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3:35 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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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Lanny Davis / The Hill:
The Clinton-Clinton-Obama triumph
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BILL'S H'WOOD BLOCKBUSTER
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Crowd laughs and applauds at Rep. Akin's comment about lawmakers almost being ‘lynched’ at town halls.  —  At a “Freedom Conference” meeting earlier this week, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) mentioned that some Democratic lawmakers were almost “lynched” by angry protesters around the country at town hall meetings.
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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: MoJo Blog Posts and Free exchange
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Christina Romer Makes the Case for ARRA
Discussion: TalkLeft
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Economic ‘trajectory’ turns: White House
Discussion: The Note
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Reid: GOP ‘run by a talk show host’  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched his harshest attack on the Republican Party in months, claiming the GOP is “being run by a talk show host.”  —  Reid, armed with a patch of Astroturf, slammed Republicans for sponsoring town hall attacks …
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 …
Pew Research Center:
Many Fault Media Coverage of Health Care Debate  —  Partisan Divide Over Coverage of “Birther” Allegations  —  As the fight in Washington over health care reform continues to dominate public attention and media coverage, most Americans are critical of the way news organizations are explaining key elements of the debate.
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.
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 …
Reuters:
US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time  —  FOODSTAMPS/USA:US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on Thursday …
Twitter Status:
Ongoing denial-of-service attack  —  We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.  —  Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.  —  Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness.
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.
Dominic Kennedy / Times of London:
Secret mission to expose L. Ron Hubbard as a fake  —  The founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, was exposed as a fraud 30 years ago by British diplomats who were investigating his qualifications.  —  The science-fiction writer, who invented a religion now followed by celebrities such as Tom Cruise …
Discussion: UN Dispatch and JammieWearingFool
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Gravity  —  I didn't make it over to the Met today, was busy helping clean up the remnants of a slumber party.  But I was there on Tuesday, and got to spend about an hour and half wandering.  When I was young, I was, as all of you know, a hip-hop head.  I consumed everything I could about the music …
Discussion: The Plank
 
 
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Jurors Don't Discount Evidence Obtained From Rough Treatment
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Annys Shin / Washington Post:
New Jobless Claims Drop More Than Expected
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
Discussion: Gawker, The Stash and MoJo Blog Posts
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
OFA tries to counter “mobs” with their own supporters
Discussion: The Politico and techPresident
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:
Pelosi's Swastika Claim Is A Crock
Discussion: The Jawa Report, Hot Air and IMAO
 Earlier Items: 
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
But for Wales?  —  From 1997 to June of 2009, Rep. John McHugh …
Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
Autocracy and the Decline of the Arabs
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
You can never say, “Y'know, that's a good point, maybe I'm wrong”
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Dem Congressman's Office: His Life Has Been Threatened Over Health Care Bill