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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Flimflam Man — One depressing aspect of American politics is the susceptibility of the political and media establishment to charlatans. You might have thought, given past experience, that D.C. insiders would be on their guard against conservatives with grandiose plans.
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Private Growth Is Tepid as U.S. Economy Sheds Jobs Overall — With the American economic recovery hanging in the balance, private employers added 71,000 jobs in July, up from a downwardly revised 31,000 in June but below the consensus forecast of 90,000. The unemployment rate stayed steady at 9.5 percent.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Employers Shed Jobs — Unemployment Rate Held Steady at 9.5% in July — WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic recovery may be losing momentum.
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CNBC, Clusterstock, The Caucus, Real Time Economics, Don Surber and Moe Lane
Michelle Malkin:
Unemployment at 9.5%; another Obama econ adviser bails; Mrs. Obama hits the beach
Unemployment at 9.5%; another Obama econ adviser bails; Mrs. Obama hits the beach
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USA Today, Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Clusterstock and Associated Press
Kirk Victor / Hotline On Call:
Romer To Leave White House
Romer To Leave White House
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The Atlantic Online, Crooks and Liars, Wall Street Journal, Swampland, TalkLeft, Hit & Run, Economist's View, Think Progress, The Caucus, AMERICAblog News, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, Townhall.com, The Politico, Firedoglake, Scared Monkeys, Politics Daily, The Confluence, The Swamp, The Note, New York Magazine, Riehl World View, GayPatriot, Truthdig, HotAirPundit and Philly.com
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Scalia Was Right — Why the same-sex marriage ruling will stand. — For the first time, a federal judge has held that the Constitution mandates the legal redefinition of marriage. The California Supreme Court had reached a similar conclusion in 2008, and voters responded by amending …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, American Spectator, Betsy's Page, The BLT, neo-neocon, Althouse, RedState, Lean Left, ACS Blog, Sadly, No!, The Huffington Post and PostPartisan
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Conservative Jurist, With Independent Streak — Judge Vaughn R. Walker has ruled on cases involving newspaper mergers, high-tech corporate battles and the Bush administration's use of wiretaps without warrants. But nothing has earned him as much attention — and ire …
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Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, Mercury News, L.A. NOW, The Huffington Post and Flopping Aces
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Gay Marriage Ruling a Challenge for Both Parties
Gay Marriage Ruling a Challenge for Both Parties
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Washington Post, Law Blog, Joe. My. God., The BLT and KRLD-AM
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Private Sector Adding Jobs, State Budget Crises Killing Economy — The new unemployment report highlights the fact that the economy remains lousy and John Boehner is going to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ironically, it also demonstrates the bankruptcy of Boehner's way of thinking.
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Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein:
Jobs report: Public sector loses 202,000 jobs; private sector gains 71,000 — The July jobs report is bad news for jobs, but tepidly good news for recovery. Another 143,000 census positions expired, contributing to a total public sector job loss of more than 200,000 jobs.
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gopleader.gov, Right Wing Nut House and Eschaton
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Christina Romer, chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, to resign — Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has resigned her post to return to her old job as an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House said Thursday.
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CNN, The Atlantic Online, New York Times, Ezra Klein, The New Republic, Marathon Pundit and Greg Mankiw's Blog
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Bloomberg:
Obama Fed Board Pick Diamond Gets Referred Back to White House by Senate — The Senate sent the nomination of Peter Diamond, one of President Barack Obama's three nominees for the Federal Reserve Board, back to the White House because of objections from at least one lawmaker.
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Paul Krugman, Reuters, Firedoglake, Free exchange and Grasping Reality …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Diamond in the Rough
Diamond in the Rough
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Wonk Room, Don Surber, Brendan Nyhan and NewsReal Blog
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IGNORING AN ALARM.... In light of the latest discouraging jobs report — the third consecutive month in which the job totals were disappointing — there's an obvious course ahead. Heidi Shierholz, an economist from the Economic Policy Institute, said, “The economic case for more government action …
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The Politico, Eschaton and The Page
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
YET ANOTHER DISCOURAGING JOBS REPORT.... With the Census Bureau …
YET ANOTHER DISCOURAGING JOBS REPORT.... With the Census Bureau …
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Power Line, Ezra Klein, Associated Press and msnbc.com
Christina Romer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
The Employment Situation in July
The Employment Situation in July
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CNN, Los Angeles Times and The Swamp
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt — In the spring of 2008, the Denver public school system needed to plug a $400 million hole in its pension fund. Bankers at JPMorgan Chase offered what seemed to be a perfect solution. — The bankers said that the school system …
Kenzaburo Oe / New York Times:
Hiroshima and the Art of Outrage — THE Futenma Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa, one of the largest United States military bases in East Asia, is in the center of a crowded city. The American and Japanese governments acknowledge the dangers of this situation, and they agreed nearly 15 years ago …
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The Huffington Post, Questions and Observations and American Power
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Alan Snyder / Big Government:
Ridicule and Disdain: The Reagan-Palin Connection — You had to live through it to recognize the metamorphosis. During those early days of June 2004, as the nation mourned the passing of Ronald Reagan, you would have never known he had been ridiculed and treated with disdain …
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Whiskey Fire and Da Techguy's Blog
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What Collapsing Empire looks like — As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security …
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The Atlantic Online and TPMDC
Brookings Institute:
2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll: Results of Arab Opinion Survey Conducted June 29-July 20, 2010 — Shibley Telhami, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy — On Thursday, August 5, Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Old Washington hands break with GOP leaders on Bush-era tax cuts — A number of old Republican hands warning of a deficit crisis have split with the GOP leadership over extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts. — Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), President Reagan's budget chief David Stockman …
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Washington Monthly, The Politico and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Gregory White / Clusterstock:
Watch The Hilarious Way White House Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Tries To Spin The Jobs Report As Positive — U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke to CNBC after the jobs report release today and made an effort to spin the report as a positive for the amount of jobs the U.S. has gained in this recovery.
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NO QUARTER, Hot Air and Money Game
Wayne Besen / Truth Wins Out:
Bulletin: Porno Pete's ‘Truth Academy’ a Poorly Attended Dud — Earlier today, Peter LaBarbera opened his Truth Academy confernece, a three day gay bashing extravaganza in a Chicago exurb. Despite weeks of flogging the event and several stories in right wing media, our spies tell us that the event was a major dud.
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Joe. My. God.
Anjeanette Damon / Las Vegas News …:
Sharron Angle's views rooted in biblical law — When Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a Christian news interviewer this year that “entitlement programs (are) built to make government our God,” she voiced a central tenet of Christian Reconstructionism, according to academics who study the movement.
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Liberty Pundits Blog
BBC:
Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show — The government took the threat of UFOs so seriously in the 1950s that UK intelligence chiefs met to discuss the issue, newly-released files show. — Ministers even went on to commission weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts.
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Wonkette, The Awl, FP Passport and Truthdig
Brooks / SPORTSbyBROOKS:
NBC Takes Olbermann Off Sunday NFL Broadcasts — Multiple media and network television sources confirmed to me Thursday that Keith Olbermann will not appear on NBC's Football Night In America Sunday evening NFL broadcasts this season. — Some members of the FNIA cast and crew were made aware …
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JammieWearingFool, Hot Air and NewsBusters.org
Oleoleolson / AlterNet Blogs:
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered — A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
Tony Romm / The Politico:
Chuck Grassley: NSF still a hotbed of porn — The senator has reopened his battle against pornography at the National Science Foundation. AP — Sen. Chuck Grassley has resumed his crusade to combat pornography at the National Science Foundation. — The Iowa Republican sent a letter …
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