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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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Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Their Economic Policies Haven't Changed, So They Won't Bring the Change We Need — Later today, House Minority Leader John Boehner is slated to give a speech at the City Club of Cleveland laying out the major planks of his party's economic agenda. Unfortunately, families in Ohio and across …
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Fire Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers — CLEVELAND — The rollout of John Boehner's campaign for speaker of the House went public Tuesday morning here in his home state, as he outlined an economic agenda that combined old GOP economic ideas with a few new ones and called …
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Ed Hornick / CNN:
10 things Republicans must do in 10 weeks
10 things Republicans must do in 10 weeks
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
John Boehner Mocked His Deficit Reduction Plan Before He Proposed It
John Boehner Mocked His Deficit Reduction Plan Before He Proposed It
realtor.org:
July Existing-Home Sales Fall as Expected but Prices Rise — Existing-home sales were sharply lower in July following expiration of the home buyer tax credit but home prices continued to gain, according to the National Association of Realtors®. — Existing-home sales1 …
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Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
How Bad Was July's Plummet in Home Sales? — The housing bears were right: existing home sales fell off a cliff in July. As my colleague Megan McArdle just noted, they sold at an annualized pace of 3.83 million, down by 27% versus June and 26% below July 2009, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Calculated Risk:
Existing Home Sales lowest since 1996, 12.5 months of supply
Existing Home Sales lowest since 1996, 12.5 months of supply
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Alejandro Lazo / Los Angeles Times:
Sales of existing U.S. homes fall 27%
Sales of existing U.S. homes fall 27%
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
U.S. Home Sales at Lowest Level in More Than a Decade
U.S. Home Sales at Lowest Level in More Than a Decade
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Karen Hughes: I don't remember any of my work with Imam — As you may have heard, former Bush senior adviser Karen Hughes came out against Cordoba House over the weekend. Hughes called on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to move the project in order to “provide a path toward the peaceful relationships …
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Dina Temple-Raston / NPR:
Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists
Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists
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Claudia Rosett / Forbes:
Cashing In On Ground Zero
Cashing In On Ground Zero
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Rubio back on top — Democrats will get their stronger candidate if Kendrick Meek wins the Florida Senate primary tonight as expected- but the biggest winner coming out of the primary may be Marco Rubio. PPP finds he would begin the general election in the lead at 40%, followed by Charlie Crist at 32%, and Meek at 17%.
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Nathan Hodge / Washington Wire:
Conway: U.S. Withdrawal Deadline Boosts Taliban in Afghan War — The top U.S. Marine general said President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan had given “sustenance” to the Taliban. — “We know the president was talking to several audiences …
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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
Hangover Theory At The Fed
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David Brooks / New York Times:
A Case of Mental Courage — In 1811, the popular novelist Fanny Burney learned she had breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy without anesthesia. She lay down on an old mattress, and a piece of thin linen was placed over her face, allowing her to make out the movements of the surgeons above her.
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St. Petersburg Times:
At this pace, early voters outnumber Election Day ballots — If the slow, rain-soaked day of voting continues, there's a chance more people will have cast ballots early than on Election Day in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, officials said Tuesday. — “It's kind of looking that way now …
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Dan Quayle defends son before vote — Former Vice President Dan Quayle didn't want to leave the supportive e-mail off the end of his son's campaign for Congress. — In a Monday night e-mail pitch to Ben Quayle's supporters, Dan Quayle makes a last-ditch effort to defend the 33-year-old Ben Quayle …
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Hart Van Denburg / The Blotter:
Zombies scare Minneapolis into cash settlement — Seven zombies accused of carrying weapons of mass destruction will be staggering to the bank shortly with a bundle of cash, courtesy of a legal settlement with the City of Minneapolis. — The seven were arrested in 2006 during Aquatennial …
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The Politico:
Is ‘Beckapalooza’ about cause or Beck? — Even as he prepares for a Saturday rally that could cement his status as an unparalleled force in conservative politics, Glenn Beck is facing quiet but persistent questions from some on the right about whether he can be a reliable partner …
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Shai Oster / Wall Street Journal:
China Traffic Jam Could Last Weeks — BEIJING—A 60-mile traffic jam near the Chinese capital could last until mid-September, officials say. — Traffic has been snarled along the outskirts of Beijing and is stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started Aug. 13.
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Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
‘CBS Evening News’ Ties All-Time Low — The network newscast ratings for last week are in and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tied its all-time low in total viewers with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five days. — The low was set last June, when ABC also hit its own low.
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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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CNN:
Sherrod declines USDA job offer — Shirley Sherrod has declined a job offer from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. — (CNN) - Shirley Sherrod said Tuesday that she has enjoyed her work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and “would want to see that work continue.”
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Steele says immigration law ‘not a reflection of an entire political party’ — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele refused to embrace Arizona's controversial immigration law Tuesday during an interview with Univision, the country's largest Spanish-language television network.
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Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org:
New MRC Report Exposes The Real Radio Hatemongers — The so-called “news” media have spent much of the past two decades demonizing the rhetoric of conservative radio talk show hosts as mean-spirited, divisive or a menace to civil discourse. But these same journalists …
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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 …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
For Obamacare supporters, judgment day approaches — Say you're a Democratic member of Congress. You proudly cast your vote for Obamacare, you cheered when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed it as the achievement of a generation and you scoffed at Republicans who vowed to repeal it.
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