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• Ford Kills the Mercury

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  Another car brand is orphaned.

  Ford Motor announced Wednesday that it would discontinue selling Mercury models this fall, ending a 71-year-old brand that once stood for innovation and speed but that became a “me, too” division.
  
  Mark Fields, the president of Ford’s Americas region, said Ford [...]

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• Short Takes

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  Israel has freed the detainees from the flotilla.
  
  Meanwhile, PM Netanyahu defends Israel's methods.
  
  The U.S. had cautioned Israel about boats like the ones from Turkey.
  
  BP tries cutting the pipe with a giant pair of shears.
  
  President Obama went after [...]
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• Shorter Maureen Dowd

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  Daddy won't throw a temper tantrum. He's no fun.

  Damn, she's tiresome.' [...]
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• Question of the Day

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  The arrival of summer brings back memories of summers past... and summer jobs.

  What was your first summer job?

  In the summer of 1970, at the age of seventeen, I spent a couple of months working on a dairy farm outside Plainfield, Vermont, doing everything from milking cows, mucking out the [...]
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• In A Nutshell

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  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sums up the whole conundrum of the teabagger mentality first characterized by "keep your government out of my Medicare" by demanding that the Socialist President Obama wrest control of the oil spill in the Gulf from BP:

  The administration, they were hands off. They didn’t do [...]

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• That Didn't Take Long

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  Yesterday I added a postscript to my post about the attack on the Gaza flotilla and said it would be interesting to see how the right-wingers would somehow blame the whole thing on President Obama.
  
  Ta da:

  The group behind the Gaza flotilla that engaged in deadly clashes [...]

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• Spill Spin

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  Look who BP has hired to do their PR:

  BP, struggling to maintain its image while taking responsibility for the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, has hired someone new to head its American public relations operation: Anne Womack-Kolton, the former campaign press secretary for Vice President Dick Cheney.

  Someone's going [...]
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• Battin' Down the Hatch

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  Rachel Maddow has fun calling out Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) for his flaming hypocrisy and his bill that would criminalize embellishing a service record for political gain.
  
  

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• Palin vs. The Flotilla

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  Sarah Palin is suddenly an expert on the Middle East and the attack on the Turkish vessel going to Gaza:

  These ships could have offloaded their cargoes at a nearby Israeli port if they really wanted to help the people of Gaza. Instead, they chose to incite confrontation and violence.

  Yes, [...]
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• Religious Liberty

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  Tony Perkins, the head of the irony-riddled Family Research Council, whines that repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell will restrict religious liberty.

  This means that all 1.4 million members of the U.S. military will be subject to sensitivity training intended to indoctrinate them into the myths of the homosexual movement: that [...]

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