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3:25 PM ET, August 3, 2009

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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 …
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 …
Village Voice:
Birther or Not, Here They Come! …
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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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 …
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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Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE BATTLE FOR CONGRESS
Discussion: Donklephant
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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Michelle makes new friend on “The View”
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 …
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: Hot Air, TPMDC 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?
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 …
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.
Rasmussen Reports:
Confidence in U.S. Health Care System Has Grown in Recent Months  —  Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% rate it as poor.
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Nelson will vote for Sotomayor  —  Sen. Ben Nelson said Monday he'll vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.  —  “I plan to support her,” the Democratic senator said during a telephone interview from Washington.  —  Nelson said last week he was undecided …
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.
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 …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
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 …
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 …
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Just 32% of Virginia Republicans Think Obama is a Citizen  —  Here's an advance look at a new Public Policy Polling survey in Virginia completed over the weekend: An astonishing 41% of the state's Republicans think President Obama was not born in the United States while just 32% think he was and 27% are still not sure.
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
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Which Reporters Will Get Snowed?  —  When members of Congress hold ‘town hall’ meetings in their districts, they should expect to hear from their constituents, many of whom won't agree with what they're selling.  And it's not just that hypothetical, unconnected-with-interested- parties ‘citizen’ we're talking about.
Discussion: TPMDC and Prairie Weather
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 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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Diana Powe / Breitbart.tv:
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