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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 …
The Huffington Post:
Michael Bennet Got Fewer Votes Than GOP Loser, Kaine Not Happy With Gibbs' Comments
Michael Bennet Got Fewer Votes Than GOP Loser, Kaine Not Happy With Gibbs' Comments
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Firedoglake and Outside the Beltway
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AN UNLIKELY LAME-DUCK CRITIC.... Republican activism in opposition …
AN UNLIKELY LAME-DUCK CRITIC.... Republican activism in opposition …
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The Hill
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Tea Party wins again
First thoughts: Tea Party wins again
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The Confluence, ColoradoPols.com and Associated Press
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Mixed results for party establishment in Colorado Senate primaries
Mixed results for party establishment in Colorado Senate primaries
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Palm Beach Post, NRSC and TPMDC
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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Newshoggers.com, Right Wing Nut House, Salon, Israel Matzav, Wonkette, FrumForum and Instapundit
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Jeffrey Goldberg Probes Israel's Iran Strike Option: Is Netanyahu a “Bomber Boy”? — In an important article titled “The Point of No Return” to be published in The Atlantic tomorrow, national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg recounts something many people didn't realize at the time and still have a hard time believing.
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Mondoweiss, The Atlantic Online, Swampland and Guardian
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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Hot Air, Freedom's Lighthouse, Weasel Zippers, The Confluence, The Huffington Post and GayPatriot
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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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Politics Daily, NRSC, The Buzz, RedState, YID With LID, TPMDC, The Eye, HotAirPundit, Post on Politics and Illinois Review
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Obsidian Wings, RedState, NewsReal Blog and Human Events
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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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The Daily Dish, Washington Times and AmSpecBlog
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, 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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The Politico, Weekly Standard, The Atlantic Online, Ballot Box, TPMDC, The Political Carnival and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Harry Reid: How could Hispanics be in the Republican Party?
Harry Reid: How could Hispanics be in the Republican Party?
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The Note, TalkLeft and Outside the Beltway
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Rubio: Reid's Comment on Hispanics “Outrageous,” “Ridiculous”
Rubio: Reid's Comment on Hispanics “Outrageous,” “Ridiculous”
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Gateway Pundit
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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City Room, Democracy in America, Law Blog, newsfeed.time.com, Gawker, The Daily Beast, Metropolis, Althouse and The Awl
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, Gawker, First Draft, 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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Matthew Yglesias, EconLog and Real Time Economics
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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The Hill
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 …
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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Washington Monthly, PERRspectives, NewsBusters.org, Bloomberg, Economist's View and Prairie Weather
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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The Atlantic Online, DemConWatch, Wonkette, Gateway Pundit, Stop The ACLU and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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The Daily Dish, Ezra Klein and The Atlantic Online
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
Catherine Rampell / Economix:
2nd Quarter G.D.P. May Be Revised Even Lower — Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, via Haver Analytics — Thanks to more complete data coming in, it now looks like like second quarter output growth was only half as fast as initially estimated. — The government's preliminary estimate …
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Associated Press and Calculated Risk
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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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
More “Leadership” Can Be Counterproductive — Politico reports on the growing discontent with Barack Obama in Spanish-language media: … As readers will recall, I'm generally skeptical of claims that lack of presidential action is the cause of legislative non-outcomes.
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TalkLeft and The Politico
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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Left Coast Rebel, CNN, American Power, Gothamist, New York Times, The Other McCain, Outside the Beltway and Hit & Run
Carmen M. Reinhart / voxeu.org:
Debt and growth revisited — With the advanced economies at a critical juncture, some economists are urging more fiscal stimulus while others argue that raising debt levels will stunt growth. This column presents the Reinhart-Rogoff findings on the relationship between debt and growth based …
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Economist's View and National Review