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Native and Natural Born Citizenship Explored:
Third Obama birth certificate appears in court — Dr C reports that Orly has filed a motion claiming that she has discovered another Birth Certificate for President Obama, this one from the Republic of Kenya — Update: Ron Polarik calls Kenya BC a forgery
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THEY'LL NEVER STOP.... Last week, Hawaii's health director apparently checked the president's birth certificate again, and discovered that Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, and “is a natural-born American citizen.” A nutty right-wing website, however, produced …
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Michael Bérubé, Eunomia, At-Largely, Macsmind, JustOneMinute, Daily Kos, TD Blog and American Power
Jeremy Schulman / Media Matters for America:
Sorry, WorldNetDaily: Kenya wasn't a republic until Dec. 1964 — WorldNetDaily and the right-wing fringe are very excited about their scoop that Orly Taitz has “released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth” for President Obama. According to WND …
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Crooks and Liars, Pam's House Blend, Raw Story, The Washington Independent and Little Green Footballs
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Prez, The Press, The Pressure — Networks Grouse About Obama in Prime Time — In the days before President Obama's last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line, The Note, Mediaite, Michelle Malkin, Michael Calderone's Blog and protein wisdom
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Jennifer Senior / New York Magazine:
The Message Is the Message — Barack Obama's ubiquitous appearances as professor-in-chief, preacher-in-chief, father-in-chief, may turn out to be the most salient feature of his presidency. — Photo-illustration by James Porto — Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rewarding Bad Actors — Americans are angry at Wall Street, and rightly so. First the financial industry plunged us into economic crisis, then it was bailed out at taxpayer expense. And now, with the economy still deeply depressed, the industry is paying itself gigantic bonuses.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Blue-State Blues — We know because he said so, in the first of many famous speeches, that Barack Obama doesn't see Red America or Blue America — he only sees the United States of America. But as the president contemplates his faltering poll numbers and his stalling health-care push …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Political Party Affiliation: 30 States Blue, 4 Red in '09 So Far — PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll Daily tracking data from the first six months of 2009 finds Massachusetts to be the most Democratic state in the nation, along with the District of Columbia.
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The Fix, msnbc.com, Scorecard's Blog, Washington Post, Donklephant, The Capitol Fax Blog, Newshoggers.com and The Page
Michelle Malkin:
Into the lion's den: My encounter with The View; Vid link added — Just finished up on The View, where I sparred with the ladies about Culture of Corruption. — You can watch a bit of it at RCP and I'm sure Hot Air will have highlights up soon. — Best part: Every single member of the audience got a copy of the book!
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Angry right harasses Rep. Lloyd Doggett with anti-health care chants. (Updated) — Today, House members are back home to begin their month-long recess. The far right has indicated that they plan to welcome many of their representatives with large, angry throngs ("town halls gone wild").
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Washington Monthly, Texas on the Potomac, Glenn Thrush's Blog, TPMDC, Hullabaloo, Below The Beltway, MyDD and Wonkette
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Wall Street Journal:
Cash From Clunkers — Let's have a $4,500 subsidy for everything. — Printer — Friendly — Americans are streaming back into auto showrooms, and one reason is the “cash for clunkers” subsidy. Democrats are naturally claiming this is a great success, while Republicans are claiming …
Gryphen / The Immoral Minority:
Was it something I said? — As many of you are already aware I DID receive a notification from Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein yesterday. It arrived in my e-mail in PDF form and you can read it over at the Alaska Report. — Now Van Flein is forcing me to make an admission …
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Robert Stacy McCain / AmSpecBlog:
CNN Bozo Accidentally Outs His Source; Palins Threaten LegalActionOn Divorce Smear
CNN Bozo Accidentally Outs His Source; Palins Threaten LegalActionOn Divorce Smear
Times of London:
Iran is ready to build an N-bomb - it is just waiting for the Ayatollah's order — Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times.
Juan Cole / Salon:
Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — You two right-wing populists have a surprising amount in common — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech in Mashhad, Iran, on Friday; Gov. Sarah Palin gives her resignation speech in Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 26. — Is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
David Corn / Politics Daily:
Obama's Anger Problem? — If President Obama is mad, who's he so mad at? — Let me explain. On Friday afternoon, at the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs was explaining why his boss this week will be making his second trip as president to hard-hit Elkhart …
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Washington Post:
‘High Risk, High Reward’ — John McCain Was Looking for a Way to Shake Up His Campaign. He Took a Surprising Gamble on a Relative Unknown. — Adapted from the book “The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election” — A black car pulled up next to the stairs …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Politico Only Knows Conservative Experts — Politico had the interesting idea of asking various DC policy experts to recommend books in their areas of expertise. Unfortunately, it went off the rails. Things start out okay on the Middle East where they ask one person from CAP (left) …
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The Politico
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Iran Sanctions if Talks Are Rejected — The Obama administration is talking with allies and Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President Obama's offer to negotiate on its nuclear program …
Wall Street Journal:
High-End Homes Miss Out on Rebound — KENILWORTH, Ill. — Housing is fast dividing into two markets: Sales of low- and moderately priced homes are picking up and values have stopped falling in some parts of the nation. But on the upper end, sales remain mired in a deep slump and price declines are expected to accelerate.
Little Green Footballs:
The True Nirth Certifikit At Last — LGF reader Shiplord Kirel has granted us exclusive permission to reveal his world-shattering scoop! He's discovered the honest-to-goodness, no BS, real, true, and genuine nirth certifikit for Barack Obama ... and the conspiracy goes much deeper …
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Founding Bloggers
Michael Yon:
Resurrection — The bugs are not bad in this part of Afghanistan. The scorched terrain is biologically boring. Mice and ferret-like creatures dash around in the evenings when sparrows and doves and a few other sorts of birds flutter through the cool air.
Steve Connor / The Independent:
Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast — Catastrophic shortfalls threaten economic recovery, says world's top energy economist — The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world …
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Environmental Capital, Philly.com, European Tribune, Climate Progress and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Forbes:
Why Was Biden There? — A racial parsing of the “beer summit.” — Here are five thoughts—four whimsical, one relatively serious—on the beer summit at the White House, hosted by President Obama for Professor Gates of Harvard and Sergeant Crowley of the Cambridge Police, with Vice-President Biden in attendance.