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11:45 AM ET, July 11, 2010

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
‘The Crisis at Which We Are Arrived’  —  Don't fear the Tea Parties. … We are not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment.  But we have arrived at a genuine crisis, or a set of crises, and we may well be at a decisive moment for the country.  —  This sense of crisis is what animates the Tea Parties.
Discussion: Althouse, Don Surber and Big Journalism
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Pundits Blog:
Blogger face-off: Like Sen. Graham said, will the Tea Party movement die out?  —  The Hill invites two established bloggers from either side of the political spectrum to sound off on a designated topic in original commentary each Saturday.  This week, Ace of Spaces on the right and Bill Scher …
Discussion: RedState and Prairie Weather
New York Times:
Bank Bailout Is Potent Issue for Both Parties in Fall Races  —  WASHINGTON — The vote in 2008 to bail out Wall Street was framed as the only way to avert an economic meltdown and relieve financial institutions of their most poisonous holdings.  For many members of Congress, it turns out that the vote itself was toxic.
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Axelrod: ‘Patchwork’ of state laws would ‘dillute’ federal border efforts  —  White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on Sunday defended the administration's lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, saying state laws such as the controversial one in the border state “dillute” federal efforts to secure the border.
Discussion: CNN
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
It Begins... First Oil Rig Relocates From Gulf to Foreign Waters  —  Thanks Barack.  —  Diamond Offshore announced on Friday that it will be the first company to relocate one of its oil rigs from the Gulf of Mexico to Egyptian waters due to the Obama Administration's ban on drilling.
Discussion: Moonbattery
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Obama Finalizes Plans For 3rd Vacation Since Gulf Oil Spill Crisis Began  —  “I'm not going to rest or be satisfied until the leak is stopped at the source, the oil in the Gulf is contained and cleaned up, and the people in the Gulf are able to go back to their lives and their livelihoods.”
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
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WCVB-TV:
First Family To Vacation In Maine
Discussion: No Sheeples Here
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant  —  Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that's the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school.  But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death …
Jerusalem Post:
Israel: We won't let ship reach Gaza  —  MK Tibi: Activists on Libyan ship still plan to sail straight to Gaza.  —  Talkbacks (50)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel  —  Arts & Culture  —  Français  —  Classifieds  —  Israel
Stephen Williamson / New Monetarist Economics:
New Keynesians and New Monetarists  —  What's the difference between a New Keynesian and a New Monetarist?  This sounds like I'm leading off to tell a joke (a duck walks into a bar...), but I'm not.  A New Keynesian thinks that the real interest rate is too high, while a New Monetarist thinks the real interest rate is too low.
Discussion: Grasping Reality … and EconLog
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Wall St. Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery  —  While much of the country remains fixated on the bleak employment picture, hiring is beginning to pick up in the place that led the economy into recession — Wall Street.  —  The shift underscores the remarkable recovery …
Jonathan Spyer / GLORIA Center:
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Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Erik Barajas / KTRK-TV:
Box left at woman's door explodes  —  HOUSTON (KTRK) — Local and federal investigators were at a northwest Houston home Friday night where an explosion sent a woman to the hospital.  —  The woman was opening a package left at her doorstep in the 2100 block of Seamist Court Friday evening.
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
What summer?  Record cold at LAX as July gloom continues  —  Unusually cold temperatures in Southern California continued, with Los Angeles International Airport setting a record low on Friday.  —  LAX got to only 67 degrees, breaking a record set in 1926, according to the National Weather Service.
Discussion: Townhall.com
 
 
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Washington Post:
BP works to swap out oil well cap in undersea maneuver
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama can't shake gay-rights fights
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Struggling states seeking more aid from Washington
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Obama's Israel policy could loom large as midterm election issue in key races
Discussion: Commentary and Israel Matzav
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Blasting right wing lies right out of the oil soaked water
New York Times:
Clinton to Perform Weiner Wedding
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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