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Justices' feud gets physical — Prosser, Bradley clashed on eve of union ruling — By Crocker Stephenson, Cary Spivak and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley late Saturday accused fellow Justice David Prosser of putting her in a chokehold during …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Taylor Marsh
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
An alternate account of the Prosser-Bradley confrontation surfaces: Did she “charge him with fists raised”? — The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel presents new detail to the undersourced report that everyone's talking about today: … According to the Journal Sentinel, Prosser issued a statement today …
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iOwnTheWorld.com, American Power and The Volokh Conspiracy
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Wisconsin Judge Said to Have Attacked Colleague
Wisconsin Judge Said to Have Attacked Colleague
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Prairie Weather, Gawker and WisconsinWatch.org
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Four Ways Justice David Prosser Can Be Removed From Office
Four Ways Justice David Prosser Can Be Removed From Office
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Althouse, Sky Dancing, The Nation, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake and host.madison.com
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowa Poll: Romney, Bachmann in lead; Cain third; others find little traction — Illustration by Mark Marturello/The Register — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann sit atop the standings in the year's first Des Moines Register Iowa Poll on the Republican presidential field.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney lead in first Iowa GOP poll
Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney lead in first Iowa GOP poll
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Washington Monthly
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Des Moines Register poll shows Romney, Bachmann in the lead
Des Moines Register poll shows Romney, Bachmann in the lead
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CNN
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Why Is He Bi? (Sigh) — HE was born this way. — Bi. — Not bisexual. Not even bipartisan. Just binary. — Our president likes to be on both sides at once. — In Afghanistan, he wants to go but he wants to stay. He's surging and withdrawing simultaneously.
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Prairie Weather and AMERICAblog News
The Politico:
Buzzkill: The problem with Jon Huntsman Hype — From afar, it's easy to get swept up by the hype: Jon Huntsman is accomplished, handsome, smart, and his civility message has appeal beyond the meat-eaters who dominate this early phase of the Republican presidential campaign.
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Right Wing News
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off — ALMOST a century ago, the United States decided to make high school nearly universal. Around the same time, much of Europe decided that universal high school was a waste. Not everybody, European intellectuals argued, should go to high school.
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Economix, Marginal Revolution and EconLog
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama is profoundly aloof — Which past leader does Barack Obama most closely resemble? His admirers, not all of them liberals, used to compare him with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. — Well, Obama announced his candidacy in Lincoln's hometown two days …
Adrian Carrasquillo / Fox News:
Report: Hugo Chávez in Critical Condition In Cuban Hospital — Hugo Chávez extended stay in a Cuban hospital is because he is in critical condition, according to a report in El Nuevo Herald. — The Venezuelan president, who was last seen in public June 9 and last heard from on June 12 …
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Scared Monkeys, The Lonely Conservative and No Left Turns
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Atop TV Sets, a Power Drain That Runs Nonstop — Those little boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single largest electricity drain in many American homes, with some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power …
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ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway
Washington Times:
GHEI: The return of stagflation — Obama's Carter-era policies bring back Carter-era problems — The silver lining in the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee Meeting on Wednesday is that quantitative easing seems to be off the table for now. Once the Fed ends its $600 billion bond-buying program …
Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
Bummer of a Recovery — On economic growth, real GDP has risen 0.8% over the 13 quarters since the recession began, compared to an average increase of 9.9% in past recoveries. — When a new Bloomberg poll finds that 44% of Americans feel that the economy is “worse than when Obama was inaugurated” …
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Power Line
aina.org:
Egyptian Muslims Torch 8 Christian Homes on Rumor of Church Construction — (AINA) — A mob of nearly 200 Muslims torched eight Christian homes on Saturday morning in the Upper Egyptian village of Awlad Khalaf. The attack was initiated by a rumor that a house which is being built by Wahib Halim Attia will be turned into a church.
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Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch