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Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York's Rikers Island — “We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference this afternoon. Bloomberg annouced a host of extreme measures being taken by New York City in preparation …
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Mock, Paper, Scissors, TalkLeft and New York Times
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Bob King / The Politico:
Was Hurricane Irene caused by global warming? — Hurricane Irene hadn't even made landfall in the United States before some people figured out what to blame it on. — “Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming,” environmental activist Bill McKibben wrote Thursday night in The Daily Beast.
msnbc.com:
Hurricane Irene batters N.C., killing 1 — Falling tree limb kills man in Nash County, N.C.; tropical storm conditions extend into Va., Md., Del. — Below: — updated 2011-08-27T15:43:06 — Top developments: — Hurricane Irene battered the North Carolina coast with wind and rain Saturday …
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New York Times:
Core of Hurricane Irene Starts Coming Ashore — NAGS HEAD, N.C. — The eye wall of Hurricane Irene, now a category one storm, is within a hours of making landfall in eastern North Carolina, the first stop in the mainland United States for a storm that is expected to scrape up the East Coast and bring flooding rains to a dozen states.
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New York Magazine, Gothamist, Politics, Ecocentric, Booman Tribune and PhotoBlog
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Louisiana Congressman: GOP ‘Sinful’ To Tie Disaster Aid To Spending Cuts … WASHINGTON — As East Coasters brace for what some say will be a historic pummel by Hurricane Irene, at least one lawmaker is fuming over a requirement by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) …
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Washington Monthly, The Confluence and ThinkProgress
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
How Global Warming Is Making Hurricane Irene Worse
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The Gateway Pundit, The Strata-Sphere, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Daily Green and The Daily Beast
Jeff Masters / Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog:
Irene's eyewall collapses; further intensification unlikely
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Power Line, Wizbang, Sky Dancing, New York Times, Hot Air, Dot Earth, Gothamist, The Atlantic Online, Booman Tribune, The Awl, JustOneMinute, Daily Kos and The Moderate Voice
James Barron / New York Times:
Evacuations Ordered in New York as Hurricane Irene Nears
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Metropolis, Pam's House Blend, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg, TPM Idea Lab, Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog, Wall Street Journal, Real Time Economics, naked capitalism, AMERICAblog News, Freakonomics, The Moderate Voice, News Desk, Daniel W. Drezner, New York Magazine, Tim Blair, FT Alphaville, Making Light, The Nation, Truthdig, Dot Earth and The Raw Story
Robin Bravender / The Politico:
Gore: Eat less meat to fight warming — Al Gore wants society to ditch meat-heavy diets and go organic to combat global warming. — “Industrial agriculture is a part of the problem,” Gore said Friday during an interview with FearLess Revolution founder Alex Bogusky.
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and Sister Toldjah
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Al Gore to Rick Perry: Climate scientists aren't motivated by money — Al Gore on Friday bashed the notion that climate scientists are manipulating data for financial gain, a charge levied by global warming skeptics, including GOP White House hopeful Rick Perry.
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Don Surber
Douglas Mackinnon / Investor's Business Daily:
Left And Right Going Nuclear On Rick Perry
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Washington Post, Campaign 2012, Patterico's Pontifications and New York Times
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
State Department: Don't Invade Privacy of Cleric on CIA Kill List — While the New Mexico-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, the U.S. State Department refuses to release documents about al-Awlaki citing his right to privacy.
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Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, americanthinker.com, Right Wing News and Jihad Watch
Dana Loesch / Big Journalism:
ESPN Moves to Silence Golf Analyst Who Criticized Obama *UPDATED: ESPN Ignores Political Tweets of Other Personalities *UPDATE: More Cherry-Picking — A note for future prospective ESPN employees: You can only cheerlead Obama at ESPN. I'm not joking. — Case in point: The network's golf analyst …
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Michael McCarthy / USA Today:
ESPN ‘reminds’ Azinger to lay off tweets about President Obama
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Scared Monkeys, theblogprof, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Ricochet Conversation Feed and JammieWearingFool
Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
Republican Politician Naked, Bending Over on Gay Sex Site — Puerto Rico's Anthony Weiner is much more thrilling than ours: Last week, images from Puerto Rican senator and GOP cheerleader Roberto Arango's alleged profile on gay hook-up app Grindr surfaced. When a Puerto Rican TV show confronted him …
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Crooks and Liars, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
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BBC:
Algeria suicide bomb attack hits military academy — A suicide bomb attack on a military academy in Algeria has killed 18 people, officials say. — The attack took place in the town of Cherchell, about 100km (60 miles) west of the capital Algiers. — One or two bombers set off …
Ben Geman / The Hill:
GOP senator: White House ‘failed miserably’ on economy — Freshman Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) on Saturday bashed President Obama's economic record while calling for a balanced budget amendment and a tax code overhaul that lowers rates. — Heller's GOP weekly address arrives amid of a wave …
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CNN
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama offers 2012 election supporters change they can believe in — next term — Three years after storming the White House with the “fierce urgency of now,” President Obama has a new message for his reelection campaign: be patient, democracy is big and tough and messy.
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The Business Insider and Greg's Opinion
The Note:
Ron Paul: Who Needs FEMA Anyway? — ABC News' Jason Volack reports: — With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the East Coast and taking direct aim at America's biggest city, who needs the Federal Emergency Management Agency anyway? — At least that's the question that presidential candidate …
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The Moderate Voice, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, Reuters and The Politico
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Ron Paul rejects FEMA role in hurricane response
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