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Sarah Palin is “Evil”? [Update] — [Update] The last sentence seems to have been removed from below the image now. Thanks to whoever listened to my complaint. — That's right; according to whoever writes the copy over at Yahoo! New Zealand, Sarah Palin is “evil”.
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Mediaite and Pajamas Media
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Alaska Releases Palin E-Mails — Boxes filled with more than 24,000 printed pages of e-mails Sarah Palin sent as governor have been piled onto dollies and teams of reporters have just begun wheeling them away from an Alaska state building for a Twitter-fueled race to determine whether they contain anything interesting.
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Sarah Palin emails set for release — The state of Alaska will release 24,199 pages of Sarah Palin's government e-mails on Friday, nearly three years after the initial public records requests were made. — At 9 a.m. Alaska time (1 p.m. Eastern), 17 media organizations and individuals …
ProPublica:
A Reader's Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails
A Reader's Guide to the (Still Coming) Sarah Palin Emails
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Mother Jones, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, Salon, msnbc.com, Little Green Footballs, News Desk, Gawker and Lynn Sweet
Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing
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The Moderate Voice, Swampland, The Gateway Pundit, Shakesville, Salon, Boing Boing and The Caucus
Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Two separate and reliable source in Texas tell me serious preparations are being made for Governor Rick Perry, 61, to seek the Republican nomination for president. — Dave Carney and Rob Johnson — the former top Perry aides who on Thursday left Newt Gingrich's campaign …
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Perry Very Likely to Run
Perry Very Likely to Run
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Fox Nation
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Romney rivals slam Ames decision — Mitt Romney's prospective Republican opponents are decrying his decision to skip the Ames straw poll and assuring Iowans they won't follow suit. — “It is disappointing that the perceived front-runner would choose to disregard Iowa voters and the importance …
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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Pawlenty benefits from turbulence in Republican presidential field
Pawlenty benefits from turbulence in Republican presidential field
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Eunomia, AmSpecBlog and FrumForum
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Palin vs. the GOP establishment
First Thoughts: Palin vs. the GOP establishment
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PR Newswire, Associated Press, New York Times and Hot Air
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Weiner can't afford to quit the DC day job — Even if scandal-stained Rep. Anthony Weiner didn't want to stay in office, he needs to stay in office. — Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn't have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.
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Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, New York Magazine, The Jawa Report, Althouse, RADAR and JammieWearingFool
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EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS NAILED BY DEAD WIFE's VIDEO TESTIMONY! — IN a devastating act of ultimate revenge, a dying Elizabeth Edwards recorded a bombshell secret videotape for prosecutors - nailing her cheating husband John as he will stand trial on charges that could land him behind bars for 30 years.
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Gawker, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, Althouse and The Daily Caller
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Libya's Gadhafi writes Congress for cease-fire — Congress has received a letter ostensibly from Moammar Gadhafi that calls for a cease-fire and urges the U.S. to take the lead in negotiating a deal for peace in Libya. — The June 9 letter, which The Hill obtained, is addressed to the White House and lawmakers.
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Washington Post and FrumForum
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The fall of the house of Newt — Former House Speaker REUTERS/Jason Reed/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT)The presidential campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was rocked late Thursday by the resignation of more than a dozen senior staffers and key operatives in states like South Carolina and Iowa.
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The Note, TPMDC, Ben Smith's Blog, Salon and The New Republic
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Companies Spend on Equipment, Not Workers — Companies that are looking for a good deal aren't seeing one in new workers. — Workers are getting more expensive while equipment is getting cheaper, and the combination is encouraging companies to spend on machines rather than people.
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ThinkProgress, Economix, Swampland, Booman Tribune, The Awl, The Impolitic, Truthdig, Pajamas Media and FrumForum
The Huffington Post:
Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Remarks In Anti-Gay Stand Up Set UPDATE: Morgan Apologizes … Tracey Morgan , Tracy Morgan , Tracy Morgan Homophobic , Tracy Morgan Homophobic Standup Set , Tracy Morgan Kill His Son If He Were Gay , Tracy Morgan Stand Up Comedy , Tracy Morgan Anti-Gay …
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The Price of Taxophobia: Inefficient Taxes — Ever since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, American politics has been dominated by the presence of a large and powerful ideological movement that's primarily dedicated to the cause of tax cuts. One result, as shown by my econ team colleagues' suite …
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EXCLUSIVE: Obama extends protections to gay couples under Medicaid — Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (Blade file photo by Michael Key) — The Obama administration is set on Friday to issue policy guidance to states expanding their ability to offer same-sex couples …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story, Daily Kos and Feministing
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rule by Rentiers — The latest economic data have dashed any hope of a quick end to America's job drought, which has already gone on so long that the average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks. Yet there is no political will to do anything about the situation.
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Weiner finds a friend in Charlie Rangel — Randy rep Anthony Weiner has finally found a friend. — His congressional colleague Rep. Charles Rangel — who's been on the wrong side of his own House ethics probe — said today that things could be a lot worse for the pervy pol.
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Ben Smith's Blog
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Azi Paybarah / PolitickerNY:
Anthony Weiner's Problem is the Media, Says Rangel [Video]
Anthony Weiner's Problem is the Media, Says Rangel [Video]
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TPMDC, Capital Tonight and Gothamist
Yahoo! News Canada:
China ratings house says US defaulting: report — A Chinese ratings house has accused the United States of defaulting on its massive debt, state media said Friday, a day after Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order. — “In our opinion, the United States has already been defaulting …
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Pajamas Media
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Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because His Behavior Offends ‘Culturally Backward’ Christian Conservatives — On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews determined that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could be in danger of being forced out of Congress by Blue Dog Dems who face uphill battles …
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart.tv
Washington Post:
Stewardship? Or ideology? — The Republicans swept November's midterm election by making it highly ideological, a referendum on two years of hyper-liberalism — of arrogant, overreaching, intrusive government drowning in debt and running deficits of $1.5 trillion annually. It's not complicated.
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The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, The New Republic, Washington Monthly and The Confluence
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Rocky start for DNC chairwoman — Democrats knew they were getting an outspoken partisan when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz took over the reins of the Democratic National Committee a month ago. — But they might not have known just how outspoken. — In the four weeks since she succeeded Tim Kaine …
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Hot Air, The Other McCain, Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers, The Note, iOwnTheWorld.com and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
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'I'm a Marxist,' Dalai Lama tells Chinese students — Usually what we hear from the Dalai Lama is an insistant yet soothing voice for compassion and peace. — So Tsering Namgyal, a journalist based in Minneapolis, was jolted by the Dalai Lama's talk to 150 Chinese students this month at the University of Minnesota.
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative and FrumForum
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Universal Preschool: An Actually Smart Longterm Deficit Plan — Pre-School Valentine's Party by hubertk — A new report published in Science found that benefits for early childhood education are substantial and long lasting. From the abstract: … The study found that the children …
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Bloomberg and sciencemag.org
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AT & T gave cash to merger backers — AT&T is lining up support for its acquisition of T-Mobile from a slew of liberal groups with no obvious interest in telecom deals — except that they've received big piles of AT&T's cash. — In recent weeks, the NAACP, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance …
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Weiner pens apology to neighbors — (CNN)-See full contents of the note after the jump. — To our neighbors: — Please forgive the inconvenience of all the press outside. — I am sorry for all I have done that has now impacted you. — Hopefully it will soon pass. —Anthony
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PolitickerNY and USA Today
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The Lone Star Jobs Surge — The Texas model added 37% of all net U.S. jobs since the recovery began. — Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, dropped by our offices this week and relayed a remarkable fact: Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas.
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GOP 12, Betsy's Page and Pajamas Media
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Brash Style Alienates Weiner From Peers — Even as top Democrats intensified pressure on him to resign, Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York tried to power through the day on Thursday and suggest things were getting back to normal. — “I'm going to go back to my community office …
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Balloon Juice and New York Magazine