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Republicans making gains against Democrats ahead of midterm elections — Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack …
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for an Anti-Incumbent Wave — Poll Shows Republicans Benefit From Fears About Economy; Democrats Need to Persuade Unenthusiastic Backers to Vote — This is about the time when Democrats thought—or perhaps hoped—the political clouds that have hung over them all year would begin to lift.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Revolt Against Status Quo Gives Republicans Record Lead in 2010 Midterms — ABC News-Washington Post Poll: Dissatisfaction with Federal Government at Highest Level in 18 Years — Swelling economic discontent has pushed dissatisfaction with the federal government to its highest level in 18 years …
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The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Mind of America — A new Washington Post poll is out.
The Mind of America — A new Washington Post poll is out.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
‘They talk about me like a dog’
‘They talk about me like a dog’
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Peter Orszag / New York Times:
One Nation, Two Deficits — The nation faces a nasty dual deficit problem: a painful jobs deficit in the near term and an unsustainable budget deficit over the medium and long term. This month, the Senate will be debating an issue with significant implications for both …
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CNN:
Florida pastor weighs plan to burn Quran — Feeling passionate about this story? Put your thoughts on video and share them with CNN iReport. — (CNN) — The pastor of a Florida church planning to burn Qurans told CNN Tuesday while the congregation plans to go through with the action …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
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Peter Wehner / Commentary:
On Burning the Koran — According to the Wall Street Journal:
On Burning the Koran — According to the Wall Street Journal:
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Petraeus condemns Fla. church's plan to burn Korans
Petraeus condemns Fla. church's plan to burn Korans
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket — TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Aren't Running From Health Care. But What Are They Running On?
Democrats Aren't Running From Health Care. But What Are They Running On?
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P.
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy — How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery. — So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he's rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy.
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Scrubbing Santorum — Why Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum can't beat his Google problem. — Post Comment — Rick Santorum would very much like to be president. For the past few years, he has been diligently appearing at the sorts of conservative events—the Values Voters Summit …
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Howard Kurtz:
Appeasing the Google Gods — I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism. — The box is supposed to contain words and phrases that will help me reel you in.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Peretz: Muslims Are Indifferent to Human Life and Therefore Unworthy of First Amendment Protection — New Republic Editor in Chief Martin Peretz: … I for one am thrilled that the First Amendment gives Peretz the right to offer his racist views up for public consumption …
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Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Rome is Burning — There is a critical point that I fear the commentariat is just not getting. In my darker moments I fear that some of my fellow economists aren't getting it either but we aren't going to go there. — Look at these two graphs because they tell you the fundamental problem in America today:
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David Weigel / Slate:
Can the Tea Party win in Delaware the way it won in Alaska? — WILMINGTON, Del.—Mike Castle is in his element. It's Saturday and Delaware's only representative in the U.S. House has positioned himself at the entrance to the Arden Fair, a 103-year-old celebration of a left-leaning artist community …
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Paul Krugman:
Infrastructure — Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending: — 1. It's a good idea — 2. It's much too small — 3. It won't pass anyway — which makes you wonder why the administration didn't propose a bigger plan …
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Timothy Noah / Slate:
The United States of Inequality — In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. The United States was displacing Great Britain …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Sign of the Court's Polarization: Choice of Clerks — WASHINGTON — Each year, 36 young lawyers obtain the most coveted credential in American law: a Supreme Court clerkship. Clerking for a justice is a glittering capstone on a résumé that almost always includes outstanding grades …
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Robert Reich:
Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts, and Why He's Wrong — President Obama reportedly will propose two big corporate tax cuts this week. — One would expand and make permanent the research and experimentation tax credit, at a cost of about $100 billion over the next ten years.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
John Podesta predicts White House ‘soul-searching’ — John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and leader of Barack Obama's presidential transition team, expects to see some “soul-searching” and “changes” in the White House after November's elections.
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Rhymes With Fagin’ — Time magazine adds its voice to the chorus of those attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state. — If you're a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline. — In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel's prime minister …
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Audit finds Sharpton's nonprofit on brink — Tweet — An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton's National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The Post has learned.
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Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits — Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space.
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Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A Republican takeover of the House will make Capitol Hill a much less relevant place for President Obama, and is likely to turn the administration's focus toward working through federal agencies and regulation — which it can do unilaterally — rather than trying to pass new legislation.
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