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New York Times:
I.M.F. Chief, Apprehended at Airport, Is Accused of Sexual Attack — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to depart for Paris on Saturday …
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New York Post:
IMF head Strauss-Kahn pulled off plane, arrested in alleged sodomy of hotel maid — The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police said.
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The Daily Beast, Politics and blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Tamer El-Ghobashy / Wall Street Journal:
Head of IMF Strauss-Kahn in Custody for Alleged Sexual Assault — A law enforcement official said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, was taken into police custody after being removed from an airplane at Kennedy Airport. — According to the official …
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New York Times, Deal Journal, Gawker, The Raw Story, Vox Popoli, naked capitalism, BuzzFeed and Talking Points Memo
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault, police tell AP
IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault, police tell AP
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Fox News:
Huckabee Opts Against 2012 White House Bid — Mike Huckabee said Saturday there would be no sequel to his surprisingly strong 2008 White House bid, in which he won the Iowa Republican caucus and finished second in the primaries to Sen. John McCain. — “All the factors say go …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Huckabee: ‘I would have made a fine president’ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Sunday he “would have made a fine president,” but added that he “was at peace” with his decision not to run for the White House in 2012. — Huckabee also told Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” …
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ThinkProgress
Maggie Haberman / Reuters:
Mike Huckabee says he won't run for president in 2012
Mike Huckabee says he won't run for president in 2012
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The Atlantic Online, The Politico, Fox News, Ben Smith's Blog and Outside the Beltway
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: “The Decision”; Update: Huckabee not running; Update: Video added
Open thread: “The Decision”; Update: Huckabee not running; Update: Video added
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Mediaite, Cubachi, FiveThirtyEight and The Other McCain
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Mike Huckabee Not Running For President in 2012
Mike Huckabee Not Running For President in 2012
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The Reid Report and The Raw Story
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Beyond parody — We'll probably learn later today whether …
Beyond parody — We'll probably learn later today whether …
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The Caucus, t/w, Sky Dancing, The Reaction, Balloon Juice and Barefoot and Progressive
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
An Evening On The Beltway Yuengling and Minor Assault Circuit — So . . . I was walking back from the home of Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman and instead of doing the normal thing and taking Q Street west to 5th and then walking south, I wanted to take a shortcut by walking south on North Capitol to then cut southwest on New York.
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Doughnut Orbitals
New York Times:
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater's Founder — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer …
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Emptywheel, Prairie Weather and Boing Boing
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
McConnell: Debt limit a ‘great opportunity’ — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). said the rapidly approaching debt limit is not a problem, but a “great opportunity” to address government spending. — The Senate Republican leader also made clear that he will need to see spending reforms in the short …
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CNN and Washington Monthly
Telegraph:
Osama bin Laden hiding place visited by Taliban — Osama bin Laden received visits from Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters while he was hiding out in a fortified compound in a Pakistani garrison town, it has emerged. — A still from a bin Laden video released by the US Department of Defense.
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Ryan will decide soon on Wisconsin Senate race — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Sunday he'll decide this week if he'll run for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Herb Kohl. — “Herb just announced this Friday,” Ryan said on CNN's “State of the Union.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and No More Mister Nice Blog
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
New York Post, With Classy Cover, Lists Bin Laden Porn Titles — The New York Post has clearly done its homework to come up with the titles of the DVD's Osama bin Laden enjoyed at his compound. As part of an article titled “Porno Osama Had A Big ‘Jihad On’” his favorites were revealed. Among them:
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
New York Post Truly Outdoes Itself With ‘Osama Bin Wankin’ Porn Cover
New York Post Truly Outdoes Itself With ‘Osama Bin Wankin’ Porn Cover
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Pajamas Media
Debbie Cenziper / Washington Post:
A trail of stalled or abandoned HUD projects — The federal government's largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or abandoned projects and routinely failed to crack down on derelict developers or the local housing agencies that funded them.
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Don Surber and Taylor Marsh
The White House:
Weekly Address: President Obama Announces New Plans to Increase Responsible Domestic Oil Production — WASHINGTON - In this week's address, President Obama laid out his strategy to continue to expand responsible and safe domestic oil production, leveraging existing authorities as part …
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Climate Progress, Right Wing News and The Politico
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Obama Shifts to Speed Oil and Gas Drilling in U.S.
Obama Shifts to Speed Oil and Gas Drilling in U.S.
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Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Neela Banerjee / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to open Alaska petroleum reserve to new drilling
Obama to open Alaska petroleum reserve to new drilling
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Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Firedoglake, Doug Ross and Pajamas Media
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Converting Mamet — A playwright's progress — Three decades ago David Mamet became known among the culture-consuming public for writing plays with lots of dirty words. “You're f—ing f—ed” was a typically Mamet-like line, appearing without the prim dashes back in a day when playwrights …
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alicublog, National Review, Pajamas Media and Power Line
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
An Ill Season — Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex …
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Israpundit