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Robin Bravender / Politico:
Wisconsin recall: Democrats prepare for recall recount — Brace yourself: Wisconsin Democrats say they are preparing for the event that the hotly contested recall race could drag on for weeks, or even longer. — Floating the prospect of a recount is, of course, a message that bolsters …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Late Polls Find Walker Is Still Favored — Two polls released over the weekend suggest that Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican, remains the clear favorite to win Tuesday's recall election. — Although the contest is fairly close, polls of gubernatorial races are ordinarily quite reliable in the late stages of a race.
Robin Bravender / Politico:
Wisconsin Dems sidestep labor debate in recall — MILWAUKEE — The bitter battle over union rights in Wisconsin sent masses of angry protesters flooding into the streets, placed the state at the center of a national debate over Big Labor's power and sparked the historic recall to topple GOP Gov. Scott Walker.
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Taylor Marsh, Pirate's Cove, National Review, weaskamerica.com and New York Times
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Notes on Wisconsin — Notes on Wisconsin: 1) Tomorrow's recall …
Notes on Wisconsin — Notes on Wisconsin: 1) Tomorrow's recall …
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Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, Althouse and msnbc.com
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gov. Walker knocks Obama for shying away from Wisconsin recall
Gov. Walker knocks Obama for shying away from Wisconsin recall
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Michelle Malkin, CNN, Politico and Pirate's Cove
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Wisconsin Governor Recall Election Is Today
Wisconsin Governor Recall Election Is Today
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msnbc.com, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and The Caucus
Will Oremus / Slate:
What the Wisconsin Recall Tells Us About November: Nothing
What the Wisconsin Recall Tells Us About November: Nothing
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Ezra Klein:
The Keynesian case for Romney — Even if you disagree with every one of Mitt Romney's policies, there's a chance he's still the best candidate to lift the economy in 2013. — That's not because he has business experience. For all his bluster about the lessons taught by the private sector …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Obama joins Dem blitz before Senate vote on equal pay measure
Obama joins Dem blitz before Senate vote on equal pay measure
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Politico, Pirate's Cove and The Daily Caller
Chad Stone / cbpp.org:
Misguided “Fiscal Cliff” Fears Pose Challenges to Productive Budget Negotiations
Misguided “Fiscal Cliff” Fears Pose Challenges to Productive Budget Negotiations
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The Huffington Post
Michael D. Lemonick / Time:
NASA Gets Two New Hubble Telescopes — Absolutely Free — It hardly bears mentioning that the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most extraordinarily successful scientific instruments of all time. Since 1993, when the telescope's flawed mirror was set right by a set …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy
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The Atlantic Online, TPM IdeaLab, Balloon Juice, New York Times and Outside the Beltway
New York Post:
Team O turns tone-deaf — Remember how all the buzz about the 2008 campaign was how young and fresh and new and exciting and YouTube-y and Internet-y and Will.I.AM-y the Obama campaign was? Well, the Obama 2012 campaign is turning into . . . a raffle. Or a school auction. Or something.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Crossroads GPS knocks Obama on debt, economy in new $7 million buy — A new $7 million ad buy from a prominent conservative group accuses President Barack Obama of “reckless spending” and will air across key swing states in the November election. — The commercial, funded …
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Reuters:
Fear factors: What worries Romney backers — Mitt Romney has done the unthinkable: silenced the legions of conservatives who saw him as too starched, too ideologically wobbly and too Richie Rich to win a few months ago. — Now comes the hard part: getting those same conservatives …
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Politico
New York Post:
Boastful babbling a gift to our foes — Last week's media bombshell that we'd infiltrated the Iranian nuclear program with a super-secret computer virus made it undeniable: There's been way too much aired about sensitive US operations over the last year or so. — Someone ought to tell Team Obama.
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Questions and Observations
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Therapy Survivor Calls Out Ex-Gay Advocate's Bullying On Dr. Drew — Last night on his HLN show, Dr. Drew interviewed Janet Boynes, friend of Marcus and Michele Bachmann, about her ex-gay identity and advocacy. She unsurprisingly reiterated her belief that “change is possible through …
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Good As You
Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Clark County GOP erects billboard touting Ron Paul, deriding Mitt Romney — It sits at Decatur and Russell in Las Vegas, a stark reminder of the Ron Paul takeover of the Republican Party in the state's largest county. — The message is unmistakable: Ron Paul is like Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney is like George W. Bush.
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Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Louisiana GOP spirals into chaos as Ron Paul delegates injured, arrested
Louisiana GOP spirals into chaos as Ron Paul delegates injured, arrested
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americanthinker.com, Hit & Run, Wonkette, Ron Paul 2012 Presidential … and LewRockwell.com Blog
Shiv Malik / Guardian:
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant — Coachloads of jobless people brought in to work unpaid on river pageant as part of Work Programme — Call for inquiry into use of unpaid jobseekers as jubilee stewards — A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London …
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Boing Boing, msnbc.com, Gawker, JONATHAN TURLEY, Eschaton and US Politics
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years — Trends in American Values: 1987-2012 — OVERVIEW — As Americans head to the polls this November, their values and basic beliefs are more polarized along partisan lines than at any point in the past 25 years.
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Muslim Yelling “Allahu Akbar” Beheads His Wife In Front of Their Six Children Before Throwing Her Dismembered Head From Roof of Their Apartment — Maybe Orhan Sircasi is a “moderate” like his fellow wife-beheader Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan. How many more of these bloody massacres will we see in Europe …
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Daily Mail and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A speech I'd like to hear Obama deliver — Later this month, the Supreme Court will deliver its ruling in the Obamacare case. Suppose the government loses. What will Obama say? Perhaps his speech will go something like this: — “My fellow citizens. I'm not going to mince words.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
National Day of Blogger Silence — This Friday — I'm writing a post about what's happened to Ali Akbar. It's taking some time. — Warning: DO NOT CLICK ON ANY SITE YOU DON'T TRUST ABOUT THIS STORY. I think there is reasonable grounds for suspicion that your IP will be captured …
Aubrey Whelan / Washington Examiner:
Occupiers quietly fade from McPherson Square — An “Events Calandar” is one of the few things left over from the Occupy D.C. protest in McPherson Square, which ended in an eviction last February, Friday, June 1, 2012. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner) — Occupy DC's base camp in McPherson Square morphed …
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The Daily Caller
The Boston Globe:
Science out of context — BP's demand for e-mail will erode the scientific deliberative process — Late last week, we reluctantly handed over more than 3,000 confidential e-mails to BP, as part of a subpoena from the oil company demanding access to them because of the Deepwater Horizon disaster lawsuit brought by the US government.
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ScienceInsider, Guardian, Mother Jones and Wired
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE - THE VETTING - SENATOR BARACK OBAMA ATTENDED BILL AYERS BARBECUE, JULY 4, 2005 — As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama disavowed any connection with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground radical who was one of Obama's early backers and his colleague …
BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton: Romney Presidency Would Be Calamitous For The World — Last week he complimented Romney, today he doesn't pull any punches. — (AP / Ronald Zak) — Former President Bill Clinton warned of global danger in the event Mitt Romney wins in the fall — a shift in tone …
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The Moderate Voice and Taylor Marsh