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Jeanne Devon / The Huffington Post:
Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President — What's Your Reaction: — ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10 — It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012.
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AKMuckraker / The Mudflats:
Internal Email Suggests Palin to Run for President — ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10 — by Jeanne Devon — It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012.
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Jill Burke / Alaska Dispatch:
Joe Miller's wife took unemployment benefits after working for him
Joe Miller's wife took unemployment benefits after working for him
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Chris Freiberg / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller explains his positions …
Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller explains his positions …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
On the right, hateful words are fired like bullets — I still ride a bike. I do 12 miles, several days a week, and as I do so I listen to music — the Pandora service on my iPhone. I have created a station that plays folk rock. Lately, it has repeatedly played the Neil Young song “Ohio” …
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Michael C. Moynihan / Hit & Run:
The Worst Column of the Year: Congratulations Richard Cohen! — It is getting increasingly difficult to keep track of all the idiotic columns written about the Tea Party. But as we become inured to all the hyperventilating from Frank Rich, Eugene Robinson, and Bob Herbert …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Obama's new culture war over government's role
Obama's new culture war over government's role
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls: GOP Poised to Gain or Hold Senate Seats in Key States — Democrats have a mountain to climb in West Virginia. — The latest Fox News battleground state surveys of five key states shows Republicans in good position to gain two seats and hold two seats left open by GOP retirements.
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Kate Zernike / The Caucus:
Nevada Tea Party Chairman Quits — The head of the Nevada Tea Party resigned Tuesday after its candidate for Senate leaked a recording of Sharron Angle - the Republican running to replace Senator Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority — in which she complained about Republican leaders …
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Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
After Firefighters Watched Home Burn, Obion County Expands Subscription-Only Fire Service To More Towns — As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, South Fulton Fire Department firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, last week stood by and watched as a family's home burned down because their services …
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Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Beck On Family's Home Burning Down As Firefighters Watched …
Beck On Family's Home Burning Down As Firefighters Watched …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Would You Let This House Burn? — This sounds like a seminar topic …
Would You Let This House Burn? — This sounds like a seminar topic …
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Joshua Holland / AlterNet.org:
Ayn Rand Conservatism at Work …
Ayn Rand Conservatism at Work …
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JSOnline:
NFL asks Feingold to take down ad — The National Football League has asked the Russ Feingold campaign to take down a newly released ad that uses footage from NFL games. — NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Journal Sentinel that the league did not license the footage used in the ad.
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Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Howard Kurtz Joins The Daily Beast — trending topics - INNOVATORS SUMMIT - GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK - ELECTION ORACLE - FACEBOOK MOVIE - FASHION WEEK — Media and investigative reporter Howard Kurtz joins The Daily Beast as Washington Bureau Chief. — The Daily Beast turns two tomorrow …
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Erik Wemple / TBD All News:
Howard Kurtz to Daily Beast, leaves Washington Post (Interview)
Howard Kurtz to Daily Beast, leaves Washington Post (Interview)
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Igor / Wonk Room:
Daschle: Public Option ‘Taken Off The Table’ In July Due To ‘Understanding People Had With Hospitals’ — Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD)'s new book Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate To Make Way for Health Care Reform comes out next week …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Truth about the public option momentarily emerges, quickly scampers back into hiding
Truth about the public option momentarily emerges, quickly scampers back into hiding
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CNN:
TRENDING: Obama-Clinton ticket ‘on the table,’ Woodward says — (CNN) - Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the “Dream Ticket” in 2008. It didn't happen. — But what about 2012? — “It's on the table,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN's John King in an interview Tuesday on John King, USA.
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Ezra Klein:
The output gap in two graphs — Neil Irwin (with graphics help from Alicia Parlapiano) has a series of interactive graphs explaining both what's wrong with the economy and how long it will take to fit itself at different rates of growth. I've copied one of the first atop this post, and this comes from Neil's introduction:
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Dana Milbank / The Huffington Post:
Mormon Prophesy Behind Glenn Beck's Message — What's Your Reaction: — In one of his first appearances on Fox News, Glenn Beck sent a coded message to the nation's six million Mormons — or at least those Mormons who believe in what the Latter-day Saints call “the White Horse Prophecy.”
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THEY WON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'VE GOT 'TIL IT'S GONE.... Whether I can relate to it or not, I understand many of the frustrations the Democratic base is feeling. I can understand the disappointments about some of the successes not including provisions the base wanted to see, and I can understand …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Only one third of Democrats see this Congress' achievements as historic
Only one third of Democrats see this Congress' achievements as historic
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Bachmann foe: She isn't doing ‘@#%!’ — So long, Minnesota Nice. — Rep. Michele Bachmann's Democratic opponent is going off color with a new ad using an expletive to describe her service to the district. — In a web-only 30-second video posted Monday, Democrat Tarryl Clark accused Bachman …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Biden: If I hear one more GOP budget gripe, ‘I am going to strangle them’ — Vice President Biden jokingly expressed his frustration toward Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of having insincere concerns about the budget deficit. — Biden jokingly said that GOP protests about the need …
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Menzie Chinn / Econbrowser:
The Incidence of Unemployment and Underemployment, by Income — As we ponder the plight of the over-$250K household income group (see the poignant story here), I think it worthwhile to examine the unemployment and underemployment rates for lower-income households.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Hoffman drops out — A reader forwards this email from the NRCC about Doug Hoffman pulling out of the race in NY-23, which is hard to see as anything but a massive headache for Democratic Rep. Bill Owen and a major gain for Republican Matt Doheny:
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Every color but camo — Tweet — My daughter is looking through college-recruitment materials, and pretty much all of them go on at great length about “diversity.” To judge from the brochures — not only the text but also the relentless photos of ethnically diverse students in various settings …
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The Politico:
Newt Gingrich memo: ‘Paychecks vs. food stamps’ — Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and now general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future, plans to send this memo Tuesday to candidates across the country suggesting a “closing argument” for the final month of the campaign.
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Jillian Rayfield / TPMMuckraker:
Missouri Tea Partiers, Joe The Plumber Join Movement Against ‘Radical’ Anti-Puppy Mill Legislation — Dog bites man or man bites dog? — A conservative group in Missouri is picking up the backing of the Tea Party and Joe The Plumber in its quest to stop the Humane Society of the United States …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
When Titans Clash — Another day, another software patent verdict: … Of course Apple doesn't like this verdict, but it's important to understand that the real victim here isn't Apple but hypothetical future Apple competitors who now will only be able to include “cover flow” functionality if they pay a ransom to David Gelertner.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Campaign watchdogs want IRS to probe Rove's American Crossroads — Two campaign finance watchdogs have asked the IRS to investigate a conservative group backed by Karl Rove. — Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center argue Crossroads GPS, a conservative group spending heavily …
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Kenric Ward / sunshinestatenews.com:
Poll: Rick Scott Takes Lead, ‘Favored to Win’ — Poll: Sink's rising negatives give edge to GOP in close gubernatorial race — Republican Rick Scott has taken the lead over Democrat Alex Sink in Florida's tight gubernatorial contest, according to a new Sunshine State News Poll.
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Hot Air
Dan Gilgoff / CNN:
My Take: A Christian response to anti-gay bullying — Editor's Note: Warren Throckmorton, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Grove City College. Along with Michael Frey, he leads the Golden Rule Pledge and blogs at warrenthrockmorton.com. Don't miss an “AC360°” …
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
That's Where the Money Is — It's beyond astonishing to me that John Boehner has a real chance to be speaker of the House of Representatives. — I've always thought of Mr. Boehner as one of the especially sleazy figures in a capital seething with sleaze.
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