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John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Dems turn out the lights but GOP keeps talking — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices. — Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) …
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Edward Epstein / CQ.com:
House Adjourns, But Republicans Linger to Bash Democrats on Energy — The C-SPAN cameras were gone and the microphones were off, but that didn't stop a small group of Republicans from taking over the floor after the House adjourned for five weeks to attack Democrats for leaving town without doing something to lower gas prices.
Ben Pershing / Capitol Briefing:
Bizarre Scene on the House Floor — UPDATE 5:10 PM: A group of Republican lawmakers just held a press conference off the floor, where cameras could capture their words for posterity, during which they reiterated their desire for a vote on opening up more land for oil drilling.
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Dems turn out the lights but GOP won't go home Part II
Dems turn out the lights but GOP won't go home Part II
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Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
The Guerilla Congress — I just got back a short while ago …
The Guerilla Congress — I just got back a short while ago …
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Michelle Malkin:
Floor revolt: No vacation for House Republicans; GOP calls …
Floor revolt: No vacation for House Republicans; GOP calls …
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Don Surber
Washington Wire:
House Republicans Stage Floor Protest Over Summer Recess
House Republicans Stage Floor Protest Over Summer Recess
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Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Obama Aide Concedes ‘Dollar Bill’ Remark Referred to His Race — Obama Strategist Calls McCain's Attack Ad Insulting; McCain Camp Defends It — Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans …
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Adam Smith / The Buzz:
Obama responds to race card charge — In an interview with the St. Pete Times and Bay News 9 for Political Connections, Barack Obama brushed off the charge from the John McCain campaign that he was injecting race into the campaign: — “I was in union, Missouri which is 98 percent white …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News — The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks.
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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Apparent suicide in anthrax case
Apparent suicide in anthrax case
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Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Too Fit to Be President? — Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback — Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn't give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track.
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
OBAMA, INTERRUPTED — From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli and NBC's Lauren Appelbaum — ST. PETERSBURG, FL — About seven minutes into his remarks here, Obama was interrupted by a handful of African-American demonstrators, who stood up in the last row of a section of bleachers behind him and held …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies — including Wal-Mart.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Tied at 44% — Registered voters evenly split in their support for Obama versus McCain — PRINCETON, NJ — According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from July 29-31, John McCain and Barack Obama are now tied at 44% in the preferences of national registered voters.
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Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Hil, no! Don't nominate me — Hillary Clinton has decided against being nominated for President at the Democrats' Denver convention, but many of her more die-hard partisans may vote for her anyway. — A source close to the New York senator confirmed she won't file a formal request …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Blooper: Hannity punks himself on anti-McCain Campain ad. — Friday bloopers! — Sean Hannity was in fine form last night as he had his fresh new Obama-GOP-attack-talking points ready to go. (I don't think Scott McClellan passed them off this time.) He wanted his audience …
Matthew Yglesias:
Getting Our Stereotypes Straight — Ali Frick notes Michael Goldfarb expressing some displeasure that the NYT editorial page's blog didn't like his candidate's dumb ads. Here's Goldfarb: … Now here's the thing. Say what you will about RPG-loving nerds, but surely we recognize …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Slate Revisited — Enough people in the business have gotten in touch with me in a hurry to dispute the idea that Slate is a center-right publication that I'm starting to have some doubts. And I'll admit that while I look at Slate all the time, I'm not a particularly thorough reader …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Report: Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri Dead!?! — Stratfor reports that the United States is attempting to verify rumors coming out of Pakistan that al Qaeda's #2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a July 28 Predator airstrike. — Intelligence sources told The Jawa Report last week that ‘the hunt was on’ in Pakistan for a ‘big fish’.
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Malwebolence — One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents' bedroom closet and shot himself in the head.