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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Commerce Secretary John Bryson accused in hit-and-run crashes — Authorities are investigating a series of traffic collisions in the San Gabriel Valley involving U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson, authorities said Saturday. — Bryson was found unconscious in his vehicle and has been hospitalized, officials said.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Caucus, Campaign 2012, Scared Monkeys, Weekly Standard, Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
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CBS News:
John Bryson, U.S. Commerce Secretary, cited in Calif. hit-and-run — Updated at 7:28 a.m. Eastern. — (CBS News) U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson has been cited in a felony hit-and-run case after allegedly crashing a Lexus into two vehicles in California on June 9, Los Angeles County police have confirmed.
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Business Insider and National Review
Maria P. White / CNN:
Police: U.S. Commerce secretary cited in California hit-and-run accident — (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was cited with felony hit-and-run after causing with two car accidents within minutes of one another in Southern California, a police spokesman told CNN early Monday.
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Politico, Race 4 2012 and Jammie Wearing Fools
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Commerce chief investigated for hit-and-run accidents — Commerce Secretary John Bryson is being investigated by law enforcement officials for allegedly causing two traffic accidents over the weekend, one of which left him injured. — A police spokesman from the San Gabriel Police Department …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Majority of Union Members Favor Obama; a Third Back Romney — Government union workers similar to non-government union workers in their vote — PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of union members say they would vote for Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race, although their support is by no means monolithic.
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Politico, Weasel Zippers, CNN and GOP 12
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Fox News:
After Walker victory, Indiana governor suggests public unions should go — On the heels of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's history-making recall victory, the governor of nearby Indiana with his own record of curtailing union benefits suggested public-sector unions are past their prime and should be abolished.
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Pirate's Cove and The Conservatory
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Gov. Walker splits with Romney, says firemen, teachers aren't ‘big government’
Gov. Walker splits with Romney, says firemen, teachers aren't ‘big government’
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CNN, Ballot Box and No More Mister Nice Blog
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Dylan Ratigan Leaving MSNBC — Dylan Ratigan, the opinionated and sometimes hotheaded television host, is leaving MSNBC, the cable channel where he has worked for the last three years. — Mr. Ratigan, whose news analysis show is now broadcast at 4 p.m. Eastern time, said in a telephone interview …
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Dylan Ratigan, NewsBusters.org, Taylor Marsh, Politico, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
New York Post:
A perjury rap, too? — Did Jon Corzine perjure himself after all? — Corzine's “Sgt. Schultz” defense at recent congressional hearings on the demise of MF Global and the looting of $1.6 billion from customer accounts seemed a brilliant way to avoid the embarrassment of taking the Fifth while also dodging any perjury trap.
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Adbusters Admits OWS Flopped; Now Promoting ‘Flash Encampments’ — The Occupy Wall Street movement was first proposed by the leftwing Canadian magazine, Adbusters. However, now even they are forced to admit the obvious about the failure of their creation which you can read in their sad OWS obituary:
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The Daily Caller and Five Feet of Fury
John Fund / National Review:
Netroots Nation under a Cloud — The Base to Obama: You should be worried. — Providence, R.I. — If elections are won partly on the enthusiasm of a candidate's base, Barack Obama is in trouble. Netroots Nation, the annual left-wing conference for bloggers and activists, held its seventh annual rally here this weekend.
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Shot in the Dark
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Obama tells activists ‘change is hard,’ in video message to Netroots Nation
Obama tells activists ‘change is hard,’ in video message to Netroots Nation
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The Daily Beast and Hot Air
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Can Germany come to the euro zone's rescue? — Can Germany save Europe? — It's tempting to think so. Costs are mounting; over the weekend, European leaders offered Spain up to $125 billion to prop up its shaky banks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been cast as Europe's Scrooge …
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Jackie Calmes / The Caucus:
Romney Adviser Takes U.S. Political Debate Overseas
Romney Adviser Takes U.S. Political Debate Overseas
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PERRspectives and Politico
The Sun:
PM left daughter aged 8 down pub — Camerons' nightmare — HORRIFIED David Cameron got home from a Sunday lunch with family and friends — and discovered he had left his eight-year-old daughter in the pub. — He dashed back and found little Nancy with staff at the Plough Inn in Cadsden, Bucks.
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BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush: No Place For Father, Reagan In Today's GOP — The “dysfunction” is “disturbing,” says the former Florida governor. A pox on both parties. — Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on Capitol Hill earlier this week. — (Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla)
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GOP 12
City Journal:
American Caste — When Charles Murray's best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 appeared a few months ago, the book's fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown, became one more battleground in America's 50-year-old culture war.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Another Bank Bailout — Oh, wow — another bank bailout, this time in Spain. Who could have predicted that? — The answer, of course, is everybody. In fact, the whole story is starting to feel like a comedy routine: yet again the economy slides, unemployment soars, banks get into trouble …
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Ezra Klein, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
A Date With The TSA *UPDATED: TSA's Own Rules — While leaving the Providence, Rhode Island gathering for the Franklin Center where the first annual Breitbart Awards were held, we were detained by the TSA and my husband was subjected to intrusive screenings based on the claim that he was covered in “nitrates.”
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protein wisdom
Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Final Push in Race to Serve Out Giffords's House Term — TUCSON — The contest to fill the Congressional seat vacated by Gabrielle Giffords, the Democrat who survived an assassination attempt last year, has been widely referred to as the race for “Gabby's seat.”
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Politico and New York Magazine