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Loughner video with ‘genocide’ and ‘torture’ ramblings is released — The YouTube video, which is no longer on the website, prompted the suspension of the Tucson shooting suspect from Pima Community College last year. — A YouTube video that prompted the suspension of Tucson shooting …
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Wake up America, The Mahablog, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers and Balloon Juice
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School releases YouTube post from Loughner — Jared Lee Loughner, now accused in the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, walked through campus last fall rambling about his ‘genocide school.’ The video led Pima Community College to suspend him.
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Pima Community College Releases Jared Lee Loughner's ‘Genocide/Scam’ YouTube Video
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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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Nineteen senators back bipartisan State of the Union seating
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JustOneMinute, Daily Kos, The Hill, The Democratic Daily and New York Times


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 …
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American Power, Hot Air, Raw Story, The Mahablog, Breitbart.tv, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and RealClearPolitics Video Log


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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The Hill and Outside the Beltway

Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez — For those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it's sometimes easy to lose perspective about just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are. One becomes inured to them, and even severe incursions start to seem ordinary.
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Homeland Security Cancels ‘Virtual Fence’ After $1 Billion Is Spent
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The Confluence, TalkLeft and Gawker

The Tucson Witch Hunt — Tragedy in Tucson. Six Dead. Democratic congresswoman shot in the head at rally. — Immediately after the news broke, the air became thick with conjecture, speculation and innuendo. There was a giddy, almost punch-drunk excitement on the left.
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Pajamas Media, Instapundit, Hot Air, neo-neocon, NewsBusters.org blogs and Right Wing News
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Stephanopoulos, NYT, CNN, WaPo decline to correct erroneous Giffords reporting
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Verum Serum, The New Republic and The Gateway Pundit

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, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and CBS News


Joy as Tunisian President Flees Offers Lesson to Arab Leaders — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hours after President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Friday, a Lebanese broadcaster, in triumphant tones, ended her report on the first instance of an Arab leader to be overthrown in popular protests by quoting a famous Tunisian poet.
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First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
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‘How to be Civil’: The Finale! — Previous installments here and here. The question is whether the even-now ever so slightly fading talk about “civil” discourse means anything in practice. Today we have one more set of suggestions from readers. First, from a reader on the stakes in changing the political tone:
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Prairie Weather


Weekly Address: “Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans” — As Congress returns to work, the President calls on them — and all of us — to debate our differences vigorously but to live up to the spirit of common cause we felt following the tragedy in Arizona. — Click here to see the video.
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Associated Press, Politics Daily, CNN and Althouse


Fame Through Assassination: A Secret Service Study … It's well known that in March 1981, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan. What is not well known is that several years later, the life of President Reagan and the life of his vice president, George H.W. Bush, were threatened again — in fact, not just once.
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Pajamas Media

Recalculation vs. the data — There's no question that Arnold Kling's recalculation view is more intellectually appealing than the messy arguments about wage stickiness used by us “GDP factory” proponents: … Yes, macroeconomics should be all about specialization and trade.
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Yglesias, Grasping Reality …, Marginal Revolution and EconLog