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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Abbas Says He Will Seek Palestinian State at the Security Council — The Palestinian president announced Friday that he will seek statehood through the Security Council at the United Nations next week, a move strongly opposed by Israel and the United States and likely to provoke a major conflict …
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Outside the Beltway, Truthdig, UN Dispatch and Balloon Juice
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The Politico:
Palestinian officials: Jews welcome
Palestinian officials: Jews welcome
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ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers, USA Today, Elder of Ziyon and Associated Press
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama Tries to Look Beyond Palestinian Bid at UN
Obama Tries to Look Beyond Palestinian Bid at UN
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The Politico
Rick Perry / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.
The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.
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ThinkProgress and Ben Smith's Blog
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Popularity Prompts Buyer's Remorse — The most popular national political figure in America today is one who was rejected by her own party three years ago: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. — Nearly two-thirds of Americans hold a favorable view of her and one-third are suffering …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama team pushes back at suggestions he's in trouble
Obama team pushes back at suggestions he's in trouble
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Weasel Zippers, Ben Smith's Blog and Questions and Observations
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Poll: Americans optimistic about Hillary Clinton presidency
TRENDING: Poll: Americans optimistic about Hillary Clinton presidency
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CANNONFIRE and Politics
First Read / msnbc.com:
Latest Texas jobs figures shows net jobs loss, unemployment highest in 24 years — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's efforts to tout his record on jobs and the economy as a centerpiece of his presidential campagn took a hit today with new figures from one of his own state agencies …
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Daily Kos, The Reality-Based Community and The Political Carnival
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Uptick in Texas Jobless Rate Puts Perry on the Spot
Uptick in Texas Jobless Rate Puts Perry on the Spot
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Austin American-Statesman
Anthony McCartney / Associated Press:
Book: Treasury Secretary ignored Obama directive — NEW YORK (AP) — A new book offering an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis says that U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama calling for reconstruction of major banks.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
You Don't Make Social Security More Solvent By Eliminating Its Funding Base — Television hosts who like to ask Republican Party members politically charges questions about Social Security (you know who you are) really ought to take 10-20 minutes to think about how Social Security works …
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Don Surber, Washington Monthly, Campaign 2012, Corrente and Eschaton
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New York Post:
Weiner gets 'brush'off — By S.A. MILLER in Washington and CARL CAMPANILE in NY — Scrub out the stench of Weiner! — Newly sworn-in Republican Rep. Bob Turner's family ordered a thorough cleaning of the House office space he inherited from his disgraced predecessor, Anthony Weiner …
Justin Fishel / Fox News:
General Reported He Was Pressured on Testimony About White House-Backed Project, Sources Say — Gen. William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command, told House members in a classified briefing earlier this month that he was pressured to change prepared congressional testimony …
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Big Government, iOwnTheWorld.com, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Pajamas Media, Scared Monkeys and The Daily Beast
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems slam Obama for going ‘AWOL’ on mortgage crisis
Dems slam Obama for going ‘AWOL’ on mortgage crisis
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Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Pajamas Media, JammieWearingFool and The Lonely Conservative
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Free to Die — Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, the genial economist identified laissez-faire economics with personal choice and empowerment …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
A dose of reality for the HPV debate — If Republican presidential candidates want to debate sexual health and hygiene, it would be nice if they displayed more collective knowledge and judgment than your average eighth-grade family-life class. During the Tampa debate, a viewer longed for a blunt …
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Little Green Footballs, Business Insider and The Atlantic Online
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David Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court halts Texas execution — Justices act on an emergency appeal for a murderer sentenced to die after jurors were told he posed a greater danger because he is black. Gov. Rick Perry and state judges had refused to intervene. — Duane Edward Buck, 48, was sentenced to die …
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Truthdig, Nation Now and Firedoglake
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NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn't create more jobs — Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn't get serious about generating jobs. — “We have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show.
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Runnin' Scared, Wonkette, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider and JammieWearingFool
US News:
Ford TV Ad Slams Obama Auto Bailouts — America is still fighting over President Obama's costly bailout of Chrysler and General Motors. Especially the owners of Ford, the only member of Detroit's “Big Three” who rejected the government dole and emerged perfectly healthy.
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Slate and Washington Monthly
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Wow: Ford ad blasts bailouts — and perhaps more
Wow: Ford ad blasts bailouts — and perhaps more
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
CBS Denver:
2 Men Accused Of Taking Dead Friend Out For Night On The Town — DENVER (CBS4) - Two men are facing charges in a crime that has family members shocked. — They are accused of putting their deceased friend into a car and then heading out for a night of bar hopping. — Jeffrey Jarrett died last month.
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The Daily What, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Mediaite
New York Post:
Devout taxi drivers allowed to veto strip-club roof ads — The great religious war, waged on top of yellow cabs, has ended. — Devout Muslim hacks — who were crouched behind their steering wheels in shame while driving with ads for strip clubs atop their taxis — won a major victory yesterday in their war on roof smut.
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New York Magazine, Atlas Shrugs and americanthinker.com
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Noah Rosenberg / New York Times:
Some Cabbies Given Right to Say No to Racy Ads
Some Cabbies Given Right to Say No to Racy Ads
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Gothamist
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Planning Fallacy — When the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was a young man, he led a committee to write a new part of the curriculum for Israeli high schools. The committee worked for a year, and Kahneman asked his colleagues how long they thought the rest of the project would take.
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ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, Sadly, No! and Booman Tribune
Allison Kopicki / The Caucus:
Approval of Congress Matches Record Low — Congress faces historically low approval ratings as it wades into the debate over the $447 billion jobs package proposed by President Obama, with just 12 percent of Americans now approving of the way Congress is handling its job, matching its all-time low …
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Washington Monthly, The Monkey Cage, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, Booman Tribune and Prairie Weather
Glenn Kessler / Associated Press:
John Boehner's misfire on pending federal regulations — “At this moment, the Executive Branch has 219 new rules in the works that will cost our economy at least $100 million. That means under the current Washington agenda, our economy is poised to take a hit from the government of at least $100 million — 219 times.”
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, A plain blog about politics, Speaker, Firedoglake and Business Insider
Joshua Green / Business Week:
Teaparty.com Could Make a Rock Band Rich — Political operatives may pay top dollar for the domain name, owned by a Canadian rock band that pioneered a style called “Moroccan roll” — There's no hotter name in politics right now than the Tea Party. But anyone seized with a desire …
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Ballot Box and Mediaite
Robert Shrum / The Week Magazine:
The Democrats' self-defeating crybaby chorus — After a special election loss in New York City, many on the Left are boneheadedly fleeing Obama — just when they should be rallying to his side — Before the month came thumping in on elephant feet, I wrote that each August since 2007 …
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