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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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Clusterstock, The Caucus, Real Time Economics, Don Surber and Moe Lane
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Jobs Report Terrible, Again — The economy lost 131,000 jobs in July, all of them in the government. Private payrolls added north of 70,000 workers—anemic in the face of our current unemployment rate, but hey, at least it's something. But government jobs fell by 200,000, mostly …
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The Daily Dish and Weekly Standard
Michelle Malkin:
Unemployment at 9.5%; another Obama econ adviser bails; Mrs. Obama hits the beach
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Gateway Pundit, USA Today, Clusterstock, Scared Monkeys and Associated Press
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Weak private hiring shows recovery on the ropes
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msnbc.com, New York Magazine and AmSpecBlog
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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The Atlantic Online, Reuters, Ezra Klein, The New Republic, Marathon Pundit and Greg Mankiw's Blog
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Kirk Victor / Hotline On Call:
Romer To Leave White House — Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans. — Romer, an economics professor at the University of California (Berkeley) before taking the key admin post, did not respond to repeated calls to her office.
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Crooks and Liars, Think Progress, Swampland, TalkLeft, Hit & Run, Economist's View, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog News, The Caucus, The Politico, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, Politics Daily, Scared Monkeys, The Confluence, The Swamp, The Note, New York Magazine, Riehl World View, GayPatriot, Philly.com, Truthdig and HotAirPundit
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Diamond in the Rough
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Bloomberg, Don Surber, Wonk Room, Brendan Nyhan and NewsReal Blog
CNN:
Republicans slam White House over new jobs report
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The Politico, The Other McCain and Ballot Box
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Top Obama Adviser on Economics to Step Down
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Free exchange and National Review
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.
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, Lean Left, RedState, Sadly, No!, ACS Blog, PostPartisan and The Huffington Post
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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, Guardian 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 and Eschaton
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 …
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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Eschaton
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
McConnell to Franken: This isn't ‘SNL’ — When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out his opposition to Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination, someone in the chamber appeared to be moving around in his chair, gasping and rolling his eyes. — It was Sen. Al Franken.
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Outside the Beltway, Doug Ross, The Note, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, New York Magazine, Don Surber and USA Today
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell scolds Franken for making faces from dais during his speech
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Power Line, The Caucus, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Confluence, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Politico, Wall Street Journal and WHAS
Abe Sauer / The Awl:
Real America: Target Doesn't Support Gay Equality Because It Never Did (UPDATE: Yes, Target and Prop 8, Maybe) — A full-page ad shook up the Vikings preseason coverage in last Sunday's Minneapolis Star Tribune. Paid for by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), it demanded Target and Best Buy …
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Gawker, Boing Boing, CNN, Towleroad News #gay and Think Progress
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Target CEO Apologizes For Company's Support Of Tom Emmer
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Balloon Juice, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Bilerico Project and Talking Points Memo
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
Target apologizes for Minn. political donation
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Ballot Box, New York Magazine and Gothamist
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.
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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The Politico and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Christina Romer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
The Employment Situation in July — Private sector employment grew 71,000 in July, the seventh consecutive monthly increase, including continued growth in manufacturing. But, the pace of growth was not enough to reduce the overall unemployment rate, which remained 9.5 percent.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, CNN and The Swamp
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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Pajamas Media, Questions and Observations and American Power
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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Hot Air, JammieWearingFool and NewsBusters.org
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 …
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