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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
June Job Creation at 80,000; Rate Holds Steady at 8.2% — The U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, reflecting continued slow growth in the economy with the presidential election just four months away.
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
June jobs swoon: America's labor market depression continues — This was not the employment report either the American worker or the Obama campaign wanted to see right now. The Labor Department said the U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, less than the 90,000 economists had been forecasting.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
June Jobs Report Brings Another Round Of Disappointment — Despite some signs I noted yesterday that suggested that the June jobs report might not be as disappointing as some feared, the slowing trend that we saw starting to develop in March, which continued into April, and got even worse in May, were still there in June.
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The Glittering Eye, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Felix Salmon
Ed Carson / Investor's Business Daily:
10 reasons why jobs market even worse than weak June employment report
10 reasons why jobs market even worse than weak June employment report
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Patterico's Pontifications
Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
June Employment Report: 80,000 Jobs, 8.2% Unemployment Rate
June Employment Report: 80,000 Jobs, 8.2% Unemployment Rate
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BBC, msnbc.com, Firedoglake and Business Insider
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Disability Ranks Outpace New Jobs In Obama Recovery
Disability Ranks Outpace New Jobs In Obama Recovery
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Ben Casselman / Wall Street Journal:
Jobs Report Revives Fears for Recovery
Jobs Report Revives Fears for Recovery
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Washington Wire, MarketBeat and Real Time Economics
Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Payrolls In U.S. Rose 80,000 In June; Jobless Rate 8.2%
Payrolls In U.S. Rose 80,000 In June; Jobless Rate 8.2%
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International Liberty, Instapundit, Guardian, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and aflcio.org
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Three Makes A Trend … - If Paul Clement Is So Good, How Did He Lose the Term's Two Biggest Supreme Court Cases?
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New York Magazine and FT Alphaville
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Obama Isn't Working:
Broken Record, Broken Promises
Broken Record, Broken Promises
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Donovan Slack / Politico:
WH: at least the economy is still growing
WH: at least the economy is still growing
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Associated Press, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
Ohioan to Obama: Let's arm-wrestle for vote — A voter in Amherst, Ohio, offered to arm-wrestle President Obama in exchange for his vote. — The president responded he'd prefer a basketball game, according to a White House pool report. — Obama was in Ohio wrapping up day one of a two-day bus tour …
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
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BuzzFeed:
Obama: Turn Off Fox News — Obama suggests patron ask bar owner to switch off the conservative-leaning cable network. — Image by KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters — PARMA, Ohio — At an unscheduled stop at Ziggy's Pub and Restaurant, an Amherst, Ohio bar, President Barack Obama suggested …
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The Raw Story, Wonkette, NewsBusters.org, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative and TheBlaze.com
Alexander Burns / Politico:
American Bridge hits Mitt's jobs rhetoric — Turns out it's not just health care where President Barack Obama sounds a lot like Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. — Ahead of the June unemployment numbers release this morning, the Democratic reserach group American Bridge is circulating video …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama hits Romney: ‘Principles matter’
Obama hits Romney: ‘Principles matter’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
Mitt's Million-Dollar Question: What's Romney Really Worth?
Mitt's Million-Dollar Question: What's Romney Really Worth?
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Politico, ABCNEWS and The Reaction
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Romney-Rice? — Erin McPike's “close examination of the [Romney] campaign's activity” at RealClearPolitics suggests four leading contenders for Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick—former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, Ohio senator Rob Portman, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal.
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National Review and Real Clear Politics
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Brandon Blackwell / Plain Dealer:
Clash breaks out at GOP rally supporting Mitt Romney in Parma — PARMA, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sent two GOP heavyweights to northern Ohio Thursday to beat President Barack Obama's similar bus tour to the punch. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Minnesota …
Politico:
Sobbing woman thanks Obama for health care law — SANDUSKY, Ohio — An emotional Ohio voter personally thanked President Obama for passing a health care overhaul, relating the story of her late sister's battle with cancer. — After Obama's speech in Sandusky, he encountered a sobbing Stephanie Miller …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama on Romneycare: 'It's working just fine'
Obama on Romneycare: 'It's working just fine'
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New York Magazine
Robert Scheer / The Huffington Post:
Crime of the Century — Forget Bernie Madoff and Enron's Ken Lay — they were mere amateurs in financial crime. The current Libor interest rate scandal, involving hundreds of trillions in international derivatives trade, shows how the really big boys play.
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
New Leak Explains What Chief Justice Roberts Was Really Thinking in Health Care Cases (Although the Leak is Poorly Sourced) — A fascinating new leak from deep inside the Supreme Court has just surfaced on what Roberts was thinking when he switched his vote in the health care cases.
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PrawfsBlawg
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Randy Barnett / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Unprecedented Uniqueness of Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion
The Unprecedented Uniqueness of Chief Justice Roberts' Opinion
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Washington Examiner and protein wisdom
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
96 Year-Old Latino Former Arizona Governor Detained By Border Patrol In 100 Degree Heat — This man is Raúl Héctor Castro. He is 96 years old, a former Arizona governor, and a former United States Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina. He was born in Mexico, and is a United States citizen.
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Salon, Wonkette, The Raw Story and skippy the bush kangaroo
David Brooks / New York Times:
Honor Code — Henry V is one of Shakespeare's most appealing characters. He was rambunctious when young and courageous when older. But suppose Henry went to an American school. — By about the third week of nursery school, Henry's teacher would be sending notes home saying that Henry “had another hard day today.”
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
‘No Child’ Law Whittled Down by White House — In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified.
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Mother Jones, Eduwonk, Politico, Perdido Street School and The Heritage Foundation