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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Minority leader Boehner to call for mass firing of Obama's economic team — CLEVELAND — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will call Tuesday for the mass firing of the Obama administration's economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers …
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gopleader.gov:
Full Text: Boehner Delivers Remarks on Jobs & The Economy in Cleveland, OH — Follow @GOPLeader for updates on Leader Boehner's remarks — Remarks by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) on Jobs & The Economy — As Prepared for Delivery — The City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
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Michelle Malkin, Political Punch, Gateway Pundit and Politics Extra
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Boehner Wants WH Economic Team Fired — House Min. Leader John Boehner will ask Pres. Obama to fire his top economic advisors today in a major speech touting the GOP's plans to revitalize the marketplace. — “Pres. Obama should ask for — and accept — the resignations of the remaining members …
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Riehl World View and Moe Lane
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Fire Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers — CLEVELAND — House Minority Leader John Boehner is calling on the Obama administration to extend Bush -era tax cuts, freeze federal spending and fire top economic officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Islamic group calls Boehner's mosque stance ‘un-American’
Islamic group calls Boehner's mosque stance ‘un-American’
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CNN, Politics Extra, JammieWearingFool and Weasel Zippers
Ann McElhinney / Not Evil Just Wrong:
James Cameron—King of Hypocrites — Last March James Cameron sounded defiant. — The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed.
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Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, Climate Depot and Right Wing News
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Aaron Hedge / Aspen Times:
Filmmaker Cameron, in Aspen, has harsh words for global warming skeptics — ASPEN — James Cameron doesn't mince words when talking about people who are skeptical that humans are causing global warming. — “I think they're swine,” the renowned filmmaker told an audience member Sunday …
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Questions and Observations
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organized
Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organized
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and Climate Depot
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Report: Director James Cameron calls climate change skeptics ‘swine’
Report: Director James Cameron calls climate change skeptics ‘swine’
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RedState, Flopping Aces, American Power and HotAirPundit
Marc Morano / Climate Depot:
From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James …
From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James …
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Nice Deb
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Split on Move to Bolster Sluggish Economy — WASHINGTON—The Aug. 10 meeting of top Federal Reserve officials was among the most contentious in Ben Bernanke's four-and-a-half year tenure as central bank chairman. — With the economic outlook unexpectedly darkening …
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
U.S. Judge Rules Against Obama's Stem Cell Policy — WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos.
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Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Guardian, Law Blog, Think Progress, Dow Jones Newswires, Firedoglake, The Confluence and Talking Points Memo
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Anti-Semitic Incident at Ground Zero Mosque Counter Protest — At Sunday's Ground Zero mosque protest, I spoke to one man who had been with the counter-protesters, Joey “Boots” Bassolino, immediately after the police pulled him out from the crowd. What happened, I asked?
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Comments from Left Field, Whiskey Fire, Macsmind, Solomonia, Weasel Zippers, Israel Matzav, Big Peace and Michelle Malkin
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Mark Williams / MarkTalk.com News & Commentary:
Ground Zero Mosque Imam: USA is the terrorist organization
Ground Zero Mosque Imam: USA is the terrorist organization
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TPMMuckraker, CNN and Hullabaloo
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
Rage Against Teh Joos! WTC Supporters Attack Man at Rally
Rage Against Teh Joos! WTC Supporters Attack Man at Rally
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theblogprof, American Power, Weekly Standard, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Rangel on the Hot Seat in Debate — It was a gentle but unmistakable nudge President Obama gave Representative Charles B. Rangel recently, suggesting in an interview three weeks ago that Mr. Rangel, 80, should retire to “end his career with dignity.” — At a tense and sometimes fiery …
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NY Daily News, Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, JammieWearingFool and The Page
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The “Ground Zero mosque” debate is about tolerance—and a whole lot more. … - The Florida Congressman Showing Democrats How To Beat the Tea Party- So What if the Islamic Community Center's Location Is “Insensitive”? - The NYT's Bogus Story About Technology Endangering National Park Visitors- What Ever Happened to Quicksand?
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The Huffington Post, Pajamas Media, Betsy's Page, Althouse, Front Page Magazine, Macsmind, Weekly Standard, Wake up America and News Hounds
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Is Obama ‘American Enough’? — Suddenly, it's not “racist” to criticize the president. — The good news for President Obama is that this week is likely to be better for him than last week was. The bad news? Last week! A week so bad, as we observed Friday, that the president ended …
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NewsBusters.org and Commentary
Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:
L.A. Times Runs Most Biased Top Story Ever Published In Any Free-World Newspaper — In one of its many books of guidelines, the Los Angeles Times instructs employees to write so that a reader “cannot detect” the political views of the reporter. If there's any place where you'd expect …
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Roger Ailes, Los Angeles Times and Doug Ross
Rasmussen Reports:
48% Say Obama's Views Are Extreme; 51% Say Hillary Is Mainstream — Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now regard President Obama's political views as extreme. Forty-two percent (42%) place his views in the mainstream, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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Don Surber, Commentary, National Review, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
About that Daily Caller article claiming a lot bloggers “on the Republican side” are “secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns.” — The first paragraph of this attention-getting article by Jonathan Strong says there's “a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement.”
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TBogg, The Sundries Shack, The TrogloPundit, Macsmind, ProfessorBainbridge.com and Riehl World View
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
GOP Targets Obama's ‘Recovery Summer’ Amid Economic Gloom — Republicans Poised to Hammer Democrats on Jobs Promises Ahead of November — After months of withering job losses and weak economic growth, summer was going to be the season of recovery, the Obama administration heralded in June.
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Hot Air
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Responding to Dr. Krugman's column on tax cuts for the rich — In his column yesterday, Dr. Paul Krugman argues for raising the top marginal income tax rates on January 1. His polemic is useful because it encapsulates most of the Left's arguments. — Language trick #1: “We” (the government) should not “give money to the rich.”
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Mother Jones, Paul Krugman, Chicago Boyz, Daily Kos, protein wisdom, Think Progress, The Huffington Post and The Enterprise Blog
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
For Obama, a chance to regain some political momentum — The White House faces a delicate messaging task next week as President Obama seeks to bring one foreign engagement to an end while making a new bid for American influence abroad. — Obama's return to Washington from 10 days …
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Taylor Marsh and The Page
Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
WH counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of TWT offices — White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan joined President Barack Obama and the rest of the First Family in Martha's Vineyard, while the President and his family vacationed. As I wrote in my Friday post on Mr. Brennan …
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Solomonia, Potluck and AmSpecBlog
Richard Just / The New Republic:
Disgrace — Obama's increasingly absurd gay marriage position. — In the fall of 1912, as his campaign for president entered its final stage, Woodrow Wilson was speaking in Brooklyn when he was asked for his opinion on women's suffrage. The issue was very much in the political ether, but Wilson had declined to take a stand on it.
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Democracy in America and Betsy's Page
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Political groups set up for ad blitz — WASHINGTON — More than a dozen political groups have organized in recent weeks to spend large amounts of money on attack ads against House and Senate candidates as special interests on the left and right play a larger role in midterm races.