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The Huffington Post:
Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency' … In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, “Steve Jobs,” author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite …
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Did Steve Jobs warn Obama? — Steve Jobs told President Barack Obama he was “headed for a one-term presidency,” citing the U.S.'s competitive disadvantages with China and a “crippled” education system, a new biography of former Apple CEO indicates. — “You're headed for a one-term presidency …
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show — During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) frequently repeated a compelling version of his family's history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the son of exiles, he told audiences …
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Did the Washington Post embellish Marco Rubio's ‘embellishments’? — The Washington Post just released this interesting story headlined “Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show.” The paper flagged a clear inaccuracy in his official Senate biography that states …
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Hot Air, Pajamas Media, Ben Smith's Blog and National Review
Alex Leary / MiamiHerald.com:
Activists known as ‘birthers,’ who still question President …
Activists known as ‘birthers,’ who still question President …
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Political Mojo, Naked Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Post
Marco Rubio / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show
Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show
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National Review
Josh Saul / New York Post:
Angry Manhattan residents lambast Zuccotti Park protesters — Infuriated lower Manhattan residents went ballistic on Zuccotti Park protesters at a chaotic Community Board 1 meeting tonight while blasting politicians for allowing the siege to continue without any end in sight.
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Jerold S. Kayden / New York Times:
Meet Me at the Plaza — AN unintended but potentially significant …
Meet Me at the Plaza — AN unintended but potentially significant …
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Addicting Info, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
The Hill:
Senate blocks new Obama jobs bill — For the second time in two weeks, Senate Republicans voted in unison to block “jobs” legislation, which the Obama administration and Senate Democratic leaders have made central to their agenda. — The majority of Democrats then blocked a second “jobs” measure offered by Republicans.
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p m carpenter's commentary, americanthinker.com, CNN and The Gateway Pundit
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Associated Press:
Senate Votes Down Trimmed Version of Obama's Jobs Bill — WASHINGTON - Despite a campaign-style push this week by President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday scuttled pared-back jobs legislation aimed at helping state and local governments avoid layoffs of teachers and firefighters.
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Weasel Zippers, Pat Dollard and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senate blocks money for teachers, firefighters — Nine days after President Obama's $447 billion jobs package was blocked in the U.S. Senate, one of the plan's key components — which would provide $35 billion to states and local governments to hire teachers and first responders — suffered the same fate late Thursday.
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New York Times, Right Wing News and Political Mojo
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit — Physicists are notorious for believing that other scientists are mathematically incompetent. And University of California-Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is notorious for believing that conventional wisdom is often wrong. For example, the conventional wisdom about climate change.
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Talking Points Memo and Watts Up With That?
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Economist:
The heat is on — A new analysis of the temperature record leaves little room for the doubters. The world is warming — from the print edition — FOR those who question whether global warming is really happening, it is necessary to believe that the instrumental temperature record is wrong.
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Climate Etc., Pajamas Media, Watts Up With That? and ThinkProgress
Richard Black / BBC:
Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study
Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study
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InsideClimate News, Guardian, New York Times and Biased BBC
The Politico:
The art of the cheap shot — It's hard to dispute that Rick Perry's he-hired-an-illegal-immigrant attack on Mitt Romney was a cheap shot. — It's even harder to dispute that it worked beautifully. — Put aside the fact that Perry's broadside was recycled, and barely relevant to the debate.
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ABCNEWS, Washington Post, CNN and Opinion L.A.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Party of Pollution — Last month President Obama finally unveiled …
Party of Pollution — Last month President Obama finally unveiled …
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Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Yet More Debates Added to Calendar
Yet More Debates Added to Calendar
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Ben Smith's Blog, GOP 12 and Balloon Juice
ABCNEWS:
Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland — Vice president Joe Biden, left, and Henrik Fisker, CEO of Fisker Automotive announces that the company will produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at the former General Motors Boxwood Plant, Oct. 27, 2009, in Wilmington, Del. (Rob Carr/AP Photo)
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Andrew / Fantastical Andrew Fox:
Fisker Karma: Solyndra on Wheels?
Fisker Karma: Solyndra on Wheels?
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Power Line and Doug Ross
Alastair Gale / Korea Real Time:
Occupy Wall Street Gets Pyongyang's Backing … You could see this one coming. — North Korea's state news agency weighed in on the Occupy Wall Street protests Thursday, highlighting the “stern judgment” of “millions of people” against a capitalist system that “brings exploitation …
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Weasel Zippers
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New York Times:
Violent End to an Era as Qaddafi Dies in Libya — MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's last moments Thursday were as violent as the uprising that overthrew him. — In a cellphone video that went viral on the Internet, the deposed Libyan leader is seen splayed on the hood of a truck …
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Guardian, War Is A Crime .org, Business Insider, The Reaction and Fox News
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The Daily Beast:
When Condi Met Gaddafi
When Condi Met Gaddafi
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Connecting.the.Dots, Mediaite, New York Magazine and FP Passport
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Well, Good for WDAV — According to this update just now, the classical music public radio station WDAV, in North Carolina, will not dismiss Lisa Simeone from her role as a freelance (ie, non-employee) host of an opera (ie, non-political) program carried by NPR, just because she has also been a spokesperson for the Occupy DC movement.
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NPR, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice and skippy the bush kangaroo
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Brett Zongker / Associated Press:
Freelancer heard on NPR stations fired for protest
Freelancer heard on NPR stations fired for protest
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thesouthern.com:
Poll: Obama tops GOP rivals in Illinois — CARBONDALE - President Barack Obama would win his home state of Illinois against any one of the top four Republican challengers for the office if elections were held today, according to a new poll from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU Carbondale.
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National Review, Hot Air and Race 4 2012
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama's numbers down even in Hawaii
Obama's numbers down even in Hawaii
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Don Surber, Scared Monkeys and JammieWearingFool
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Has the US Defense Department killed a million Americans since 2001? — I've spent the day at a workshop on benefit-cost analysis where a lot of discussion is on valuing policies that reduce risks to life of various kinds. US policy, for better or worse, is focused on the idea of Value of a Statistical Life.
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Unqualified Offerings and Discourse.net
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Is Poised for More Easing — Federal Reserve officials are starting to build a case for a new program of buying mortgage-backed securities to boost the ailing economy, though they appear unlikely to move swiftly. — The idea would be to target any new efforts by the central bank …
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FT Alphaville and Business Insider
Hotline On Call:
Announcing Retirement, Dem Congressman Bashes Obama — Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., announced his retirement from Congress this afternoon — and he issued a scathing parting shot at President Obama's track record on his way out. — In a statement explaining his decision, Cardoza …
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The Gateway Pundit and iOwnTheWorld.com
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Job Approval Average Slides to New Low in 11th Quarter — Prior low was 45% in his seventh quarter — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's 11th quarter in office was the worst of his administration, based on his quarterly average job approval ratings.
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The Moderate Voice and Don Surber
Associated Press:
Senate OKs Bryson to head Commerce Department — WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to approve President Barack Obama's nomination of former utility executive John Bryson to head the Commerce Department, overcoming conservatives' objections that his pro-environmental views made him unsuited for the job.
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Bloomberg, Michelle Malkin and Booman Tribune
Associated Press:
Number of gay couples who adopt tripled over last decade — A four-year study cites an easing of restrictions by some states, including rules that allow adoptions from foster care. — The number of gays and lesbians adopting children has nearly tripled in the last decade despite discriminatory rules …
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Holy Bullies … and Towleroad News #gay
TIME Ideas:
Is Herman Cain the Most Unctuous Black Man Alive? — Why the Hermanator experience is making me sick — This Presidential election has not lacked for clowns and in a circus Herman Cain fits right in. But as the Black clown, Cain's foot in mouth moments mostly involve insulting the Black community.
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Big Journalism, Swampland and Mediaite