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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
UNION MEMBERS OUTRAGED After White House Hires Non-Union Crew For Obama's Birthday Bash — Somebody's Having a Birthday Party and You're Not Invited — That is, if you belong to a union. — In case you live under a rock and haven't heard, Barack Obama turns 50 today. And, the place to be tonight is the Aragon.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tense moments at Common Purpose meet — Tensions between the White House and its liberal allies came to a head last night at the weekly Common Purpose meeting, where progressive leaders and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling had a tense exchange about the debt deal, two Democratic sources said.
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Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
After Debt Bill, Obama Takes Staffers Out for Burgers — Congressional leaders will get the pens President Barack Obama used to sign the debt ceiling bill, but White House staffers who logged long hours to secure the deal got lunch with the boss. … Mr. Obama treated a handful …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats' frustration with media begins to show in FAA fight with House — After an acrimonious, months-long debate over raising the national debt limit, a battle many Democrats think the Republicans won, Senate Democratic leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated over how the media reports …
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The Politico, Pajamas Media and The Lonely Conservative
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Thumbs down on the debt-ceiling deal — WASHINGTON — The hard-won, last-minute agreement to raise the debt ceiling and cut the deficit gets low ratings from Americans, who by more than 2-1 predict it will make the nation's fragile economy worse rather than better.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
How John Boehner escaped disaster
How John Boehner escaped disaster
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Hot Air, RedState, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line and New York Post
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
LaHood blames his former GOP colleagues for FAA impasse
LaHood blames his former GOP colleagues for FAA impasse
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Washington Post, CNN, TPMDC and Firedoglake
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Tim Pawlenty pulls ads ahead of Ames Straw Poll — Tim Pawlenty will be pulling his radio and television ads off the air in the 72 hours before next Saturday's straw poll in Ames. — The former Minnesota governor's presidential campaign says it's not short on cash, but simply planning …
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The Note, Ballot Box, The Other McCain, The Political Carnival, TPMDC and HotAirPundit
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Santorum To Give Out Free Jelly At Ames
Santorum To Give Out Free Jelly At Ames
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Wonkette, Talking Points Memo and The Political Carnival
William Petroski / Iowa Caucuses:
Santorum makes sweet offer to Ames Straw Poll attendees
The Politico:
GOP ponders Perry: Savior or flop? — To a sizable slice of the Republican base, Rick Perry looks like the conservative, charismatic presidential candidate they have been waiting for in the 2012 campaign. — To many GOP elites, however, the Texan looks more like a general election flop in the making.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Big ‘response’ for Rick Perry? — Washington (CNN) - It's likely not the response Rick Perry was expecting. — Earlier this year, the Texas Governor called on Christians across the U.S. to come to Houston for a prayer event aimed at bringing God's help to a “nation in crisis.”
Jennifer Wishon / CBN.com:
Perry: Free Private Sector Key to Economy
Perry: Free Private Sector Key to Economy
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USA Today, CNN, GOP 12 and New York Magazine
Daily Mail:
Another politician forced to resign after sending naked pictures to woman he had online relationship with — A politician who emailed a woman nude photos of himself that were posted on a GOP activist's website has resigned and said he will consider all legal options to have the pictures taken down.
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Yahoo! News:
US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury — US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday. — Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed …
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Power Line and Weasel Zippers
Steven Hoffer / The Huffington Post:
Minnesota School Faces Lawsuit Over Racist ‘Wigger Day’ … A Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called “Wigger Day,” during which students wore clothes and behaved in a manner that “from their perspective, mimicked black culture,” according to a federal class action lawsuit filed against the district on Friday.
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Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Taxpayers Will Pay for Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States, Says White House — (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama's upcoming bus tour through the Midwest states typically viewed as swing states during presidential election years will be paid for by the taxpayers, the White House says.
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
MSNBC Host, Guest Consider Whether Tea Partiers Are Addicts, ‘Delusional’ — MSNBC host Martin Bashir interviewed Stanton Peele, a psychologist and an “expert on addiction,” this afternoon. Bashir urged Peele to psychologically evaluate supporters of the Tea Party.
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Air Force Suspends Christian-Themed Ethics Training Program Over Bible Passages — The Air Force has suspended a course that was taught by chaplains for more than 20 years because the material included Bible passages. — The course, called “Christian Just War Theory” …
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The Political Carnival, National Review, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Elizabeth MacDonald / FoxBusiness.com:
Media Matters Puts Tax-Exempt Status in Jeopardy — David Brock, chairman and chief executive of Media Matters for America, told a news website earlier this year that his nonprofit is now moving to “sabotage” FOX News because it says the network is now the “de facto head of the GOP,” among other things.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Americans Oppose Than Favor Debt Ceiling Agreement — Americans are twice as likely to think it will make economy worse rather than better — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are more likely to oppose (46%) than favor (39%) the agreement President Obama and Congress reached to raise the federal debt ceiling.
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Washington Post, Jared Bernstein and AMERICAN FUTURE
Dmitri Alperovitch / Blog Central:
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT — For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen other companies, I have often been asked by our worldwide customers if they should worry about such sophisticated …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook to Start New Social Media Firm (Resignation Letter) — Randi Zuckerberg, who is director of marketing at Facebook and also the sister of CEO and Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — is leaving Facebook after six years to start a new media firm to help companies become more social.
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Free exchange:
Flying blind — ON DECEMBER 16th, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama met in Chicago with key members of his economic team to discuss their response to the deteriorating economic situation. Just two weeks earlier, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that 533,000 jobs had been lost in November …
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FrumForum, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly and AMERICAN FUTURE
A.Killough / CNN:
Top Pawlenty adviser leaves campaign — Tampa, Florida (CNN) - A top policy adviser to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's has left the Republican's presidential campaign. — Al Hubbard, a former director of the National Economic Council under George W. Bush, had been the chairman of Pawlenty's …
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The Political Carnival, Politics and The Note
Rasmussen Reports:
69% Say It's Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research — The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue …
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Food Stamp Use Surges By Most In Years As Alabama Foodstamp Recipients Double In May — It appears that GDP data revisions are not the only thing that the administration enjoys fudging with in order to make the Chinese ministry of Truth seem like a real ministry of truth.
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Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, emptywheel and Doug Ross
Sky News:
‘Mission Accomplished’: Breivik Call To Cops — Anders Behring Breivik said “mission accomplished” during a call to police after he massacred 69 people on Utoya island, it has been reported. — According to the Verdens Gang (VG) daily, the 32-year-old right-wing extremist said: “Breivik.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Scariest 4 Economic Graphs I've Seen This Year — This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level. In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Chevy Volt: Still Not Selling — The July sales numbers are out and the Chevy Volt continues to electrify (get it?) the country. GM sold ... 125 Volts last month! — Way back in March I made fun of the Volt for selling 281 units in February. Turns out, February was a good month.
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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
D.B. Cooper Exclusive: Did Niece Provide Key Evidence? — A woman claiming to be the niece of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has spoken to ABC News in an exclusive interview about her role in the recently re-ignited 40-year-old cold case that has haunted the FBI for years.
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Kenneth Rogoff / Project Syndicate:
The Second Great Contraction — print recommend Send link clip secure rights — CAMBRIDGE - Why is everyone still referring to the recent financial crisis as the “Great Recession”? The term, after all, is predicated on a dangerous misdiagnosis of the problems that confront …
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Obama: Still the Alinskyite — Here's my take on the puzzle of Obama's leadership style. Obama is still every inch the Alinskyite organizer. He talks about uniting, even as he deliberately polarizes. He moves incrementally toward radical left goals, but never owns up to his ideology.
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alicublog, The Huffington Post, Cold Fury and Pajamas Media
Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:
New York State's Fracking Lawsuit Barred by Law, U.S. Says — The U.S. government said it will ask a judge to dismiss a New York lawsuit that seeks to force a fuller environmental review of how natural-gas extraction could affect 9 million water drinkers in the state.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Bachmann vs. Romney … - Walter Kirn: Catch-22 Isn't Joseph Heller's Best Book - Devastating Photos of the Famine in Somalia - Sex Selection Happens in the U.S., Too. How Should Doctors Deal With Such Cases? - When They Test Birth-Control Pills, Who Takes the Placebos?