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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was ‘A Mistake’ — Dick Cheney has some advice for Mitt Romney on choosing a running mate: Don't pick another Sarah Palin. — In his first interview since receiving a heart transplant in March, Cheney told ABC News, that John McCain's decision …
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Justice Antonin Scalia reiterated just how extremely his Constitutional originalism can be applied. Referring to the recent shooting in Aurora, CO, host Chris Wallace asked …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, PoliticusUSA and DownWithTyranny!
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Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Justice Antonin Scalia on issues facing SCOTUS and the country
Justice Antonin Scalia on issues facing SCOTUS and the country
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Althouse and Outside the Beltway
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Scalia: ‘Handheld rocket launchers’ could be constitutional
Scalia: ‘Handheld rocket launchers’ could be constitutional
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Applesauce
John Aloysius Farrell / NationalJournal.com:
Scalia: Guns May be Regulated
Scalia: Guns May be Regulated
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protein wisdom
Thomas M. Burton / Washington Wire:
Justice Scalia: 'I'm Not Cantankerous'
Justice Scalia: 'I'm Not Cantankerous'
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USA Today and New York Magazine
Washington Post:
Romney would ‘respect the decision’ of Israel to attack Iran to stop nuclear weapon capability, adviser says — View Photo Gallery — Romney continues overseas tour: The Republican presidential candidate began his week-long overseas tour with a stop in London, praising …
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The Glittering Eye, Algemeiner.com and Booman Tribune
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Romney to allow press into Israel fundraiser after all — JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney's campaign has reversed a decision to not allow the media into a fundraiser here Monday morning, bowing to reporters' demand that they be allowed to record the Republican's address to some of his top donors.
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Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and Washington Post
Yossi Verter / Haaretz:
Romney cancels on Yacimovich after meeting with Netanyahu
Romney cancels on Yacimovich after meeting with Netanyahu
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Firedoglake, Reuters, Balloon Juice and The Moderate Voice
Benjamin Netanyahu / CNN:
Romney talks tough on Iran
Romney talks tough on Iran
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ABCNEWS, The Hinterland Gazette, BuzzFeed, Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, Israel Matzav and Politico
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Romney Breaks Agreement with Media: Bans Media From Covering Jerusalem Fundraiser UPDATE: Abruptly Changes Its Mind
Romney Breaks Agreement with Media: Bans Media From Covering Jerusalem Fundraiser UPDATE: Abruptly Changes Its Mind
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Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway, Informed Comment and USA Today
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Adviser says Romney would back Israeli attack on Iran
Report: Adviser says Romney would back Israeli attack on Iran
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The Mahablog, Prairie Weather and ThinkProgress
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Temple Mount Tackiness — Today is Tisha b'Av, the ninth of Av, a Jewish day of fasting and mourning. It is on this day that the First and Second Temples were destroyed. The Western Wall, in Jerusalem, is a retaining wall of the Second Temple. It is, especially on this day, a locus of prayer and reflection.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Israel Matzav
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Richard A. Muller / New York Times:
The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic — CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists …
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Newshoggers.com, The Raw Story, Dot Earth, Applesauce, Power Line, Hit & Run, iOwnTheWorld.com and Pirate's Cove
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
R.I.P. Inkblot — I hate to write this post, but all of you have been part of Inkblot's life for so long that I can hardly not do it. One of our neighbors saw the flyers we posted around the neighborhood and called a few minutes ago to tell us that she had seen the body of a cat nearby.
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The Reality-Based Community and Outside the Beltway
Bill Keller / The New York Times:
WikiLeaks, A Post Postscript — AS rumors build about the potential financial blockade against the New York Times by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express for hosting U.S. government cables published by WikiLeaks, I find myself in the awkward position of having to defend WikiLeaks.
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Andrew Hacker / New York Times:
Is Algebra Necessary? — A TYPICAL American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra. In both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail. Why do we subject American students to this ordeal?
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Washington Monthly
Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Mayor Bloomberg pushing NYC hospitals to hide baby formula so more new moms will breast-feed — The nanny state is going after moms. — Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed.
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Weasel Zippers, Wizbang, Sister Toldjah, protein wisdom, Gothamist and Jammie Wearing Fools
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
CNN Plays ‘Stupid Girls’ Before Story About Sarah Palin Visiting Chick-Fil-A — Remember last November when Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was disgracefully greeted with the song “Lyin' A— B—ch” during her appearance on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?
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Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin, nation.foxnews.com and Mediaite
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
House GOP lawmakers double down on Muslim Brotherhood comments — Republican lawmakers who demanded an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff is a covert agent for the Muslim Brotherhood said this week they have no regrets. — Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann …
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ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Arms-trade treaty talks collapse, supporters rip Obama — I doubt anyone reading Hot Air will mind this, but it looks like the UN won't get a chance to dictate terms of the Second Amendment any time soon. Yesterday evening, talks on an international arms-trade treaty collapsed when the US …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Obama blamed for failure of international arms-trade treaty