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Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Carter: ‘Probably superior’ to other ex-presidents — Former President Jimmy Carter (right) standing off to the side in a photo with the living presidents (and then-President-elect Obama) in the Oval Office. — *** UPDATE 3:59 pm ET *** Former President Carter issued a written statement after his comments aired:
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Matt DeLong / Washington Post:
Jimmy Carter: My role is ‘superior’ to those of the other ex-presidents — During an interview that aired tonight on “NBC Nightly News,” former president Jimmy Carter told anchor Brian Williams that he feels his role as an an activist in troubled parts of the world is “superior” to those of other former presidents.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
BACK TO THE SEVENTIES — For most people, it's hard to imagine …
BACK TO THE SEVENTIES — For most people, it's hard to imagine …
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Watchdog: Christine O'Donnell “Clearly a Criminal” — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, today filed a pair of complaints concerning Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's use of more than $20,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses.
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CREW:
CREW CALLS FOR FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO CHRISTINE O'DONNELL FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD — Washington, D.C. -Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed complaints with the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) …
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The Huffington Post:
Wiccan Community Upset With O'Donnell, Calls Witchcraft Comments “Teaching Moment”
Wiccan Community Upset With O'Donnell, Calls Witchcraft Comments “Teaching Moment”
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David Catanese / The Politico:
DeMint PAC hits the air for O'Donnell
DeMint PAC hits the air for O'Donnell
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Obama To Hedge Fund Manager Who Complains Of Being ‘Whacked’: ‘Most Folks On Main Street’ Feel Beat Up — Today, President Obama participated in a live CNBC townhall event. Recently, Obama has been feeling the “rage of the rich,” as Paul Krugman describes it today.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Disappointed Supporters Question Obama
Disappointed Supporters Question Obama
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Obama Raises Prospects of New Economic Team
Obama Raises Prospects of New Economic Team
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Ariana Eunjung Cha / Political Economy:
At CNBC town hall, Obama is asked: ‘Is the American dream dead?’
At CNBC town hall, Obama is asked: ‘Is the American dream dead?’
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Disappointed Supporters Question Obama
Disappointed Supporters Question Obama
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Town Hall Questioner To Obama: “I'm Exhausted Of Defending You” — “I'm one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for,” a woman told President Obama at a town hall.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Republicans will unveil their new ‘Contract’ on Thursday in Virginia — Republicans will unveil their new “Contract With America” in Virginia on Thursday as they try to present a clear alternative to the Democrat-led Congress heading into the midterm elections.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Cantor: Palin is ‘certainly’ a leader in the Republican Party
Cantor: Palin is ‘certainly’ a leader in the Republican Party
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Rasmussen Reports:
52% of Voters Say Their Views Are More Like Palin's Than Obama's — Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin's than they are to President Obama's, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Koch Industries Lawyer to White House: How Did You Get Our Tax Information? — Lately, the White House and its allies have been drawing attention to the political activities of libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch. In an August 9 speech, President Obama singled out Americans for Prosperity …
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Robin Knight / CNBC:
UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the State First — The UK's tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
Rauf's Group Claims Credit for ‘Training’ NY Times Reporter — A reporter who helped write the first and positive New York Times story on the Ground Zero Mosque was trained by the group run by mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf, according to that group's website.
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Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
Islam's Encounters With America
Islam's Encounters With America
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nber.org:
Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research — The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009.
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Emily Kaiser / Reuters:
Recession ended in June 2009: NBER
Recession ended in June 2009: NBER
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
GOP worries Murkowski write-in bid could cost party a Senate seat — Republican leaders are angry with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for jeopardizing their chances of winning the Senate. — Murkowski's decision to mount a write-in campaign risks splitting the Republican vote between …
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The Politico:
White House: New York Times report ‘100 percent wrong’ — The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president's political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists. (See: Tea party dominates the narrative)
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Generic Ballot Virtually Tied: Democrats 46%, Republicans 45% — Republicans losing strength in September compared with August — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's generic ballot for Congress for the week of Sept. 13-19 shows a 46% Democratic and 45% Republican split in registered voters' preferences for the midterm congressional elections.
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Andrew Marcus / Big Government:
Andrew Breitbart Forces President Obama's Protesters to Fold Up Shop — On Saturday, September 18th, Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart headlined an event entitled “Right Nation 2010,” held just outside of Chicago, Illinois. — As you will see in our video report from the scene …
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
IT'S TRUE- Proof That the DNC and Team Obama Are Targeting Tea Parties …
IT'S TRUE- Proof That the DNC and Team Obama Are Targeting Tea Parties …
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TMZ.com:
‘Dancing’ Studio on Red Sarah Palin Alert — There will be high security tonight when Sarah Palin shows up to watch daughter Bristol perform on “Dancing with the Stars” ... TMZ has learned. — Our spies say security guards at CBS Television City in L.A. — the place where “Dancing” is broadcast — is on “heightened alert.”
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Michelle Malkin:
Stop the illegal alien student bailout now: DREAM Act Senate phone list; Update: Vote scheduled Tuesday 2:15pm — Scroll for updates...Scott Brown, Mike Johanns oppose, Hutchison also a no... Melt the phones — Last Friday, I dissected Harry Reid's cap-and-gown illegal alien amnesty …
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Philip Wolgin / The Huffington Post:
Making the DREAM Real
Making the DREAM Real
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dem worries on Stewart rally — Jon Stewart's planned “Rally for Sanity” sounded a bit like a joke when he announced — without his permit application approved — that he'd hold it on October 30 in Washington, D.C. — But it's suddenly looking quite real: Nearly 100,000 people have written …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
On the Cheapness of Life — Andrew and Jack Shafer's reminiscence over the legacy of Martin Peretz, and quasi-defense of his bigotry, motivated me to do some of my own reflecting. To the present business, there is no actual defense of the statement “Muslim life is cheap, particularly to Muslims.”
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Katie Zezima / New York Times:
Lady Gaga Goes Political in Maine — PORTLAND, Me. — There were no strobe lights, no outlandish costumes and only a mediocre sound system. But Lady Gaga was here and the crowd jumped up and down, snapping photos as a whirl of platinum-blond hair emerged from an SUV and walked up a concrete ramp to a tiny stage.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Nita Lowey rival wrote anti-integration, racially charged essay — Longtime Democratic incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey's Republican challenger this fall is a Christian conservative author and activist whose writings have frowned on inter-racial marriage and movies like “Save the Last Dance,” …
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
FBI probes were improper, Justice says — The FBI improperly opened and extended investigations of some U.S. activist groups and put members of an environmental advocacy organization on a terrorist watch list, even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience, the Justice Department said Monday.
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Scott Keyes / Think Progress:
Tea Party Leader Dick Armey: Social Security Is A Corrupt ‘Ponzi Scheme’ — This past weekend, conservative activists and Tea Party groups gathered in Chicago for the Right Nation 2010 convention. Among those who attended was former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the chairman of one of the original Tea Party groups, FreedomWorks.
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