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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.
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Jeff Masters / Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog:
Irene's eyewall collapses; further intensification unlikely — Satellite data and measurements from the Hurricane Hunters show that Irene is weakening. A 9:21 am EDT center fix by an Air Force Reserve aircraft found that Irene's eyewall had collapsed, and the central pressure had risen to 946 mb from a low of 942 mb this morning.
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Sky Dancing, New York Times, Dot Earth, Gothamist, The Atlantic Online, Booman Tribune, The Awl, JustOneMinute, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice and KIKO'S HOUSE
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
How Global Warming Is Making Hurricane Irene Worse — Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category Two storm, and is expected to track a path of destruction up the densely populated Atlantic coast, with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordering …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Green
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.) …
James Barron / New York Times:
Evacuations Ordered in New York as Hurricane Irene Nears
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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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nation.foxnews.com, Michelle Malkin, Top of the Ticket, The Lonely Conservative, Doug Ross and Marooned In Marin
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Michael McCarthy / USA Today:
ESPN ‘reminds’ Azinger to lay off tweets about President Obama — UPDATE: ESPN is coming down on Paul Azinger for mocking President Barack Obama on Twitter. The golf analyst tweeted Friday that the Commander-in-chief plays more golf than he does — and that Azinger has created more jobs this month than Obama has.
Douglas Mackinnon / Investor's Business Daily:
Left And Right Going Nuclear On Rick Perry — When you hear every single liberal media outlet in the country say, “We will know more about Rick Perry after we vet his 11 years in office,” you need to understand that what they vindictively mean is: “President Obama and his followers will be proud …
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Washington Post, Campaign 2012, Patterico's Pontifications and New York Times
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Tea Party Supporters Backing Perry for GOP Nomination
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TPMDC, Washington Blade, Little Green Footballs, Hot Air, Ballot Box, The Hill, Hullabaloo, Iowa Independent and National Review
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
My Rick Perry Problem — and Ours
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Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Sister Toldjah, Taylor Marsh, Ricochet Conversation Feed, Riehl World View, News Desk and GOP 12
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 Hill, Reuters and The Politico
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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 …
Brendan Farrington / Denver Post:
Bachmann says she'd consider minimum wage changes — JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla.—Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday she wouldn't rule out changes to the federal minimum wage as a way to lower the cost of doing business and lure corporations back to the United States.
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ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
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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 and The Lonely Conservative
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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A.Killough / CNN:
Obama promotes service on 9/11 in weekly address — (CNN) - With the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaching, President Barack Obama said in his weekly address Saturday that serving others would be the best way Americans could honor those who lost their lives 10 years ago.
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The Politico
Greg Wilson / NBC Washington:
Indiana College Bans “Too Violent” National Anthem — First it banned the words, now the whole song — The National Anthem is a tradition at sporting events, but it is banned at Goshen College. — Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the “The Star Spangled Banner …
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Hot Air and The Other McCain
TWC / Obama Fail Blog:
Update on Obama's Raid on Gibson Guitar (With Video Transcription) — Note: You can follow Obama Fail Blog on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks!!! — An update to the story of Obama's raid on the offices and factories of Gibson Guitar... It seems this is a case of the Obama DOJ intimidating …
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The Gateway Pundit, Marooned In Marin and Verum Serum
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Rachel Manteuffel / Washington Post:
Martin Luther King a drum major? If you say so. — The memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. has been a little controversial — but not for the right reason. Someone, somewhere along the line, made a decision that makes King look like something he was not: an arrogant jerk.
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Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story and Via Meadia
New York Times:
U.S. Offers Key Support to Canadian Pipeline — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration gave a crucial green light on Friday to a proposed 1,711-mile pipeline that would carry heavy oil from Canada across the Great Plains to terminals in Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, saying the project …
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Firedoglake, The Nation, Grist, ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune and Switchboard
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Why Far-Off Canadian Tar Sands Have Become A Make-Or-Break Issue For Obama With Enviros
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