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ABCNEWS:
Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77  —  ‘Liberal Lion’ of the Senate Led Storied Political Family After Deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy  —  Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family's political dynasty …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies  —  Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died Tuesday night.
CNN:
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy dead at 77  —  (CNN) — Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer.  He was 77.
Martin F. Nolan / Boston Globe:
Kennedy dead at 77  —  Liberal lion of the Senate, symbol of family dynasty succumbs to brain cancer  —  Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who carried aloft the torch of a Massachusetts dynasty and a liberal ideology to the citadel of Senate power, but whose personal and political failings …
Joe Holley / Washington Post:
Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies at 77, After Cancer Battle  —  Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most powerful and influential senators in American history and one of three brothers whose political triumphs and personal tragedies captivated the nation for decades, died at 77.
Scott / Power Line:
Edward Kennedy's America  —  The death of Senator Edward Kennedy from a malignant brain tumor superimposes somber intimations of mortality onto a frequently frivolous political scene.  It puts us in mind us of what Wordsworth called the “fallings from us, vanishings” that ultimately reconcile us to our own mortality.
David Rogers / The Politico:
Kennedy, the liberal lion, dead at 77  —  Edward Moore Kennedy, Camelot's youngest brother who never reached the White House but grew into the most accomplished legislator of his generation in the Senate, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port after a long battle with cancer.
Discussion: The Note, ABCNEWS and NPR
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Republicans join Democrats in mourning Ted Kennedy
Discussion: The Page
Sarah Wheaton / New York Times:
Kennedy's Death Raises Issues of Succession
Discussion: Althouse
msnbc.com:
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy dies
Jessica Fender / Denver Post:
1 suspect in custody following Dem HQ vandalism in Denver  —  A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions.
Discussion: Think Progress
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Michelle Malkin:
Fake hate crime alert: Leftists vandalize Denver Democrat HQ; Dems smeared Obamacare foes  —  Nabbed: Left-wing Obamacare supporter Maurice Schwenkler, not Obamacare foes, arrested in attack on Denver Democrat HQ  —  I called out GOP fake hate crime perpetrator Ashley Todd last year …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
King on Holder: 'You wonder which side they're on'  —  A “furious” Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a “disgraceful” Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Evidence Mounts Still Further
Discussion: New York Times
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Fox News' Shep Smith debunks McCain's charge that reconciliation would be a ‘drastic change.’  —  This afternoon in his town hall, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he is “unalterably opposed” to using the budget reconciliation process to pass health care reform.
Discussion: Blue Hampshire and D-Day
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Angry right boos John McCain for stating that Obama 'respects …
Discussion: Associated Press and Griper News
New York Times:
Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations  —  WASHINGTON — Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs — no more, no less — illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day.  White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels.  A prisoner could be doused with 41-degree water but for only 20 minutes at a stretch.
Josh Margolin / New Jersey Online:
Federal prosecutor who took loan from GOP governor candidate Chris Christie resigns  —  TRENTON — The federal prosecutor at the center of the controversy over a loan made by New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie has resigned.  —  In her resignation letter dated today …
Wall Street Journal:
The Pelosi-Obama Deficits  —  Even $9 trillion might be too optimistic on current spending trends.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Earlier this year when President Obama was selling his first budget blueprint, he promised to end years of “borrow and spend” budgeting.  Yesterday, reality struck.
US News:
‘Blue Dog’ Democrat: Pelosi Is Too Divisive to Be Speaker  —  In a statement likely to intensify the GOP assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reign, a first-term Democratic “blue dog” congressman said that he would not vote to make her the top House Democrat again.
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al.com:
Applause, boos greet lawmaker - Page 2
ABCNEWS:
Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report  —  Inspector General Reportedly Discovered Three Died, Many Unaccounted For by CIA  —  The CIA and the Obama Administration continue to keep secret some of the most shocking allegations involving the spy agency's interrogation program …
Guardian:
Obama on brink of Middle East peace breakthrough  —  • US to adopt much tougher line over Iran's nuclear ambitions  —  • Israel to freeze construction of settlements on West Bank  —  • France and Russia offer to host Middle East peace conference
Christianity Today:
Sounds of Silence  —  Fiji remained silent on a day that should have been filled with songs of praise.  —  The government canceled an annual Methodist choir festival scheduled for Saturday in Suva, the archipelago's capital.  The decision to cancel the 160-year-old competition fueled tensions …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Feingold: 'We're headed in the direction of absolutely nothing'  —  Russ Feingold tells a Wisconsin crowd of the prospects for health care legislation:  —  “Nobody is going to bring a bill before Christmas, and maybe not even then, if this ever happens,” Feingold said.  “The divisions are so deep.
Shawn Neisteadt / KCLO-TV:
Some Surprised By ‘Clunker’ Tax  —  The Cash For Clunkers program is adding to the activity at treasurers' offices all around South Dakota.  First, people were asking for proof of ownership, so they could show they owned their vehicle for a full year, allowing them to cash it in.
Hanna Rosin / The Daily Dish:
Lose the Foreskin!  —  The responses to the Center for Disease Control's proposal this week to require all American boys to be circumcized are predictably hysterical.  Hundreds of commenters wrote into the New York Times today to complain about “child abuse” and “genital mutilation” and one …
Charles Murray / The Enterprise Blog:
The White House and the Pauline Kael Syndrome  —  The late New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael famously said after Nixon's landslide reelection, “How can he have won?  Nobody I know voted for him.”  My proposition for today is that the entire White House suffers from the Kael syndrome.
 
 
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