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10:00 AM ET, July 23, 2010

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Ezra Klein:
When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist  —  I hoped to let my quick accounting of the constant inaccuracies in the Daily Caller's selective quotations from Journolist stand as my last word on the matter.  But Tucker Carlson's sanctimonious and evasive statement on the way his site has been covering this story deserves a response.
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Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
Letter from Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson on The Daily Caller's Journolist coverage  —  We began our series on Journolist earlier this week with the expectation that our stories would be met with a fury of criticism from the Left.  A hurt dog barks, after all.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Getting the message on Journolist's controversial postings
New York Times:
House Panel Will Try Rangel in Ethics Cases  —  WASHINGTON — A House investigative panel has found “substantial reason to believe” that Representative Charles B. Rangel violated a range of ethics rules, dealing a serious blow to Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat, in the twilight of his political career.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Charles Rangel broke ethics rules, House panel finds  —  A House ethics subcommittee announced Thursday that it found that Rep. Charles B. Rangel violated congressional ethics rules and that it will prepare for a trial, probably beginning in September.  The panel is expected to make the details …
Jake Boot / Big Journalism:   As History Repeats Itself, Cholly Rangel Tells MSNBC Reporter …
William Douglas / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Rangel summoned by special ethics panel for violations
Discussion: NewsReal Blog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: House committee charges Rangel with multiple ethical violations
The Atlantic Online:
RNC Chaos Threatens GOP Chances for House Takeover  —  The chaos at the Republican National Committee threatens to cost Republicans the chance to take control of the House of Representatives, Republican strategists fear.  During midterm elections, the national committee plays two essential roles.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Commentary
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:   Democrats Make $28 Million TV Buy
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
DCCC buys time in 40 districts
Discussion: Jackson Politics
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Beware the lame duck
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats Sketch Ad Plan for Defending House Seats
Discussion: msnbc.com and Real Clear Politics
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1...’  —  An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.
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Scott / Power Line:
From Buckley to Breitbart  —  William Buckley achieved notoriety if not celebrity with the publication of God and Man at Yale in 1951.  The book was a succès de scandale.  In it Buckley attacked the undergraduate education on offer at Yale for its hostility to Christianity and its adulation …
CNN:
Sherrod on Breitbart: 'I'd tell him he's a liar'
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Bachmann: ‘All We Should Do Is Issue Subpoenas’ If GOP Wins House (AUDIO)  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a plan for what the Republicans should do if they win control of the House of Representatives: Spend all their time investigating the Obama administration.
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Three Fingers of Politics:
Bachmann: Subpoenas and Hearings Are Coming in 2011  —  Want a sneak preview for what the 2011 legislative calendar has in store?  —  The Intrade prediction market is giving the GOP a 57-percent shot of taking back the House of Representatives this fall, meaning it is more likely to happen than not.
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
President Obama Said Sec. Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped the Gun’ on Shirley Sherrod's Ouster  —  President Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed Shirley Sherrod from the Department of Agriculture amid charges of racism.  —  “He jumped the gun, partly because we now live …
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Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Don't ask' critic Dan Choi honorably discharged  —  One of the most vocal critics of the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy has been honorably discharged for being in violation of the policy.  —  Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and first lieutenant with the Army National Guard, said he learned of the decision on Thursday.
Phyllis Bennis / The Huffington Post:
A Really Big Show: Bigwigs Gather in Kabul...for What, Exactly?  —  This week the State Department bragged about the really important conference on the U.S./NATO war in Afghanistan held in Kabul, hosted by the Afghan president and including dozens of international political leaders.
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Tommy Sowers / The Huffington Post:
Who Will Pay for the Afghan Military?  The Question Congress Must Answer Now
Discussion: The Washington Note and TPMCafe
New York Times:
Pentagon Faces Growing Pressures to Trim Budget  —  WASHINGTON — After nearly a decade of rapid increases in military spending, the Pentagon is facing intensifying political and economic pressures to restrain its budget, setting up the first serious debate since the terrorist attacks of 2001 …
Discussion: The Page
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Addicted to Bush  —  For a couple of years, it was the love that dared not speak his name.  In 2008, Republican candidates hardly ever mentioned the president still sitting in the White House.  After the election, the G.O.P. did its best to shout down all talk about how we got into the mess we're in …
Discussion: Ezra Klein, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
James Webb / Wall Street Journal:
Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege  —  America still owes a debt to its black citizens, but government programs to help all ‘people of color’ are unfair.  They should end.  —  The NAACP believes the tea party is racist.  The tea party believes the NAACP is racist.
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Alvin Greene's ‘On the Scene’  —  Alvin Greene, the Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina, who emerged at a public campaign event for the first time last weekend, is now out with his first campaign video.  The video, called, “Alvin Green Is On the Scene,” is a 3-minute hip-hop mix …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Feinberg Says Bonuses Paid by Troubled Banks Were Unmerited  —  With the financial system on the verge of collapse in late 2008, a group of troubled banks doled out more than $2 billion in bonuses and other payments to their highest earners.  Now, the federal authority on banker pay …
Tom Gantert / Michigan Capitol Confidential:
The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget  —  The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.  —  That's how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture …
Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:
Russian ‘spy’ Anna Chapman gets her own action figure, plastic doll of sexy secret agent now on sale  —  She's the Russian Barbie.  —  Sexy secret agent Anna Chapman may have been deported, but she's now available on U.S. soil in fully jointed plastic.  —  The doll manufacturer Herobuilders.com …
Discussion: Right Pundits and City Room
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Journolisters offended by Keith Olbermann's ‘misogynistic,’ ‘predictable,’ and ‘pompous’ show  —  If you were one of the 400 members of the listserv Journolist, perhaps one of the most vicious insults you could hurl at a colleague is: You're just like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and Pajamas Media
The Politico:
Democrats pull plug on climate bill  —  Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama's party is girding for a drubbing.  —  Rather than a long-awaited measure capping greenhouse gases …
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
No Immigration Papers, No School, Many New York Districts Say  —  Three decades after the Supreme Court ruled that immigration violations cannot be used as a basis to deny children equal access to a public school education, one in five school districts in New York State is routinely requiring …
Discussion: City Room and ImmigrationProf Blog
Natasha Mozgovaya / Haaretz:
U.S. upgrades status of Palestinian mission in Washington  —  Though still short of full diplomatic recognition, move raises representation to level of PLO missions in many European countries and Canada.  —  The United States State Department has upgraded the Palestinian Liberation Organization's mission …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
 
 
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theblogprof:
Typical: Obama's ambush on Pete Hoekstra in Michigan was coordinated with the media
Discussion: Wizbang
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Carbon trading in pipeline
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sharron Angle walks away from media
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Hearing on Arizona immigration law begins
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Newark Budget Cuts
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New York Times:
More of the Rich Run as Populist Outsiders
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Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Britain no longer has the cash to defend itself from every threat, says Liam Fox
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Records show Greene's military flops
Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Obama Campaign Adviser Participated on JournoList
Democracy in America:
This week's Economist/YouGov poll
John Fund / The Daily Caller:
Plurality of voters believe the country would have been better off …
Discussion: The Other McCain and The Greenroom
Gregg Levine / Firedoglake:
NN10 Liveblog: Fighting Obama's Social Security “Death Panel”
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Wall Street Journal:
Why the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Is Unconstitutional