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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
5.8-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes East Coast — A 5.8-magnitude earthquake based in Virginia sent tremors from the nation's capital to New York City and New England Tuesday afternoon, officials said. — Buildings throughout major metropolitan centers in the northeast were evacuated after the quake …
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
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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The Moderate Voice, Mediaite and Crooks and Liars
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
5.9 magnitude quake rocks East Coast — A 5.9 magnitude quake center in Virginia rocks the East Coast, with tremors felt as far south as North Carolina, as far north as Buffalo and Boston, and as far west as Detroit. — Update at 2:30 p.m. ET: The Washington Post quotes a a USGS official as saying …
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The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, Ecocentric, Sense of Events, Michelle Malkin and Scared Monkeys
The Note:
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.
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Indecision Forever, Gawker, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Sense of Events and Political Punch
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Did So Many People Feel a 5.9 Earthquake in Richmond, Virginia?
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Rare Strong Earthquake Hits Colorado
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Online NewsHour, Boing Boing, Towleroad News #gay and National Review
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Earthquake Rattles Washington DC - Obama Goes Biking
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Little Green Footballs and Hullabaloo
Melissa Bell / Washington Post:
East Coast earthquake: 5.9 magnitude epicenter hits Virginia
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Taylor Marsh and Instapundit
USA Today:
Earthquake rocks East Coast
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The Huffington Post, NBC Washington, The American Mind, The Project … and AmSpecBlog
This Just In:
Earthquake shuts down Virginia nuclear plant
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Reuters, The Episcopal Church welcomes …, CNN, WWBT-TV, Nation Now, Pajamas Media, Boing Boing and Wonkette
Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
5.9 magnitude earthquake hits Mineral, Va.
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Pajamas Media and Patterico's Pontifications
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Perry takes the lead in Iowa — Rick Perry is the new leader in Iowa: — The race is pretty close four ways in Iowa but Rick Perry is the new favorite among Republican voters in the state. Among announced candidates he's at 22% to 19% for Mitt Romney, 18% for Michele Bachmann, and 16% for Ron Paul.
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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.
Discussion:
Taegan Goddard's …, GOP 12 and Balloon Juice
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, A plain blog about politics and GOP 12
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Could a Palin presidential bid rewrite the campaign rulebook?
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The Caucus, Washington Post, Ballot Box, SarahPAC and Booman Tribune
Henry Blodget / Politics:
Here's Why Bank Of America's Stock Is Collapsing Again — It's deja vu all over again. — The stock of a humongous American bank, Bank of America (BAC), is collapsing. — This is stoking fears that Bank of America will go bust, taking the whole economy down with it. — Why is Bank of America's stock tanking?
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The Wire, Clusterstock, naked capitalism, Reuters, MarketBeat, FT Alphaville, Deal Journal, Modeled Behavior, New York Magazine and AMERICAblog News
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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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FT Alphaville, Clusterstock, Dealbreaker and MarketBeat
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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The Impolitic and AMERICAblog News
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Wall Street Journal:
Virginia Nuclear Plant Loses Power After Quake — A nuclear power plant in central Virginia has lost offsite power in the wake of a 5.8 earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., U.S. nuclear officials said. — The North Anna Power Station, which has two nuclear reactors …
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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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, ThinkProgress, Ben Smith's Blog, Indecision Forever, TPMDC, Wonkette and The Washington Independent
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Why Rick Perry's War On The 16th Amendment Is The Third Prong Of His War On Seniors
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post and The New Republic
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Perry Backs Radical National Sales Tax Plan To Starve Federal Government
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Los Angeles Times, Washington Monthly, FrumForum, Right Wing Watch and Mother Jones
The Politico:
Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero — It's a tough time to be a conservative intellectual. — From the Weekly Standard to the Wall Street Journal, on the pages of policy periodicals and opinion sections, the egghead right's longing for a presidential candidate of ideas …
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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Weasel Zippers
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 …
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, Bluegrass Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
How Democrats Hurt Jobs — The airplane's aft section arrived early Monday morning. That's what they'd been waiting for at the final assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C. They already had the wings, the nose, the tail — all the other major sections of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner.
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.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress and Don Surber
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Dean of Columbia College Resigns After Two Years — The dean of Columbia College has abruptly resigned over what she called administrative changes that would diminish or eliminate her authority, leaving the undergraduate division of Columbia University without a leader two weeks before the start of classes.
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Gothamist, New York Magazine and Associated Press
Hoover Institution:
How Is Warren Buffett Like the Pope? — by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force) — They are both dead wrong on economic policy. — The terrible economic news from both Europe and the United States …
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News Hounds, National Review, Mirror of Justice and MuniLand
KMSB-TV:
State Senator officially announces looking at run for Giffords' seat — TUCSON, Ariz. — The cat got out of the bag last week when a blogger posted that State Senator Frank Antenori planned to form an exploratory committee ahead of a possible run for Gabrielle Giffords' seat in Congress.
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Ballot Box and The Raw Story
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Rick Perry holds the record on executions — Darren McCollester/GETTY IMAGES - PEMBROKE, NH - AUGUST 18: Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks to workers at Epoch Homes August 18, 2011 in Pembroke, New Hampshire. Perry has been campaigning since he declared …
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The Raw Story, Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Little Green Footballs and Hot Air
Richard A. Posner / The New Republic:
Let's Be Honest: We're in a Depression, Not a Recession, And There's No End In Sight — This article is a contribution to ‘Is There Anything That Can Be Done? A TNR Symposium On The Economy.’ Click here to read other contributions to the series. — If the notion that we are merely living through …
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Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
Rebels Storm Qaddafi Compound — TRIPOLI, Libya — Rebel fighters flooded into Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's sprawling compound on Tuesday, overwhelming what remained of its defenses, running pell-mell through the grounds and ransacking caches of weapons, as the crackle of gunfire and rumble …
ABC News:
Combet accuses Abbott of climate change racism — Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of having a racist climate change policy. — Mr Abbott has warned that Australian businesses buying carbon permits under an emissions trading scheme …
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