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11:15 AM ET, September 11, 2010

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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
NRA backs Tea Party candidate in Delaware  —  The National Rifle Association endorsed conservative commentator Christine O'Donnell Friday in Delaware's Republican Senate primary.  The Tea Party-backed O'Donnell is looking to upset Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) on Tuesday.
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Jessica Taylor / The Politico:
DeMint backs O'Donnell, Lamontagne  —  South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint is bucking his party's establishment yet again, endorsing two insurgent Senate picks just ahead of their competitive primaries Tuesday.  —  In a series of late Friday night tweets, the conservative senator announced …
Discussion: Power Line
CNN:
O'Donnell picks up another big endorsement  —  (CNN) - Add another prominent Republican to the list of conservatives and conservative organizations who have endorsed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell.  —  South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint announced Friday night his endorsement of the Tea Party-endorsed candidate.
New York Times:
Sept. 11, 2010: The Right Way to Remember  —  Nine years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, a memorial and a transportation hub are taking recognizable shape and skyscrapers are finally starting to rise from the ashes of ground zero.  —  That physical rebirth is cause for celebration on this anniversary.
Discussion: City Room and The Moderate Voice
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Erica Werner / ABCNEWS:
Obama Remembers Sept. 11, Calls for Unity  —  Obama tells Americans lesson of Sept. 11 is ‘we are one nation, one people’  —  Amid an atmosphere of unease, President Barack Obama wants Americans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by recapturing the sense of common purpose felt on that dreadful day.
Discussion: The Politico
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Islam controversies cast shadow over 9/11 events  —  NEW YORK (AP) - They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.  The bells will ring.  And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march …
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Florida pastor will ‘not ever’ burn Qurans  —  Florida pastor Terry Jones said Saturday that he would never carry out plans to burn copies of the Quran, according to NBC.  —  Jones had planned to burn the Muslim holy text on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, but now says he'll never go through with it.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Administration Tells Regulated Industry That There Will Be “Zero Tolerance” for Alleged “Misinformation” in Industry's Statements About Government Policy  —  From the Department of Health & Human Services: … The precise nature of the threat — as with so many threats — is not made entirely clear …
Discussion: TigerHawk
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The Politico:
PRESIDENT OBAMA GOES RINGLESS AT PRESSER  —  Sometimes, a White House press conference can be a chance for a president to take some weight off his shoulders ... but weight off his fingers?  —  Eagle-eyed reporters noticed that President Barack Obama wasn't sporting his wedding ring during Friday's White House press conference.
DeAnn Komanecky / Savannah Morning News:
Effingham deputies call feds after arresting Russians with shovel, wire cutters outside Georgia Power plant  —  SPRINGFIELD — Effingham County sheriff deputies have reported the early Sunday morning arrest of three men to the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force.
David Berreby / New York Times:
Engineering Terror  —  They say they believe in freedom and share our values.  They say a few bad apples shouldn't bring down judgment on their entire kind.  Don't be fooled.  Though they walk among us with impunity, they are, in the words of Henry Farrell, a political scientist …
Discussion: Unfogged
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Robert Spencer: Jesus Would Have Burned Qurans Too  —  Jihad Watch “director” Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day of rabble rousing tomorrow; usually he's more careful with his rhetoric.  He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans just like psycho preacher Terry Jones.
Tom Krisher / Associated Press:
New GM CEO's pay package worth $9 million  —  DETROIT - New General Motors Co. CEO Daniel Akerson will get the same $9 million pay package as the man he replaced, Ed Whitacre.  —  Akerson, a former telecommunications industry and private equity executive, will receive $1.7 million in annual salary …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Samuel G. Freedman / New York Times:
Muslim Prayer Room Was Part of Life at Twin Towers  —  Sometime in 1999, a construction electrician received a new work assignment from his union.  The man, Sinclair Hejazi Abdus-Salaam, was told to report to 2 World Trade Center, the southern of the twin towers.
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Burris to high court: Let me run  —  CHICAGO - Illinois Sen. Roland Burris is taking his fight to serve out the final weeks of his appointed Senate term to the Supreme Court.  —  A federal court ruled earlier this year that only the candidates running for a full Senate term on Nov. 2 …
Discussion: Beltway Confidential and Wonkette
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Mississippi Congressional Race Shows Futility of Making Benefit Cuts to Social Security  —  RJ Eskow reported yesterday on a rumored deal coming out of the deficit commission on Social Security.  It sounds like a really bad version of progressive price indexing, where benefits are cut …
Discussion: NEMS360.com and Hullabaloo
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
G.O.P. Has 2-in-3 Chance of Taking House, Model Forecasts  —  Republicans have a two-in-three chance of claiming a majority of House seats in November, the FiveThirtyEight forecasting model estimates.  And their gains could potentially rival or exceed those made in 1994, when they took a net of 54 seats from the Democrats.
Monica Potts / American Prospect:
How is Lincoln Losing?  —  Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep. John Boozman met for their first official debate in the Arkansas state Senate race.  The particulars of this race are interesting but frustrating: it's hard to see how, whatever the climate, the soft-spoken …
The White House:
Readout of the President's call with Specialist Salvatore Giunta  —  Yesterday, President Obama spoke with Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta to inform him that he will be awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of gallantry at the risk of his life that went above and beyond the call of duty.
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Washington Post:   Obama awards living soldier the Medal of Honor
 
 
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National Review:
The Next Hoover  —  With his inability to fix the economy …
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David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Tax Cuts May Prove Better for Politicians Than for Economy
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Read's Top 10 Senate takeovers
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Mother Jones
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Obama Press Conference: Terry Jones and the Democrats' Health …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Tough Road for Snowe
Discussion: Daily Kos and TPMDC
Howard Kurtz:
Fox draws the line on pastor
Discussion: Z on TV and The Wire
Marcus Stern / USA Today:
U.S. shifts approach to deporting illegal immigrants
Discussion: 24Ahead and Washington Post
Angela Tchou / Slate:
Not in the Oval Office.
 Earlier Items: 
Gawker.TV:
Jon Stewart: MSNBC Should Take Notes From Fox News
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
The whole story: How Angle asked for a debate with Reid …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
'IT'S JUST US'.... President Obama hosted an unusually-long White …
Discussion: Breitbart.tv, The Impolitic and The Awl
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Blackwater founder Erik Prince targets Democrats in memoir
Discussion: Emptywheel, Raw Story and TPMMuckraker
The White House:
Press Conference by President Obama
Tony Mauro / The BLT:
Kagan Recuses in Ten More Cases
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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