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Michael Lansu / Chicago Sun Times:
3 protesters charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism — Attorneys for three men charged in Chicago with possession of an explosive device and conspiracy to commit terrorism say they were pulled over by police in Bridgeport last week. Here is a video circulated by Occupy Chicago.
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Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban — Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. “Disconcerting and dangerous,” says Shank. — Amy Sly for BuzzFeed — An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda …
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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
House GOP Kills Proposal to Block Indefinite Detention of US Citizens
House GOP Kills Proposal to Block Indefinite Detention of US Citizens
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Hartford Courant:
McMahon Beats Shays 730-389 At GOP Convention; Primary Fight Looms — No Surprise As Republicans Endorse Candidate They Backed In 2010 — Republican delegates at their state convention Friday night once again put their faith in U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon, although her contentious battle …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
China Soft-Power Watch: the Yang Rui ‘Foreign Bitch’ Factor — This story is all over the China-hand blogosphere, and is so strange that at first I was sure it was a joke. But apparently it isn't. It involves the man below, shown in a WSJ screen shot, and here is the background to understand the fuss:
Alan Dershowitz / Algemeiner.com:
New Evidence is Consistent with George Zimmerman's Self Defense Claim — George Zimmerman. Photo: wiki commons. — A medical report by George Zimmerman's doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting.
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Scott Thill / Wired:
10 Toy-Based Movies Ideas That Would Blow Away Battleship — Laugh all you want, but the stupendously silly, alien-riddled Battleship blockbuster isn't close to sinking toy- and game-based films anytime soon. — Blowtastic auteur Michael Bay's repeatedly juggled Ouija film is officially back on the board …
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Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Senator Lee forced to sell ‘dream home’ in short sale — • Less than two years into office, Sen. Mike Lee was forced to sell his dream home in Alpine with his mortgage bank taking a significant loss — up to $400,000 — in a “short sale” as the housing bust in his neighborhood drained his house's value.
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John Zarrella / CNN:
Commercial space vehicle launch aborted — (CNN) — SpaceX aborted the historic launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Saturday at the last second because of a rocket engine glitch. — The launch would the first attempt to send a private spacecraft to the space station.
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Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
Red Tape Hobbles a Harvest of Life-Saving Rice — This week saw the announcement of the latest conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus, a project founded by Bjørn Lomborg in which expert economists write detailed papers every four years and then gather to vote on the answer to a simple question …
John Mercure / Local:
Mayor Barrett was meeting with union organizers when he missed police memorial — MILWAUKEE - It turns out, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was in Oshkosh talking with union organizers when he missed an event in Milwaukee honoring law enforcement in southeast Wisconsin, including Milwaukee Police officers.
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Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Judge deals setback to state unions on dues withdrawals — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison - State unions were dealt a setback Friday when a federal judge said they would have to get their members to opt in, rather than opt out, to have the state deduct union dues from their paychecks.
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Wake up America
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
CORRECTION — UPDATE: I took down my earlier post on Elizabeth Warren plagiarizing from the book Getting On the Money Track. On Amazon.com, the Warren book All Your Worth is listed as having been published January 9, 2006. As it turns out, that is the paperback publication date; the hardback book was published in March 2005.
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