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The Atlantic Online:
Dear Mr. Netanyahu, Please Don't Speak to My President That Way — For whatever reason, I tend to react strongly when a foreign leader disrespects the United States, and its President. I didn't like it when Hugo Chavez of Venezuela insulted President Bush; I don't like listening to Hamid Karzai …
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Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
SLAM!! Bibi Diplomatically “Slaps” Obama During White House Press Op — It was a stunning tableau, a President of the United States sitting back and glaring while the Prime Minister of Israel pushed back against the words made by the POTUS yesterday. Both parties made their presentations …
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CNN, Left Coast Rebel, No More Mister Nice Blog and Verum Serum
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
In Oval Office, Bibi Offers History Lessons to Obama — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to think he needed to educate President Obama on some issues today, so in the Oval Office he described in some detail to the president a history of the refugee problem in the region dating back 63 years …
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Middle East Progress, Power Line, Wonk Room, Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, Haaretz and Yahoo! News
Ynetnews:
Behind the scenes: Obama snubs Netanyahu
Behind the scenes: Obama snubs Netanyahu
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Balloon Juice, Weasel Zippers, Freedom's Lighthouse and The Gateway Pundit
Reuters:
Divisions Clear as Netanyahu and Obama Discuss Peace
Divisions Clear as Netanyahu and Obama Discuss Peace
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Associated Press, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Maggie's Farm, PolitickerNY and Althouse
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama and Netanyahu, Distrustful Allies, Meet
Obama and Netanyahu, Distrustful Allies, Meet
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Carney downplays tension between Obama, Netanyahu
Carney downplays tension between Obama, Netanyahu
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The Politico, The Hill and Weasel Zippers
Ynetnews:
Netanyahu associate: Obama detached from reality
Netanyahu associate: Obama detached from reality
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National Review, The Lede, Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Hatch condemns Obama's stance on Israel border, plans disapproval measure
Hatch condemns Obama's stance on Israel border, plans disapproval measure
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Weasel Zippers
The Atlantic Online:
The Rapture Is Not Saturday — It's Tonight — Doomsday prophet Harold Camping tells The Atlantic what to expect when the end of the world begins — LOS ANGELES — In his relentless study of the Bible, 89-year-old Oakland-based Harold Camping has seen the signs. You may have also seen them recently.
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Make My Bed? But You Say the World's Ending — The Haddad children of Middletown, Md., have a lot on their minds: school projects, SATs, weekend parties. And parents who believe the earth will begin to self-destruct on Saturday. — The three teenagers have been struggling to make sense …
CourierPostOnline.com:
Cherry Hill student's challenge to Tea Party champion Michele Bachmann prompts ‘threats’ — A Cherry Hill High School East sophomore who challenged Tea Party champion Michele Bachmann to a constitutional debate says she is concerned for her personal safety.
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Little Green Footballs, ThinkProgress and The Blotter
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Transcript: Exclusive Interview With Jon Huntsman — I sat down for an exclusive interview with Jon Huntsman yesterday. Here is the full transcript and CLICK HERE for the full story. — George Stephanopoulos: Governor, thanks for doing this. — Jon Huntsman: It's an honor.
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Firedoglake, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Politico, National Review, TPMDC, Yglesias, Hot Air, The Caucus, The New Republic, Salon, GOP 12, Taylor Marsh, 24Ahead, The Note, The Hill, AmSpecBlog, The Daily Dish, New York Magazine, Swampland, Washington Monthly, FrumForum, CNN and ThinkProgress
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Can Dems make Medicare central to 2012 presidential race?
Can Dems make Medicare central to 2012 presidential race?
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Mother Jones, National Review, Taylor Marsh and The Huffington Post
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Romney's Evangelical Problem
Romney's Evangelical Problem
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Firedoglake and Democratic Strategist
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Orbitz Snubs Media Matters' ‘Drop Fox’ Campaign: 'We Aren't Going To Engage In That Fight' — The effort by liberal media watchdog group Media Matters to convince half a dozen leading national advertisers to pull their dollars from the Fox News Channel got a high-profile snub Thursday when Orbitz …
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The Gateway Pundit, Confederate Yankee and Pajamas Media
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Orbitz Backs Fox News Channel Amid Media Matters' ‘Smear Campaign’
Orbitz Backs Fox News Channel Amid Media Matters' ‘Smear Campaign’
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Big Journalism
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Roger Ailes responds to Chris Matthews' ‘Pathetic’ comment about Sarah Palin — Fox News Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes is responding to a shot Chris Matthews fired his way on his show last night. — After playing a clip of Sarah Palin discussing Newt Gingrich on Fox News, Matthews said, “This is so pathetic, watching her on television.
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Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
TMZ.com:
Macho Man Randy Savage Dies In Car Accident — Macho Man Randy Savage — one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time — died today in a car accident in Seminole, Florida ... TMZ has learned. — TMZ spoke with Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack …
New York Times:
At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard — WASHINGTON — It is an international island in the midst of the American capital, a sharp-elbowed place ruled by alpha male economists. The days are long, and employees are regularly pressed together for weeks on end during overseas “missions.”
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FrumForum, Jezebel, Yglesias, Don Surber, AmSpecBlog, Associated Press and Feministing
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John Eligon / New York Times:
Strauss-Kahn Is Released from Jail
Strauss-Kahn Is Released from Jail
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News Desk, Law Blog and New York Magazine
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mitch Daniels knocked in head at gym — An accident at the gym left Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels with 16 stitches on his forehead on Friday, his office announced. — Daniels, who is weighing a run for the White House, was standing near a door at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport in Indianapolis …
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The Note and Freedom's Lighthouse
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CNN:
Muslim convert charged with threats to ‘South Park’ creators — (CNN) — Federal authorities are using words uttered by the co-founder of a radical Islamic group to charge him with threats against the creators of “South Park.” — A criminal complaint alleging the communication of threats …
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Wilshire & Washington, Atlas Shrugs, The Jawa Report, Jihad Watch, The Daily Caller and The Daily Dish
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“South Park” Jihadi Was '08 Obama Volunteer
“South Park” Jihadi Was '08 Obama Volunteer
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iOwnTheWorld.com and Weasel Zippers
Chad Stone / Off the Charts Blog:
What's Driving Projected Debt? — As we've noted, my colleagues Kathy Ruffing and Jim Horney have updated CBPP's analysis showing that the economic downturn, President Bush's tax cuts, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain virtually the entire federal budget deficit over the next ten years.
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Economist's View, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality …, Mother Jones and Washington Monthly
New York Post:
Giving too much license to cops — A series of recent court rulings, in cluding one this week from the US Supreme Court, appear to erode one of our bedrock defenses against the arbitrary, abusive power of the state. — At risk: the Fourth Amendment guarantee to all American citizens of the right to be …
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National Review
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Daily Mail:
Islands in the stream: The extraordinary homemade dams holding back the Mississippi as desperate residents try to save their homes — We've all undertaken home improvements but these residents in flood-stricken Mississippi have had to embark on major construction projects just to protect their houses and livelihoods.
Fernanda Santos / City Room:
Mayor Is Criticized for Comments on Parents at Poor Schools — Responding to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday seeking to prevent the city from closing 22 poor-performing schools, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made a comment that has sparked outrage among some community leaders.
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Perdido Street School, The Other McCain and ECHIDNE of the snakes
Inside Higher Ed:
Comments on Red Grader, Blue Grader — The article doesn't say whether or not the researchers controlled for differences across departments. I'm sure there are some departments with greater percentages of Republican-leaning professors than others, and perhaps classes in those departments tend …
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Gawker and Unqualified Offerings
Frank Newport / Gallup:
For First Time, Majority of Americans Favor Legal Gay Marriage — Republicans and older Americans remain opposed — PRINCETON, NJ — For the first time in Gallup's tracking of the issue, a majority of Americans (53%) believe same-sex marriage should be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages.
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Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
Survey: Recent college grads wising up about Obama — A recent informal survey of 500 post-grads primarily between the ages of 22 and 28 — 83 percent of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 — found just 27 percent of Obama's previous youth supporters plan to vote for him again, The Daily Caller reports.
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The Daily Caller