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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Judge who overturned Prop. 8 extends temporary hold on gay marriage [Updated] — A federal judge Thursday refused to permanently stay his ruling overturning Proposition 8's ban of gay marriage but extended a temporary hold to give supporters time to appeal the historic ruling.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace — In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by several points …
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Judge keeps California gay marriage ruling on hold — The federal judge who last week overturned the state's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, agreed to a continued hold on his ruling while foes appeal. — Reporting from San Francisco — A federal judge Thursday refused to permanently stay …
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The Rachel Maddow Show, The Foundry and FrumForum
msnbc.com:
Judge: Calif. gay marriages can resume Aug. 18
Judge: Calif. gay marriages can resume Aug. 18
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The Moderate Voice and Associated Press
Bmaz / Emptywheel:
Breaking News: Judge Walker's Prop 8 Stay Decision
Breaking News: Judge Walker's Prop 8 Stay Decision
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Washington Monthly and The Volokh Conspiracy
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Judge Allows, but Delays, Gay Marriage in California
Judge Allows, but Delays, Gay Marriage in California
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New York Magazine
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dem group launches ‘F*ck Tea’ campaign — Last summer, Democrats argued that the Tea Party movement was the astroturf creation of corporate groups. Now that the grassroots conservative resurgence has emerged as a clear force on the right, the left is making a different case: That tea parties are simply the enemy.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Public favors Tea Party over top Dems — The American public has a more positive view of the Tea Party movement than both leaders of the majority party in Congress, according to a poll released Wednesday. — An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that 30 percent view the grassroots conservative groups …
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Left Coast Rebel, CNN, Outside the Beltway, NRSC, The Politico, Weasel Zippers and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Wall Street Journal:
Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer
Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer
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Daily Kos:
Are We At War With All Of Islam? Right Wingers Think So — Nearly every oath of service in this nation includes the phrase “Defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America” in some form or the other. Not having a King we needed an object of loyalty, something bigger than the individual to focus our loyalty on.
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Megan Carpentier / TPMMuckraker:
‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Imam Was A Bush-Era Partner For Mideast Peace
‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Imam Was A Bush-Era Partner For Mideast Peace
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Clifford D. May / National Review:
The Taboo of the Intellectuals
The Taboo of the Intellectuals
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Ezra Klein:
The Bush tax plan vs. the Obama tax plan in one chart — Source. — United States - Tax - Democratic Party - Accounting - President
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
GOP plan to extend tax cuts for rich adds $36 billion to deficit, panel finds — A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more than $36 billion to the federal deficit next year — and transfer the bulk of that cash into the pockets of the nation's millionaires …
Ezra Klein:
Portrait of a frustrated electorate — Want sure-footed polling analysis? Ask Nate Silver. Want a sort of bemused confusion? Well, then you're in the right place. — I was on “Morning Joe” today talking about the new NBC/WSJ poll (pdf), and I don't think we had time to really dig into how weird the results are.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Department of Strategery — The latest poll numbers show the same thing that poll numbers have shown since January of 2009. Barack Obama is more popular than congressional Democrats who are more popular than congressional Republicans: — The vast majority of congressional Democrats have …
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KPIX-TV:
CBS 5 Poll: Fiorina Widens Lead Over Boxer — Dead Heats In Governor, Lt. Governor Races; Marijuana Prop. 16 Passing — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
TRENDING: Legislator resigns after ‘dead Palin’ comment — New Hampshire State Rep. Timothy Horrigan resigned Thursday after making comments about Sarah Palin on Facebook. — (CNN) - A New Hampshire state legislator resigned his office Thursday after becoming the second Democrat in as many days …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
N.H. legislator resigns over Palin remark
N.H. legislator resigns over Palin remark
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Politics Daily, Washington Post, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, Right Wing News and theblogprof
Michelle Malkin:
The vulgarity of liberal female “comedians” — Left-wing female comedians are proving that they can be as crude and stupid as their male counterparts. Who knew that striving for gender equality meant pursuing the dream that one day, someday, liberal women would be able to mock …
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The Radio Equalizer, iOwnTheWorld.com, Wonkette and Gateway Pundit
The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck: Gay Marriage NOT Threat To America (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Why doesn't Glenn Beck cover gay marriage? Because he doesn't believe it's a threat to the nation. — In a conversation with Bill O'Reilly on why he avoids culture war issues, Beck admitted …
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Washington Monthly, Joe. My. God., Advocate and AMERICAblog Gay
Stan Collender / NiemanWatchdog.org:
Six essential questions about the deficit, Wall Street and Washington — Fiscal expert Stan Collender points out that the bond market is not demanding deficit reduction — in fact, quite the opposite. So where is the Washington establishment's obsession with the deficit coming from?
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Hullabaloo and Ezra Klein
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
But It's Awesome Broccoli for the Rich! — Matt Bai writes about the Paul Ryan's budget plan ... without writing about Paul Ryan's budget plan: … Unless, of course, you're wealthy, because the plan cuts upper-income tax brackets by 10 percent, so that “households with incomes …
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Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, New York Times, Hullabaloo and Weekly Standard
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The First Wave of Weary Aides Heads for the Exits — WASHINGTON — Linda Douglass slept nearly 12 hours the day after she left her job as a communications aide at the White House. And the day after that and the day after that. It took two weeks until she finally felt rested.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Not An Ounce Of Contrition” — There is some bizarre notion among the punditocracy that the Obama administration cannot and should not blame Bush and the GOP for the awful recession, looming tax rises and entitlement cuts, endless wars, tainted moral standing, crumbling infrastructure and massive debt that Obama inherited.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Updated Senate and Governor rankings! — With the 2010 primary season (nearly) over, the Fix and Post senior political reporter — and co-author of “The Battle for America” — Dan Balz sat down to revisit our rankings of the most competitive Senate and governor's races in the country.
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown — The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House.
Ezra Klein:
Who can we blame for job losses? — “Obama's America,” tweets Republican political consultant Patrick Ruffini, linking to this map of economic devastation. — Fairly or not, Ruffini raises an interesting question: How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration?
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Christina Hoff Sommers / AMERICAN.COM:
Take Back the Sports Page? — The political wing of the women's sports movement is in trouble. These activists are accustomed to challenging timid bureaucrats and university administrators. But in taking on TV sports coverage, they are challenging the market itself.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Netanyahu, the anti-Obama — Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike — in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies — than Netanyahu …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
George W. Bush makes surprise visit to U.S. troops — Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a surprise visit to U.S. troops this afternoon. — They showed up at the USO in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. There they mingled with the returning soldiers, thanked them …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
Race Card Is Maxed Out … - Recommended
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Housing crisis reaches full boil in East Point; 62 injured — Thirty thousand people turned out in East Point on Wednesday seeking applications for government-subsidized housing, and their confusion and frustration, combined with the summer heat, led to a chaotic mob scene that left 62 people injured.
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