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Death threat at ABC-TV Town Hall event Saturday — Reporter: Forrest Carr Web producer: Sheryl Kornman — TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) -The meeting room at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on the city's northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the mass shooting Jan. 8 …
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John Hayward / Human Events:
Meet Eric Fuller — The Left finds a new icon. — Trackback Link (Loading. . .) — You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend. He's one of the people injured in Jared Loughner's shooting rampage, taking rounds in the knee and back. He's also a vicious bigot …
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NewsBusters.org blogs and Media Matters for America
Sify.com:
Arizona survivor blames Palin's ‘crosshair’ posting for shooting mayhem — Eric Fuller, a 63-year-old veteran who survived the Arizona shootings after being shot in the knee and the back, has blamed US potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin, House Speaker John Boehner …
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Weasel Zippers, Cubachi and Outside the Beltway
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Wingnut Blogger Jim Hoft Mistakes Closed Caption for Applause Prompt at Tucson Memorial — Just when you think popular right wing blogger Jim “Dim” Hoft (Gateway Pundit) couldn't possibly post anything more stupid than his last post, he finds a way to take it to the next level of numbskullitude.
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TBogg and The Agitator
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally... Why Did They Ask For It On Jumbotron? — On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the pep rally on Wednesday for the victims of the Tucson shootings. … Oh really?
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Pajamas Media, Latest Open Salon Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Doug Ross and iOwnTheWorld.com
Monte Kuligowski / American Thinker:
Gibbs ‘surprised’ at pep-rally atmosphere of ‘memorial speech’
Gibbs ‘surprised’ at pep-rally atmosphere of ‘memorial speech’
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Atlas Shrugs, theblogprof and Breitbart.tv
New York Times:
Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay — The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. — Over the past two years …
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Challah Hu Akbar and Pajamas Media, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Palin / MediaCurves.Com:
Americans View Sarah Palin as more Sincere and Believable after Watching Speech — Speech does little to increase voter support for potential run in 2012 — Flemington, NJ, January 14, 2011 - A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed …
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Cubachi, NewsBusters.org blogs, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America and Conservatives4Palin
Mark Rudd / Washington Post:
An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence — In 1970, when I was 22 years old - the same age as Jared Loughner - I was a founder of the Weather Underground, an offshoot of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society.
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The Mahablog and Pajamas Media
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
In Tunisia, Clashes Continue as Power Shifts a Second Time — TUNIS — Tanks, police officers and gangs of newly deputized young men wielding guns held the deserted streets of Tunis Saturday night after a day of sporadic rioting and gunfire. Power changed hands for the second time in 24 hours …
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Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Eunomia, New York Magazine, American Power, Eschaton and The Lede
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Tunisians Help “Expand Our Moral Imaginations”
Tunisians Help “Expand Our Moral Imaginations”
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Hit & Run, Religion Dispatches and The Monkey Cage
Annie Groer / Politics Daily:
Michael Reagan Rips Half-Brother Ron Over Book and Alzheimer's Claim … Michael Reagan blasted as “falsehoods and lies and conspiracy theories to sell books,” the suggestion by half-brother Ron Reagan that their father may have had Alzheimer's disease while still in the White House.
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Washington Monthly, The Mahablog and The Note
Michael Shields / Reuters:
Schwarzenegger says governorship cost him $200 million — VIENNA (Reuters) - Serving as California governor cost Arnold Schwarzenegger at least $200 million, the bodybuilding star turned actor and politician told a newspaper in his native Austria, insisting 'it was more than worth it.
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Cubachi, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
Glenn Davis / Mediaite:
Bill Maher To “Teabaggers”: “The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Your Guts” — Bill Maher closed out tonight's season premiere of Real Time with one of his go-to bits: Tea Party (or, as he'd say, Teabagger) bashing. He hit on his usual points on the subject, like what he sees …
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — A new CBS News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit.
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JammieWearingFool, iOwnTheWorld.com, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News and Pajamas Media
Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Woman fights bank fees, missed final house payment — PHILADELPHIA - An elderly New Jersey woman billed $5,800 after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue her lawsuit against the debt collectors. — Lawyers for 85-year-old Dorothy Rhue Allen say the fees charged …
Washington Post:
GOP picks Reince Priebus to lead as it regroups — GOP leaders began a weekend of strategizing Friday as the Republican National Committee voted out its controversial chairman, Michael S. Steele, in favor of Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman, and House members plotted their future at a party retreat in Baltimore.
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