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11:25 AM ET, August 7, 2010

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
ADL: If mosque-builders really wanted to promote reconcilation, they'd move  —  Via Steve Benen, I see that Fareed Zakaria has decided to return an award betowed on him by the Anti-Defamation League in order to protest the organization's deeply misguided opposition to the Islamic center near Ground Zero.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Gothamist
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Newsweek:
Fareed Zakaria's Letter to the ADL  —  Five years ago, the ADL honored me with its Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize.  I was delighted and moved to have been chosen for it in good measure because of the high esteem in which I hold the ADL.  I have always been impressed by the fact …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Politics
Fareed Zakaria / ADL:
ADL Letter to Fareed Zakaria  —  Dear Fareed:  —  I received your letter today and must say I am not only saddened but stunned and somewhat speechless by your decision to return the ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize, you accepted in 2005.
Discussion: Mediaite and Media Decoder
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Zakaria Returns ADL Prize  —  Fareed Zakaria is a mensch: … The details of the return aside, just think about the fact that the Anti-Defamation League has traditionally been in the business of doing things like handing out first amendment awards named after Hubert Humphrey to dudes with names like “Fareed Zakaria.”
David Montalvo / Crain's New York Business:
Museum of Tolerance backer: No to WTC mosque  —  There's tolerance and then there's tolerance, argues Wiesenthal Center's leader as he celebrates grand opening of group's anti-prejudice museum in Manhattan.  Planned Islamic center is too close to 9/11 site, he insists.
Stephen Chernin / Newsweek:
Build the Ground Zero Mosque
Discussion: Think Progress
Cathy Young / Real Clear Politics:
The Mosque Controversy & Religious Freedom
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Moderate Voice
Sacramento Bee:
Let gays begin marrying, Schwarzenegger urges  —  In an extraordinary court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
GOP avoids gay marriage ruling  —  A U.S. district court judge's ruling to overturn Proposition 8 is garnering little protest from both parties.  AP  —  When a federal judge in California last week ruled the state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, several political observers braced …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Paul Elias / Associated Press:   Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings
Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown urges judge to allow same-sex marriages …
Discussion: LAist, Lez Get Real and Politics Daily
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Appeals court limits use of GPS to track suspects  —  A federal appeals court ruled for the first time Friday that police cannot use a Global Positioning System device to track a person's movements for an extended time without a warrant, clearing the way for the Supreme Court to decide …
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Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Who Inspired Lindsey Graham to Vote for Elena Kagan's Confirmation?
Discussion: Riehl World View
Daniel Foster / National Review:
Birth of a Strategy: Talking Immigration With Lindsey Graham
Scott / Power Line:
Franken most foul  —  When there is a local angle to a national story, the local press usually has a field day with it.  That hasn't proved to be the case with the story regarding Minnesota Senator Al Franken's outrageous behavior in the Senate during Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's speech opposing …
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
RNC adopts new 2012 presidential primary schedule  —  KANSAS CITY, MO. — The Republican National Committee adopted a new schedule for the 2012 presidential primaries Friday, agreeing to a plan worked out in concert with Democrats and designed to delay the start of the campaign season.
Discussion: MyDD
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Steele: Pelosi ‘in the back of the bus’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TPMDC
CNN:
TRENDING: Palin helping RNC raise money
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Media Matters Gives Glenn Beck's Co-Hosts The Shirley Sherrod Edited Audio Treatment (Update)  —  Let's end the week with some Shirley Sherrod-ing - editing a clip to make it sound like a person is saying something that is actually the complete opposite of what they're saying.
Ynetnews:
American VIP humiliated at airport  —  Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton's secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name  —  Itamar Eichner  —  This is not how she imagined her visit to
Ron Lieber / New York Times:
Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions  —  There's a class war coming to the world of government pensions.  —  The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers.  Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking budgets nationwide.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Gawker
Daily Mail:
Spanish police close public beach for Michelle Obama's £250,000 Spanish holiday  —  Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Five myths about the ‘tea party’  —  The grass-roots conservative activists who march under the “Don't tread on me” Gadsen flag and the “tea party” label have put a new twist on Gandhi's maxim: First they were ignored; then they were ridiculed; then they began to fight.
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CNN:   CNN Exclusive: Mark Williams rejoins Tea Party movement, has new effort
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Sharron Angle: I would refuse money from company that supports gay rights  —  Sharron Angle has taken some extreme positions, but this one is remarkable even by her standards: She said on a candidate questionnaire that she would refuse political contributions from a private company …
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Group promoting Angle event: Medicare “evil” …
 
 
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