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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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Moonbattery, Sweetness & Light, Weasel Zippers, Crooks and Liars and American Power
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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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Doug Ross, Moe Lane and HotAirPundit
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Reason.tv: What We Saw At And Who We Talked With at the One Nation Rally in DC: Rangel, Jackson, Sharpton, the AFT, AFL-CIO, & More... Reason.tv reports from the “One Nation Working Together” rally for “Jobs, Justice, and Education” on Saturday, October 2 in Washington, D.C. The event …
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Doug Ross, Michelle Malkin and The Blaze
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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Liberal Values, Hullabaloo, 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
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, The Hill and Guardian
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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:
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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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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David S Morgan / CBS News:
Sanders: GOP Doesn't Want America to Succeed
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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Firedoglake, NewsBusters.org, Weasel Zippers and Doug Ross
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
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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Pundit & Pundette and Daily Kos
Marooned In Marin:
“One Nation” (Of Commies, Unions, & Other Leftist Extremists)...Trashing The Mall — Thanks to Lucianne.com, Kristinn Taylor, Jim Hoft at Big Government and Gateway Pundit, Connie Hair at Human Events, Liberty Central, Lagniappe's Lair, Hancaqan.com, Verum Serum and FreeStateRevolution for the links …
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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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The Politico
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Bill Maher Calls Republicans ‘A Deadly Enemy’
Bill Maher Calls Republicans ‘A Deadly Enemy’
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GayPatriot, The Other McCain and Scared Monkeys
William Yong / New York Times:
Iran Says It Arrested Computer Worm Suspects — TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Israel Matzav and Gawker
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Midterms outlook: Purely partisan — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) sparred Sunday over how well their respective parties will do on Nov. 2. — Cornyn, who once predicted a tsunami that would wipe out Democratic majorities in Congress, seemed less confident that Republicans would run the table.
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CNN
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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Los Angeles Times:
Brown, Whitman heatedly debate illegal immigration — The California gubernatorial candidates tangle in a blistering dispute over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper as they meet for a Spanish-language debate. — Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown meet at Cal State Fresno …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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Juliet Williams / ABCNEWS:
GOP's Whitman Blames Opponent for Housekeeper Flap
GOP's Whitman Blames Opponent for Housekeeper Flap
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The Reaction