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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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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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American Power, NewsBusters.org blogs and Media Matters for America

Tucson Shooting Victim Charged for Death Threat to Tea Party Leader — Welcome to Bizzaro World — even the local station couldn't help but make note of the sad irony. — From KGUN9 in Tucson: … According to the story, Fuller was charged with one count of threats and intimidation and at least one count of disorderly conduct.
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ABC World News Reports Threat at its Tucson Town Hall, Omits it Was Made to a Tea Partier — As NewsBusters previously reported, a survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issued a death threat to a Tea Party member Saturday in the middle of a taping for a town hall meeting to be aired on ABC's “This Week.”
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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


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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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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If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally …
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Gibbs ‘surprised’ at pep-rally atmosphere of ‘memorial speech’
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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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The Mahablog, Washington Monthly and The Note
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Michael Reagan calls brother an ‘embarrassment’
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Is the Black Church Dead? Debate Flares Among African-American Christians … LITHONIA, Ga. — Under a sparkling blue sky, thousands of worshipers in cars and SUVs streamed into the mall-like parking lots at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a sprawling campus just off I-20 in this suburb of Atlanta.
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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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NewsBusters.org blogs, Cubachi, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America and Conservatives4Palin

“Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans,” said Obama in his weekly address this morning. — And what's the first thing you notice — the difference between today and the speech he gave at the memorial? Right. Different color hair. Gray for the memorial, signifying the wise elder, the father figure.
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iOwnTheWorld.com and The Gateway Pundit
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Weekly Address: “Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans”
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Guest Post: How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer? — How Many Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer? … - Ron Paul — When bipartisanship breaks out in Washington DC, check to make sure your wallet is still in your pocket. Every time you fill up your car this winter …
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The Moderate Voice


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, New York Magazine, Eunomia, Eschaton, American Power and The Lede
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Tunisians Help “Expand Our Moral Imaginations”
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Tunisia: Revolution? — Please be subscriber 18,379 (and daily reader 20,379).
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YID With LID and Pajamas Media


Speaking at the memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., President Obama said that it is human nature to look for explanations and to search for solutions when something horrific happens, as it did on an otherwise ordinary Saturday morning in a Safeway parking lot. The volley of shots that left six dead …
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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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