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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 …
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 …
Doug Mataconis / Below The Beltway:
The Latest Birther Fantasy: Obama's (Fake) Kenyan Birth Certificate
Village Voice:
Birther or Not, Here They Come! …
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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 …
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 …
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
California's Budget Crisis Reflects National Economic Reckoning
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Betsy's Page
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up
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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Henny Sender / Financial Times:
Wall Street profits from trades with Fed  —  Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by trading with the Federal Reserve, raising questions about whether the central bank is driving hard enough bargains in its dealings with private sector counterparties, officials and industry executives say.
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.
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.
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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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 …
Austin American-Statesman:
Doggett finds hostile audience; baby sleeps through SWAT standoff  —  AUSTIN  —  Doggett gets chilly reception  —  Back in Central Texas while Congress is on a month-long recess, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett faced an angry audience at a town hall meeting at an Austin Randalls grocery store Saturday.
Discussion: TPMDC, Hot Air and Power Line
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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?
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 …
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
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.
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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O.Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Grassley says health care could be done by November  —  Last week, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin — a Democrat — predicted congress would get health care reform legislation to the president's desk by November and now Iowa's other U.S. Senator, Republican Chuck Grassley, is suggesting the bill will reach Obama by Thanksgiving.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MALKIN, KATZ, AND GOVERNMENT CHEESE.... For reasons I'll never fully understand, ABC News' “This Week” invited right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin to participate in its roundtable discussion yesterday.  It was a reminder that the darned liberal media just isn't willing to consider the perspective of right-wing activists.
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) …
Discussion: The Politico
 
 
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Why Was Biden There?  —  A racial parsing of the “beer summit.”
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Just 32% of Virginia Republicans Think Obama is a Citizen
Discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates and TPMDC
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
The NRCC's 70 targets  —  Last week, National Republican …
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Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Eight Christians burnt to death in Pakistan after Koran is ‘defiled’
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Diana Powe / Breitbart.tv:
UNCOVERED VIDEO: OBAMA EXPLAINS HOW HIS HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hatch: Dem healthcare plan “out of this world”
Tim Pawlenty / Washington Post:
States Set Example for Health-Care Reform
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