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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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New York Times, Weasel Zippers, Guardian, The Page and The Daily Caller
Jake Tapper / Politics:
Officials Thought They Might Kill Awlaki on 9/11 Anniversary — “This is a great day for America,” says a senior administration official, pleased with the news that terrorist leader Anwar al Awlaki was killed today. — The Yemeni government today announced that an operation launched shortly …
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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
CBS News:
Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
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The Jawa Report, The Crawdad Hole, emptywheel, The Atlantic Online, Mediaite, American Spectator, CBS New York, Pajamas Media and Gawker
Charles Hoskinson / The Politico:
Dempsey replaces Mullen as CJCS ... Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen ... U.S. looks to Uzbekistan …
Dempsey replaces Mullen as CJCS ... Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen ... U.S. looks to Uzbekistan …
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Wall Street Journal and ThinkProgress
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
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, Associated Press and The Daily Dish
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
American Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki Assassinated in Yemen
American Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki Assassinated in Yemen
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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Washington Times, Booman Tribune 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
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Needing a boost
First Thoughts: Needing a boost
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Washington Post, Ben Smith's Blog, Pensito Review, Business Insider, Washington Wire, GOP 12 and National Review
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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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 and Verum Serum
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, CBS News and americanthinker.com
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Give GOP Edge in Handling Nation's Problems
Americans Give GOP Edge in Handling Nation's Problems
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, Poll Watch Daily, Campaign 2012, Business Insider and Naked Politics
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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Campaign 2012, 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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RedState and American Spectator
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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Pajamas Media, americanthinker.com, American Spectator, The Hinterland Gazette, Corrente and The Right Scoop
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Radiohead Is Playing for Wall Street Protesters Today — The Occupy Wall Street protesters camped out in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park are buzzing over a big secret musical guest scheduled to play this afternoon at around 4pm. We hear that it's Radiohead, who are in New York for a couple concerts.
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Business Insider, Gothamist and Mediaite
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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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Wonkette
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
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
New Post Office Ad Backfires in at Least One Case — Apparently, the Post Office has come up with a solution to its intractable budget woes: advertising! … Who knows, maybe this will work in rural areas where the mail carriers are beloved and reliable. In DC, however, all it does …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
With historic losses looming, Postal Service launches new ad campaign
With historic losses looming, Postal Service launches new ad campaign
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Hit & Run and New York Magazine
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
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
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
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