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John F. Harris / The Politico:
Primary night yields good news for President Obama and Democrats — The headline victory of the primaries belonged to Sen. Michael Bennet, who gallops to a surprisingly wide nine-point victory over challenger Andrew Romanoff. AP — President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party …
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / Georgia Elections News:
Handel concedes GOP nomination for governor to Deal — Yesterday, Karen Handel called Nathan Deal a “corrupt relic of Washington.” Today, however, Handel said she is endorsing him as the GOP nominee for governor. — In a statement just released from the Handel campaign …
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Tea Party wins again
First thoughts: Tea Party wins again
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Point of No Return — For the Obama administration, the prospect of a nuclearized Iran is dismal to contemplate— it would create major new national-security challenges and crush the president's dream of ending nuclear proliferation. But the view from Jerusalem is still more dire …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll — The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Florida Senate — Florida Senate: Rubio (R) 38%, Crist (I) 33%, Meek (D) 21% — The race for the U.S. Senate in Florida continues to be all about Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, regardless of which Democrat they face.
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Neil Steinberg / Chicago Sun Times:
Former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowsi has died — Dan Rostenkowski was the most important congressman ever to represent Chicago, “Mr. Chairman” of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, confidante of presidents, pride of the Polish community and bringer of millions upon millions …
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Associated Press:
Former Illinois Rep. Rostenkowski Dies at 82 — CHICAGO — Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82. 1/4
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Keith Schneider / New York Times:
Dan Rostenkowski, Lawmaker Touched by Scandal, Is Dead
Dan Rostenkowski, Lawmaker Touched by Scandal, Is Dead
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
NYT On The So-Called Ground Zero Mosque. — The New York Times has a new piece up on Faisal Rauf and Daisy Khan, the couple behind the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero that has brought rank Islamophobia into the Republican mainstream:
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Andy McCarthy / National Review:
The Government Confiscates Your Money to Build Mosques — Interesting news in a Washington Times editorial this morning. It is all worth reading, including the first part, which deals with the strong evidence that, in funding Imam Feisal Rauf's sojourn to the Arabian Peninsula …
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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Organizers of Muslim Center Underestimated Its Opponents
Organizers of Muslim Center Underestimated Its Opponents
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Talking Points Memo, The Reaction, No More Mister Nice Blog, City Room and The Daily Beast
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Reid courts Hispanics — GOP blocking immigration reform, senator tells Latinos — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday slammed Republicans for blocking comprehensive immigration reform and told Hispanics they shouldn't be treated differently because “their skin's a tone darker” …
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Barbara Liston / Reuters:
Florida (Reuters) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum …
Florida (Reuters) - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Americans split evenly on gay marriage — (CNN) - Nearly half of all Americans think the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. — Forty-nine percent of respondents think gay and lesbian couples have the constitutional right …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Overwhelming majority oppose mosque near Ground Zero
Overwhelming majority oppose mosque near Ground Zero
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The Hill and The Daily Politics
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Depressed Democratic Turnout Portends Rotten November — I guess Michael Bennet won his primary in Colorado yesterday, but his winning total of votes came in under both GOP contenders. The Connecticut Governor's primary featured just 20% Democratic turnout.
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NY Daily News:
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater emerges from jail, basks in new status as celebrity — Fired-up flight attendant Steven Slater was walking on air as he emerged from jail Tuesday night as a folk hero. — “I knew there was a brouhaha about this, but while I was on the inside …
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Telegraph:
Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on Greenwich — For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day. — But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged …
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iOwnTheWorld.com, First Draft, Gawker, Pharyngula, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Some Benefits — One of the distinctive features of the Great Recession has been the enormous number of people who have been out of work for months on end. Almost 45 percent of today's unemployed workers have been without a job for at least 27 weeks.
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
What's the actual problem in the labor market?
What's the actual problem in the labor market?
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Grasping Reality …, Matthew Yglesias, EconLog and Real Time Economics
The Hill:
Senate will reconvene to pass border security — The Senate will convene briefly on Thursday for a rare session during its August recess to pass a $600 million border security bill. — Just days into its five-week break, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid 's (D-Nev.) …
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Mike Morris / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Crowd waiting for housing vouchers gets rowdy — A crowd of people hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd. — Thousands of people were lined up at the Tri-Cities Plaza shopping center …
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Michelle Malkin and Townhall.com
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Study Looks at Tax Cut Lapse for Rich — WASHINGTON — As debate heats up over President Obama's proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthy but to extend them for everyone else, a nonpartisan Congressional analysis circulated on Capitol Hill on Tuesday provides a look at the impact …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Elite Isolation — It seems to me that this chart is the key to understanding today's political economy: — Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Why the GOP really wants to alter the 14th Amendment — As Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans explain it, their sudden turn against conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States was prompted by the mortal threat of “anchor babies” — the children of foreigners who scurry …
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ACS Blog, Left Coast Rebel and Daily Kos
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Does The 2012 GOP Convention Logo Include A Minaret? — The RNC's 2012 convention logo features the Tampa Bay skyline and one of the buildings apparently represented in the logo is what was formerly the Old Tampa Bay Hotel, a prominent feature of the Florida city's skyline.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Kerry: McMahon ‘roid rage attacks’ need to be stopped — Connecticut Senate nominee Linda McMahon's “GOP/WWE roid rage attacks” need to be stopped, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Wednesday. — Kerry took a shot at McMahon's past as CEO of the wrestling outfit a day after she won …
Pam Spaulding / Pam's House Blend:
NC: PHB exclusive video of NOM's Brian Brown at Raleigh rally - plus I am mistaken for a fundie (!) — My high-quality vid is still uploading, but I have this lower-res version for those excited to see the flopsweat on Brian Brown's brow ASAP. So the background first — I did this on my lunch hour …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rangel's rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn't recognize him — The Democrats, at long last, had strung together a good day. They forced House Republicans to return, grumbling, from summer vacation for votes that allowed Democrats to show support for teachers, cops and strong borders.
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