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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Here's Your Enthusiasm Gap: One Nation Rally Draws More Attendees Than Beck's “Whitestock” — Enthusiasm gap, schmenthusiasm gap. Without the benefit of months and months of advertising and promotion on Fox News Channel (in fact, I'm only aware of Ed Schultz on MSNBC doing any kind of TV promotion) …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
‘One Nation Working Together’ Rally Claims Bigger Numbers Than ‘Restoring Honor’ — Maybe Ed Schultz was right about being able to attract more people than Glenn Beck: organizers of today's “One Nation Together Rally” are claiming that, based on a “satellite image,” there are definitively …
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CNN:
Liberal coalition rallies in Washington for jobs, education — Washington (CNN) — As a coalition of liberal activists gather in Washington, NAACP President Ben Jealous tells CNN that the “One Nation” movement is not “the alternative to the Tea Party, we're the antidote to the Tea Party.”
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Figures. CSPAN Uses Tea Party Rally Crowd Shot for Leftist “One Nation” Rally Article — CSPAN is airing the leftist “One Nation” rally today in Washington DC. — Unfortunately, they didn't have a good crowd shot of the turnout... So they used a photo from a Glenn Beck tea party rally.
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Thousands gather for ‘One Nation’ rally in D.C. — Event serves in part of as counter-rally to Glenn Beck's last month — WASHINGTON — Tapping into the same anger that fuels the tea party movement, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial …
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Robert Trigaux / St. Petersburg Times:
Why sloppy foreclosure process could ruin Florida — There's no polite way to put this. A growing cancer is infecting the backlogged legal process of foreclosing on hundreds of thousands of homes in Florida. — It's endangering the legal and economic stability of this state.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Bank of America to Freeze Foreclosure Cases
Bank of America to Freeze Foreclosure Cases
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
15 Photos From the #OneNation Rally You'll Never See In Legacy Media — The SEIU arrives, courtesy of your tax dollars, one would presume. — Child abuse. Apparently Mom never learned about the Soviet Union. Or Cuba. Or Zimbabwe. Or North Korea. — Note the guy in the American …
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Juliet Williams / ABCNEWS:
GOP's Whitman Blames Opponent for Housekeeper Flap — GOP's Whitman blames opponent for controversy over former housekeeper's immigration status — GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman accused Democratic rival Jerry Brown on Saturday of orchestrating a scandal over her former illegal …
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Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Whitman, Brown spar over housekeeper controversy
Whitman, Brown spar over housekeeper controversy
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Sullivan's defense of presidential assassinations — (updated below) — During the Bush-era torture debates, I was never able to get past my initial incredulity that we were even having a “debate” over whether the President has the authority to torture people.
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Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
‘Family Guy’ Episode Featuring Rush Limbaugh: A Preview — Opinions will no doubt vary among Rush fans for his agreeing to lend his voice to an entire Family Guy episode revolving around him. The show airs Sunday night on Fox. — I'm not a regular viewer of the show …
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Ryan J. Donmoyer / Bloomberg:
Some 3,000 Millionaires Claim Jobless Benefits, IRS Data Show — After the economy slipped into recession in 2008, millions of Americans received unemployment benefits to make ends meet — including almost 3,000 millionaires. — According to U.S. Internal Revenue Service data …
Fox News:
U.S. May Issue Travel Alert to Americans in Europe, Officials Say — The Obama administration is considering advising U.S. citizens to be vigilant as they travel in Europe after new intelligence pointed to new Al Qaeda threats, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Fox News.
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standpointmag.co.uk:
JEREMY JENNINGS — When Mao Tse-Tung launched the Cultural Revolution in May 1966, one of the principal targets of attack were intellectuals. Thousands were silenced, beaten to death, imprisoned, tortured or sent out to the countryside to be re-educated and purified through manual labour.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Gibbs eyed for DNC chair — Democratic insiders are taking the temperature of some top party donors about the possibility of naming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs as chairman of the Democratic National Committee heading into President Barack Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, senior officials tell POLITICO.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
ALL TOMORROW'S TEA PARTIES: … Heh.
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Nick Neyland / Prefix:
The Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker Endorses The Tea Party (Video)
The Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker Endorses The Tea Party (Video)
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The White House:
Weekly Address: President Obama Lauds Clean Energy Projects as Key to Creating — WASHINGTON - In this week's address, President Obama announced that - due to clean energy incentives launched by his administration - a company called BrightSource plans to break ground this month on a new, revolutionary type of solar power plant.
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Obama launches campaign recess with shots at GOP agenda
Obama launches campaign recess with shots at GOP agenda
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