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David Catanese / The Politico:
Ex-aides unload on Christine O'Donnell — By pulling off arguably the biggest upset of the primary election season Tuesday, Christine O'Donnell shocked the Republican establishment and political pundits who didn't think her campaign for the Delaware GOP Senate nomination had a chance.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Politics Daily, TPMMuckraker, Delaware Liberal, Wonkette and Salon
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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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Power Line, Commentary, Conservatives4Palin.com, Hot Air and NRSC
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
O'Donnell, Coons face off in first debate before packed house — WILMINGTON, Del. — Just two days after her upset of Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in the state's Republican Senate primary, Tea Party-backed Christine O'Donnell shared a stage with New Castle County Executive Chris Coons (D) …
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Four Things to Know About Delaware
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Top of the Ticket and The Atlantic Online
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Backlash Myth — Many of my liberal friends are convinced that the Republican Party has a death wish. It is sprinting to the right-most fever swamps of American life. It will end up alienating the moderate voters it needs to win elections. — There's only one problem with this theory.
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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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The Politico, TPMDC and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Why It's Time for the Tea Party
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Conservatives4Palin.com, Hot Air and Boston Herald
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Tax-Cut Racket — “Nice middle class you got here,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. “It would be a shame if something happened to it.” — O.K., he didn't actually say that. But he might as well have, because that's what the current confrontation over taxes amounts to.
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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 …
Nouriel Roubini / Washington Post:
What America needs is a payroll tax cut
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Talking Points Memo and Eschaton
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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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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Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, The Caucus, New Deal 2.0, New York Times, Talking Points Memo and TPMDC
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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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Hot Air and Commentary
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Is Ohio slipping from Democrats' grasp?
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Hotline On Call, TPMDC, Scared Monkeys, NRSC and Political Punch
Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Pope visit: Five suspected Islamist terrorists arrested over assassination plot — Police have arrested five suspected Islamist terrorists, working as street cleaners in London, over an alleged plan assassinate the Pope. — The men were arrested during raids at 5.45am at a rubbish depot …
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Weasel Zippers, BBC, Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch
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Sky News:
Five Algerians Held In Pope Plot Terror Swoop — Jon di Paolo, Sky News Online — Five Algerian men have been arrested over a potential threat to the Pope, Sky News sources say. … The Best Of Sky News Right Now — Armed counter-terror officers swooped on a business premises in central London in the early hours of the morning.
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IB Times / International Business Times:
Stimulus funds failed to create enough jobs: LA City Controller — The Los Angeles City Controller said on Thursday the city's use of its share of the $800 billion federal stimulus find has been disappointing. — The city received $111 million in stimulus under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act …
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Weasel Zippers, The Washington Independent and Cato @ Liberty
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David Zahniser / Los Angeles Times:
Two L.A. agencies get $111 million in stimulus funds but have created only 55 jobs
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Hit & Run and The Foundry
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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Politics Daily, The Politico, CNN, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Harvard/Peretz Controversy Illustrates Folly of Charitable Donations to Wealthy U.S. Universities — Canaday Common Room entrance, former home of The Harvard Independent (my photo, available under cc license) — I realized dimly that New Republic editor in chief Martin Peretz had apologized …
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Boston Globe, TalkLeft, Mondoweiss and The Daily Beast
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Advice for Palin: How to Win Over Iowa — Sarah Palin is not running for president. — Yet. — But the former Alaska governor turned media celebrity turned Tea Party queenmaker is headed to Iowa, the Midwestern state which holds the first-in-the-nation contest for president every four years.
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Taegan Goddard's …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
2012 hopefuls to slam Barack Obama — The tough rhetoric of the 2012 Republican presidential primary season will get a tryout Friday when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) slam President Barack Obama at the Family Research Council's “Values Voters Summit.”
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Ben Smith's Blog and CNN
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Where Have All the Deficit Hawks Gone? — I noticed that earlier this year we were overwhelmed by a wave of anti-deficit grandstanding throughout the Democratic Party while the Catfood Commission was sending up trial balloons about cutting Social Security benefits, raising the retirement age …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and TPMDC
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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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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Company Town, Shakesville, ArtsBeat, The Awl, Deadline.com, Need to Know | PBS, PopWatch and PopEater
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
A Meme Is Born: ‘Dude, You Have No Koran’ — As with so many things in America these days, a planned Koran-burning in Texas last week that seemed as if it might end in tears, instead ended in Auto-Tuning. — While much of the planet was focused on the possibility that the pastor …
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