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Statement by the President on Libya Blue Heron Farm, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just completed a call with my National Security Council on the situation in Libya. And earlier today I spoke to Prime Minister Cameron about the extraordinary events taking place there.
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Qaddafi Site Is Focus of Tripoli Combat
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Political Punch:
US Military Intervention in Libya Cost At Least $896 Million
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Fox News:
Reports of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi's Capture False, Appears in Tripoli
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New York Times:
The Scramble for Access to Libya's Oil Wealth Begins
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Andrew Solomon / News Desk:
Enigmas and Lies in Libya
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The Politico:
Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero — It's a tough time to be a conservative intellectual. — From the Weekly Standard to the Wall Street Journal, on the pages of policy periodicals and opinion sections, the egghead right's longing for a presidential candidate of ideas …
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National Review:
Five Reasons Ryan Bowed Out — Sources close to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin tell National Review Online that the Budget Committee chairman considered a variety of factors this summer as he mulled a late-entry presidential campaign. This afternoon, he closed the door on a 2012 bid, choosing to remain in the House.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Paul Ryan Not Running for President
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama in Close Race Against Romney, Perry, Bachmann, Paul — Romney has slight edge over Obama, Bachmann slightly lags — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama is closely matched against each of four possible Republican opponents when registered voters are asked whom they would support …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Arab Summer may not spread to Syria - Obama, Romney to unevil jobs agendas in same week. But who'll go first? - Palin ponders run; won't decide till late Sept. — BULLETIN — “Rebels near Gaddafi's Tripoli stronghold” — Reuters/Tripoli: “Rebels battling forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi …
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DealBook:
Standard & Poor's President to Step Down — Standard & Poor's said late on Monday that its president, Deven Sharma, will step down and leave the company by the end of the year. He will be replaced by Douglas Peterson, a top executive at Citigroup. — The decision by Mr. Sharma to resign comes …
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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
FCC officially kills Fairness Doctrine, wiping it from rules — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the elimination of 83 outdated and obsolete agency rules on Monday, including the controversial Fairness Doctrine. — “The elimination of the obsolete …
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Brooks Boliek / The Politico:
FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine — The FCC gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules. — Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-era rule, but the action Monday puts …
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Max Pizarro / Politicker NJ:
In LD8, Delany derailed by wife's email to Lewis — Former Assemblyman Pat Delany abruptly resigned last month from his post representing the 8th district after his wife sent a racially tinged email to senate challenger Carl Lewis, the former Olympic Gold medalist.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Spending, not entitlements, created huge deficit — It's conventional wisdom in Washington to blame the federal government's dire financial outlook on runaway entitlement spending. Unless we rein in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the conventional wisdom goes, the federal government is headed for disaster.
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Mark Knoller / CBS News:
National debt has increased $4 trillion under Obama — The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama's watch. — The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.
New York Times:
District Attorney Asks Judge to Drop Strauss-Kahn Case — Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office formally moved on Monday to dismiss the three-month-old sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, filing a 25-page motion that serves as their intricate and devastating anatomy of a case collapsing.
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Milken's Gift Stirs Dispute at U.C.L.A. Law School — When the U.C.L.A. School of Law announced a $10 million gift from Lowell Milken to establish a business law institute in his name earlier this month, the university described him as a “pioneer in education reform” and a “leading philanthropist.”
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Will Palin be in by Labor Day? ‘I doubt it’ — (CNN) - Karl Rove caused a commotion in recent days by predicting that Sarah Palin will run for president and hinting that she could announce her campaign during a speech to a tea party group in Iowa over Labor Day weekend. — That might be news to Palin.
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Joe Biden: ‘I Fully Understand’ China's One Child Policy — Good news, reproductive rights advocates and neo-Malthusian environmentalists! Vice President Joe Biden has no problem with the government forcibly sterilizing people and compelling abortions. From his remarks at Sichuan University …
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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Warren's criticism of Wall Street poses fundraising dilemma — Elizabeth Warren's combative history with Wall Street could create a fundraising dilemma for her burgeoning Senate campaign. — Her ardent grassroots following on the left — forged during stints as TARP watchdog and as mastermind …
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New York Times:
It's a Flawed Settlement — The Obama administration has turned up the heat on Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general, to go along with a proposed settlement with the nation's largest banks over dubious foreclosure practices. Mr. Schneiderman should stand his ground in not supporting the deal.
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Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Pipeline foes arrested in D.C. — WASHINGTON — Retired teacher Nancy Packard doesn't seem the type to get hauled off to jail, yet the Lincoln grandmother was being handcuffed and patted down by police officers Monday outside the White House. — Packard, 67, and five other Nebraskans …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
If the trial lawyers hate Rick Perry, maybe I should reconsider him — As a highly disgruntled GOP-aligned voter, I must confess to viewing the current slate of GOP POTUS candidates with emotions running from despair to disdain. — You've got serial flip-flopper and dog abuser Mitt Romney …
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Andrea Shalal-Esa / Reuters:
Goldman CEO hires high-profile defense attorney — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired Reid Weingarten, a high-profile Washington defense attorney whose past clients include a former Enron accounting officer, according to a government source familiar with the matter.
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Pataki to join Paul, McCotter at Polk County GOP fundraiser Saturday — Then-New York Gov. George Pataki addresses a Republican Party of Iowa picnic in Des Moines in 2006. (Register file photo) — Former New York Gov. George Pataki, who is considering a bid for the Republican presidential nomination …
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
How Democrats Hurt Jobs — The airplane's aft section arrived early Monday morning. That's what they'd been waiting for at the final assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C. They already had the wings, the nose, the tail — all the other major sections of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Shoplifting, Employment, And Keynesian Economics — Grover Norquist posits on Twitter that “If Keynesian economics worked—shoplifting would create jobs.” — It seems to me that in an economy with high unemployment and excess capacity, a temporary increase in shoplifting would in fact create jobs.
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