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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 Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, are focusing on Sen. Marco Rubio, saying he's not a natural born citizen. — ST. PETERSBURG TIMES — WASHINGTON — Unable to prevent Barack Obama from becoming president, rigid followers …
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Political Mojo, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Naked Politics and Washington Post
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The GOP's ‘Thank America Last’ crowd
The GOP's ‘Thank America Last’ crowd
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Political Mojo and The Mahablog
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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The Gateway Pundit, JammieWearingFool, Power Line and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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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
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Psychic Claims He Predicted Exact Date And Time Of Occupy Wall Street Beginning...And He Has Proof!
Psychic Claims He Predicted Exact Date And Time Of Occupy Wall Street Beginning...And He Has Proof!
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Business Insider
Murray Weiss / DNAinfo.com:
Pepper Spray Cop Anthony Bologna Feels ‘Tortured’ by Incident, Sources Say
Pepper Spray Cop Anthony Bologna Feels ‘Tortured’ by Incident, Sources Say
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New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
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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Firedoglake and Daily Kos
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 …
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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RedState, Weasel Zippers, Big Government and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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Andrew / Fantastical Andrew Fox:
Fisker Karma: Solyndra on Wheels? — Fisker Karma: can you say, “crony capitalism?” — Our tax dollars at work... a half-billion dollar loan (actually $529 million) from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a hybrid toy for the wealthy and/or celebri-licious (like Leonardo DiCaprio …
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Power Line and Doug Ross
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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Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Associated Press
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Rasmussen Reports:
Iowa: Cain 28% Romney 21% Paul 10% — Reflecting national trends, businessman Herman Cain has now jumped to the front of the Republican pack in Iowa. — A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa caucus-goers shows that Cain is in front with 28% followed by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at 21%.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama struggling in Ohio
Obama struggling in Ohio
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Pajamas Media and Taegan Goddard's …
Eli Clifton / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham: 'Let's Get In On The Ground. There's A Lot Of Money To Be Made In The Future Of Libya' — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has had no shortage of criticisms for Obama administration's handling of NATO air support for Libyan rebels. But with news this morning of Muammar Qaddafi's death …
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The Great Debate UK, Indecision Forever and Pat Dollard
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Senator Supports ‘Infrastructure’ Spending ... In Libya (VIDEO)
GOP Senator Supports ‘Infrastructure’ Spending ... In Libya (VIDEO)
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The Impolitic and US Politics
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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Michelle Malkin, Bloomberg and Booman Tribune
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Darren Goode / The Politico:
Senate OKs Bryson for Commerce
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., Watts Up With That?, Pajamas Media and ThinkProgress
Reuters:
Gaddafi's death - who pulled the trigger? — (Reuters) - Disturbing images of a blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being jostled by angry fighters quickly circulated around the world after the Libyan dictator's dramatic death near his home town of Sirte.
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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
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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CNN and Opinion L.A.
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, Big Journalism, Swampland and Mediaite
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.
The Daily Beast:
When Condi Met Gaddafi — In an exclusive excerpt from Condoleezza Rice's new memoir, ‘No Higher Honor,’ the former secretary of state tells all about her meeting with the recently killed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi: his obsession with her, his WMD stockpile—and the infamous ‘tent.’
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Mediaite, New York Magazine and FP Passport
Ari Berman / The Nation:
How the Austerity Class Rules Washington — This article appeared in the November 7, 2011 edition of The Nation. — Recommended by — In September the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a bipartisan deficit-hawk group based at the New America Foundation …
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Rortybomb and Hullabaloo
Daily Mail:
THE RISE OF A TYRANT — Gaddafi was born in 1942, the son of a Bedouin herdsman, in a tent near Sirte on the Mediterranean coast. He abandoned a geography course at university for a military career that included a short spell at a British army signals school.
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The Moderate Voice
ACLU:
Mapping the FBI: Uncovering Abusive Surveillance and Racial Profiling — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting racial and ethnic information and “mapping” American communities around the country based on crude stereotypes about which groups commit different types of crimes.
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Washington Post and TalkLeft
David Kestenbaum / NPR:
What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report — Planet Money has obtained a secret government report outlining what once looked like a potential crisis: The possibility that the U.S. government might pay off its entire debt. — It sounds ridiculous today.
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Business Insider and The Atlantic Online
David Cay Johnston:
First look at US pay data, it's awful — Anyone who wants to understand the enduring nature of Occupy Wall Street and similar protests across the country need only look at the first official data on 2010 paychecks, which the U.S. government posted on the Internet on Wednesday.
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jobsanger, Opinion L.A., The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather, Hullabaloo, The Big Picture, ThinkProgress, Shakesville and Political Mojo
Peter J. Henning / DealBook:
The Late-Mover Advantage in Citigroup's Settlement — Oldest children often complain that their parents treated them worse than their younger siblings. Goldman Sachs may feel the same way after Citigroup agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Dealbreaker, Felix Salmon and Money & Company
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Oh, This Is Good — So, we've been doing the Carter-Obama theme for quite a while here. But we've been completely trumped with this video.
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Sister Toldjah
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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Business Insider, The Reaction and Fox News