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Cable chatter

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 4:18pm
 

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Gibbs is sorry

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 2:50pm
 POLITICO reports:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs apologized to Shirley Sherrod, a Department of Agriculture employee


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The Sherrod damage

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 2:03pm
 This post from Ta-Nehisi Coates hints at the damage this episode has done Obama among his friends:

The argument has been made t


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Republican money

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:54pm
 A Ken Vogel scoop:
A new political operation conceived by Republican operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie formed a spinoff group last


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How debt is not like nuclear war

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:49pm
 

There's long been a school of thought -- on defense at the moment -- arguing that voters, when it comes down to it, won't vot


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POLITICO on Journolist

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 12:57pm
  I was surprised to read on The Daily Caller yesterday that a POLITICO colleague of mine was among those “participated in outpourings of


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Credit for Palin

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 12:17pm
 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's veteran political reporter Jim Galloway writes:

You and I have just become eyewitnesses to t


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In meeting, Messina praised Sherrod handling

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 11:38am
 White House officials yesterday afternoon told reporters they did not press Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to demand the resignation of Shi


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Welcome to New Hampshire

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 10:11am
 A front page blast at Palin in the influential Union Leader:

[F]ormer Gov. Palin isn't making these endorsements because, as sh


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Welcome to New Hampshire

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 10:11am
 A front page blast at Palin in the influential Union Leader:

[F]ormer Gov. Palin isn't making these endorsements because, as sh


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Muslims from outer space

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 9:59am
 A Denver Post columnist wonders about Jane Norton's departure into questions linking Islam and outer space.

The debate comment:


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Muslims from outer space

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 9:59am
 A Denver Post columnist wonders about Jane Norton's departure into questions linking Islam and outer space.

The debate comment:


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Race to the bottom

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 8:29am
My story today:


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OLC empties

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 7:13pm
  Last January, I wrote a story starting like this:
President Barack Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecess


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NAACP: 'We were snookered'

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 6:14pm
 Whiplash, in a statement from NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous:

The NAACP has a zero tolerance policy against raci


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