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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality — (updated below) — It was first reported in January of last year that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens whom the President had ordered assassinated without any due process, and one of those Americans was Anwar al-Awlaki.
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New York Times:
U.S.-Born Qaeda Leader Killed in Yemen — SANA, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who was a leading figure in Al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate and was considered its most dangerous English-speaking propagandist and plotter, was killed in an American drone strike on his vehicle on Friday …
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Donna Leinwand Leger / ABCNEWS:
Target killing of al-Awlaki raises legal questions
Target killing of al-Awlaki raises legal questions
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The Politico and CNN
Robert Chesney / Lawfare:
Al-Awlaki as an Operational Leader Located In a Place Where Capture Was Not Possible
Al-Awlaki as an Operational Leader Located In a Place Where Capture Was Not Possible
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The Volokh Conspiracy and The Daily Dish
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Ron Paul Condemns U.S. ‘Assassination’ of al-Awlaki; Perry, Romney Praise Obama
Ron Paul Condemns U.S. ‘Assassination’ of al-Awlaki; Perry, Romney Praise Obama
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Washington Post, Gary Johnson 2012, Washington Wire, Hit & Run and American Spectator
Michael Kinsley / Bloomberg:
Requiem for a Governor Before He's in the Ring — Look, I'm sorry, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cannot be president: He is just too fat. Maybe, if he runs for president and we get to know him, we will overlook this awkward issue because we are so impressed with the way he stands up to teachers' unions.
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Ricochet Conversation Feed, Wonkette, Sister Toldjah, Swampland, Power Line, Outside the Beltway, GOP 12, The TrogloPundit, The Monkey Cage and ABCNEWS
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Chris Christie Is Fat. So What? — In 2004, my friend Paul Campos wrote a book called The Obesity Myth. In it, he argued that claims about the health dangers of obesity by public authorities are overblown — that eating healthy food and exercise matter, but the impact that fat itself has on health is less than we think.
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic Online, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Swampland
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Chris Christie is not too fat to be president — There is a sudden rash of op-eds arguing that Chris Christie is too fat to be president. Over at Bloomberg View, my colleague Michael Kinsley makes the case. Here at The Washington Post, my colleague Eugene Robinson does the, ahem, heavy lifting.
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Campaign 2012 and Gothamist
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Chris Christie's big problem
Chris Christie's big problem
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Hot Air, The Atlantic Online, NewsBusters.org, Gothamist and National Review
Nycga / NYC General Assembly:
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City — As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
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Firedoglake, HousingWire, Felix Salmon and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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John Nichols / The Nation:
AFL-CIO's Trumka Hails Occupy Wall Street
AFL-CIO's Trumka Hails Occupy Wall Street
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Firedoglake, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Nathaniel Popper / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's former campaign funders on Wall Street turn against him
Harry Siegel / Runnin' Scared:
Mayor Bloomberg: “We'll See” If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue
Mayor Bloomberg: “We'll See” If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue
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Salon, Wonkette and The Raw Story
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Radiohead Is Playing for Wall Street Protesters Today
Radiohead Is Playing for Wall Street Protesters Today
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City Room, OccupyWallSt News, msnbc.com, Business Insider, Mediaite, ReadWriteWeb, Gothamist and New York Magazine
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Huckabee looks again at Republican presidential bid — (Reuters) - Mike Huckabee has been approached by Republican and conservative activists unhappy with the current crop of presidential hopefuls and he is considering entering the fray, two sources who have spoken with Huckabee told Reuters.
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Huckabee, HuckPAC shoot down report that he is reconsidering a 2012 run
Huckabee, HuckPAC shoot down report that he is reconsidering a 2012 run
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CNN
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Connecticut a Toss Up? — Connecticut isn't a place that would go on anybody's list of swing states but Barack Obama is in a statistical tie with Mitt Romney there, leading only 47-45. — Obama's poor showing in Connecticut is mostly a function of his own unpopularity.
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CNN, Hot Air, Pajamas Media and US Politics
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Bernie Marcus on Obama White House: ‘Amateurs Surrounded by Amateurs’ — ATLANTA - The Georgian who every Republican presidential candidate wants in his camp still hasn't decided who he's going to back. But although Bernie Marcus believes in abortion and gun control, he knows who he won't support: Barack Obama.
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JammieWearingFool
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is Mitt Romney a Keynesian?
Is Mitt Romney a Keynesian?
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The New Republic, ThinkProgress, Political Correction RSS and Washington Monthly
Wall Street Journal:
A Thin Line on Skirts — Note to women in the South Park Slope and surrounding Brooklyn: You might want to think twice before wearing shorts or skirts when you walk home alone at night. — That's the message some women say police officers are spreading as they step up patrols in the area …
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Feministe, Runnin' Scared, ThinkProgress, Gothamist, Feministing, The Raw Story, The Awl, Althouse and New York Magazine
Alex Lazo / Money & Company:
California breaks from 50-state probe into mortgage lenders [Updated] — California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris will no longer take part in a national foreclosure probe of some of the nation's biggest banks, which are accused of pervasive misconduct in dealing with troubled homeowners.
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Firedoglake, US Politics and naked capitalism
Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
Did Congress Kill the Debit Card? — Some Americans are outraged that Bank of America intends to charge its customers a $5 fee for using their debit card. And simply switching banks might not help: others are expected to follow. While frustration over yet another bank fee is understandable, this one should surprise no one.
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RedState, A Chequer-Board of Nights … and American Spectator
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Warren Buffett sparks storm over millionaires' tax-rate hike — Investment guru Warren Buffett set off a political firestorm Friday with a series of interviews in which he appeared to distance himself from the tax policy proposal President Obama introduced under the billionaire's name.
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RealClearPolitics Video Log, Mediaite, Politics, Reuters, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, A Chequer-Board of Nights … and TPMDC
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Note To GOP And The Media: Buffett Did Not Disagree With The Buffett Rule
Note To GOP And The Media: Buffett Did Not Disagree With The Buffett Rule
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TPMDC, Yahoo! News, Examiner, Verum Serum, Pajamas Media and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Cornell Belcher: Cain's “Brainwashed” Remark Was “Racist, Bigoted” — Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher says there is a media “double-standard” over Herman Cain saying blacks have been “brainwashed.” Belcher calls Mr. Cain a bigot and a racist and says this incident is a “teachable moment.”
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The Right Scoop, The Democratic Daily, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weasel Zippers and The Crawdad Hole
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Juana Summers / The Politico:
Jesse Jackson: ‘Plantation’ comments insult black voters
Jesse Jackson: ‘Plantation’ comments insult black voters
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Weasel Zippers
Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
The Top 10 Supreme Court Previews — Can't get enough pre-season Court coverage? A legal analyst rounds up the case previews worth reading this weekend. — Reuters … Previewing The Previews — It's the last Friday in September, just hours before the first Monday in October …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Republican, Democratic Party Images Equally Negative — Approval of Republicans, Democrats in Congress at or near record lows — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans have similar, mostly negative views of the Republican and the Democratic parties. Gallup's Sept. 8-11 update on party favorable …
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The Politico and Campaign 2012
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Finance:
NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, and the death of EU Fiscal Union — Judging by the commentary, there has been a colossal misunderstanding around the world of what has just has happened in Germany. The significance of yesterday's vote by the Bundestag to make the EU's €440bn rescue fund (EFSF) more flexible is not that the outcome was a “Yes”.
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Samizdata.net and MarketBeat
Paul Krugman:
Defeatism — Martin Wolf is getting frantic, as well he should. The austerians have brought us to the brink of a vast disaster. A recession in Europe looks more likely than not; and the question for the United States is not whether a lost decade is possible, but whether there is any plausible way to avoid one.
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Wall Street Journal, Hullabaloo and AMERICAN FUTURE
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Time to think the unthinkable and start printing again
Time to think the unthinkable and start printing again
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Firedoglake, Macro and Other Market Musings and AMERICAN FUTURE
businesscycle.com:
U.S. Economy Tipping into Recession — Early last week, ECRI notified clients that the U.S. economy is indeed tipping into a new recession. And there's nothing that policy makers can do to head it off. — ECRI's recession call isn't based on just one or two leading indexes …
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Business Insider, MarketBeat, Real Time Economics and Questions and Observations
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Bicycles Are Cheap — One of the stranger political phenomena of the past 10 years has been the extent to which the non-automobile transportation in many cities has been coded a “white” area of concern. When someone writes a piece about the growing market for automobiles in China …