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5:30 PM ET, August 4, 2009

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Macon Phillips / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Facts Are Stubborn Things  —  Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, “facts are stubborn things.”  —  Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama vs. Drudge  —  The White House on Tuesday posted a three-minute video punching back at an old clip of President Barack Obama that was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline, “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
White House Strategy: Ridicule The Angry Republicans  —  The White House and Democratic officials, surprised by the angry words thrown at Democratic lawmakers in their first weekend of August town hall meetings, are scrambling to put together a strategy to minimize the effects …
The Huffington Post:
Obama And DNC Try Turning Angry Mobs And Drudge Into Benefits  —  The White House and allied Democrats are ramping up efforts to make belligerent anti-Obama town hall crowds — and the media outlets that feed their resentment — the face of opposition to the president's health care agenda, aides tell the Huffington Post.
Justin Rood / ABCNEWS:   Money Trail: Obama Taps Donor for Health Job
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
White House: ObamaCare opponents lying by ... using Obama's own words
Discussion: Weekly Standard and theblogprof
CNN:
KCNA: Two journalists pardoned in N. Korea  —  (CNN) — North Korean President Kim Jong Il has pardoned and ordered the release of two U.S. journalists, state-run news agency KCNA said Wednesday.  —  The announcement came after former U.S. President Bill Clinton met with top North Korean officials …
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ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Met Detained Journalists in North Korea  —  Euna Lee and Laura Ling Could Board a Plane Back for U.S. as Early as Tonight, Sources Say  —  North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il pardoned today two jailed U.S. journalists , Laura Ling and Euna Lee, just hours after former President Bill Clinton arrived …
Josh Gerstein / Josh Gerstein's Blog:
Podesta joins Bill Clinton in N. Korea
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Chuck Norris from Creators Syndicate:
What Obama and My Wife Have in Common  —  Dear Mr. President:  —  First, happy birthday.  I do hope today is an enjoyable day for you and your family.  Coincidentally, I also will be celebrating this week the birth of someone dear to me, my beloved wife, Gena, whose birthday is Aug. 9.
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WorldNetDaily:
Why I doubt Kenyan birth document
Discussion: Salon and Vox Popoli
Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Vents as Overhaul Stumbles  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting.
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Wall Street Journal:
Teeing Up the Middle Class
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies  —  Conservatives for Patients' Rights, the operation that's running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credit for helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts targeting House Dems …
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Jeremy Scahill / The Nation:
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder  —  A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia.
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Counsel's Job Is at Stake  —  WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are holding discussions that could result in White House counsel Gregory Craig leaving his post, following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Mr. Craig, the top lawyer at the White House …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's birthday: Turning the candles  —  President Barack Obama, born 48 years ago today in Honolulu, Hawaii, celebrated his first birthday in the White House with a family breakfast in the private residence, a birthday song at lunch sung by senators in the State Dining Room and a song …
Discussion: The Politico
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
McDonnell leads by 14  —  Bob McDonnell has opened up a 51-37 lead over Creigh Deeds in the race to be Virginia's next Governor, up from a 49-43 advantage four weeks ago.  —  The movement in the race likely has more to do with national trends than anything actually going on in Virginia.
ABC News:
Adelaide man caught up in bid to oust Obama  —  A self-described ‘grey-haired guy in a corner of little old Adelaide’ has been unwittingly implicated in a conspiracy to oust the 44th President of the United States from office.  Unbeknown to David Bomford, a group called the Birthers have used …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GIBBS NOTICES THE ‘BROOKS BROTHERS BRIGADE’ AT WORK.... White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked this morning whether the administration is concerned about the right-wing harassment strategy at public events this month.  Gibbs seemed largely unfazed, but more important, drew the appropriate parallel.
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Henry J. Pulizzi / Wall Street Journal:   White House Isn't Concerned by Health-Care Protests
New York Post:
HONORING AN AMERICA-HATER  —  THE Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor.  Past recipients include John Wayne, Norman Rockwell and Vaclav Havel.  This year, one of the 16 recipients President Obama selected (along with such worthies as Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late Jack Kemp) …
Discussion: Commentary
Pat Toomey / Philly.com:
Sotomayor: Qualified, mainstream  —  Judicial confirmation hearings weren't always ideological witch hunts.  —  When John Roberts and Samuel Alito were nominated to the Supreme Court, Republicans argued that they should be confirmed based on their impeccable qualifications and mainstream jurisprudence.
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Olbermann to keep Wolffe off show  —  The most anticipated part of Keith Olbermann's return to “Countdown” last night was to see whether he'd abide by a reported cease-fire with Bill O'Reilly — he didn't.  —  But simmering in the background was the ongoing issue of Richard Wolffe …
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: JUNE 2009 REVISED ESTIMATES: 1929 THROUGH MAY 2009  —  Personal income decreased $159.8 billion, or 1.3 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) decreased $143.8 billion, or 1.3 percent, in June, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Brett J. Blackledge / Associated Press:
Obama administration withholds data on program … WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its “cash-for-clunkers” rebate program that would substantiate—or undercut—White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses …
The Huffington Post:
For The Modern GOP, It's A Return To The “White Voter Strategy”  —  With Republican party leaders so constrained by ideological blinders that none of their positions is likely to produce gains among non-white minorities, especially Hispanics, the GOP is finding it has no real alternative but to revert to a “white voter” strategy.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog, The Plank and msnbc.com
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Former Bachmann Opponent Tinklenberg Drops Out, As Dems Appear To Be Avoiding Messy Primary  —  The Democratic field to go up against Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is now shrinking, with 2008 nominee El Tinklenberg announcing that he has dropped out of the race in order to avoid a messy Democratic contest.
Discussion: Open Left
Joe Sestak / Open Left:
It's Official!  I'm running to restore accountable leadership to Washington.  —  This this morning, I was honored to stand in the VFW Hall where I am a member and address an overflowing room of enthusiastic supporters to announce my candidacy to be the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and D-Day
Rasmussen Reports:
54% Oppose More Money for ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program  —  Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans oppose any further funding for the federal “cash for clunkers” program which encourages the owners of older cars to trade them in for newer, more fuel-efficient ones.
Daily Mail:
Spoof poster of Obama's face painted as The Joker branded ‘dangerous and mean-spirited’  —  A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called ‘mean-spirited and dangerous’ by the U.S. President's supporters.  —  The image, which has been adopted by Mr Obama's critics …
 
 
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Federal Eye:
Roberta Baskin Joins HHS as Adviser
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Maria Chutchian / Boston Globe:
Suspended Boston police officer Barrett sues commissioner, mayor
Discussion: Above the Law, Law Blog and Raw Story
Ezra Klein:
The Strange Role of the Insurers
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and The Daily Dish
Jane Hamsher / The Huffington Post:
How Come CBS Journalists Can't Recognize Paid Lobbyists When They See Them?
Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Ross: Bush — not Obama — pioneered socialized medicine in U.S.
Paul Krugman:
Insurers only pull your coverage when it hurts
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and EconLog
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Decambre / New York Post:
GOLDMAN PRINCES TOLD: SPEND LIKE PAUPERS
Discussion: Salon
Michelle Malkin:
How quickly they forget
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
The Hill:
Left is miffed at Pelosi over her comment
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Financial Times:
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