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2:10 PM ET, September 6, 2010

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending on Public Works  —  WASHINGTON - President Obama on Monday is to call for as much as $50 billion in government spending to start up a long-term public works plan emphasizing transportation projects - roads, rail and airport runways - over the next six years.
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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.
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama calling for more infrastructure spending  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy.
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Obama Economic Policy: Yet Another “Obama Bunts” Edition  —  With a multiplier of 2, $50 billion in the first year is 0.3% on the unemployment rate—and it's not clear if we can ramp up an extra $50 billion of infrastructure spending in the first year.  —  Don't get me wrong …
Mike Allen / The Politico:   President Obama unveils $50 billion road, rail plan
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to seek extension of R&D tax credits
Discussion: The Remmers Report
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 …
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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Andy Saputra / CNN:
Indonesians protest U.S. church's plan to burn Quran
Discussion: Osborne Ink and TPMMuckraker
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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CNN:
CNN Poll: Number of people who say economy in very poor shape on rise
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
TRENDING: 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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Roger Ailes
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WDSU-TV:
Jindal Staying Out Of Upcoming Senate Race
Discussion: Think Progress and GOP 12
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Attack Shows Lasting Threat to U.S. in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD — Insurgents mounted a coordinated attack on one of the main military commands in Baghdad on Sunday, briefly drawing fire from American soldiers, an event that underscored the ambiguity of the American military's role in Iraq.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and FrumForum
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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 …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall  —  The unexpectedly deep plunge in home sales this summer is likely to force the Obama administration to choose between future homeowners and current ones, a predicament officials had been eager to avoid.  —  Over the last 18 months …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Cynthia Tucker: Voter Anger Is About Racism - ‘Fear of a White Minority’  —  Are you sick and tired of being called a racist because you don't agree with Barack Obama's policies?  —  If you are, you shouldn't read any further, for Cynthia Tucker this weekend claimed the voter anger …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
For G.O.P., Tea Party Wields a Double-Edged Sword  —  Christine O'Donnell, running in Delaware to be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat once held by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is a perennial candidate with a history of financial problems, including unpaid taxes and a home in foreclosure.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Some See a Ploy as Craigslist Blocks Sex Ads  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist, by shutting off its “adult services” section and slapping a “censored” label in its place, is engaging in what some analysts describe as a high-stakes stunt to influence public opinion.
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CNN:
Adult services censored on Craigslist
 
 
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