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Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Anthony Weiner's Spitting Mad Rant Against Republicans On The House Floor (VIDEO) — The House was debating a bill last night that would provide up to $7.4 billion in health care aid to rescue and recovery workers who have faced health problems since their work in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
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The Huffington Post:
Anthony Weiner Goes Ballistic At GOP For Killing 9/11 Responders Health Care Bill (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — House Republicans late Thursday were able to corral enough votes to defeat a bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to those sickened by toxins resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Economic Growth Slowed to 2.4% Rate in 2nd Quarter — The United States economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the second quarter, after expanding 3.7 percent in the previous three months, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. — Nonresidential fixed investment …
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National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2010 (Advance Estimate) — Revised Estimates: 2007 through First Quarter 2010 — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States …
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Recovery loses speed as consumers turn cautious
Recovery loses speed as consumers turn cautious
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
ADL: Some opponents of Ground Zero mosque are bigots, but we should let them win anyway — As you have probably heard, the Anti-Defamation League came out against the Ground Zero mosque today. I wanted to highlight this extraordinary bit from their statement: … That's just amazing.
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Dems Call On GOPers To Renounce Phyllis Schlafly Over Remarks About ‘Unmarried Women’ (AUDIO) — Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly took aim at “unmarried women” at a recent fundraiser and in an interview with TPM, saying that they overwhelmingly support President Obama and are all on welfare.
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
When Phyllis Schlafly Speaks the Truth, Democrats Call It ‘Extremism’
When Phyllis Schlafly Speaks the Truth, Democrats Call It ‘Extremism’
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Ethics subcommittee recommends reprimand for Rangel — The ethics panel investigating Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is recommending that he be reprimanded for the conduct that resulted in 13 charges against the veteran lawmaker. — Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), chairman of the ethics investigative subcommittee …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Curbing Your Enthusiasm — Why does the Obama administration keep looking for love in all the wrong places? Why does it go out of its way to alienate its friends, while wooing people who will never waver in their hatred? — These questions were inspired by the ongoing suspense …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Did the government cause the Gulf spill? — The generally accepted view of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has focused on the blowout preventer and the non-standard procedures BP conducted just before the explosion and fire. However, most of the damage and the main source of the spill came …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Phytoplankton Panic — Phytoplankton, the tiny little ocean creatures that generate a massive amount of the world's oxygen, form the base of the ocean food chain, and otherwise deserve to be nominated Hero of the World Economy, First Class, are apparently dying off.
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Quinnipiac University:
Crist On Top In 3-Way Florida Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Dem Sink Tied With Either Republican In Govenor's Race — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist leads the three-way race for the U.S. Senate seat with 37 percent, followed by 32 percent for Republican Marco Rubio and 17 percent …
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE RACE: Poll: Reid, Angle neck and neck — Sixty percent of Nevadans see nation on wrong track — Sen. Harry Reid and Sharron Angle are locked in a dead heat, says a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KLAS-TV, Channel 8 that shows the GOP challenger regaining ground …
Barney Henderson / Telegraph:
North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup — North Korea's football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team's coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader's heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gingrich expects Palin to run in 2012 — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Friday that he expects former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to be among the crowd of GOP presidential candidates in 2012. — Gingrich, himself a potential candidate for president, sized up the field …
Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Wikileaks Afghanistan: Taliban ‘hunting down informants’ — The Taliban has issued a warning to Afghans whose names might appear on the leaked Afghanistan war logs as informers for the Nato-led coalition. — In an interview with Channel 4 News, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman …
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Edward Niedermeyer / New York Times:
G.M.'s Electric Lemon — GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go 40 miles on battery power alone, promised G.M., after which it would create its own electricity with a gas engine.
Michael Whitney / Firedoglake:
Senate Votes to Double Fines, Jail Time for Pot Brownies — Dianne Feinstein's Reefer Madness (graphic by twolf1) — Last night, the United States Senate voted to double the penalties for the nation's newest existential threat: brownies made with marijuana!
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Pastor Hosting ‘International Burn A Quran Day’: ‘We Have Nothing Against Muslims’ — On September 11, 2010, the extremist evangelical Dove World Church — whose pastor, Terry Jones, has written a book called “Islam Is Of The Devil” — plans to host “International Burn A Quran Day,” …
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Tired of “Liberal” Google and AOL? Michael Reagan Selling @Reagan E-Mail Addresses — Conservative talk radio host Michael Reagan, eldest son of former president Ronald Reagan, is selling @Reagan.com e-mail addresses on his website with an appeal to conservatives to stop giving their money to companies he casts as tied to liberalism.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama blasts ‘just say no’ Republicans in autos victory lap — President Obama criticized what he called “the ‘just say no’ crowd in Washington” for their opposition to his decision last March to bail out U.S. auto companies. — In front of a raucous and supportive crowd of auto-plant workers …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Dems, GOP maneuver on repeal — House Democrats proposed repealing a piece of the health care overhaul Friday, a move designed to thwart Republican efforts to do the same thing and declare an early victory in their efforts to repeal the whole law. — Democrats proposed repealing …
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Ezra Klein:
Senate cutting food stamps to pay for Medicaid and teacher funding — It's the Sophie's choice of budget decisions: Should we cut Medicaid? Fire teachers? Or slash food stamps? — How about all three? In order to get less Medicaid and teacher funding than we actually need …
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