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Ann Coulter / Official:
COP-KILLER IS MEDIA'S LATEST BABY SEAL — For decades, liberals tried persuading Americans to abolish the death penalty, using their usual argument: hysterical sobbing. — Only when the media began lying about innocent people being executed did support for the death penalty begin to waver …
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Associated Press, Erick's blog, Clayton Cramer's Blog and thenation.com/blogs/163230
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John Hawkins / The Huffington Post:
Why Do Liberals Have Such a Soft Spot for Cop Killers Like Troy Davis? — Mumia Abu-Jamal killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Leonard Peltier murdered FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Liberals enthusiastically supported both of them.
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Hullabaloo
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Davis Is Executed in Georgia — Protesters outside the prison after Troy Davis was executed on Wednesday night. Reporters who witnessed his death said Mr. Davis remained defiant about his innocence until the end. More Photos » — JACKSON, Ga. — Proclaiming his innocence …
CBS News:
Carter: Davis execution shows system is “unjust”
Carter: Davis execution shows system is “unjust”
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USA Today, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Associated Press
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Troy Davis, from gurney, proclaims innocence before execution
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The Huffington Post, Fox News, Slate Magazine, The Raw Story, The Jawa Report, Lawyers, Guns & Money and New York Times
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate Magazine:
Will the Troy Davis case be the one that finally turns America against the death penalty?
Will the Troy Davis case be the one that finally turns America against the death penalty?
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CNN, The Moderate Voice, Salon, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Maddow Blog, News One, Reuters, Law Blog and New York Magazine
The Politico:
Vote shows Boehner's lack of control — House Republicans tried a fresh strategy Wednesday night: Go it alone on a spending bill. — The result was an embarrassing setback. — Wednesday night's rank-and-file rebuke of GOP leadership — with 48 Republicans bolting on a temporary spending bill …
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CNN, Hot Air, The Hill, Booman Tribune, Opinion L.A. and Balloon Juice
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GOP House leaders rebuked on spending — The surprise defeat in the House Wednesday of a special funding measure to keep the federal government functioning past Sept. 30 was a sharp rebuke of the GOP leadership that controls the chamber and a testament to the fragility of the majority itself.
Andrew Taylor / Business Week:
House disaster vote sets up showdown with Senate
House disaster vote sets up showdown with Senate
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The Reaction
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Obama Stumps for Jobs Bill in GOP Leaders' Turf
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The Politico and msnbc.com
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
House GOP flubs vote, inches closer to shutdown
House GOP flubs vote, inches closer to shutdown
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Right Wing News and Pirate's Cove
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Palestine Logo Suggests Elimination of Israel — The logo of “the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations” - on their website and on top of their official statements at the U.N. - shows the Palestinian Authority's claim to a Palestine that stretches throughout …
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The Jawa Report, National Review, americanthinker.com and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Obama Rebuffed as Palestinians Pursue U.N. Seat
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JustOneMinute, Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, The Caucus, Ynetnews, PhotoBlog and msnbc.com
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus
Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus
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US Politics, Prairie Weather and The Politico
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Handicapping the GOP Debate — The candidate with the best economic platform likely will prevail. — As Republicans gather in Florida for Thursday's Fox News-Google presidential debate in Orlando, the contest remains very fluid, raising the stakes (and hopes) for all nine candidates.
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The Hill, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Politics, Hot Air and The Right Scoop
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Romney discusses Perry, Palin and the polls — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was interviewed by phone Wednesday by USA TODAY's Susan Page. Questions and answers have been edited for space and clarity. — Q: Does Gov. Perry's position on Social Security …
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Washington Wire, GOP 12, The Politico, Iowa Caucuses, Business Insider and Rasmussen Reports
Susan Page / USA Today:
Interview: Romney doubts Perry's ability to win, govern
Interview: Romney doubts Perry's ability to win, govern
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National Review
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The Great $16 Muffin Myth — I've been reading all day about the $16 muffins the Department of Justice served at one of its conferences, and I finally got curious about this. Is it really true? So I went to the DOJ Inspector General's website, got the report, andsearched for “muffin.”
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FP Passport, New York Magazine and Nation Now
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Washington Post:
Solyndra employees: Company suffered from mismanagement, heavy spending — Former employees of Solyndra, the shuttered solar company that exhausted half a billion dollars of taxpayer money, said they saw questionable spending by management almost as soon as a federal agency approved …
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Hot Air, The Heritage Foundation, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, National Review, Pajamas Media and The Other McCain
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Republicans Decrying ‘Job Killing’ Green Energy Agenda Have Sought Green Jobs For Their Own Districts
Republicans Decrying ‘Job Killing’ Green Energy Agenda Have Sought Green Jobs For Their Own Districts
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Class warfare, Elizabeth Warren style — This must-watch clip of Elizabeth Warren aggressively rebutting the GOP's “class warfare” charge is burning up the internet, and once you watch it, you'll understand why: — Warren's camp tells me the event took place in Andover, Massachusetts last month …
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Tiffany Gabbay / TheBlaze.com:
ELIZABETH WARREN ON CLASS WARFARE: ‘THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS COUNTRY WHO GOT RICH ON HIS OWN’
ELIZABETH WARREN ON CLASS WARFARE: ‘THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS COUNTRY WHO GOT RICH ON HIS OWN’
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Pajamas Media
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Bill Clinton: Rick Perry's like Israeli ‘militants’ — Former president Bill Clinton suggested Thursday that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was ideologically in line with “militant subgroups in Israel” and was too willing to let the Jewish state do whatever it wants.
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Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Dish and Washington Monthly
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession
Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession
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The Atlantic Online
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Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas? — A Look at Employment Gains for Immigrants and the Native-Born, 2007 to 2011 — Steven A. Camarota is the Director of Research and Ashley Monique Webster a demographerat the Center for Immigration Studies. — Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) …
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FrumForum, Business Insider, Campaign 2012 and National Review
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Census: Recession taking toll on young adults — WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the recession's lost generation. — In record-setting numbers, young adults struggling to find work are shunning long-distance moves to live with Mom and Dad, delaying marriage and buying fewer homes, often raising kids out of wedlock.
Paul Krugman:
Millionaires, The Middle Class, and Taxes — Actual Numbers — Further to this post about whether the Obama/Boo-Fay — sorry, Obama/ Buffett with two t's - claim is true: the Tax Policy Center has new numbers about the distribution of average tax rates by income class.
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Firedoglake, McClatchy Washington Bureau, White House.gov Blog and Economist's View
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Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close (and Not for the Interim Either) — Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is poised to be named the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard later today after the markets are closed, said multiple sources close to the situation.
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TechCrunch, MarketBeat and msnbc.com, more at Techmeme »
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Internal email says controversial CLASS health office to close — The Obama administration is closing down the office charged with putting in place one of the most controversial provisions of the healthcare reform law, the long-term-care program's actuary writes in an email obtained by The Hill.
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ThinkProgress
Jenna Chandler / San Juan Capistrano Patch:
Reeve Explains ‘Muhammad’ as Dog's Name — Naming his dog Muhammad, and later announcing it during a public meeting, was not meant to be disparaging to Muslims, San Juan Capistrano Councilman Derek Reeve said Tuesday. — In offering the first explanation of why he chose the name …
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The Jawa Report, Pirate's Cove, Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Chris Bertram / Crooked Timber:
Contradictory beliefs — It isn't a good thing to have contradictory beliefs. Since I've notice what appear to be such beliefs in myself recently, I thought I'd share, both because I guess that there are others out there who also have them, and in the hope that Crooked Timber's community …
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The Other McCain and Unfogged