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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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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
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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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, New York Times, The New Republic, Ezra Klein, 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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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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Firedoglake, Reuters and Paul Krugman
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Diamond in the Rough
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Don Surber, Wonk Room, Brendan Nyhan and NewsReal Blog
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, Lean Left, RedState, Althouse, Sadly, No!, ACS Blog, PostPartisan and The Huffington Post
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Conservative Jurist, With Independent Streak
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Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, L.A. NOW and The Huffington Post
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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Questions and Observations and American Power
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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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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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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
McConnell gives Franken a piece of his mind
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Salon, SCOTUSblog, Law Blog and The Awl
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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The Politico, Eschaton and The Page
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
YET ANOTHER DISCOURAGING JOBS REPORT.... With the Census Bureau …
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Ezra Klein, msnbc.com, Guardian and Associated Press
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Mulling 2012, Pawlenty Takes Restrained Plunge — As he explores a potential presidential run, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has been branded with the “too conventional” label so many times that it's already become a cliché. But Pawlenty insists he's not as boring as many pundits have made him out to be.
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The Atlantic Online, Weigel, TPMDC and Real Clear Politics
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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The Politico and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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.
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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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
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.
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
Obama & the Neocons: the Odd Alliance — Last September, the don of neconservatism was put to rest. Irving Kristol's funeral represented, to some, the end of not only the man but also his ideas. — The obituary for neoconservatism proved premature, however.
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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