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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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Stephen Stromberg / Washington Post:
Earthquake? It's Obama's fault. — When disaster strikes, the online commentariate...shows the worst of itself. Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft has already made the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that rattled the East Coast a dumb partisan issue, writing: … Judging by the comments below Hoft's post …
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 …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Earthquake Rattles Washington DC - Obama Goes Biking
Earthquake Rattles Washington DC - Obama Goes Biking
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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.
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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Toby Harnden / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
All Shook Up? Barack Obama missed golf putts after earthquake struck — The earthquake that originated here in Virginia was felt across the east coast of the United States, including the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, where Barack Obama is holidaying.
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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.
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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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Report: Majority of Congress with no education in business — Almost 80 percent of lawmakers have no academic background in business or economics, even as Congress grapples with deficits, unemployment and other economic issues of tremendous complexity, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday.
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Study: 8 in 10 lawmakers lack education in economics
Study: 8 in 10 lawmakers lack education in economics
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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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Anger In The Arab World
Anger In The Arab World
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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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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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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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Scott Wong / Reuters:
Marco Rubio courts establishment Republicans — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — It might look like tea party hero Marco Rubio waded into enemy territory with stops in San Francisco and Beverly Hills this week. But rubbing shoulders with a different crowd is the point of the freshman senator's three-day swing through the Golden State.
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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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Daily Mail:
Money doesn't grow on trees: Federal grant of $500,000 to boost Nevada economy by planting trees creates 1.72 jobs — A federal stimulus grant of nearly $500,000 to grow trees and stimulate the economy in Nevada yielded just 1.72 jobs, according to government statistics.
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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint to Get iPhone 5 — Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the new version of the Apple iPhone in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, filling a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another sales channel for its popular gadget.
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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Rick Perry: The God-Fearing, Know-Nothing, Pistol-Packing Embodiment of Liberals' Worst Nightmares — What Rick Perry has achieved in his inaugural strut on the political stage is unprecedented in the annals of modern conservative history from Barry Goldwater to Sarah Palin.
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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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Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Energy Obamanomics: No green jobs and plenty of red ink — It's time to end all forms of corporate welfare — It wasn't enough to preside over the first-ever downgrade of America's credit rating. Now the Obama administration is downgrading America's energy supply as well.
Laura Saunders / Wall Street Journal:
Tax Break for Clergy Questioned — As Congress scrutinizes every nook and cranny of the budget for possible revenue, a surprising court decision is allowing clergy members to buy or live in multiple homes tax-free. — The U.S. Tax Court ruled that Phil Driscoll, an ordained minister …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
F.B.I. Focusing on Security Over Ordinary Crime — WASHINGTON — Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been more likely to be hunting for potential threats to national security than for ordinary criminals in recent years, but much of the time found neither, according to newly disclosed internal information.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The GOP will raise taxes — on the middle class and working poor — America's presumably anti-tax party wants to raise your taxes. Come January, the Republicans plan to raise the taxes of anyone who earns $50,000 a year by $1,000, and anyone who makes $100,000 by $2,000.
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