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Michelle Malkin:
Bill Maher's witch hunt — and the missing context for O'Donnell's remarks — Narcissism. Blackmail. Distortion. All wrapped in his trademark smirk of pallor. Yes, it's tired old liberal “comedian” Bill Maher trying to get Senate GOP primary candidate Christine O'Donnell to come …
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Ruby Slippers, TPMDC, Althouse, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Liberal Values
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John / Power Line:
Christine O'Donnell's Career, RIP — Christine O'Donnell's campaign went off the rails today when Bill Maher announced that he has previously-unseen clips of O'Donnell from the late 1990s when she appeared several times on his show. In one clip, she says that she once “dabbled into witchcraft.”
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Myth and Madness — Christine O'Donnell is in a fantasy world. Literally. — The pretty Palin Mini-Me identifies with the women of Middle Earth, comparing herself to the female characters in the “Lord of the Rings” novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. — “Look at the significance that he gives to Eowyn …
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NewsBusters.org and Prairie Weather
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Wow. — No, really, wow. — Christine O'Donnell's candidacy is evidently dead because of something she said on “Politically Incorrect” (quick, take note of the show's freakin' name) in the 1990s — but only because Tea Partiers are evidently small-minded religious bigots who will be so OUTRAGED …
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Classical Values, The Other McCain, Bookworm Room, Riehl World View and Doug Ross
Patterico's Pontifications:
Christine O'Donnell in 1999: I Dabbled in Witchcraft
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The Reality-Based Community and Doug Ross
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Following Revelation Of ‘Witchcraft’ …
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Wonkette, News Hounds, CBS News, The Reaction, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Magazine
Nafeesa Syeed / Associated Press:
Senate hopeful O'Donnell cancels national TV spots
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Ballot Box, Riehl World View, The Hill and FrumForum
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
O'Donnell cancels “Face the Nation” appearance
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite, TVNewser and The Huffington Post
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
O'Donnell Said She Practiced Witchcraft
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Matt DeLong / Washington Post:
Christine O'Donnell in 1999: ‘I dabbled into witchcraft’
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Pam's House Blend, Mediaite, The Impolitic, Washington Monthly, The Page, CNN, TPMDC, JustOneMinute and Politerati
Jay Heflin / Ballot Box:
Hayworth to be Tea Party spokesman — The Tea Party is expected to announce that former Rep. JD Hayworth (R-Ariz.) will become a national spokesperson for the movement, a source close to the matter told The Hill. — Despite Hayworth's unwavering support of tax cuts enacted by President George W. Bush …
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Bridget Johnson / Ballot Box:
DeMint rips Murkowski as ‘big-tent hypocrite’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) ripped into Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as a “big-tent hypocrite” in a fundraising e-mail for Tea Party favorite and GOP nominee Joe Miller on Saturday. — Murkowski announced Friday that, after the primary defeat …
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Raven Brooks:
About that Tea Party convention... canceled — Back in June we learned that the much hyped Tea Party Unity convention was being canceled and rescheduled to October 14-16 in Las Vegas. This barely registered a blip with the media at the time and I called them out on it and set the record straight on what this was really about.
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Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars and DownWithTyranny!
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pushes Moderates in National Races
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Politics Daily, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and FrumForum
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
In Which Mr. Deling Responds to Someone Who Might Be Professor Todd Henderson — I had published a link and a long excerpt from Michael O'Hare's rant after reading University of Chicago Law Professor Todd Henderson. — And now somebody purporting to be University of Chicago Professor Todd Henderson writes:
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Paul Krugman and Obsidian Wings
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Michael O'Hare / The Reality-Based Community:
The whining of the rich — Through Glenn Reynolds …
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Economist's View and Hullabaloo
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Pence edges out Huckabee, Romney in conservatives' straw poll for president — Indiana Rep. Mike Pence is the top choice in a field of more well-known GOP figures, including Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, with 24% of the vote at this weekend's Values Voter Summit.
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Daily Kos, LewRockwell.com Blog and Joe. My. God.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Gingrich Calls For Federal Ban On Shariah Law In US
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Think Progress, Raw Story and The Politico
Daily Mail:
Britain goes halal... but no-one tells the public: How famous institutions serve ritually slaughtered meat with no warning — A Mail on Sunday investigation - which will alarm anyone concerned about animal cruelty - has revealed that schools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting venues …
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Daled Amos, Weasel Zippers and Vox Popoli
Des Moines Register:
Reaction to Sarah Palin speech by Iowa Republican activists — Should former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin decide to make a presidential bid, Iowa Republicans voting in the leadoff caucuses would have the opportunity to give her candidacy a major boost or a setback. Here are reactions from key activists after her speech Friday night.
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport — AT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. — For weeks, according to Army charging documents …
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Prairie Weather and FrumForum
Nicholas Riccardi / Los Angeles Times:
Internal memo accuses Sheriff Arpaio's department of wrongdoing — The Arizona lawman's No. 2 man and other top officials are accused of using the anti-corruption unit to conduct politically motivated investigations and to surveil campaign rivals. — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio received a 63-page memo from a deputy chief.
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The Reality-Based Community, skippy the bush kangaroo and Truthdig
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