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12:55 PM ET, August 2, 2009

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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Pilot's Remains Found in Iraq After 18 Years  —  WASHINGTON — Navy officials announced early Sunday that Marines in western Anbar Province, Iraq, had found remains that have been positively identified as those of an American fighter pilot shot down in the opening hours of the first Gulf War in 1991.
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Associated Press:
Remains of U.S. pilot missing since '91 found  —  Speicher's disappearance in Iraq had bedeviled investigators for 18 years  —  WASHINGTON - The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Salisbury News
DefenseLINK:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Remains Identified as Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher  —  The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has positively identified remains recovered in Iraq as those of Captain Michael Scott Speicher.  Captain Speicher was shot down flying a combat mission …
CBS News:
Missing Gulf War Pilot's Remains ID'd
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Palin beats press to blog claim  —  Sarah Palin's spokeswoman Saturday took the unusual step of posting a statement on Facebook denying an anonymous blog report that the former Alaska governor was getting a divorce and moving to Montana.  —  “Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided …
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Alaska Report News:
Todd and Sarah Palin to divorce  —  Affairs on both sides  —  AlaskaReport has learned this morning that Todd Palin and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are to divorce.  Multiple sources in Wasilla and Anchorage have confirmed the news.  —  A National Enquirer story exposing previous affairs …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin divorce chatter: Denials
CBS News:
Palin Spokespeople Deny Divorce Rumor
Robert Stacy McCain / AmSpecBlog:
Palin Divorce Gossip ‘Completely False’
Discussion: Right Wing News
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
QUOTE FROM SARAH PALIN
David Collins / Central Florida Political Pulse:
Bloggers say Sarah Palin to divorce; her camp says it's bull
Discussion: OxBlog
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Geithner Won't Rule Out New Taxes for Middle Class  —  To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans?  In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We're going to have to do what's necessary.”
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Honesty and TV Booking  —  House Democrats have the congress considering a bill that involves around $540 billion in new taxes, along with several hundred billion in offsetting spending cuts, in order to pay for a substantial expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Stimulus 2?  W.H. may extend jobless aid  —  President Barack Obama's top economic officials said in interviews aired Sunday that the administration may support an extension in unemployment benefits.  —  Some on Capitol Hill view that as a second stimulus package, although it is unlikely …
Discussion: The Note
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out  —  Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution.  —  Because of emergency extensions already enacted …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
With Health Care Talks Uncertain, Democrats Consider a Last Resort  —  WASHINGTON — With bipartisan health care negotiations teetering, Democrats are talking reluctantly — and very, very quietly — about exploiting a procedural loophole they planted in this year's budget to skirt Republican filibusters against a health care overhaul.
The Politico:
McCain: Obama flunks bipartisanship  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says in a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union” that President Barack Obama needs to “be more specific” about his prescription for health reform.  —  “I think they may have over-learned the lesson …
Discussion: The Swamp
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
How a Little Inflation Could Help a Lot  —  BECAUSE fiscal stimulus has not yet been a striking success, perhaps it's time to consider new monetary remedies for the economy.  —  That is the argument of Prof. Scott Sumner, an economist at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. …
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Bookblogging: Failure of the EMH
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Pelosi to Use House Recess to Sell Obama's Health-Care Plan
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