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11:30 AM ET, August 4, 2009

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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Counsel's Job Is at Stake  —  WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are holding discussions that could result in White House counsel Gregory Craig leaving his post, following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Mr. Craig, the top lawyer at the White House …
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Michael Tanji / Danger Room:   White House ‘Cyber Czar’ Resigns; Let's Not Replace Her.
Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Vents as Overhaul Stumbles  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting.
KTLA:
Obama ‘Joker’ Poster Causing a Stir in L.A.  —  Obama “Joker” Poster  —  What do you think?  —  When you're taking flak... ÃÂyou know you're over the target,and the person who made this poster is shining the light of truth on the Obama administration.
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Steven Mikulan / LA Daily:
New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster  —  A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.  Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm.
New York Times:
Bill Clinton Meeting North Korea Leader, Media Reports  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Former President Bill Clinton met on Tuesday with Kim Jong-il, the reclusive and ailing leader of North Korea, while on a visit to negotiate the release of two imprisoned American television journalists, North Korean state media reported.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton In N. Korea For Release Of Americans  —  Former president Bill Clinton landed in North Korea on Tuesday on an unannounced and unofficial mission to negotiate the release of two American journalists, whose detention since March has deeply concerned his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton visits North Korea in bid to free journalists
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’  —  [Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for “birther” debunking.]  —  One of my friends in the small community of Obama “birther” …
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Koyaan / PolitiJab.com:
Kenyan Birth Certificate: PWNED!  —  After having spent (wasted?) nearly a year in the trenches of Birthistan, I decided several months ago to “retire” and move on, save for dropping by here once in a while to keep in touch with some of the friends I'd made here.
Gateway Pundit:
Lib “Blue Dog” Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) Booed, Mocked & Laughed At During Town Hall (Video)  —  Another Day— Another Blue Dog Mocked at Obamacare Town Hall  —  Representative Steve Driehaus (D-OH) held a town hall on health care reform.  While Driehaus campaigned as a fiscal conservative …
Discussion: Little Green Links
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Cincinnati.com:
Health-care forum draws big crowd
New York Times:
Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Arlen Specter and the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, were heckled and booed in Philadelphia on Sunday.  —  In Austin on Saturday, a throng of protesters enveloped Representative Lloyd Doggett …
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Durbin Responds To Lobbyist-Run Efforts To Harass Town Halls …
The Hill:
Left is miffed at Pelosi over her comment  —  House liberals are offended that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mocked their threats to oppose a Democratic healthcare bill, saying leaders are underestimating their frustration over a deal cut with centrist Blue Dogs.
Discussion: Kausfiles, Wonk Room and Blog entry
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Derrick Z. Jackson / Boston Globe:
Who will stand strong in heat of healthcare fight?
Discussion: Firedoglake
Gwen Ottinger / Washington Post:
When ‘Clunkers’ Are Greener  —  Want to be green?  Consider keeping your “clunker.”  —  The wildly popular “Cash for Clunkers” program is one of a number of policies funded by this year's stimulus package that encourage consumers to make major purchases in the name of the environment.
Rasmussen Reports:
54% Oppose More Money for ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program  —  Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans oppose any further funding for the federal “cash for clunkers” program which encourages the owners of older cars to trade them in for newer, more fuel-efficient ones.
Weekly Standard:
And That's the Way It Wasn't  —  From the Scrapbook.  —  It seems somehow oddly appropriate that the passing of TV news giant Walter Cronkite should have produced in turn a gigantic correction in the New York Times, which we reproduce here for your delectation:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
New York Post:
HONORING AN AMERICA-HATER  —  THE Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor.  Past recipients include John Wayne, Norman Rockwell and Vaclav Havel.  This year, one of the 16 recipients President Obama selected (along with such worthies as Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late Jack Kemp) …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
McDonnell leads by 14  —  Bob McDonnell has opened up a 51-37 lead over Creigh Deeds in the race to be Virginia's next Governor, up from a 49-43 advantage four weeks ago.  —  The movement in the race likely has more to do with national trends than anything actually going on in Virginia.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
And for the Blue Team?  —  We spent most of Monday reporting on these tea-bagging crowds going to Democratic health care town hall meetings to shout down the hosts and shut the events down.  It's classic agitprop, very akin to the ‘Brooks Brothers riot’ down in Florida during the recount.
Wall Street Journal:
Why Revive the Cold War?  —  Russia and the U.S. were reducing their nuclear arsenals without ‘arms control.’  —  Multimedia  —  Health Care Reform  —  President Obama's effort to overhaul the health-care system may have momentum.  See past attempts at reform.  —  Health Overhaul Quiz
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Long Island Tea Party!  —  Great American and Atlas reader Karen videoed the speech and escaped the stalker camera man :) Thanks, Karen!  —  UPDATE: Here's Pamela Hall's post, after she scolded the video fool ...........  (see below)  —  Lady Liberty - check out her torch!
 
 
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Barbara F. Walter / Los Angeles Times:
Too soon to leave Iraq
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
At Walter Reed, ‘The Healing Power of Death Metal’
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Brennan To Give Counterterrorism Speech
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Timothy Williams / New York Times:
Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead
Discussion: Reason
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Laws Won't Rein In Hate
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Washington Post:
Va., N.Y. Districts Vie for 9/11 Case
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Wall Street Journal:
Teeing Up the Middle Class
Discussion: New York Times and Commentary
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Deeds' Problem  —  We'll have the new Virginia Gubernatorial poll …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Blue Virginia
Laura A. Munson / New York Times:
Those Aren't Fighting Words, Dear
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Kevin Helliker / Wall Street Journal:
Killer App for Clunkers Spurs Market
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