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11:40 AM ET, August 20, 2010

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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Moral myopia at Ground Zero  —  It's hard to be an Obama sycophant these days.  Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York.  Your heart swells and you're moved to declare this President Obama's finest hour, his act of greatest courage.
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Samuel Goldsmith / NY Daily News:
They won't build it!  Hardhats vow not to work on controversial mosque near Ground Zero  —  The site of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero.  Many construction workers are vowing not to work on the controversial project.  —  A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing …
ap.org:
AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Washington Post Headline Incites Violence Against Ground Zero Mosque Opponents
Byron York / Associated Press:
Obama has himself to blame for Muslim problem  —  In 1985, Barack Obama had just arrived in Chicago for his new job as a community organizer when he headed to Smitty's Barbershop, a tiny storefront on the South Side.  As Smitty cut his hair, Obama listened to the men in the shop talk politics and racial grievance.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama now blames poor job numbers on congressional inaction.  Wait!  His party runs Congress  —  Just a few minor things to catch up on for the weekend now that the Fundraiser-in-Chief has gone on another vacation (Don't worry though.  White House chef Sam Kass went along, so the first family need not eat ordinary human food.)
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   LA TIMES WRITER FORGETS FILIBUSTERS EXIST.... Stopping by the L …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
New Dem message: ‘Improve’ health care, don't talk cost  —  Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit and instead stressing a promise to “improve it.”
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Health care legislation remains unpopular, poll says
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near
Discussion: The Politico and The Eye
The Huffington Post:
In First 2010 TV Ad, DNC Raises Specter Of Bush Once Again  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  The Democratic National Committee is once again using the imagery and words of former President George W. Bush to present a stark “choice” to voters heading into November in what an aide said is the DNC's …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dems hit at Bush in new cable ad
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrication on NPR  —  This is really quite strange.  Yesterday, my inbox began filling up with email telling me that Jeffrey Goldberg had gone on NPR and, when asked about my critiques of his Atlantic article on bombing Iran, claimed I had “retracted” part of what I had written.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Appeasing the Bond Gods  —  As I look at what passes for responsible economic policy these days, there's an analogy that keeps passing through my mind.  I know it's over the top, but here it is anyway: the policy elite — central bankers, finance ministers, politicians who pose as defenders …
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Be More Aggressive’: Tom DeLay Says GOP Needs to Go After ‘Obama Agenda’ Even Harder  —  Former GOP Leader Says He Still Speaks to Abramoff; Won't Rule Out Return to Politics  —  Despite the corruption and lobbying scandals that ensnared Republicans in Congress and triggered …
Mitch Daniels / Economist:
The right stuff  —  Indiana's governor is a likeable wonk.  Can he save the Republicans from themselves and provide a pragmatic alternative to Barack Obama?  —  CLAY COUNTY  —  THE governor does not like to keep people waiting.  On a recent morning this small man leapt out of a trooper's Toyota …
Michelle Malkin:
And now: The stealth Obama ocean grab  —  For the past few months, I've been spotlighting the Obama administration's War on the West, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's War on Jobs,  —  and the White House land lock-up (Part 1, Part 2).  Today's column exposes the next Obama environmental power grab — into the sea.
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
President Obama's winning streak  —  This is a radical break from journalistic convention, I realize, but today I'd like to give credit where it's due — specifically, to President Obama.  Quiet as it's kept, he's on a genuine winning streak.  —  It's hard to remember that the inauguration was just 19 months ago.
David Broder / The Fix:
The expanding Senate playing field  —  As we sat down to rank which ten Senate races are most likely to flip party control on November 2, it became immediately clear that our Line wasn't big enough.  —  The simple truth is that over the past six to nine months, the Senate playing field …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dean: ‘Some’ Dems demonizing N.Y. mosque opponents  —  Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday that some members of his party have “demonized” opponents of the Lower Manhattan mosque.  —  Dean — who surprised many political observers this week by saying that the planners should move …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Dennis Woltering / WWL-TV:
WWLTV poll shows Vitter leading Melancon by double digits  —  NEW ORLEANS - The two best-known candidates for Louisiana's U.S. Senate seat lead their party challengers by big margins, according to an exclusive Eyewitness News poll released Thursday.  —  In a hypothetical head-to-head matchup …
Discussion: The Eye and Taegan Goddard's …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
At Treasury, Geithner Struggles to Escape a Past He Never Had  —  WASHINGTON — Timothy F. Geithner has been misidentified as a former Wall Street insider from Goldman Sachs so many times since he became the Treasury secretary that he and his advisers had taken to joking about it.  Then the joke backfired.
Mark Niquette / DispatchPolitics:
Obama had facts wrong about visit here  —  Finance director: Stimulus dollars didn't aid project  —  A local project that President Barack Obama cited during a visit Wednesday to Columbus as an example of how the federal stimulus package has worked isn't actually being funded with stimulus dollars.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Obama makes four recess appointments  —  President Obama made four recess appointments Thursday for nominees that have waited an average of 303 days for confirmation, the White House said.  —  “At a time when our nation faces so many pressing challenges, I urge members of the Senate …
Discussion: Politics Daily and Poliglot
Kathy Kiely / USA Today:
Republican primary bruises not healing quickly  —  Three days after losing a race for a Republican Senate nomination in Washington state, former pro football player and “Tea Party” favorite Clint Didier plans to reveal today whether he'll get behind the winner, Dino Rossi.
Discussion: The Caucus and The Eye
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
BP Oil Spill Settlements Likely to Shield Top Defendants  —  WASHINGTON — People and businesses seeking a lump-sum settlement from BP's $20 billion oil spill compensation fund will most likely have to waive their right to sue not only BP, but also all the other major defendants involved with the spill …
David Perlman / San Francisco Chronicle:
New images indicate moon may be shrinking  —  The moon may be shrinking, scientists say.  —  But not to worry.  It won't disappear anytime soon.  —  NASA scientists studying images sent back to Earth from a spacecraft orbiting the moon have found curving lines of small cliffs on the surface …
Spencer Abraham / The Politico:
Obama's energy meltdown  —  The decision by congressional Democrats to not try to pass a major energy bill in this Congress, while receiving a modest amount of media attention, actually constitutes one of the sharpest rebukes to a sitting president in recent memory.
Discussion: The Hill and HotAirPundit
msnbc.com:
Arizona prison escapee, fiancée-cousin caught  —  Pair on lam since July 30, accused of killing elderly Oklahoma couple  —  Escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée-cousin Casslyn Welch were captured in the northeast Arizona's Apache County, the U.S. Marshals Office said late Thursday.
Discussion: Mediaite
Nicole Allan / The Atlantic Online:
The Most Sexist Ad, Well, Ever  —  In an act of shockingly retro, sexist stupidity, a local unit of the Republican Party of Minnesota has broadcast a new reason you should vote Republican: GOP women are hot, and Democratic women are not.  —  The group has made a web video contrasting photos of attractive …
Reuters:
Holland Muslim group fined for publishing Holocaust-denying cartoon  —  Court calls cartoon ‘unnecessarily hurtful’ in appeal of a 2006 cquittal of the Arab European League.  —  A Dutch Muslim group was fined 2,500 euros for publishing a cartoon which suggested the Holocaust was made up or exaggerated …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
The Politico:
The new battle: What it means to be American  —  It's a classic case of be careful what you wish for.  President Barack Obama wanted to end the baby boomer-era culture wars — and he's done it.  —  But along the way, Obama has sparked an even more visceral values debate about whether he's moving …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
David A. Lieb / Business Week:
Carnahan joins Blunt in backing tax cut extension  —  SEDALIA, MO.  —  In a change from her previous position, Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan said Thursday that she now supports the extension of all tax cuts enacted during the administration of President George W. Bush.
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
 
 
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PewResearch.org:
The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone
Discussion: Ezra Klein, Free exchange and Economix
Kimberly O. Dennis / Wall Street Journal:
Gates and Buffett Take the Pledge
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Cuts in Social Security Weighed by Fiscal Panel
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Erick's blog
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Oil spill and Iraq combat over, Obama takes break
Thanassis Cambanis / New York Times:
Head of Mosque Plan Near Ground Zero Visits Mideast
New York Times:
Foreclosures Grind On  —  There is a lot of grim economic news …
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Grayson On 9-11: Bush ‘Let It Happen’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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DSCC Planning Ads For Carnahan, Conway
The Daily Mash:
OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO BUILD LIBRARY NEXT TO SARAH PALIN
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Get Feature Film Treatment
Michael Walsh / Big Hollywood:
The Most Lethal Weapon the United States Returns in ‘Early Warning’
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
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