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2:45 AM ET, August 3, 2009

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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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Dennis Zaki / Alaska Report News:
Palin lawyer threatens to serve papers at kindergarten, then balks  —  ImmoralMinority blogs breaks Palin divorce story  —  Thomas Van Flein, Sarah Palin's lawyer, threatened Saturday to serve libel papers at a kindergarten to the owner of the highly trafficked “ImmoralMinority” blog for a divorce story on the Palins.
The Other McCain / The Greenroom:
Sarah Palin Needs to Help Conservative Bloggers So We Can Make Stuff Up, Too
WorldNetDaily:
Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?  —  Attorney files motion for authentication of alleged 1960s certificate from Africa  —  WASHINGTON - California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president …
Michelle Malkin:
When they can't attack the message...  ...they attack the messenger.  —  This is all they've got (vid at link if you can stomach it):  —  That's it.  Not a single refutation of a single fact in the book.  Bill Maher can't bring himself to open it and read what's in between the covers.  Why?
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Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Real Time: Bill Maher Mocks Malkin for Her New Book  —  Bill Maher goes after Michelle Malkin for already writing a book trashing Obama's Presidency only six months in, and has a bit of fun with Jonah Goldberg, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck in the process.
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up  —  2 Obama administration officials can't guarantee middle-class Americans won't see tax hike  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit …
Discussion: USA Today and Associated Press
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msnbc.com:
Aug. 2: Larry Summers, roundtable
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Stimulus? W.H. may extend jobless aid
Discussion: The Note and Donklephant
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 …
Discussion: Founding Bloggers
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
JOBLESS GRAD SUES COLLEGE FOR 70G TUITION  —  She has given new meaning to a class-action lawsuit.  —  Trina Thompson gave it the old college try, but couldn't find work.  Now she thinks her sheepskin wasn't worth her time, and is suing her alma mater for her money back.
James Kirchick / Washington Post:
Obama Said 'I Don't.' He May Just Mean It.  —  Last month, former president Bill Clinton joined the increasing number of Democratic politicians who publicly back same-sex marriage.  Granted, Clinton's endorsement — offered in response to a questioner at a Washington conference …
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections  —  Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned.
Elizabeth Bluemink / Anchorage Daily News:
Lu Young, wife of Rep. Don Young, dies at 67  —  Congressman Don Young's wife, Lu Young, died overnight Saturday, according to his press secretary.  —  Lu Young was 67 years old.  She died after going to sleep at the Young's home in Great Falls, Va., apparently of natural causes …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. to Push Peace in Middle East Media Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — George J. Mitchell likes to remind people that he labored for 700 days before reaching the Good Friday accord that brought peace to Northern Ireland.  So the fact that Mr. Mitchell has shuttled back and forth to the Middle East …
Discussion: PrairiePundit
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Agence France Presse:
Fatah to reject Israel as Jewish state at congress: document
Discussion: protein wisdom and Power Line
Michelle Malkin:
Yes, they are talking about a government takeover of health care  —  This video is spreading quickly across the Internet.  In their own words, via Naked Emperor News, here are Barack Obama, Jan Schakowsky, and Barney Frank exposing the true aim of the “public option.”
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.
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
U.S. Pilot's Remains Found in Iraq After 18 Years  —  WASHINGTON — Navy officials announced early Sunday that Marines in the western Iraqi province of Anbar had found remains that have been positively identified as those of an American fighter pilot shot down in the opening hours of the first Persian Gulf war in 1991.
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Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
The Stimulus Lesson  —  Having seen meager results and huge deficits …
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Wall Street Journal:
High-End Homes Miss Out on Rebound
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William Yardley / New York Times:
Army Looking Into Monitoring of Protest Groups
Discussion: Emptywheel
Ynetnews:
Report: Iran plane was carrying arms for Hezbollah
Discussion: Soccer Dad
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
The crafting of Obama's Cairo speech to world's Muslims
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New York Times:
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The Politico:
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White House Altering Health Pitch in Bid to Reinvigorate Obama's Signature Issue
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