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BuzzFeed:
“Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To” — A provocative line in a DNC video. UPDATE: Obama campaign disclaims. — Source: youtube.com — The Democratic National Convention has signaled from the start an unapologetic, and at times, confrontational, liberalism …
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Associated Press:
Some Obama Programs Embellished by Democrats — Speakers at the Democratic National Convention portrayed President Barack Obama's presidency in glowing terms Tuesday evening, but sometimes left out important details or embellished his record. — Others mischaracterized programs backed …
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ABC15 Arizona, CNN and Politico
CNN:
CNN Fact Check: About those 4.5 million jobs ...
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Riehl World News and Jammie Wearing Fools
Alicia M. Cohn / Twitter Room:
Obama, with daughters, watches first lady speak to convention
Obama, with daughters, watches first lady speak to convention
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Politico and The New Civil Rights Movement
Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
More Occupiers protest Democratic convention than RNC
More Occupiers protest Democratic convention than RNC
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Firedoglake, Blue Collar Philosophy and ABCNEWS
ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Michelle Obama's Democratic Convention Speech — Below is the full transcript, as prepared for delivery, of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night. — Thank you so much, Elaine...we are so grateful for your family's service and sacrifice …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Democratic Convention Opens With Pitch to Middle Class — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democrats opened their convention here on Tuesday night with a parade of officials telling voters that Mitt Romney does not get it and with a rousing speech from Michelle Obama making the case that President Obama does.
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CNN, Associated Press, Queerty, The Huffington Post and Newsy
David Brody / The Brody File:
Exclusive: Democrats Drop ‘God’ From Party Platform — Guess what? God's name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform. — This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform: — “We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people …
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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Democrats Retreat on Civil Liberties in 2012 Platform — What a difference four years makes. — In 2008, Democrats were eager to draw a contrast with what they then portrayed as Republican excesses in the fight against Al Qaeda. Since then, the Obama administration has in many cases continued …
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Corrente, The Reaction, The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh, Suburban Guerrilla and The Agonist
Joshua Hersh / The Huffington Post:
DNC Israel Platform Reviewed, ‘Loved’ By AIPAC, Sources Say (UPDATE)
DNC Israel Platform Reviewed, ‘Loved’ By AIPAC, Sources Say (UPDATE)
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Washington Free Beacon, Israel Matzav, Mondoweiss and The Right Scoop
Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
DEMS REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO ‘GOD’ FROM 2012 PARTY PLATFORM
DEMS REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO ‘GOD’ FROM 2012 PARTY PLATFORM
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Ricochet Conversations Feed, Mediaite, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
DWS attacks Examiner for ‘deliberately’ misquoting her, but here's the audio … CHARLOTTE - Earlier this evening, in an appearance on Fox News, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused the Washington Examiner of “deliberately” misquoting her comments claiming …
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“The Lid”, GayPatriot, Israel Matzav, The PJ Tatler, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Mediaite, Babalú Blog and The Gateway Pundit
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Will Debbie Be Dumped? — Are there no consequences for lying? Even on national television? — Earlier today, Philip Klein reported that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said this: “We know, and I've heard no less than Ambassador Michael Oren say this, that what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel.”
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Washington Examiner and GayPatriot
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Strickland: “Mitt Romney Has So Little Economic Patriotism That Even His Money Needs A Passport” — Ohio's Strickland raies the volume. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland launched into a brutal assault on Mitt Romney Tuesday night on the opening night of the Democratic Convention …
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The Hinterland Gazette
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Whooping It Up — Before beginning the live blog …
Democrats Whooping It Up — Before beginning the live blog …
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The Reality-Based Community
Peter Nicholas / Washington Wire:
Kennedy Tribute Video Takes on Romney
Kennedy Tribute Video Takes on Romney
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Obama Isn't Working, US Politics, The Hinterland Gazette and Election 2012
CNN:
CNN Poll: Did Romney get a convention bounce? — Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) - It's the question everyone's asking: Did Mitt Romney get a bounce out of last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida? — According to a new national poll released Tuesday …
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Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Scared Monkeys, GOP 12, Rumproast, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Election 2012
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Paul Ryan / CNN:
Ryan muddles origin of Reagan's ‘are you better off’ line
Ryan muddles origin of Reagan's ‘are you better off’ line
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Politico, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Hill
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Gets No Bounce From Last Week's GOP Convention
Romney Gets No Bounce From Last Week's GOP Convention
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The Daily Dish, Polling Matters, ABCNEWS, Firedoglake and American Prospect
Parmy Olson / Forbes:
FBI Agent's Laptop ‘Hacked’ To Grab 12 Million Apple IDs - UPDATED — FBI special agent Christopher Stangl as he appeared in a video calling on hackers to join the federal agency. — UPDATE Sept. 4, 21:50 GMT: The FBI has denied that it ever had the 12 million Apple IDs in question …
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Talking Points Memo, The Next Web, CNN, Naked Security, VentureBeat and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Here's how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak
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Gizmodo, Naked Security, Errata Security, Guardian, Gawker, New York Magazine, The Raw Story, Slate, Wired, Talking Points Memo, CANNONFIRE, Mashable!, The Daily Caller, Newsy, Vox Popoli and VentureBeat
cortesi:
The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe
The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe
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Wired, TechCrunch, emptywheel and Marco.org
Greg Wilson / Fox News:
US debt tops $16 trillion: So who do we owe most of that money to? … The national debt topped $16 trillion on Tuesday, adding fuel to Republicans' criticisms of President Obama's deficit spending just as the Democrats are kicking off their national convention.
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Red Alert Politics and The Stranger …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Federal debt tops $16 trillion, Treasury Dept. says
Federal debt tops $16 trillion, Treasury Dept. says
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Weekly Standard, Scared Monkeys, Ed Driscoll, The Right Scoop and The Lonely Conservative
Vanity Fair:
Barack Obama to Michael Lewis on a Presidential Loss of Freedom: “You Don't Get Used to It—At Least, I Don't” — Michael Lewis and Barack Obama. — “Don't be looking to the sidelines all sheepish,” Barack Obama yells at Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Lewis in “Obama's Way,” …
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USA Today
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Charlotte speech increases rumors Kerry is up for Hillary Clinton's job — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will be defending President Obama's record on national security when he speaks to convention delegates on Thursday evening, but political observers will be watching …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Ex-chief Emanuel calls Obama ‘once-in-a-generation’ president — CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered a personal testimony to President Obama's leadership during times of crisis, telling the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday that the man he served as White House chief of staff is a …
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The night Democrats reclaimed “Obamacare” — There's been a major development in health-care politics over the last few months. The Obama administration and the Republicans came to an agreement on health reform. Not the law itself — they're still at each other's throats over that.
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Washington Examiner, Washington Monthly and The Daily Dish
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Popularity Dips Underwater; For Romney, a Faint Favorability Bounce — Click HERE for continuous livestreaming coverage of the Democratic National Convention. — Barack Obama approaches his nomination for a second term with the lowest pre-convention personal popularity …
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Hot Air, ABCNEWS, Riehl World News, Scared Monkeys, Blue Crab Boulevard and BBC
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Pinocchio Press — The bizarre rise of “fact checking” propagandists. — In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy. We suppose people who work as fact checkers have long dreamed …
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GayPatriot, americanthinker.com, Sky Dancing and Hot Air
