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3:15 PM ET, September 4, 2010

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Jamie Stiehm / Washington Post:
Oval Office rug gets history wrong  —  A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige.  —  President Obama's new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Democrats add fiscal austerity as a campaign issue  —  The candidate was outraged - just outraged - at the country's sorry fiscal state.  —  “We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet,” he fumed to a roomful of voters.  “In my view, we have nothing to show for it.”
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
On Economy, Democrats Face a Lack of Unity  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats are entering the fall sprint to the midterm elections lacking a unifying message to address the lackluster economy, scrambling to come up with further job-creating remedies and out of time to show substantial results before voters go to the polls.
Discussion: American Power and Balloon Juice
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Loving Their Grandkids To Death — sacrificing them to the Market Gods  —  Loving Their Grandkids To Death  —  Howie has a great post up today about the social security con game which you should in full.  I just wanted to riff on one little piece of it because it struck me that we haven't been clear about what's going on.
Discussion: Open Left and Suburban Guerrilla
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
In defense of Alan Simpson  —  The President's Deficit Commission is designed to be as anti-democratic and un-transparent as possible.  Its work is done in total secrecy.  It is filled with behind-the-scenes political and corporate operatives who steadfastly refuse to talk to the public about what they're doing.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
America has a cow over Alan Simpson's candor on deficits
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Ungreat Debate  —  We do not generally look to gubernatorial debates for excitement.  But this week there was a fascinating one in Arizona, where Gov. Jan Brewer gave a bad performance of epic proportions.  Really, Richard Nixon in 1960 was Demosthenes in Athens compared with this one.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Associated Press:
Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings  —  PHOENIX — A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.
Paul Krugman:
Rahmism  —  Jon Cohn's post about what the administration may be considering, and what it isn't considering, makes we want to cry.  —  Look: early on the administration had a political theory: it would win bipartisan legislative victories, and each success would make Republicans who voted no feel left out …
New York Times:
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater  —  WASHINGTON — Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq …
Aharding / CNN:
Tea Party candidate sparks backlash in Delaware  —  The Tea Party Express launched new ads supporting Delaware Republican primary Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell.  —  Washington (CNN) - Fresh on the heels of Joe Miller's surprising win over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Graham reaches out to Tea Party
CNN:
Salahi in Playboy?  Just ‘another rumor.’  —  Michaele Salahi (right) has not received an offer to appear in Playboy, her spokesman told CNN on Saturday.  —  (CNN) - A spokesman for Michaele Salahi of White House party-crasher fame batted down on Saturday morning a story that claims the …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and PopEater
New York Times:
Endorsements for New York  —  Like voters around the country, New Yorkers are angry at people in office, and they tend to be most peeved at anybody who works in Albany.  —  That bad mood has even touched two veteran Democratic congressmen who normally coast to re-election in November.
Kathleen Lucadamo / NY Daily News:
Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel's legal tab is $1.8 million and rising  —  The party's over for Charlie Rangel, but not the legal bills.  —  The embattled Harlem Democrat has forked over $111,170 to lawyers since July from his campaign stash, federal filings released Friday show.
Discussion: The Hill and JammieWearingFool
Yasir Ghazi / At War:
Punk'd, Iraqi-Style, at a Checkpoint  —  BAGHDAD — An Iraqi reality television program broadcast during Ramadan has been planting fake bombs in celebrities' cars, having an Iraqi army checkpoint find them and terrifying the celebrities into thinking that they are headed for maximum security prison.
Discussion: Gawker and Hot Air
New Zealand Herald:
Mayor: Quake hit city ‘like an iceberg’  —  Have you been affected by the quake?  —  Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker is thankful there has been no loss of life but there had been considerable damage across the city and outlying areas.  —  The city has been left devastated …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, CNN and This Just In
Samuel Goldsmith / NY Daily News:
Former President Bill Clinton: Democrats need more time to undo GOP's damage to country  —  Democrats need more time to get out of the economic hole dug by Republicans during the Bush years, ex-President Bill Clinton said yesterday at a campaign rally for Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon.
Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Broader U-6 Jobless Rate up to 16.7%: Why the Jump?  —  The U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.6% in August, but the government's broader measure of unemployment rose even more to 16.7%, the highest rate since April.  —  The comprehensive gauge of labor underutilization, known as the …
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Christopher S. Rugaber / Associated Press:
Despite hiring, US unemployment rate seems frozen
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
 
 
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Rob Crilly / Telegraph:
Pakistan Taliban threaten attacks on US and Europe
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Reuters:
Taxpayers likely to face initial loss on GM IPO: sources
Front Page Magazine:
Reforming Our Universities  —  Posted by Frontpagemag.com on Sep 3rd …
Discussion: American Power
Jerusalem Post:
US envoy Oren warns: Hizbullah has 15,000 rockets on border
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Power Line
William Yardley / New York Times:
Alaska Winner, Lover of Privacy, Loses His Own
Ben White / The Politico:
Dems have few options on economy
Discussion: Washington Wire and Power Line
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say
David B. Caruso / Associated Press:
Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Libtalker, Guest Ponder Glenn Beck Torture Methods
New York Times:
Rangel Should Resign, Manhattan Voters Tell Poll
Discussion: Capital Tonight and Runnin' Scared
Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Big Labor's Legacy of Violence
Ezra Klein:
Repeal the 17th amendment?
John Cook / Yahoo! News:
Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politics Daily