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11:25 PM ET, January 15, 2011

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KGUN-TV:
Death threat at ABC-TV Town Hall event Saturday  —  Reporter: Forrest Carr Web producer: Sheryl Kornman  —  TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) -The meeting room at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on the city's northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the mass shooting Jan. 8 …
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John Hayward / Human Events:
Meet Eric Fuller  —  The Left finds a new icon.  —  Trackback Link (Loading. . .)  —  You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend.  He's one of the people injured in Jared Loughner's shooting rampage, taking rounds in the knee and back.  He's also a vicious bigot …
Sify.com:
Arizona survivor blames Palin's ‘crosshair’ posting for shooting mayhem  —  Eric Fuller, a 63-year-old veteran who survived the Arizona shootings after being shot in the knee and the back, has blamed US potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin, House Speaker John Boehner …
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Wingnut Blogger Jim Hoft Mistakes Closed Caption for Applause Prompt at Tucson Memorial  —  Just when you think popular right wing blogger Jim “Dim” Hoft (Gateway Pundit) couldn't possibly post anything more stupid than his last post, he finds a way to take it to the next level of numbskullitude.
Discussion: Rumproast, TBogg and The Agitator
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally... Why Did They Ask For It On Jumbotron?  —  On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the pep rally on Wednesday for the victims of the Tucson shootings. … Oh really?
New York Times:
Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay  —  The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.  —  Over the past two years …
Annie Groer / Politics Daily:
Michael Reagan Rips Half-Brother Ron Over Book and Alzheimer's Claim … Michael Reagan blasted as “falsehoods and lies and conspiracy theories to sell books,” the suggestion by half-brother Ron Reagan that their father may have had Alzheimer's disease while still in the White House.
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Michael Reagan calls brother an ‘embarrassment’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
David Gibson / Politics Daily:
Is the Black Church Dead?  Debate Flares Among African-American Christians … LITHONIA, Ga. — Under a sparkling blue sky, thousands of worshipers in cars and SUVs streamed into the mall-like parking lots at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a sprawling campus just off I-20 in this suburb of Atlanta.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Sarah Palin / MediaCurves.Com:
Americans View Sarah Palin as more Sincere and Believable after Watching Speech  —  Speech does little to increase voter support for potential run in 2012  —  Flemington, NJ, January 14, 2011 - A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed …
Eleanor Clift / Politics Daily:
Speaking at the memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., President Obama said that it is human nature to look for explanations and to search for solutions when something horrific happens, as it did on an otherwise ordinary Saturday morning in a Safeway parking lot.  The volley of shots that left six dead …
Discussion: New York Times and Guardian
Mark Rudd / Washington Post:
An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence  —  In 1970, when I was 22 years old - the same age as Jared Loughner - I was a founder of the Weather Underground, an offshoot of the antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Pajamas Media
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans,” said Obama in his weekly address this morning.  —  And what's the first thing you notice — the difference between today and the speech he gave at the memorial?  Right.  Different color hair.  Gray for the memorial, signifying the wise elder, the father figure.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: “Before We are Democrats or Republicans, We are Americans”
Discussion: Politics Daily and CNN
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
In Tunisia, Clashes Continue as Power Shifts a Second Time  —  TUNIS — Tanks, police officers and gangs of newly deputized young men wielding guns held the deserted streets of Tunis Saturday night after a day of sporadic rioting and gunfire.  Power changed hands for the second time in 24 hours …
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Tunisians Help “Expand Our Moral Imaginations”
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  A new CBS News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit.
Washington Post:
GOP picks Reince Priebus to lead as it regroups  —  GOP leaders began a weekend of strategizing Friday as the Republican National Committee voted out its controversial chairman, Michael S. Steele, in favor of Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman, and House members plotted their future at a party retreat in Baltimore.
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