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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Spending on Public Works — 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 …
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
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 — 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 …
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Firedoglake, Matthew Yglesias, Economist's View and skippy the bush kangaroo
Associated Press:
Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending for Infrastructure
Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending for Infrastructure
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Free exchange
Fox News:
Obama to Call for Major Infrastructure Spending
Obama to Call for Major Infrastructure Spending
Discussion:
Hot Air, Stop The ACLU and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to seek extension of R&D tax credits
Obama to seek extension of R&D tax credits
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The Remmers Report
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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ABCNEWS:
Anti-Islam Rhetoric Heats Up Ahead of 9/11
Anti-Islam Rhetoric Heats Up Ahead of 9/11
Discussion:
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
Discussion:
Osborne Ink and TPMMuckraker
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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Raw Story, TPMMuckraker and Taegan Goddard's …
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, Don Surber and The Reality-Based Community
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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Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, Wake up America, This Just In, JammieWearingFool and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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, Right Wing News, Outside the Beltway, Riehl World View and Daily Kos
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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Michelle Malkin, NewsBusters.org, Weasel Zippers, Guardian, L.A. NOW and Sister Toldjah
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 and Roger Ailes
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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.
Discussion:
Matthew Yglesias
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Housing Woes Bring a New Cry: Let the 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 …
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Hit & Run, Free exchange, Silicon Alley Insider, The Confluence, Balloon Juice, The Big Picture and Calculated Risk
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:
FrumForum and AMERICAblog News
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Barbara Surk / Associated Press:
Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle
Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, Mudville Gazette, Vox Popoli and Fire Andrea Mitchell!