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2:50 PM ET, September 8, 2010

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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Is Against a Compromise on Bush Tax Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday will make clear that he opposes any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist to an election-season economic package …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Writes His Thesis Statement  —  This week, we finally get to see President Obama's thesis statement.  —  For weeks, we've seen the rest of the paragraph begin to be filled in: the structure of a contrast between Republicans and Democrats, the hard-to-say-no-to infrastructure spending proposal …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
“Middle Class” Tax Cuts
Discussion: Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Obamanomics Is Recast as ‘Recovery Summer’ Fades
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Feisal Abdul Rauf / New York Times:
Building on Faith  —  AS my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community center in Lower Manhattan.I have been away from home for two months, speaking abroad about cooperation among people from different religions.
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Bob Connors / NBC Connecticut:
City Council Meetings to Begin with Muslim Prayers
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Health Insurers Plan Hikes  —  Rate Increases Are Blamed on Health-Care Overhaul; White House Questions Logic  —  Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats' efforts to trumpet …
The Politico:
Obama may look inside for Rahm job  —  Amid mounting signs that Rahm Emanuel will leave the White House to run for mayor in Chicago, Democratic insiders say President Barack Obama is likely to choose a new chief of staff who's already in his orbit but has experience with previous administrations.
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CNN:
Opinion: Obama wrong for '10 campaign
Discussion: The Atlanta Post
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
POLITICAL INSIDER: GOP voters outnumber Dems
Ezra Klein:
Mitch Daniels has a plan  —  I'm impressed by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels's op-ed laying out his proposal for “a time-limited, emergency growth program.”  It's a real plan, with concrete policy ideas that might actually make a difference.  It's mercifully free from vague hand-waving about business uncertainty and government spending.
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Mitch Daniels / Wall Street Journal:
Time for Emergency Economic Reform  —  How about a payroll tax holiday, funded by a federal spending, hiring and pay freeze?  —  Ronald Reagan enjoyed telling of the elderly Blitz victim rescued from her demolished London flat in World War II.  A fireman found a bottle of brandy under …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Ezra Klein
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Becoming a Governing Party
Discussion: Associated Press
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Right Wing Leaders Plan To Use September 11th Anniversary To Make Money  —  Last year, Glenn Beck and a variety of right-wing organizations and corporate front groups exploited the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks to stage a protest of President Obama.
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Glenn Beck Visits Alaska on 9/11
Discussion: Firedoglake
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Palin and Beck to mark 9/11 in Alaska
Benjamin Niolet / The Charlotte Observer:
It's lucky that Sheriff Andy isn't facing voters  —  How bad is it for Democrats in North Carolina?  Even Sheriff Andy Taylor is taking a beating in the polls.  —  Andy Griffith - star of the Andy Griffith Show, a Manteo resident and noted endorser of Democratic causes and candidates …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:   Andy Griffith throws away 50 years of good faith in 30 seconds
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Even Griffith's numbers down  —  You know how bad things …
Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Barbour: 9/11 Koran Burning A Bad Idea  —  Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said today that he opposes a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, and said he accepts “totally” that President Obama is a Christian.  —  “I do not think well of the idea of burning anybody's Koran …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Barbour: RNC woes costly
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and msnbc.com
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Barbour says he'll decide about 2012 run after the Nov. election
Discussion: CNN
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas  —  WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Boehner: Roll back spending to 2008 levels, extend all tax cuts  —  With everyone focused on Barack Obama's hard pivot to the economy — which has taken him nine months to accomplish — John Boehner appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and stole a march on the President.
Discussion: msnbc.com and Gateway Pundit
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Spiegel Online:
Terry Jones Accused of ‘Spiritual Abuse’ at Cologne Church  —  US fundamentalist pastor Terry Jones, who wants to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, ran a church in the western German city of Cologne until last year when members of the congregation expelled him.
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Meghan McCain “panicked, scared” after Palin picked  —  Tonight, Meghan McCain talked to Jay Leno about the moment she learned that Sarah Palin had been chosen to be John McCain's running mate. … Leno then asks McCain what she meant when she called Palin a “time bomb” in her book.
Discussion: Riehl World View
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CNN:
TRENDING: Palin pick ‘panicked’ Meghan McCain, made her cry
Discussion: Politics Daily
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT GALLUP FREAK-OUT.... Last week, Gallup's generic-ballot tracking poll showed Republicans leading Democrats by 10, 51% to 41%.  It was billed as the GOP's biggest Gallup lead in the history of humanity, and the results generated massive media attention, including a stand-alone Washington Post piece on page A2.
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Politics on Film, but This Time Leaning Right  —  LOS ANGELES — After Michael Moore screened his anti-Bush documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” for Hollywood's assembled royalty at the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences six years ago, the crowd broke out in a noisy ovation that it did not want to stop.
Scott Keyes / Think Progress:
GOP House Candidate On Civil Rights: ‘We Need To Get Our Federal Government Out Of The Way’  —  Fireworks occurred during a town hall in Canton, OH, last night when Rep. John Boccieri (D-OH) unexpectedly showed up at his Republican opponent's public event.  Challenger Jim Renacci …
Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds  —  As Wall Street hangs on the question “Will Greece default?,” the author heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country's economic insanity.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
 
 
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
One Faction Among Many.  —  For those of us on the train …
Discussion: The New Republic
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Fiber lives on! How broadband decided Australia's election
Discussion: Digital Society and Balloon Juice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Johnson requested scholarship money be sent directly to family members
The Note:
Sharron Angle: 'I'm a Mainstream American'; Harry Reid 'Responsible …
John R. Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
An American Monument Means Chinese Jobs?
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
FOX Business TV Appearance: Geller on the Dove Church Qur'an Burning
Discussion: National Review and Jihad Watch
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Paul campaign: Online impersonator was impersonated
 Earlier Items: 
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bennet draws line on new stimulus spending
Discussion: The Politico and Commentary
Guardian:
Paris Mètro to warm flats
Discussion: The First Post
Michael Howard Saul / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Defends Pastor's Right to Burn Quran
Discussion: msnbc.com and iOwnTheWorld.com
Ken Belson / New York Times:
As Stadiums Vanish, Their Debt Lives On
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
CNN:
Pelosi unpopular; Boehner unknown, CNN poll says
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Lawrence H. White / Wall Street Journal:
The German Miracle: Another Look
Discussion: EconLog and Cafe Hayek
 

 
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How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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