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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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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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Ed Hornick / CNN:
10 things Republicans must do in 10 weeks — Members of the Republican House leadership introduce the party's “America Speaking Out” campaign in May. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is at far right. — Washington (CNN) — With the midterm elections just 10 weeks away, analysts expect big wins for Republicans.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Islamic group calls Boehner's mosque stance ‘un-American’
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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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Aaron Hedge / Aspen Times:
Filmmaker Cameron, in Aspen, has harsh words for global warming skeptics
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organized
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Report: Director James Cameron calls climate change skeptics ‘swine’
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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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Paul Krugman:
Hangover Theory At The Fed — This Jon Hilsenrath piece on the Fed is an impressive piece of reporting; it seems that somebody is talking out of school. And as Tim Duy says, it's also depressing for anyone believing, as I do, that we're sliding steadily into a long-run low-growth …
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Economist's View and Calculated Risk
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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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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Mark Williams / MarkTalk.com News & Commentary:
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
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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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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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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, Front Page Magazine, Althouse, Macsmind, Weekly Standard, Wake up America and News Hounds
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
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
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
A 25-state midterm swing for Romney — Former governor positioned for '12 — WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, having met last weekend in New Hampshire with the staff of his 2008 presidential campaign, is preparing to embark on an aggressive schedule that will take him to more than 25 states …
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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CNN:
TRENDING: Poll: Jersey voters give ‘Shore’ thumbs down — The cast of ‘The Jersey Shore’ gets low marks from New Jersey voters. — (CNN) - It appears a majority of New Jersey residents agree with Gov. Chris Christie: The hit MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” is doing more harm than good to the Garden State.
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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
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
When did the actual last combat brigade return from Iraq? — (Introductory note: Marines and fans of Marines click here. End of story.) — No doubt there's something else on TV now - but last week I caught a bit of the coverage of “the last American combat brigade leaving Iraq.”
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