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New York Times:
Democrats Plan Political Triage to Retain House — WASHINGTON — As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the majority.
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Jim Kessler / Washington Post:
To keep the 2010 midterms from repeating 1994, Democrats can learn from Reagan
To keep the 2010 midterms from repeating 1994, Democrats can learn from Reagan
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Matthew Yglesias
Jimmy So / CBS News:
Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections — Say Dems Are Distancing Themselves From Obama, Angry Over Economy, Health Care Fallout — (CBS) With many polls indicating the Republicans may win back control of the House of Representatives (and possibly the Senate as well) …
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Red Dog Report and Weasel Zippers
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
McCain: Dems ‘flailing around’
McCain: Dems ‘flailing around’
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CNN and Washington Monthly
Mark Hemingway / Beltway Confidential:
With unemployment at 9.6 percent, why is the White House obsessed with sex?
With unemployment at 9.6 percent, why is the White House obsessed with sex?
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TigerHawk
msnbc.com:
Report: Iran pays $1,000 for each U.S. soldier killed by the Taliban — Afghan group's treasurer admits receiving money from Iran, newspaper says — msnbc.com staff and news service reports — Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report in a British newspaper.
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Public Secrets and Hot Air
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Fox News:
Report: Iran Paying Taliban to Kill U.S. Troops — KABUL — At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan's capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to an investigation by London's Sunday Times.
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Weasel Zippers and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
CNN:
TRENDING: Tony Blair on Bill Clinton's ‘potentially sexual element’ — (CNN) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was hesitant in an interview broadcast on Sunday to explain a passage from his new book that referenced a “potentially sexual element” to former President Bill Clinton's “curiosity about people.”
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The Politico
Newsweek:
What America Has Lost — It's clear we overreacted to 9/11. — Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden's terror network has been unable …
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
America's History of Fear — A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don't. Most of the opponents aren't bigots but well-meaning worriers — and during earlier waves …
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Stop The ACLU, Jihad Watch, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Anti-war groups battle for survival — As President Barack Obama formally declared an end to combat operations in Iraq this week, the anti-war movement that helped sweep him into office — and that worked for seven years to bring U.S. troops home — finds itself struggling for survival.
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Weasel Zippers, JammieWearingFool, Don Surber and Tim Blair
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Kaine to fellow Dems: ‘Foolish’ to run from party — Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine has a message for Democrats trying to run from President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid: Don't be foolish. — “If you run away from who you are and you're a Democrat, it's foolish,” Kaine said on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Gateway Pundit
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J. Taylor Rushing / Ballot Box:
DNC chairman: Dems have helped the economy ‘turn a corner’
DNC chairman: Dems have helped the economy ‘turn a corner’
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Weasel Zippers
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Who is responsible for Warmabomber's violent agenda? — Filthy. Parasites. Disgusting, overbreeding candidates for sterilization and extermination. Possessed of false morals and a “breeding culture.” — Hitler talking about the Jews? Nope. This is Discovery Channel hostage-taker James Lee talking about ... human beings.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Darrel Rowland / DispatchPolitics:
GOP resurgent — More Ohioans plan to vote for Republicans in the election, and they are excited to do so. But a lot can happen before Nov. 2. — THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH — Republican candidates have grabbed double-digit leads in the races for governor and the U.S. Senate …
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Politics Daily
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
GOP gov hopefuls run against Obama — They're all Rick Perrys now. — A year and a half after the governor of Texas energized his reelection campaign by casting himself as an antagonist to President Barack Obama, Republican gubernatorial candidates across the country are following his example.
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Red Dog Report
Joe Arnold / WHAS:
Paul up by 15 in new poll that Conway campaign disputes — With just under two months until Kentucky's U.S. Senate election, a new WHAS11/Courier-Journal Bluegrass Poll shows Republican Rand Paul nearly doubling his lead in the last month, now up 15 points over Democrat Jack Conway, 55% to 40%.
Discussion:
Don Surber, Scared Monkeys and HotAirPundit
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Political Implications of Over-Bashfulness in The Non-Economics Social Sciences — Scott Eric Kaufmann says that yes indeed academics are generally discouraged from communicating about their work to popular audiences. Neil Sinhababu notes the political implications:
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Donkeylicious and Eschaton
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Jerry Brown says he'd be a frugal governor — (09-03) 19:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to “do things that labor doesn't like,” including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor leaders to “put everything on the table” …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Freedom's Just Another Word — AMONG the few scraps of news to emerge from Barack Obama's vacation was the anecdote of a Martha's Vineyard bookseller handing him an advance copy of Jonathan Franzen's new novel, “Freedom.” The book has since rocketed up the Amazon best-seller list …
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