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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Spending on Transportation — MILWAUKEE — President Obama, looking for ways to jump-start the sagging economy and create new jobs, called on Congress on Monday to approve a far-reaching plan to rebuild and modernize the nation's transportation networks — roads …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GOP ATTACKS ON INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ALREADY UNDERWAY.... I really wish I could understand the way John Boehner's mind works. … Now, I realize that Boehner's depth of policy knowledge is frighteningly limited, and that the poll-tested buzz words of his press releases might resonate …
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The Moderate Voice
Darren Goode / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama infrastructure plan is more failed stimulus — House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio Monday criticized President Barack Obama's proposal to boost infrastructure investment as more stimulus spending doomed to fail. — “As the American people, facing near double-digit unemployment …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program
Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program
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Agence France Presse, THEROOT.COM and Gateway Pundit
CNN:
TRENDING: Obama: They talk about me like a dog — (CNN) - Those following President Obama's prepared remarks during a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday were thrown a bit of a curveball when it came to a description of his critics: — “Some powerful interests who had been dominating …
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TPMDC, Raw Story and JOSHUAPUNDIT
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Obama: Critics ‘talk about me like a dog’ — President Obama strayed from his prepared remarks at a Labor Day rally Monday to accused his opponents of talking about him “like a dog.” — Obama was in Milwaukee to speak at the Milwaukee Laborfest, attended by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis …
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Wall Street Journal:
Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans — KABUL—The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort. — Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban …
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Infowars, Voice of America, Think Progress, Outside the Beltway, JOSHUAPUNDIT, TPMMuckraker, Weasel Zippers and Local News from The …
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ABCNEWS:
Anti-Islam Rhetoric Heats Up Ahead of 9/11
Anti-Islam Rhetoric Heats Up Ahead of 9/11
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Political Byline, Bare Naked Islam's Weblog and Jihad Watch
Andy Saputra / CNN:
Indonesians protest U.S. church's plan to burn Quran
Indonesians protest U.S. church's plan to burn Quran
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Osborne Ink and TPMMuckraker
Washington Post:
Obama to call for $100 billion business tax credit — Under mounting pressure to intensify his focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, President Obama will call for a $100 billion business tax credit this week, using a speech in Cleveland on Wednesday to launch what administration officials said was a new policy push.
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Obama Economic Policy: Yet Another “Obama Bunts” Edition
Obama Economic Policy: Yet Another “Obama Bunts” Edition
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Firedoglake, Economist's View and skippy the bush kangaroo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
1938 in 2010 — Here's the situation: The U.S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis. The president's policies have limited the damage, but they were too cautious, and unemployment remains disastrously high. More action is clearly needed. Yet the public has soured on government activism …
Peter J. Boyer / New Yorker:
FRAT HOUSE FOR JESUS — The entity behind C Street. — One midwinter night in 2008, Senator John Ensign, of Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, was roused from bed when six men entered his room and ordered him to get up. Ensign knew the men intimately …
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TPMMuckraker and Raw Story
The Huffington Post:
A Forecast of the 2010 House Election Outcome — What's Your Reaction: … How many House seats will the Republicans gain in 2010? To answer this question, we have run 1,000 simulations of the 2010 House elections. The simulations are based on information from past elections going back to 1946.
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Matthew Yglesias
Lena H. / Washington Post:
Finding new weapons to kill bedbugs — The brown bugs, each about half the size of a pencil eraser, lie in glass petri dishes - a few on their backs, legs in the air. They died within seconds of scurrying across a piece of paper containing drops of a chemical.The next step is to find …
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The Volokh Conspiracy, The Reality-Based Community and Don Surber
CNN:
CNN Poll: GOP's midterm advantage is growing — (CNN) — With November's midterm elections less than two months away, a new national poll indicates that the Republicans' advantage over the Democrats in the battle for Congress is on the rise. — According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
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Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, This Just In, Scared Monkeys, Wake up America, JammieWearingFool and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Mark Hurd / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles school named after Al Gore — He's the first vice president to have an L.A. school named after him, sharing the honor with author Rachel Carson. Fittingly, the campus will be devoted to environmental themes. But there's a catch. — First-grade teacher Yolanda Alcala, left …
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NewsBusters.org, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, L.A. NOW, Guardian and Sister Toldjah
CNN:
Sharron Angle tells CNN: 'I'll be a mainstream senator' — Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) - Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle just might be the Tea Party's biggest gamble yet. A staunch conservative with a history of making bold and sometimes controversial comments …
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The Politico and TPMDC
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
For G.O.P., Tea Party Wields a Double-Edged Sword
For G.O.P., Tea Party Wields a Double-Edged Sword
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Liberty Pundits Blog, Outside the Beltway, Riehl World View, Right Wing News and Daily Kos
CNN:
Jindal isn't endorsing Vitter - yet — Jindal is not weighing in on his state's Senate race, he told WDSU. — UPDATE: Melissa Sellers, a spokeswoman for Jindal, tells CNN the governor meant to convey he has not weighed in on the race yet, but may do so in the future.
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Mediaite, AMERICAblog News and Roger Ailes
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BBC:
US troops called in as Iraqi army base attacked — The base was targeted for the second time in three weeks — US troops have been called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents who attacked an army base in Baghdad, killing 12 people, officials say. — It marks the first such use …
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New York Times:
Attack Shows Lasting Threat to U.S. in Iraq
Attack Shows Lasting Threat to U.S. in Iraq
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FrumForum and AMERICAblog News
Barbara Surk / Associated Press:
Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle