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Conservatives Can't Decide If Obama Was Too Busy Golfing Or Biking To Stop The Earthquake — Following the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the D.C. region this afternoon, conservative media figures have responded the only way they know how: by twisting it into an attack on Obama's vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Reuters:
1 quake, and 2 missed golf shots — OAK BLUFFS, Mass. - President Obama gave the media a rare glimpse Tuesday into his treasured golf game, taking the unusual step of inviting reporters to watch him putt on a public course here. — The visual of a shirt-sleeved president …
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Obama Golfing in Martha's Vineyard When Earthquake Hit — ABC News' Stephanie Smith and David Kerley (@david_kerley) report: — Talk about early warning. The majority of the White House press corps, camped out at a hotel at Martha's Vineyard, was keeping a close eye on our computers and emails.
Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
All Shook Up? Barack Obama missed golf putts after earthquake struck
All Shook Up? Barack Obama missed golf putts after earthquake struck
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Earthquake Rattles Washington DC - Obama Goes Biking
Earthquake Rattles Washington DC - Obama Goes Biking
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Little Green Footballs, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Above All Else, Eastern Quake Rattles Nerves — Of all the things there are to worry about, earthquakes are fairly low on the list for those on the East Coast. So it was startling, just as the lunch hour was ending Tuesday and workers in a broad area of North America were settling back into their cubicles …
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Did So Many People Feel a 5.9 Earthquake in Richmond, Virginia?
How Did So Many People Feel a 5.9 Earthquake in Richmond, Virginia?
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Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
D.C. earthquake: Powerful tremor shakes region
D.C. earthquake: Powerful tremor shakes region
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Truthdig, Nation Now and Wake up America
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Rare Strong Earthquake Hits Colorado
Rare Strong Earthquake Hits Colorado
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Boing Boing, Towleroad News #gay and National Review
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Jeb Bush warns 2012ers on hitting Obama — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush warned the Republican presidential hopefuls against ideological intransigence and knee-jerk opposition to President Barack Obama on Tuesday, saying they risk turning off middle-of-the-road voters.
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The Moderate Voice, Weasel Zippers, Ricochet Conversation Feed and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Guy Benson — BREAKING: Obama Administratrion Clarifies Biden Remarks, “Strongly Opposes” China's One-Child Policy — As I mentioned in my previous post, I contacted the White House this afternoon for an explanation of Vice President Biden's stunning remarks regarding China's odious one-child policy.
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National Review, Flopping Aces, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications and LifeNews.com
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama tops Perry — Rick Perry is looking increasingly like the Republican favorite for President- he led in the Iowa poll we released this morning and he leads by double digits in the national poll we'll release tomorrow. The biggest beneficiary of Perry's rise? It might be Barack Obama.
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Taegan Goddard's …, GOP 12, Juanita Jean's and Balloon Juice
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Perry Rises in Recognition and Maintains Positive Image
Douglas A. McIntyre / 24/7 Wall St.:
JP Morgan May Take Over Bank Of America — There is a rumor circulated on Wall St. that JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) will take over Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) within the week. The government will support the deal with a $100 billion investment in preferred shares issued by the combined entity.
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Henry Blodget / Politics:
Here's Why Bank Of America's Stock Is Collapsing Again
Here's Why Bank Of America's Stock Is Collapsing Again
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Clusterstock, Reuters, naked capitalism, MarketBeat, Deal Journal, New York Magazine, FT Alphaville, AMERICAblog News and Modeled Behavior
John Stevens / Daily Mail:
Michelle Obama shows up her husband in tiny purple bike shorts as the President lags behind in jeans — Michelle Obama showed off her enviably toned thighs as she powered past the President in tiny purple cycling shorts on the first family's bike ride on Martha's Vineyard today.
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Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com and JammieWearingFool
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
How to make Sarah Palin disappear — The safe bet remains that Sarah Palin is simply engaged in a long and tiresome tease. Every few weeks comes some new sign of her supposedly imminent entry into the GOP presidential race, but nothing ever seems to happen.
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The Monkey Cage, Reuters, Hot Air, A plain blog about politics and GOP 12
BBC:
Defiant Gaddafi ‘vows to fight’ — The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tripoli: “The city erupted in gunfire” — Col Muammar Gaddafi has vowed death or victory in the fight against “aggression”, reports say, after Libyan rebels seized his Tripoli compound.
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The Moderate Voice and New York Magazine
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CBS News:
Anger In The Arab World
Anger In The Arab World
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The Heritage Foundation, The Gateway Pundit, Truthdig and Guardian
Tania Branigan / Guardian:
China looks to protect its assets in a post-Gaddafi Libya
China looks to protect its assets in a post-Gaddafi Libya
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Pajamas Media and Via Meadia
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
CNN Reports: Some Stones Loose At Washington Monument After Quake — The U.S. Capitol Police reports that the Washington Monument has been damaged after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the nation's capital. There are also reports that the Washington Monument is “tilting” from ABC News affiliate WABC.
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emptywheel:
CantorQuake: Trembling at the Heart of GOP Claims We Don't Need Government — Back in March, after the Japanese earthquake, Eric Cantor defended Republican plans to cut funding from the USGS and warning systems to help in case of a disaster. — This is the epicenter of the freak 5.9 Richter earthquake that just hit Virginia.
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iWatch News, ABCNEWS, The Impolitic, The Project … and AMERICAblog News
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Paul Krugman / Google+:
People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage.
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Hot Air, Pajamas Media and Hit & Run
Nathan Koppel / Law Blog:
KBR Requests That Losing Rape Claimant Pay Company's Legal Fees — The skirmishing has not yet subsided in the high-profile suit brought by Jamie Leigh Jones, the Houston woman who claimed that she was raped while working in Iraq for defense contractor KBR.
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The Raw Story, Man Are We Screwed and Feministe
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Perry campaign distances him from book's call for repeal of 16th Amendment — Rick Perry's campaign is now distancing him from another controversial claim in his book: That we should repeal the 16th Amendment and replace it with a “Fair Tax,” a radical idea that's still rattling around in some precincts on the right.
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Politics, TPMDC, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress, FrumForum, Ben Smith's Blog, alicublog, Washington Monthly and Indecision Forever
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Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Kucinich: Haul generals to court — NATO commanders who authorized the Libya bombing campaign should be “held accountable” to international law and hauled before the world court for civilian deaths, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said Tuesday. — “NATO's top commanders may have acted under color …
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Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Weasel Zippers and Bluegrass Pundit
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
New Jersey School District Yanks Lesbian Sex Book From Required Summer Reading List — A New Jersey school district has apologized to parents after requiring high school students to read books that include graphic depictions of lesbian sex and a homosexual orgy.
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Don Surber, Man Are We Screwed, CNSNews and The Lonely Conservative
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Study: 8 in 10 lawmakers lack education in economics — Almost 80 percent of lawmakers might need to crack open an economics textbook before the congressional recess ends, a new study on Tuesday suggests. — The vast majority of members lack an academic background in business or economics …
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The Glittering Eye, Weasel Zippers and CARPE DIEM
Campaign 2012:
Top politically themed earthquake tweets — After Washington DC realized that the earthquake was nothing to worry about, they took to Twitter to joke about the cause. Some of the best ones below: — @TPCarney: Krugman says it wasn't big enough. — @comradescott: Evidently the quake occurred …
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