business Week:
Jim DeMint's Path to Power — Some Republicans are bristling over his successful backing of Tea Party candidates — The phones wouldn't stop ringing at the Capitol Hill office of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint on Sept. 15, the day after Tea Party-backed Christine O'Donnell …
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Erika Bolstad / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski continues to mull write-in effort — A ‘HIGH HURDLE’: The decision she's about to unveil wasn't easy to reach. — ebolstad@adn.com — WASHINGTON - Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday she was seriously considering a write-in campaign even as she acknowledged that success would have an “extraordinarily high hurdle.”
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The ‘tea party’ gears up for 2012 — The playbook for winning the Republican presidential nomination begins with a set of inviolable rules: Start early, raise millions, build an organization, and trudge across the country seeking the blessing of mayors and money men.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The misguided reaction to Tea Party candidates — The “tea party” movement is, in my view, a mirror image of the Republican Party generally. There are some diverse, heterodox factions which compose a small, inconsequential minority of it (various libertarian, independent, and Reagan Democrat types) …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Buckley rule — Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea Partyer Christine O'Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Mike Castle won't endorse Christine O'Donnell for Senate, citing ‘smears’
Mike Castle won't endorse Christine O'Donnell for Senate, citing ‘smears’
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Four Things to Know About Delaware
Four Things to Know About Delaware
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The Tsunami Heads to Shore
The Tsunami Heads to Shore
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The Politico:
GOP to roll out election agenda — House Republicans are planning to roll out their election agenda over the next two weeks as they seek to take back the House majority, prepping a list of roughly 20 initiatives — including a few that seem driven by the tea party movement.
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Elizabeth Warren / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Fighting to Protect Consumers — Over the past several weeks, the President and I have had extensive conversations about the vital importance of consumer financial protection. — The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gregg: Warren will promote ‘social justice’ at consumer agency
Gregg: Warren will promote ‘social justice’ at consumer agency
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Wall Street Journal:
Why It's Time for the Tea Party — The populist movement is more a critique of the GOP than a wing of it. — This fact marks our political age: The pendulum is swinging faster and in shorter arcs than it ever has in our lifetimes. Few foresaw the earthquake of 2008 in 2006.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Maxine Waters's aides are expelled from event of Speaker Pelosi's — Three staffers working for embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) were asked by security officers to leave an event in downtown Washington on Thursday after they tried to display large campaign signs just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to speak.
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Des Moines Register:
Sarah Palin in Iowa under political microscope — The political eyes of the nation and world will be watching Sarah Palin's scheduled appearance in Iowa Friday for signals about her plans. — More than 50 news media organizations, from as far away as London, plan to cover …
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Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
Hillary's Dangerous Mideast Leap — trending topics - COLLEGE RANKINGS - GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK - NY FASHION WEEK - MIDTERMS - CHRISTINE O'DONNELL - TEA PARTY — Unless the secretary of State knows something we don't, the Middle East peace talks will fail. And failure is worse than not negotiating.
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Quinnipiac University:
GOP's Portman Up 20 Points In Ohio Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Give Obama A 22-Point Thumbs Down — Republican Rob Portman holds a 55 - 35 percent lead over Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher among likely voters in the race for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat …
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Documentary? Better Call It Performance Art — CASEY AFFLECK wants to come clean. — His new movie, “I'm Still Here,” was performance. Almost every bit of it. Including Joaquin Phoenix's disturbing appearance on David Letterman's late-night show in 2009, Mr. Affleck said in a candid interview …
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Ira Stoll / The Future of Capitalism:
Weiner, Waxman Set Gold Hearing — Just as the government is trying to prevent people from investing in anything other than T-Bills by raising taxes on taxable interest and dividends to confiscatory levels, it's also trying to prevent you from parking your wealth in assets, like gold …
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Arifa Akbar / The Independent:
Mao's Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’ — Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday.
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Michael Roston / New York Times:
New York City Battered by Fierce Storm — The New York City area was battered Thursday afternoon by a fierce storm that killed one person in Queens, snarled commuter rail service, and knocked down trees in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island after weather officials issued tornado warnings for the city.
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Where Fenty Went Wrong — Ta-Nehisi writes what I think is a fair critique of how Fenty lost: “A lot has been made of the role of race in this campaign, and the sense that Fenty is the tool of white interlopers seeking to turn D.C. into Seattle. Fear of the oncoming white horde of gentrifiers …
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