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Paul Krugman / Google+:
People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Krugman(?): If only the earthquake had done more damage, the economy would have gotten a boost; Update: Not Krugman — Via Timothy Carney, this appears to be real. — Is it real or just a goof? Kevin Williamson isn't sure and neither am I, but given that this is the same guy …
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Campaign Fix, Paul Krugman and Outside the Beltway
Stephen Stromberg / Washington Post:
Earthquake? It's Obama's fault. — When disaster strikes, the online commentariate...shows the worst of itself. Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft has already made the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that rattled the East Coast a dumb partisan issue, writing: … Judging by the comments below Hoft's post …
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Little Green Footballs, The Gateway Pundit and Sense of Events
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Des Moines Register:
Steffen Schmidt: Some Dems think the unthinkable: Not Obama — I recently had drinks with respected senior Democrats in New Hampshire. They were Barack Obama supporters in 2008 and now have serious buyer's remorse. — They were alarmed at the lack of leadership, which they feel Obama showed …
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Power Line and Don Surber
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Another Democrat Wouldn't Do Better Than Obama in 2012 — You know that a president is having a rough time when you start to see speculation that his party would be better off if it replaced him on the ticket. — There has been more of this recently: the political scientist Matthew Dickinson argued …
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The New Republic and Sky Dancing
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Rick Perry: The God-Fearing, Know-Nothing, Pistol-Packing Embodiment of Liberals' Worst Nightmares — What Rick Perry has achieved in his inaugural strut on the political stage is unprecedented in the annals of modern conservative history from Barry Goldwater to Sarah Palin.
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Betsy's Page
NewsMax.com:
PPP Poll: Perry Takes Double-Digit Lead Over Romney — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — A new poll shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry with a double-digit lead nationally …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers, Bluegrass Pundit and msnbc.com
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama tops Perry
Obama tops Perry
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Erick's blog, The Gateway Pundit, Taegan Goddard's …, Juanita Jean's, GOP 12, Balloon Juice and Outside the Beltway
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Jeb Bush warns 2012ers on hitting Obama — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush warned the Republican presidential hopefuls against ideological intransigence and knee-jerk opposition to President Barack Obama on Tuesday, saying they risk turning off middle-of-the-road voters.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Washington Monument cracked in quake — The earthquake didn't cause widespread damages or injuries, but it did put a crack in the Washington Monument. — After unconfirmed reports suggested the monument was tilting, parks officials said Tuesday night that the 550-foot obelisk suffered …
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Outside the Beltway
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The GOP will raise taxes — on the middle class and working poor — America's presumably anti-tax party wants to raise your taxes. Come January, the Republicans plan to raise the taxes of anyone who earns $50,000 a year by $1,000, and anyone who makes $100,000 by $2,000.
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Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars and DownWithTyranny!
John Stevens / Daily Mail:
Michelle Obama shows up her husband in tiny purple bike shorts as the President lags behind in jeans — Michelle Obama showed off her enviably toned thighs as she powered past the President in tiny purple cycling shorts on the first family's bike ride on Martha's Vineyard today.
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Weasel Zippers, JammieWearingFool and iOwnTheWorld.com
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
How to make Sarah Palin disappear — The safe bet remains that Sarah Palin is simply engaged in a long and tiresome tease. Every few weeks comes some new sign of her supposedly imminent entry into the GOP presidential race, but nothing ever seems to happen.
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Reuters, The Monkey Cage, A plain blog about politics, GOP 12 and Public Policy Polling
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Guy Benson — BREAKING: Obama Administratrion Clarifies Biden Remarks, “Strongly Opposes” China's One-Child Policy — As I mentioned in my previous post, I contacted the White House this afternoon for an explanation of Vice President Biden's stunning remarks regarding China's odious one-child policy.
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Althouse, Hot Air, National Review, Flopping Aces, Pundit & Pundette and Patterico's Pontifications
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Campaign 2012:
Top politically themed earthquake tweets — After Washington DC realized that the earthquake was nothing to worry about, they took to Twitter to joke about the cause. Some of the best ones below: — @TPCarney: Krugman says it wasn't big enough. — @comradescott: Evidently the quake occurred …
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Wizbang and The Business Insider
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
5.8 Virginia earthquake shakes East Coast, rattles residents
5.8 Virginia earthquake shakes East Coast, rattles residents
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The Enterprise Blog and The Episcopal Church welcomes …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Report: Majority of Congress with no education in business — Almost 80 percent of lawmakers have no academic background in business or economics, even as Congress grapples with deficits, unemployment and other economic issues of tremendous complexity, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday.
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The Caucus
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Study: 8 in 10 lawmakers lack education in economics
Study: 8 in 10 lawmakers lack education in economics
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The Glittering Eye, Weasel Zippers and CARPE DIEM
Scott Wong / Reuters:
Marco Rubio courts establishment Republicans — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — It might look like tea party hero Marco Rubio waded into enemy territory with stops in San Francisco and Beverly Hills this week. But rubbing shoulders with a different crowd is the point of the freshman senator's three-day swing through the Golden State.
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The Note, CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
BBC:
Defiant Gaddafi ‘vows to fight’ — The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tripoli: “The city erupted in gunfire” — Col Muammar Gaddafi has vowed death or victory in the fight against “aggression”, reports say, after Libyan rebels seized his Tripoli compound.
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The Atlantic Wire, Reuters, The Moderate Voice, americanthinker.com, New York Magazine and New York Times
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CBS News:
Anger In The Arab World
Anger In The Arab World
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The Heritage Foundation, The Gateway Pundit, Truthdig and Guardian
Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Energy Obamanomics: No green jobs and plenty of red ink — It's time to end all forms of corporate welfare — It wasn't enough to preside over the first-ever downgrade of America's credit rating. Now the Obama administration is downgrading America's energy supply as well.
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americanthinker.com
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint to Get iPhone 5 — Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the new version of the Apple iPhone in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, filling a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another sales channel for its popular gadget.
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AllThingsD, MarketBeat, New York Magazine, TechCrunch and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Centre Daily Times:
Penn State climate-change researcher cleared of misconduct — A National Science Foundation investigation has cleared climate-change research Michael Mann, of Penn State University, of any research wrongdoing. COURTESY OF PENN STATE UNIVERSITY — Provided photo Buy Photo — View the Inspector General's report
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Washington Post and Washington Monthly
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Big Banks: Under-Capitalized, Overexposed, Opaque — The US banking sector is not healthy. — There is a fundamental misunderstanding about the Wall Street bailouts amongst the public, and quite a few policy makers at Treasury and the Federal Reserve: Somehow, they “fixed” the banking system.
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Deal Journal
Daily Mail:
Money doesn't grow on trees: Federal grant of $500,000 to boost Nevada economy by planting trees creates 1.72 jobs — A federal stimulus grant of nearly $500,000 to grow trees and stimulate the economy in Nevada yielded just 1.72 jobs, according to government statistics.
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Betsy's Page
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Obama, Tiger, Golf and Politics — Despite the carping by critics, I'm glad the president went on vacation because one of the most useful things he could do right now is play golf — a lot of golf — but not that friendly foursome thing with his aides that he usually does.
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Rumproast and JammieWearingFool