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Jason Mattera / Human Events:
HUMAN EVENTS Reporter Assaulted at Leftist Rally — A liberal protester at the “One Nation Working Together” march physically assaulted a HUMAN EVENTS reporter who was videotaping Rep. Charlie Rangel (D.-N.Y) at the event at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
‘This Week’ Wages ‘Holy War’ Month Before Midterms: ‘We Believe that One Day the Flag of Islam will Fly Over the White House’ — You have to wonder what on earth ABC's “This Week” host Christiane Amanpour is thinking by holding a so-called town hall meeting this close to a pivotal midterm election.
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The Moderate Voice, Marooned In Marin, Doug Ross and Gateway Pundit
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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Rev. Franklin Graham: Islam ‘evil’ — Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy Graham, called Islam “wicked” and “evil” on Sunday during a televised town hall-style discussion about American's feelings about the religion. — “They want to build as many mosques and cultural centers …
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Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys and Firedoglake
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Third Party Rising — A friend in the U.S. military sent me an e-mail last week with a quote from the historian Lewis Mumford's book, “The Condition of Man,” about the development of civilization. Mumford was describing Rome's decline: “Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility.
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Paul Krugman, Hullabaloo, Liberal Values, Balkinization, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Sadly, No! and Balloon Juice
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FRIEDMAN'S THIRD-PARTY MESS.... Thomas Friedman joins a long list of centrist media figures to call for a third party to offer a sensible alternative to Democrats and Republicans. To put it charitably, the column is wildly unpersuasive. — The general pitch is common, but lazy …
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The Moderate Voice
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
At ‘One Nation’ rally, a unionized show of unity — Organizers of Saturday's “One Nation Working Together” rally at the Lincoln Memorial are proud of their diversity. Before the event, they predicted it would be the “most diverse march in history.” It turned out they were right.
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NY Daily News:
Tea Party-backed Carl Paladino gets millions in tax breaks, but creates just a handful of jobs — For the last decade, anti-big government candidate Carl Paladino has pocketed millions of dollars in tax breaks by promising to jump-start economic revival in and around his native Buffalo.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice and Think Progress
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Glenn Beck is obsessed with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson. (I'm just saying.) — Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, is an amateur historian. Very amateur. — One day, he rhetorically asked his Fox News viewers: “Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s?”
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PostPartisan, Riehl World View, Pundit & Pundette and Daily Kos
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Verizon Wireless to Pay Millions in Refunds for Data Charges — WASHINGTON — Verizon Wireless said on Sunday that it would pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million cellphone customers who were wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use, one of the largest customer refunds by a telecommunications company.
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Michael Patrick Leahy / Big Journalism:
News the Old Media Won't Tell You: More Trash at One Sparsely Attended Left Wing Rally Than at All the Tea Parties Around the Country in a Year and a Half — The pictures and videos of all the trash left behind at Saturday's left wing “One Nation” rally on the Mall in Washington …
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The Other McCain
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so — I told you so. — On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: “What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before.
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Riehl World View, sisu and Don Surber
The Politico:
Rahm Emanuel hires Scott Fairchild, launches bid — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has chosen Scott Fairchild, the chief of staff for Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), to manage his campaign for mayor of Chicago, POLITICO has learned. — Fairchild agreed to lead Emanuel's Chicago bid earlier …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House: Dems gaining ground on GOP in voter enthusiasm — Over the past few weeks, Democrats have made steady progress in narrowing the voters enthusiasm gap with Republicans, the White House claimed Sunday. — This past week, President Obama attended a 26,000 person rally in Madison …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Sanders: GOPs ‘do not want Americans to succeed’; Obama should steer left — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that Republicans “do not want Americans to succeed” in laying out his case for energizing the liberal base to go to the polls in November. — Sanders, a self-proclaimed …
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David S Morgan / CBS News:
Sanders: GOP Doesn't Want America to Succeed
Travel.State.Gov:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE — Europe — The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to the potential for terrorist attacks in Europe. Current information suggests that al-Qa'ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks. European governments have taken action to guard …
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The Daily Politics, Guardian, The Hill and Truthdig
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Issues Terrorism Alert for Travel to Europe
U.S. Issues Terrorism Alert for Travel to Europe
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CNN, Guardian, New York Magazine and Mediaite
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Cornyn: ‘Significant’ wins ahead; Menendez: No GOP Senate ahead — The two heads of the senatorial campaign arms sparred Sunday over how their parties would fare in elections a month from now, with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (N.J.) …
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