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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 — A missile fired from an American drone aircraft in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who was a leading figure in Al Qaeda's affiliate there, according to an official in Washington.
BBC:
Islamist cleric Anwar Awlaki ‘killed in Yemen’ — The US-born radical Islamist cleric and suspected al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, the country's defence ministry reported. — US administration officials confirmed the reports, according to US media.
First Read / msnbc.com:
Paul condemns ‘assassinating’ al-Awlaki — MANCHESTER NH — Ron Paul aggressively criticized President Obama today for al-Awlaki's death. — “No I don't think that's a good way to deal with our problems,” Paul said in a media avail after his remarks at the Politics + Eggs event here.
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Weasel Zippers, Guardian, The Page, Xinhua News Agency and The Daily Caller
CBS News:
Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen … This Oct. 2008 file photo provided by Muhammad ud-Deen, shows radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. (CBS) — (CBS News) Updated at 6:43 a.m. Eastern. — Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born radical Islamic preacher who rose …
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Jake Tapper / Politics:
Officials Thought They Might Kill Awlaki on 9/11 Anniversary
Officials Thought They Might Kill Awlaki on 9/11 Anniversary
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ABCNEWS, New York Magazine, Hot Air and Mediaite
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Peter King praises Obama for al-Awlaki killing
Peter King praises Obama for al-Awlaki killing
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CNN, Danger Room and National Review
ABCNEWS:
American Jihadi Samir Khan Killed With Awlaki
American Jihadi Samir Khan Killed With Awlaki
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Michelle Malkin, ABCNEWS and Jihad Watch
Terry Francona / Associated Press:
US-born al-Awlaki was a gifted preacher, Internet maestro, and CIA's first American target
US-born al-Awlaki was a gifted preacher, Internet maestro, and CIA's first American target
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Booman Tribune, Washington Times and Associated Press
Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Qaida's YouTube Preacher Is Killed In Yemen
Qaida's YouTube Preacher Is Killed In Yemen
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The Atlantic Online, CNN, Aljazeera and Associated Press
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Monkey Cage
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New Jersey Online:
Chris Christie seriously considering run for president in 2012 — BATON ROUGE — Gov. Chris Christie is seriously rethinking his months of denials and may launch a campaign for the White House after all, a source close to the governor said tonight. — In the last week, Christie …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Chris Christie's big problem — Whether or not he lets himself be persuaded to run for president, Chris Christie needs to find some way to lose weight. Like everyone else, elected officials perform best when they are in optimal health. Christie obviously is not.
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National Review
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: America's Gone ‘Soft’ — In an interview this evening with a local NBC affiliate in Orlando, President Obama claimed that America has “gotten a little soft.” — “I mean, there are a lot of things we can do,” Obama said. “The way I think about it is, you know, this is a great …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Wait, Is Malaise French for “Soft”?
Wait, Is Malaise French for “Soft”?
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Is This Blog On?, Cold Fury and Pajamas Media
New York Times:
Banks to Make Customers Pay Fee for Using Debit Cards — Bank of America, the nation's biggest bank, said on Thursday that it planned to start charging customers a $5 monthly fee when they used their debit cards for purchases. It was just one of several new charges expected to hit consumers as new regulations crimp banks' profits.
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FrumForum, The Hill, Balloon Juice, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
Did Congress Kill the Debit Card?
Did Congress Kill the Debit Card?
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American Spectator
Kevinliptak / CNN:
90 percent of Americans say economy stinks — New York (CNNMoney) - Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans - 90% - say that economic conditions remain poor. — The number, reported Friday in a new CNN/ORC International Poll …
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Firedoglake, The Politico, Questions and Observations, Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com and CBS News
Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Time to think the unthinkable and start printing again — It is the policy that dare not speak its name: the printing press. The time has come to employ this nuclear option on a grand scale. The alternative is likely to be a lost decade. The waste is more than unnecessary; it is cruel.
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Paul Krugman and AMERICAN FUTURE
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Limits of Empathy — We are surrounded by people trying to make the world a better place. Peace activists bring enemies together so they can get to know one another and feel each other's pain. School leaders try to attract a diverse set of students so each can understand what it's like to walk in the others' shoes.
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Connecting.the.Dots, Booman Tribune and driftglass
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Durbin says Democrats don't currently have the votes for Obama jobs bill — Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, at the moment, Democrats in Congress don't have the votes to pass President Obama's jobs bill, but Durbin added that that situation would change.
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Big Journalism, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Phony Fear Factor — The good news: After spending a year and a half talking about deficits, deficits, deficits when we should have been talking about jobs, job, jobs we're finally back to discussing the right issue. — The bad news: Republicans, aided and abetted by many conservative policy intellectuals …
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Paul Krugman, Legal Planet, The Enterprise Blog and Vox Popoli
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Michelle Obama shops incognito at Target (Photo) — AP photographer Charles Dharapak told CBS News he took pictures of the first lady at the Target on Route 1 in Alexandria, Virginia. — The first lady's office confirmed that the pictures showed Mrs. Obama, though it did not immediately respond when asked if it tipped off Dharapak.
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Michelle Malkin, Raw Replay and Politics
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Outsize Severance Continues for Executives, Even After Failed Tenures — The golden goodbye has not gone away. — Just last week, Léo Apotheker was shown the door after a tumultuous 11-month run atop Hewlett-Packard. His reward? $13.2 million in cash and stock severance …
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Prairie Weather, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Brilliant at Breakfast
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Buffett: My plan was not the ‘Buffett rule’ — Billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett, who has become the face of President Obama's $447 billion jobs-creation legislation, said Friday that he might not agree with everything in the bill. — Obama has called for higher tax rates …
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ThinkProgress, TPMDC, Yahoo! News and Daily Kos
Dallas Voice:
Investigation clears gay Fort Worth teacher — Kristopher Franks set to return to work Friday after 4-day leave stemming from allegations of improper behavior — nash@dallasvoice.com — FORT WORTH — Gay Western Hills High School teacher Kristopher Franks, put on paid administrative leave on Monday …
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Holy Bullies … and Towleroad News #gay
Jason Clayworth / Iowa Caucuses:
Gingrich: Same-sex marriage is a ‘temporary aberration’ — Gingrich today in Fort Dodge. Fort Dodge, Ia. - Same-sex marriage is a temporary aberration that will dissipate, Newt Gingrich said here today. — “I believe that marriage is between a man and woman,” Gingrich said.
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Peter Applebome / New York Times:
2 Long Island Weeklies Wonder About Spike in Sales — It is possible there is some larger lesson for ailing newspaper sales in the sudden good fortune of The Suffolk Times and The Riverhead News-Review, two modest Long Island weeklies that saw an unprecedented sales spike last week …
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Mediaite, Suffolk Times and New York Magazine