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8:20 PM ET, August 29, 2010

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CBS News:
Fire at Tenn. Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson  —  Construction Equipment at Site of Planned Islamic Center Torched; Vocal Protests Against Mosque Have Been Ongoing  —  Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb.
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Tennessean.com:
'It'S Shocking And Sad'  —  Saleh Sbenaty, a member of the Murfreesboro center's planning committee, said he is unsure whether the fire will impede site preparation at the site on Veals Road off Bradyville Pike.  The committee planned to complete site preparation by late November.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Anti-mosque sentiment rages far from Ground Zero
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
New York Times:
A Palin of Our Own  —  TWO years ago today, Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential nominee, introduced the world to his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.  Chosen by Mr. McCain's campaign strategists as a cynical rejoinder to the ill-starred presidential bid of Hillary Clinton …
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Dallas Morning News:
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson violated rules, steered scholarships to relatives  —  tgillman@dallasnews.com  —  choppe@dallasnews.com  —  Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children since 2005 …
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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Lawmaker awarded CBC scholarship money to relatives  —  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) admitted to awarding thousands of dollars in scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children in violation of rules set by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the funds.
Daniel Foster / National Review:   Congresswoman Violated Nepotism Rules, Funneled Thousands to Family and Friends
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
More accusations made in close Senate race  —  SENATE RACE: Miller's camp says GOP group is preparing for legal battle.  —  scockerham@adn.com  —  There were more allegations by the Joe Miller campaign of ballot-counting monkey business on Saturday as the absentees continue to pour into the Alaska Division of Elections.
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Stephen Williamson Makes His Play for the Second Stupidest Man AliveTM/ Crown  —  Narayana Kocherlakota of the Pain Caucus, President of the Minneapolis Fed, wrote that the Federal Reserve must raise interest rates before too long a time has passed or else its low interest rate policy will generate deflation:
Discussion: Paul Krugman
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Obama in Big Easy to mark Katrina  —  President Obama traveled Sunday to New Orleans to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Big Easy.  —  At the end of the First Family's weeklong vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Obama was met at the airport by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal …
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
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Associated Press:   Obama Heralds New Orleans's Revival After Storm
Jimmy So / CBS News:
Miller: U.S. Going Bankrupt, States Need Control  —  Tea Party-Backed Alaskan Challenger Wants Less Federal Money; Must Look at Option to Privatize Social Security  —  (CBS) Tea-Party-backed Joe Miller, who could become the Republican nominee for the Senate if he brings down incumbent Lisa Murkowski …
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Obama, Steep Learning Curve as Chief in War  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama rushed to the Oval Office when word arrived one night that militants with Al Qaeda in Yemen had been located and that the military wanted to support an attack by Yemeni forces.
New York Post:
Mosque big owes 224G tax  —  Tweet  —  The mosque developers are tax deadbeats.  —  Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes $224,270.77 in back property tax on the site, city records show.  —  El-Gamal's company …
Paul / Power Line:
The role of information in American “Islamophobia”  —  One theme in the recent MSM hand-wringing about America's alleged “Islamophobia” is the notion that Americans are giving Muslims a more difficult time now than they did in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Discussion: Solomonia
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Jerusalem Post:
Undercurrents below the Ground Zero mosque
Discussion: protein wisdom
Ali Abunimah / New York Times:
Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us  —  GEORGE J. MITCHELL, the United States Middle East envoy, tried to counter low expectations for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations by harking back to his experience as a mediator in Northern Ireland.  —  At an Aug. 20 news conference with Secretary …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THERE IS NO SECRET ‘BIG ECONOMIC INITIATIVE,’ BUT THERE COULD BE.... The lead New York Times editorial today begins, “If President Obama has a big economic initiative up his sleeve, as he hinted recently, now would be a good time to let the rest of us in on it.”
Discussion: Liberal Values and New York Times
Steve Moore / Wall Street Journal:
A Senator and His ‘Disciples’  —  The Senate's stalwart opponent of big government is intent on electing some allies this year.  His new PAC and growing anti-Obama sentiment mean he just might succeed.  —  'I'd rather lose with Pat Toomey than win with Arlen Specter any day.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and The Hill
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: South Carolina Governor
Discussion: Jumping in Pools and HotAirPundit
 
 
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