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6:15 PM ET, September 19, 2010

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New York Times:
G.O.P. Insider Fuels Tea Party and Suspicion  —  WASHINGTON — In the days leading up to the Delaware primary, Sal Russo hosted a radio fund-raiser, organized a political rally and pressed the case with reporters that Christine O'Donnell was the Tea Party's choice for the United States Senate.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Bloomberg: Tea Party is a ‘boomlet’  —  In a wide-ranging interview published Saturday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg characterized the recent increase in Tea-Party rancor as a temporary development in American politics.  —  “I think there boomlets come along when the public is dissatisfied,” he told the New York Times.
Discussion: NewsReal Blog
CNN:
Murkowski: I was victim of ‘smear’ campaign  —  (CNN) - Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is defending her choice to mount a write-in campaign in the wake of her defeat to a Tea Party-backed candidate, telling CNN's Candy Crowley she was the victim of a “smear” campaign.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bridget Johnson / Ballot Box:
DeMint rips Murkowski as ‘big-tent hypocrite’  —  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) ripped into Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as a “big-tent hypocrite” in a fundraising e-mail for Tea Party favorite and GOP nominee Joe Miller on Saturday.  —  Murkowski announced Friday that, after the primary defeat …
Raven Brooks:
About that Tea Party convention... canceled
Jay Heflin / Ballot Box:   Hayworth to be Tea Party spokesman
Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:
Karl Rove Says Christine O'Donnell Needs to Explain Witchcraft ‘Dabbling’ to Voters … Karl Rove, political mastermind for former President Bush said Sunday that Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party insurgent who won an upset victory in Delaware for the GOP Senate nomination, “can't simply ignore” …
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
O'Donnell On ‘Witchcraft’ Comment: 'How Many Of You Didn't Hang Out With Questionable Folks?'  —  Anti-masturbation activist, witchcraft-dabbler, and GOP senate candidate Christine O'Donnell dodged her Sunday show appearances in order to attend a partisan fundraising picnic in Delaware today.
Discussion: Associated Press and CBS News
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Rove: Murkowski's write-in campaign is ‘sad and sorry’
Discussion: Raw Story and Left Coast Rebel
Michelle Malkin:
Bill Maher's witch hunt — and the missing context for O'Donnell's remarks
The Hill:
Clinton says he was wrong on healthcare bill's popularity  —  Former president Bill Clinton, a champion of healthcare reform, admitted on Sunday that he made the wrong prediction about the popularity of President Obama's healthcare bill.  —  Initially, Clinton had predicted that the polls …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Tea Party is ‘general revolt against bigness’  —  Former President Bill Clinton said Sunday that the Tea Party movement “reflects the feeling of a lot of Americans that they're getting the shaft,” but isn't clear what it stands for.  —  On CBS' “Face the Nation,” …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Colin Powell critical of President Obama  —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president in 2008, said on Sunday the president needs to “shift” his approach with voters feeling overloaded by a series of new laws that expand the scope of government.
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Powell holds off on next endorsement, says Obama should focus on ‘governing’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport  —  AT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it.  —  For weeks, according to Army charging documents …
New York Post:
Rep. Meeks helped ‘jihad’ flier  —  Tweet  —  US Rep. Gregory Meeks scolded immigration officials for questioning a Muslim scholar whose nonprofits have been linked to financing terrorism.  —  The Queens Democrat contacted federal agencies — finally appealing to then-Homeland Security …
Daily Mail:
Britain goes halal... but no-one tells the public: How famous institutions serve ritually slaughtered meat with no warning  —  A Mail on Sunday investigation - which will alarm anyone concerned about animal cruelty - has revealed that schools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting venues …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Gingrich Calls For Federal Ban On Shariah Law In US  —  The second morning of speeches at the Values Voter Summit here in DC was dominated by a man who is swiftly becoming the nation's spokesperson for Islamophobia — former House speaker Newt Gingrich.  Fresh off the release of his Islam-focused film …
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