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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Palin: The First Black President Wants to Revert to Pre-Civil War Society — In her view, the very act of acknowledging or talking about race's role in U.S. history makes one a racist. — Naturally, someone had to ask Sarah Palin about the Derrick Bell-Barack Obama flap.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The Race-Baiting Continues — I've been holding off on writing something about the bizarre spectacle of the Derrick Bell “exposé” that has consumed the nuttier corners of the right in the last couple of days, simply because it's so weird and pathetic that I wasn't sure exactly how to talk about it beyond simple ridicule.
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Mother Jones, No More Mister Nice Blog, TIME Ideas, Business Insider, Tucson Citizen and Hullabaloo
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Did Professor Derrick Bell Visit the White House? — The conservative Heritage Foundation shows some pluck by searching for the late law school professor Derrick A. Bell in the White House visitor's logs, and finds that “Visitor logs show that Derrick A. Bell visited the White House twice since President Obama took office.
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Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Little Green Footballs, TheBlaze.com, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Reaching Critical Mass — In one of the funnier, or scarier, videos I have seen recently, Breitbart.com's Editor-In-Chief Joel Pollak acquits himself well in a heated discussion with Soledad O'Brien of CNN about critical race theory. A major point of contention revolved around the description of CRT:
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RedState, National Review, Hot Air, Rush Limbaugh and Wake up America
Little Green Footballs:
Breitbart.com Caught Again: Deceptively Editing a Video — Yet another dishonest editing job from the heirs of Breitbart — b_sharp — WINGNUTS In yet another humiliating attempt to catch the Obama campaign in a hidden video conspiratorial outrageous outrage, the heirs of Andrew …
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Rumproast, Jezebel, Crooks and Liars and The Impolitic
Chris Cassidy / Boston Herald:
Ogletree: I was joking about Obama video clip — Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree told the Herald he was just kidding when he suggested that a decades-old clip of a young Barack Obama praising and embracing controversial Professor Derrick Bell was kept hidden from voters during the 2008 campaign.
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Little Green Footballs, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Jammie Wearing Fools
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’
Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’
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protein wisdom and The Other McCain
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Why Rush Limbaugh's Apology for Sandra Fluke ‘Slut’ Remarks Bombed — Commentators often talk their way out of trouble these days. But Limbaugh couldn't convince the media he was sincerely sorry for calling Sandra Fluke a ‘slut.’ Howard Kurtz explains why.
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US Politics
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LIMBAUGH REJECTS COMPANY THAT SUSPENDED ADS FROM SHOW OVER FLUKE REMARKS
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Don Surber, americanthinker.com, Althouse, The PJ Tatler, CANNONFIRE and Wake up America
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
Limbaugh rebuffs attempt by Sleep Train to get him back
Limbaugh rebuffs attempt by Sleep Train to get him back
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Instapundit, The Last Tradition and Media Matters for America
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Why The GOP's Favorite Anti-Obama Chart Is Complete Nonsense — Once again, conservatives are using today's jobs number as a jumping-off point to slam Obama. — Our pal Jim Pethokoukis at AEI takes the opportunity to remind everyone that the unemployment rate — of 8.3 percent …
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The Enterprise Blog, The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The real unemployment rate? It sure isn't 8.3%
The real unemployment rate? It sure isn't 8.3%
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Calculated Risk, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC and Questions and Observations
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Gains Another 227,000 Jobs
U.S. Economy Gains Another 227,000 Jobs
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Economix, Power Line, The Maddow Blog, The Huffington Post, Ezra Klein, The Caucus, Campaign 2012, News Desk, ABCNEWS, Outside the Beltway and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Former Navy SEAL booted from Gov. Christie town hall after heated exchange — FLORENCE TOWNSHIP — The most-heated town hall clash of the year started today with a shouting match, drove Gov. Chris Christie to call a vocal opponent to the proposed Rutgers Camden-Rowan merger an “idiot,” and ended with a stern talking-to by police.
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Hot Air and The Raw Story
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Rasmussen Reports:
Alabama GOP Primary: Gingrich 30%, Santorum 29%, Romney 28%, Paul 7% — Alabama Republicans are up to bat next, and right now it's a near three-way tie going into next Tuesday's primary. — The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters …
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Hot Air, Wake up America, Washington Wire, Guardian, Campaign 2012, GOP 12, msnbc.com and Outside the Beltway
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Plaintiff challenging healthcare law went bankrupt - with unpaid medical bills — Obama administration lawyers say her case is an example of why an insurance mandate is needed to prevent ‘uncompensated care that will ultimately be paid by others.’ — The U.S. Supreme Court plans to hear …
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Opinion L.A., ThinkProgress, Wonkette and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Study shows health care bill may have cost Democrats the House
Study shows health care bill may have cost Democrats the House
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Wake up America and Hot Air
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‘Hire Me’ — In all the meetings he's had with his political team, one wonders if anyone has ever told Mitt Romney, “Be yourself.” — If someone did, Romney surely would want to see the PowerPoint presentation and all the supporting evidence before taking such daring, counterintuitive advice.
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msnbc.com and Ricochet Conversations Feed
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
I refuse to go to the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner - no one should go — Another pig....and a media association has hired the pig, Louis C.K., to be their headliner for the big media dinner? Really? I am not going. I refuse to go. Everyone in the media should join me in this boycott.
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Don Surber, The Caucus, Mediaite, nation.foxnews.com, his vorpal sword, National Review, NewsBusters.org, NO QUARTER, Babalú Blog, Wake up America and Hot Air
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ignorance Is Strength — One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
With Wishes Of ‘Good Luck’ from Paul Krugman...
Mark Sommerhauser / sctimes.com:
Nolan is 1st DFLer to take on Bachmann — DFLers now have an announced challenger to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann: former legislative candidate Anne Nolan of St. Cloud. — Nolan announced her candidacy in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District in a news release Thursday afternoon.
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The Blotter and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Mary Lu Carnevale / Washington Wire:
Rep. Bachmann Gets a Challenger
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Kansas Republicans look to profit off abortion taxes — Lawmakers in Kansas will consider next week a sweeping anti-abortion bill that would, among other things, levy sales taxes on any and all abortion procedures, related healthcare expenses and any company that might do business …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag — The U.S. government last year announced a $10 million award, dubbed the “L Prize,” for any manufacturer that could create a “green” but affordable light bulb. — Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the prize would spur industry …
Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
IRS May Make Political Groups Pay Dearly for Keeping Donors Secret — And Out Them … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections-2012, Tea Party, Video, 501c4, Crossroads GPS, Donors, Irs, Irs-Tea-Party, Non-Disclosure, Political Groups, Priorities Usa, Super Pac, Politics News
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United Republic, Brennan Center for Justice and The Caucus
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Ed Schultz Paid Nearly $200,000 By Unions in 2011, According to Labor Dept. — What a shock — labor unions paying one of their biggest cheerleaders in the media. — Perhaps Ed Schultz could explain what he does for unions to warrant such largesse. I don't recall hearing anything along …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon
Media Decoder:
New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media — The newest owner of The New Republic magazine is Chris Hughes, a new-media guru who co-founded Facebook and helped to run the online organizing machine for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. — Mr. Hughes's purchase of a majority stake …
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Fracking wastewater disposal induced a dozen earthquakes in Ohio — The state's oil and gas regulators announced new regulations for drillers Friday — Machinery in a R.W. Sidley Company facility screen rare crushed conglomerate silica sand into four grades of coarseness that can be used to frack wells in Thomson, Ohio.
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ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
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