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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi — Hillary Clinton, yesterday, when asked about those questioning the Libya War: … Gallup, yesterday (click image to enlarge): — It's not only a plurality of Americans who are “on Gaddafi's side,” but also the head of the Arab League …
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TalkLeft and Taylor Marsh
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Hillary Clinton, to Libya War Critics: “Whose side are you on?”
Hillary Clinton, to Libya War Critics: “Whose side are you on?”
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Pajamas Media
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Shift to More Negative View of Libya Military Action
Americans Shift to More Negative View of Libya Military Action
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Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway, Top of the Ticket and HotAirPundit
Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
Remarks With Jamaican Foreign Minister Kenneth Baugh and St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy Prime Minister Sam Condor
Remarks With Jamaican Foreign Minister Kenneth Baugh and St. Kitts and Nevis Deputy Prime Minister Sam Condor
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Outside the Beltway, The Other McCain and Salon
New York Times:
Seized Phone Offers Clues to Bin Laden's Pakistani Links — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistan last month, contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
President ‘becoming an absolute monarch’ on war powers, Dem says — A House Democrat warned Friday that the U.S. president is becoming an “absolute monarch” on matters related to the authority to start a war. — Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Congress must act to limit funding …
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Don Surber
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The Politico:
House rejects Obama's Libya policy — The House delivered a stinging rejection of President Barack Obama's military intervention in Libya on Friday, voting in bipartisan fashion against authorizing the mission for another year. The president's supporters still held out hope that they could stop …
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AmSpecBlog
Jennifer Steinhauer / The Caucus:
House Rejects Resolution Authorizing U.S. Mission in Libya — Updated The House on Friday resoundingly rejected a measure that would have authorized the United States' mission in Libya, with 70 Democrats deserting President Obama on an issue that has divided their party and became …
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ThinkProgress, Reuters, Gawker, TalkLeft, Weigel and The Politico
David Jackson / USA Today:
Poll: Public now opposes Libya military action
Poll: Public now opposes Libya military action
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Booman Tribune, Washington Post and The Right Scoop
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Bombing the Moon — Following up on my GOP mind games post, Ezra Klein makes a smart observation in this morning's Wonkbook on how the GOP transformed tax increases from a important, necessary option in the deficit debate into something evil and extremist. To prove his point …
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TalkLeft, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Hill
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: How could taxes blow up debt talks? — (Susan Walsh - AP) It is remarkable to watch how Republicans have taken tax increases, which have long been present in deficit-reduction deals and generally considered the equivalent of spending cuts, and turned them into something vastly more extreme and unthinkable.
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
McConnell: GOP Would Not Voice Opposition To Libya Campaign If Obama Was A Republican
McConnell: GOP Would Not Voice Opposition To Libya Campaign If Obama Was A Republican
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Little Green Footballs, Outside the Beltway, Los Angeles Times, Althouse, TPMDC and The Politico
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Republicans: Walkout from Biden-led negotiations was long planned
Republicans: Walkout from Biden-led negotiations was long planned
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The Caucus, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Daily Kos and New York Times
New York Times:
Politicians Who Fear the Public Light — As we wrote this editorial on Thursday evening, we were still waiting for the New York State Senate to do what it should have done long ago — end a basic inequality under the law by allowing same-sex couples the full right to marry.
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The Gist, Capital Tonight, AMERICAblog Gay and Good As You
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Benefits Rollback for Work Force — TRENTON — New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday approved a broad rollback of benefits for 750,000 government workers and retirees, the deepest cut in state and local costs in memory, in a major victory for Gov. Chris Christie …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Salon, Hot Air, The Caucus, Truthdig, Sweetness & Light, Hotline On Call, NewsBusters.org blogs and Big Government
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Fighting Words: DeMint Warns Republicans They May Be ‘Gone’ if They Support Debt Ceiling Increase — Conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint has a message to fellow Republicans in Congress: If you support increasing the debt ceiling without first passing a balanced budget amendment …
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Washington Wire, Little Green Footballs, The Politico, TPMDC, The Lonely Conservative, RedState, HotAirPundit and The Other McCain
Dana Ritter / White House Wrap:
Commander In Chief Misspeaks About Soldier Killed in Afghanistan — During his remarks to troops at Fort Drum today, the President was reminiscing about the times he has spent with the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, when he got something wrong. … The problem is, Jared Monti was killed in action in Afghanistan, on June 21, 2006.
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Conservatives4Palin, Scared Monkeys, The Right Scoop, Weasel Zippers, Pundit & Pundette and The Daily Caller
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Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
President Obama's Terrible Mistake
President Obama's Terrible Mistake
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NewsBusters.org blogs, JustOneMinute, Verum Serum and American Power
JSOnline:
Johnson proves to be a big spender - and taker: Firm pays him $10 million — After dropping nearly $9 million from his own pocket to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, Ron Johnson didn't have to feel the pain for very long. — Johnson's plastics company paid him $10 million in deferred compensation shortly …
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The Politico, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Can liberals start their own tea party? — Van Jones is hoping to rival the tea party movement. (Carlos Osorio - AP Photo) — At last weekend's Netroots Nation gathering in Minneapolis, liberal activists expressed frustration that they lacked the political power or media focus given to the conservative tea-party movement.
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AlterNet, Taylor Marsh, RedState, Instapundit, The Daily Caller, Jack & Jill Politics, The Nation and Seeing the Forest
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company (Exclusive)
Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company (Exclusive)
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Mediaite, Pajamas Media, Gawker and Big Hollywood
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran giving out condoms for criminals to rape us, say jailed activists — Smuggled letters allege authorities are using mass rape as a weapon inside Iran's most notorious prisons — Prison guards in Iran are giving condoms to criminals and encouraging them to systematically rape young …
The Politico:
Romney dominates GOP cash dash — Everyone knows Mitt Romney is going to outpace the GOP presidential field when next month's fundraising reports come out. But the scale of his money advantage is finally coming into shape: the rest of the field is going to be eating his dust.
Cathy Lynn Grossman / USA Today:
Airline to Jewish rumor: ‘Delta does not discriminate.’ — Earlier today some Jewish and Christian readers in the blogosphere were fired up about stories that Delta Airlines, in its new alliance with Saudi Arabian Airlines, might wind up enforcing a Saudi policy of not admitting Iraelis …
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn't ‘Shrink’ — (CNSNews.com) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Small Business Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration believes taxes on small business must increase so the administration does not have to …
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The ChamberPost, Coffee & Markets, The Lonely Conservative, Vox Popoli, The Other McCain, Pajamas Media and The Right Scoop
William Yardley / New York Times:
Officials Say Two Planned Armed Attack in Seattle — SEATTLE — Federal law enforcement officials have arrested two men who they say planned to attack a military processing center here using machine guns and grenades. — The men — Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph A. Davis …
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BBC, NewsBusters.org blogs, Seattle Times, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Breaking news and opinion …
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Osama wanted new name for al-Qaida to repair image — WASHINGTON (AP) — As Osama bin Laden watched his terrorist organization get picked apart, he lamented in his final writings that al-Qaida was suffering from a marketing problem. His group was killing too many Muslims and that was bad for business.
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Power Line, Danger Room, FP Passport, Weasel Zippers, Gawker and Truthdig
David Weigel / Weigel:
Romney Goes Classic — Clicking around on In These Times (!), I noticed this ad directing me to Mitt Romney's campaign site. — Those people aren't dressed like Americans in the year 2011, are they? No. That's because this is copied from (or lovingly designed in tribute to!) …
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Washington Monthly and Ben Smith's Blog
Jon Terbush / TPMDC:
Poll: Gov. Rick Scott's Unpopularity Handicapping GOP Pres Candidates In Florida — A plurality of Florida voters say they are less inclined to support a Republican presidential candidate in 2012 because of the way their freshman GOP governor has acted since taking office, according to a PPP poll to be released Friday morning.
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The Daily Pulp, Weigel and The Reid Report