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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns — This follows yesterday's news that then-NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) was videotapped slamming conservatives and questioning whether NPR needs federal funding during a lunch with men posing as members of a Muslim organization …
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Activist says he targeted NPR because of Juan Williams firing — (CNN) - UPDATE: National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday, according to the organization's website. This comes the day after tape was released of an NPR senior executive slamming the tea party and saying NPR …
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Patrick Lyons / Media Decoder:
Chief Executive of NPR Resigns — NPR announced on Wednesday that the public radio network's board had accepted the resignation of its chief executive, Vivian Schiller. — Controversy has swirled around NPR in recent months, as Republicans in Congress have sought to reduce or eliminate money …
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James Oliphant / Los Angeles Times:
NPR ‘appalled’ by its executive's ‘tea party’ remarks in video
NPR ‘appalled’ by its executive's ‘tea party’ remarks in video
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Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
NPR board ousts CEO Vivian Schiller in wake of video sting
NPR board ousts CEO Vivian Schiller in wake of video sting
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For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past — WASHINGTON — For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries.
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Will King become the next McCarthy? — Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is due to hold a hearing Thursday about the “radicalization” of U.S. Muslims and whether they are sufficiently cooperative with U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. — This may be the first of a series on this subject.
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David Brody / The Brody File:
Newt Gingrich Tells Brody File He “felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness” — Newt Gingrich, who is expected to run for President tells The Brody File that he “felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness” over his past marital infidelity and now that he's at the grandfather stage he is …
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Newt Gingrich: ‘I was doing things that were wrong’
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Gingrich Explains His Divorce(s)
Gingrich Explains His Divorce(s)
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Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
Newt Gingrich: I Cheated On My Wives Because I Love America Too Much
David Frum / FrumForum:
Newt's Family Values Problem
Newt's Family Values Problem
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Bloomberg:
Government Shutdown Opposed by Americans in Poll Faulting Republican Cuts — Americans are sending a message to congressional Republicans: Don't shut down the federal government or slash spending on popular programs. — Almost 8 in 10 people say Republicans and Democrats should reach …
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Americans Oppose Republican Attack on Unions in Poll — Americans reject Republican efforts to curb bargaining rights of unions whose power they say is dwarfed by corporations, a Bloomberg National Poll finds. — As battles rage between state workers and Republican governors in Wisconsin and Ohio …
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet — News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.
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The War On Peter Diamond — As you read Alabama Senator Richard Shelby's reasons for refusing to allow a Senate vote on the confirmation of Peter Diamond to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, keep in mind that Diamond recently won a Nobel Prize:
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LEAVING BEHIND A VALUABLE DIAMOND.... Last year, the Senate …
LEAVING BEHIND A VALUABLE DIAMOND.... Last year, the Senate …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE $7.5 MILLION CLEAN-UP?.... Late last week, Republicans in Wisconsin raised a new concern about the pro-labor protests at the state capitol: they're making an expensive mess. — Specifically, the Walker administration said the repair and clean-up costs associated …
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Oh, no! Obama job approval starts down again: Gallup — No White House ever pays any attention to public opinion polls because that could imply the president shapes his actions to be approved, which would be a preposterous thing to believe. — But if Barack Obama did pay attention to his polls numbers …
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Feel The Mittmentum — I joked the other day that once Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee decide not to run for president, the only thing standing between Mitt Romney and the GOP nomination will be his religion and his record as governor. I know a lot of people think the record will suffice to doom him …
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Ross Douthat:
Everything's Coming Up Romney
Everything's Coming Up Romney
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Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages — Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn't taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement.
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Michael Medved / Wall Street Journal:
Obama a ‘Radical’? Get Real — The president isn't outside the Democratic Party's mainstream. Republicans will find him easier to beat once they realize the problem is that mainstream. — The president had finally let the mask drop and revealed himself, once and for all …
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Common mistakes of left-wing economists? — T., a loyal MR reader, asked for a compendium. This is my off-the-cuff list, but in the interests of fairness I'm doing one on market-oriented economists as well. What are some of the common views found on the left which I consider …
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Rasmussen Reports:
48% of Wisconsin Voters Want Public Employee Pension Increases Approved by Voters — A plurality of Wisconsin voters think voters should have the right to approve or reject new pension plans agreed to by government officials and union members if they'll lead to increased government spending.
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Pajamas Media, WisPolitics Budget Blog and Hot Air
Hao Leifeng / Beijing - MetroBeijing:
Charlie Sheen is not filial — Actor Charlie Sheen is a classic example of the difference in Western and Eastern values and norms. — Ignoring public pleas from his father, Sheen has continued a weeklong media blitz, exhibiting obvious signs of mania. With no firm hand to guide them …
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aina.org:
9 Christians Killed, 150 Injured in Attack By 15,000 Muslims and Egyptian Army — (AINA) — According to Father Abram Fahmy, pastor of St. Simon the Tanner Monastery in Mokatam Hills, on the outskirts of Cairo, Copts were killed and injured today in a fresh attack by Muslims.
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Battle of the Bike Lanes — At the risk of incurring the wrath of the bicycle lobby, a constituency that pursues its agenda with about as much modesty and humor as the Jacobins pursued theirs, and which has found its heroine in transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan …
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Democrats Raise Stakes on Budget — WASHINGTON—Senate Democratic leaders, seeking to break an impasse over Republican-backed spending cuts, on Tuesday proposed broadening the scope of budget negotiations into more politically volatile terrain that includes taxes, subsidies and entitlement programs.
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