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2:25 PM ET, August 6, 2009

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Washington Post:
Senate Committee's Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Talks Move Toward Center  —  Bipartisan Talks On Reform Move Toward Center  —  Senate negotiators are inching toward bipartisan agreement on a health-care plan that seeks middle ground on some of the thorniest issues facing Congress …
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Pelosi: Town Hall Protesters Are “Carrying Swastikas”  —  Nancy Pelosi claims protesters are “carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare.”  VIDEO: Man At Town Hall: “You Need To Get The Government The Hell Out Of Our Way” VIDEO: DNC Web Ad Attacks Protesters …
The Huffington Post:
Unions To Take On Conservative Groups Health Care Town Halls  —  The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.  —  In a memo sent out on Thursday …
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:
Pelosi's Swastika Claim Is A Crock
Discussion: The Jawa Report, Hot Air and IMAO
Michael Andersen / Columbian:
Baird fears foes may plan ‘ambush’
Discussion: The Plum Line and RedState
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Obama approval drops 7 points over last 100 days  —  CNN Deputy Political Director  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — As President Obama approaches 200 days in the White House, a new national poll shows his approval rating has dropped seven points since the 100-day mark in April.
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Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a ‘Failure’ Than Bush's  —  A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll.  Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, “Do you consider the first six months …
Quinnipiac University:
Obama's Approval Drops To 50 Percent, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Half Say President Acted ‘Stupidly’ In Race Dispute  —  After 199 days in office, President Barack Obama has a 50 - 42 percent job approval rating from American voters, down from 57 - 33 percent July 2 …
Philip Kennicott / Washington Post:
Obama as The Joker: Racial Fear's Ugly Face  —  ‘Political’ Poster Turns On Violent Symbolism  —  Between Jack Nicholson's 1989 portrayal of the Joker in “Batman” and Heath Ledger's 2008 characterization in “The Dark Knight,” something sinister happened to the villain's iconic makeup.
Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:
Dear Huffington Post, About That Headline  —  Yesterday was a pretty big day.  The lives of two amazing journalists were saved, their families spared more emotional agony.  It all started, as the New York Times reported it, after being arrested on March 17 near the North Korean border …
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Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BILL'S H'WOOD BLOCKBUSTER
Discussion: Mediaite and Don Surber
Erica Alini / Wall Street Journal:
No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users  —  They Sit for Hours and Don't Spend Much; Getting the Bum's Rush in the Big Apple  —  A sign at Naidre's, a small neighborhood coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins warmly: “Dear customers, we are absolutely thrilled that you like us …
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Reliable Source:
Furor Over an Obama Puff Piece  —  Student Barack Obama in a 1980 photo shoot at Occidental College.  (Lisa Jack/Getty Images)  —  It was only a matter of time before someone combined a certain memorable image of a young future president with a jokey twist on his campaign slogan …
Washington Post:
U.S. Considers Remaking Mortgage Giants  —  ‘Bad Bank’ Would Wipe the Slate Clean for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac by Taking Their Toxic Loans  —  The Obama administration is considering an overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would strip the mortgage finance giants of hundreds of billions …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost  —  WASHINGTON — Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion.
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
CHRISTY ROMER ARGUES FOR THE STIMULUS.  —  Well, can't get a much better speech title than “So, Is It Working?”  That's the question answered in Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer's speech today, and she answers it with one word: Absolutely.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Free exchange
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Economic ‘trajectory’ turns: White House
Discussion: The Note
Financial Times:
Murdoch vows to charge for all online content  —  Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all the online content of his newspapers and television news channels, going well beyond his prediction in May that the company would test pay models on one of its stronger papers within the year.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Is Murdoch's Plan to Charge for Online News Doomed?
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama's dissident database could be secret — and permanent  —  The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading “disinformation” about the proposed national health care makeover could lead to a White House database of political opponents that will be both secret …
Jerome R. Corsi / WorldNetDaily:
Obama birth doc update: Kenya sources weigh in  —  Comparison with similar certificates suggests fakery, WND probe reveals  —  NEW YORK - The Kenyan birth document released by California attorney Orly Taitz is probably not authentic, according to WND's investigative operatives in Africa …
Ashley Hayes / CNN:
Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme to be released  —  (CNN) — The president she once pointed a gun at has been dead for nearly three years, and her longtime idol and leader, Charles Manson, remains in prison.  —  However, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme is about to get her first taste of real freedom in more than three decades.
Associated Press:
Psychologists Reject Gay ‘Therapy’  —  The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.  —  In a resolution adopted by the association's governing council …
Rasmussen Reports:
Krugman Disses Rasmussen Poll - But Forgets to Fact-Check  —  In a blog posting yesterday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman raises questions about a recent Rasmussen Reports poll of Massachusetts voters.  The poll shows that Bay State voters are less than enthusiastic about the state's experiment in health care reform.
Discussion: Paul Krugman
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Healthcare debate gets uglier  —  Special interests are accused of organizing disruptive outbursts as Democrats try to answer voter concerns.  —  Reporting from Washington — An effigy of Rep. Frank Kratovil Jr. was hung outside his office on the eastern shore of Maryland.
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
You can never say, “Y'know, that's a good point, maybe I'm wrong”  —  Marc Ambinder marches on past his intellect  —  And it isn't just people trying to rationalize why the hell they were all for invading Iraq six and a half years ago.  It applies to just about every villager when they get called …
Kate Pickert / Time:
Barack Obama's Golf Game  —  Presidents, like normal people, tend to seek in others what they admire about themselves.  Which brings us to the par-5 12th hole at Woodlawn golf course in Fort Belvoir, Va., on Father's Day.  Vice President Joe Biden, an 8 handicap, has leaked a 3-wood into the trees near the green.
Discussion: The Swamp and Swampland
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Guns of August  —  Jon Cohn says he's “been obsessing over the lack of passion and organization on the left,” though now feeling slightly better.  I agree, but it is worth saying that this is almost 100 percent the fault of Max Baucus.  —  There's a reason, after all …
 
 
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Alysia Patterson / Associated Press:
Ex-Edwards Mistress at Court Amid Campaign Probe
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
‘Charlie Rose’ to Appear on Bloomberg Channel
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
New Jobless Claims Drop More Than Expected
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
OFA tries to counter “mobs” with their own supporters
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Haya El Nasser / USA Today:
Drop in homeownership likely to continue
Discussion: DailyFinance and James Pethokoukis
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
But for Wales?  —  From 1997 to June of 2009, Rep. John McHugh …
Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
At Meet-And-Greet, Rep. Chris Murphy Meets Some Hostility
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Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
Autocracy and the Decline of the Arabs
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