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Court documents show man arrested in Louisville as suspect in fake bomb plot once worked for company linked to victim's family

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Packets of white powder that sent a scare through the offices of Alaska's congressional delegation Monday turned out to be powder used for making concrete.

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At a campaign stop in Iowa this weekend, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) doled out a frothy mixture of revisionist history about what it was like to be alive in the late 1700s: Our founders said [our] rights were given to us to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Does anyone here believe [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/16/296536/santorum-slaves/

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They provide safety and returns, Guo says.

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61462.html

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What you missed on Sunday Kos ...

Dante Atkins expounded on an overarching theory of progressivism.
Gallup is out with their semi-annual state-by-state analysis of the job approval ratings for President Obama. Steve Singiser looked at those numbers and at the electoral college and offered a rough snapshot of the state of the 2012 presidential sweepstakes.
Denise Oliver Velez explored why we have abandoned the idea of the working class and substituted it for a "fuzzy" middle.
Armando discussed "The Lessons Of Frederick Douglass." Meteor Blades' avowed hero was Frederick Douglass. Since MB is a life-long committed activist, this should not be surprising. Along with Martin Luther King and Susan B. Anthony, it is difficult to find an activist who so successfully accomplished substantive and concrete objectives as Douglass. What are the lessons Frederick Douglass teaches for the activist of today? Yes, "Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!" But much, much more.
The Tea Partiers have broken loose from their Republican keepers. Hunter asked what happens next.
DemFromCT reviewed escalating medical costs and why demands not to touch Medicare at all cannot be satisfied.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/4AKf5DLxLDU/-Late-afternoon-early-evening-openthread

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It’s of course possible that the speculation is mistaken, but I think it’s incredibly telling that most of the early business reporting about Google’s purchase of Motorola’s mobile phone business maintains that it’s all about the patents. In other words, Google bought a leading handset maker not because it wants to form a vertically integrated [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/15/296362/google-buys-motorola-to-even-the-patent-war-odds/

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Ezra Klein, on last night's events in Wisconsin: It seems to me that the system worked. Democrats were able to slow the process down and convince both voters in Wisconsin and the national media that there was something beyond business as usual happening in Madison. National and state polls sh...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031003604.html?wprss=rss_politics

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ABC News? Arlette Saenz (@arlettesaenz) reports: Rick Perry?s campaign released its first web video, entitled ?Rick Perry: Time To Get America Working Again.? The video is entirely centered around the need for more jobs and touts the governor?s experience and...

Source: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=6b8405e96cc573849e11c111cbf5b676

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Steve Benen continues his instructive tracking of how the traditional media has covered legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and particularly how the rulings are reported. He adds coverage of Friday's decision by the 11th circuit federal appeals court to his compilation.

Washington Post
* 11th Circuit ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1059 words
* 6th Circuit ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A5, 1053 words
* Steeh ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A2, 607 words
* Moon ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page B5, 507 words
* Hudson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1624 words
* Vinson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1176 words
* Kessler ruling (upholding the ACA): no article, zero words
New York Times
* 11th Circuit ruling (against the ACA): article on page A11, 615 words
* 6th Circuit ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A15, 853 words
* Steeh ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A15, 416 words
* Moon ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A24, 335 words
* Hudson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1320 words
* Vinson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1192 words
* Kessler ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A14, 488 words [...]

In this case, the New York Times broke the trend?its the only outlet of the four that didn't give yesterday's ruling more attention than the comparable 6th Circuit ruling from June. The Washington Post, meanwhile, continues to be the most one-sided?the three conservative rulings were all treated as front-page news, while the four rulings in support of the law were either buried or ignored.

Benen also looks at the coverage from AP and Politico which maintains this trend. As he says, this glaring disparity could be because reporters find more "news" in the status quo being upended rather than maintained. To WaPo's credit, as much as it pains me to write this, this is one time the ed board and Fred Hiatt do a much better job than the news side, explaining the elemental argument in support of the constitutionality of the mandate. (Before paying homage to David Broder with this: "One of the heartening aspects of Friday?s ruling, as with the 6th Circuit decision, was the ideologically mixed nature of the majority and dissent.")

But again, why does it matter how the media covers the story when the Supreme Court is going to end up deciding it anyway? It matters because, as Benen says "it seems very likely the public has been left with the impression that the health care law is legally dubious and struggling badly in the courts because that's what news organizations have told them to believe?rulings the right likes get trumpeted; rulings the left likes get downplayed." It contributes to a public sense that the most unpopular part of the law was a political overreach, and further undermines it. It adds to a political climate that could embolden governors and state legislatures that refuse to implement the law and keep Republicans in Congress wasting time on repeal or defunding efforts.

It also misses the glaring opportunity to put the politicization of the judiciary, the discussion of where the "activist" judges "legislating from the bench" really reside, on the front page. That's a disservice to us all.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/nKekbusajvE/-Skewed-traditional-media-coverage-of-Affordable-Care-Act-rulings-continues

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Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
Small wonder the Chinese news agency was on gloat mode during the week of Aug. 8. The U.S. stock market fell off a cliff, bounced briefly, and then fell again. The Federal Reserve admitted the economy is close to stalling. And in China? Oh, just the usual. Exports surging to record heights, that sort of thing. At first sight, recent events have exemplified the great shift from West to East that is the biggest story of our time. Even before the odds of a “double-dip recession” shot upward, the International Monetary Fund was forecasting that China’s gross...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/15/china039s_looming_economic_collapse_261597.html

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is pushing Sarah Palin off her throne as queen of the Tea Party. This considered opinion comes after watching Bachmann on "Meet the Press." I didn't agree with 99.9 percent of what she said, but in 12 minutes on MTP she demonstrated why she is a better leader of th...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030702895.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Governor Scott Walker held a press conference this afternoon in which he hammered away at missing state senate Dems in an effort to force them to cave and return to Wisconsin to pass his proopsal rolling back public employee bargaining rights.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704231.html?wprss=rss_politics

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WASHINGTON -- Congress pushed deep into a raw and emotional debate Thursday over American Muslims who have committed terrorist attacks in the name of religion, in a hearing punctuated by tearful testimony, angry recriminations and political theater.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031000343.html?wprss=rss_politics

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The GOP 2012 hopeful mocked Obama's reliance on prompters and "czars".

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(Daniel Acker/Reuters)

As expected by most observers (and to the delight of Daily Kos members, I suspect), Michele Bachmann has won the Iowa Straw Poll, earning a bit of bragging rights over the other primary candidates. We'll update with the full results as soon as we can.

This is good news for ~~John McCain~~ ~~Sarah Palin~~ ~~Rick Perry~~ someone, no doubt. It is also good news for the Obama campaign, which gets to take notes as each of these candidates jumps farther and farther right in their efforts to cater to the particularly nutty brand of primary voters that will be deciding which of these candidates wins the Republican nomination. Whoever it is, by the time the GOP convention rolls around they will have provided many hours of video of themselves saying very crazy things to very crazy people, and being proud of doing it.

That, however, is a long way off. This was the opening bell: now the real race begins. Well, not now, but soon. Soon-ish, anyway ... six months from now, when the Iowa Caucus takes place (this was just a straw poll, and is entirely symbolic.)

So, this was the pre-opening-bell bell.

3:50 PM PT: According to CSPAN, here are the totals:

Michele Bachmann: 4823

Ron Paul: 4671
Tim Pawlenty: 2293
Rick Santorum: 1657
Herman Cain: 1456
Mitt Romney: 567
Newt Gingrich: 385
Jon Huntsman: 69
Thad McCotter: 35

Total votes cast: 16,892