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4:05 PM ET, June 18, 2010

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Sharron Angle / 8newsnow.com:
GOP Senate Nominee Sharron Angle Breaks Her Silence … LAS VEGAS - As Sharron Angle greeted supporters at Stoney's Restaurant in Las Vegas, 8 News NOW Reporter Nathan Baca approached her to ask about her Social Security plan.  —  Her website calls for “transitioning out” Social Security and Medicare.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Alan Simpson: Cutting Social Security Benefits to “Take Care of the Lesser People in Society”  —  Each time the Catfood Commission holds its secret meetings, Alex Lawson of Social Security Works has been outside with his camera, shooting video of the closed front door as FDL runs a live stream on our front page.
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Angle speaks about doing battle  —  Hopeful puts focus on joblessness, bankruptcies during Reid's tenure  —  Sharron Angle said Thursday that she wasn't surprised by the ferocity of attacks on her by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's campaign since she won the Republican nomination more than a week ago.
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Senior Official: Obama Administration Will Challenge Arizona Immigration Law  —  Updated 1:56 p.m. Eastern Time  —  As Hotsheet reported yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a television interview in Ecuador this month that the Obama Justice Department “will be bringing a lawsuit” …
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BBC:
Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter  —  Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff uses Twitter to get his message out  —  It was a very modern way to announce a very old-fashioned death.  —  Shortly after midnight in the US state of Utah, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff picked up his Apple iPhone …
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Nate Carlisle / Salt Lake Tribune:
Firing squad: An eyewitness account of Gardner's execution
Discussion: Raw Story
Yahoo! News:
Utah official gives execution go-ahead, then tweets it
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
John Krahnert III / Pilot:
Former Resident Recalls Run-In With Etheridge  —  A video of Rep. Bob Etheridge physically confronting a college student in Washington brought back unpleasant memories for one former Moore County resident.  —  Brandon Leslie, who moved away seven years ago and is now an attorney in Oxford …
Sky News:
Exclusive: BP Chairman Talks To Sky  —  Pete Norman, Sky News Online  —  BP's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has told Sky's Jeff Randall that embattled chief executive Tony Hayward is to have a changed role in dealing with the oil spill. … Asked by Randall about Mr Hayward's ongoing role …
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Tony Hayward Relieved From Duties At BP (Video)  —  BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward was relieved from duties today.  —  BP's chairman Carl-Henric “Small People” Svanberg will take over PR duties... After all, he cares about the small people.  —  Yahoo reported:
Yahoo! News:   Hayward relieved of managerial duties in BP shakeup
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Sydelle Moore / Congress Blog:
The Big Question: Should Barton step down over BP apology?
Discussion: CNN
Peter Fenn / Pundits Blog:
Joe Barton's oil slick
Discussion: CNN
David Rogers / The Politico:
Senate passes ‘doc fix’  —  A six-month stay on Medicare cuts cleared the Senate Friday but too late to avert what will be still a claims processing nightmare for physicians faced with a 21 percent reduction in their reimbursements.  —  With the House gone for the weekend …
Discussion: The Note
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ABCNEWS:
Medicare Payment Cuts to be Implemented Despite Senate Action
Discussion: The Note
FITSNews:
ENDORSEMENT: HALEY FOR GOVERNOR  —  So let's get this straight ... we know for a fact that S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley is lying through her teeth every time she denies our founding editor's claim that she had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with him in the Spring of 2007.
Alan Greenspan / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Debt and the Greece Analogy  —  Don't be fooled by today's low interest rates.  The government could very quickly discover the limits of its borrowing capacity.  —  An urgency to rein in budget deficits seems to be gaining some traction among American lawmakers.  If so, it is none too soon.
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Jacob Greber / Bloomberg:
Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit
Discussion: Right Wing News
Frank Newport / Gallup:
U.S. Voters Split on Obama Re-Election in 2012  —  Little change seen since March on this measure  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. registered voters remain split on whether President Obama deserves to be re-elected in 2012, with 46% saying he does and 51% saying he does not — little changed from earlier this year.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Twisting Arms at BP, Obama Sets Off a Debate on Tactics  —  WASHINGTON — First there was General Motors, whose chief executive was summarily dismissed by the White House shortly before the government became the company's majority shareholder.  Chrysler was forced into a merger.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
That '30s Feeling  —  Suddenly, creating jobs is out, inflicting pain is in.  Condemning deficits and refusing to help a still-struggling economy has become the new fashion everywhere, including the United States, where 52 senators voted against extending aid to the unemployed despite …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Public Wants More Stimulus  —  It's become conventional wisdom on the Hill (see, e.g., Ben Nelson) that the public is opposed to additional government stimulus spending.  But the latest Gallup poll says otherwise:  —  Obviously just because the public supports something (health care repeal …
Bob Parks / NewsBusters.org:
Newsweek's Reed: Obama ‘Out of His Cotton-Picking Mind’  —  The left's strategy is clear: any opposition to President Obama is not driven by ideological and/or political disagreement.  No, it's driven by racism and whole groups of people have been strategically tarnished.
Robert VerBruggen / The Corner on National …:
Did Kagan Compare the NRA with the KKK?  — By: Robert VerBruggen  —  It has become clear that Elena Kagan, Obama's most recent Supreme Court nominee, is no friend of gun rights, to say the least.  While clerking for Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in 1987, she wrote the judge that she was …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Barton And The Right  —  The right-wing punditariat backs the congressman who apologized to BP for the government “shakedown.”  I told you Rush is not mocked.  He runs the GOP and they follow him:  —  Republican - Right-wing politics - United States - Politics - Opposing Views
 
 
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
All Republicans should apologize for the oil spill
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Elliot Abrams Denounces American Jews for Not Exhibiting Sufficient “Dual Loyalties”
Discussion: Soccer Dad and Swampland
Jana Winter / Fox News:
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ABCNEWS:
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