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12:30 PM ET, July 2, 2010

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Ezra Klein:
Economy lost 125,000 jobs and 652,000 workers in June  —  A brutal unemployment report this month.  Payrolls dropped by 125,000.  In another one of those unwanted lessons in how we calculate unemployment data, the unemployment rate dropped from 9.7 percent to 9.5 percent — but not because people got hired.
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Michael Powell / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Shed 125,000 Jobs in June; Rate Is 9.5%  —  The United States added just 83,000 private-sector jobs in June, a dishearteningly low number that could add to the growing number of economists who warn that the economic recovery is stalling.  —  Multimedia
Ezra Klein:
The White House's economic message  —  “Today's employment report shows continued signs of gradual labor market recovery,” reads the first line of Christina Romer's analysis of the May jobs report.  She emphasizes the 83,000 jobs created in the private sector (the 125,000 net job loss is due …
Christina Romer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
The Employment Situation in June  —  Today's employment report shows continued signs of gradual labor market recovery.  Private nonfarm payroll employment increased by 83,000 in June and the unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 9.5%.  June marks the sixth month in a row …
Christopher S. Rugaber / Associated Press:
Payrolls drop by 125K, jobless rate falls  —  WASHINGTON - A wave of census layoffs cut the nation's payrolls in June for the first time in six months, while private employers added a modest number of jobs.  The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, its lowest level in almost a year.
David Leonhardt / Economix:
The Recovery Is Losing Steam
USA Today:
What is the Tea Party?  A growing state of mind  —  WASHINGTON — The “Tea Party” is less a classic political movement than a frustrated state of mind.  —  A year and a half after the idea of a Tea Party burst into view, three of 10 Americans describe themselves in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Tea Party Supporters Overlap Republican Base  —  Eight out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans  —  PRINCETON, NJ — There is significant overlap between Americans who identify as supporters of the Tea Party movement and those who identify as conservative Republicans.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham spits out tea party
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
RNC chairman: Obama pursued Afghanistan war ‘trying to be cute’  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was caught on video at a fundraiser in Connecticut on Thursday raising doubts about the war in Afghanistan.  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) pushed out the video …
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Barbara Morrill / Daily Kos:
Michael Steele: Afghanistan “was a war of Obama's choosing”  —  It's long been clear that the Republican Party's strategy since Barack Obama became president was to obstruct and attack, no matter what the issue, no matter what the reality.  But this video goes beyond any level of mendacity we've seen over the past 18 months.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Steele Says We Shouldn't Be In Afghanistan; Calls It Obama's War Of Choice
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RNC'S STEELE REJECTS REPUBLICAN LINE ON AFGHANISTAN. …
Discussion: Think Progress, msnbc.com and The Hill
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Myths of Austerity  —  When I was young and naïve, I believed that important people took positions based on careful consideration of the options.  Now I know better.  Much of what Serious People believe rests on prejudices, not analysis.  And these prejudices are subject to fads and fashions.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Broadband Grants  —  It's good that this is happening, but sad to see it happening so late in the game considering when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed: … I think this episode highlights some of the tensions and problems that have plagued our efforts at doing discretionary fiscal stimulus on an adequate scale.
Discussion: Reuters and Eschaton
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Obama to announce $795M in broadband grants
Discussion: msnbc.com, Engadget and BBC
Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News:
Barack Obama is among best presidents ever - George W. Bush not so much, say scholars in Siena poll  —  George W. Bush was no FDR, but Barack Obama could be.  —  That's the verdict of 238 of the nation's leading presidential scholars, who - for a fifth time - rated Franklin Delano Roosevelt …
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage  —  BEDFORD, Ohio — Factory owners have been adding jobs slowly but steadily since the beginning of the year, giving a lift to the fragile economic recovery.  And because they laid off so many workers — more than two million since the end of 2007 …
Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
Hurricane GOP On The Way  —  MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: THERE IS A WAVE OUT THERE, AND FOR DEMOCRATS, THE HOUSE IS, AT BEST, TEETERING ON THE EDGE.  —  Imagine sitting in Washington's Verizon Center, listening blissfully to Carole King and James Taylor, thanks to a fast-thinking friend who managed to score four floor seats.
Moni Basu / CNN:
Death by stoning imminent for Iranian woman, attorney says  —  (CNN) — Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, is waiting to die in Iran by a method of execution described by her lawyer as “barbaric” — stoning.  —  She will be buried up to her chest, deeper than a man would be …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and YID With LID
Michelle Malkin:
Assimilation and the Founding Fathers  —  As we head into Independence Day weekend, my column today reflects on the other “A” word missing from the immigration debate: Assimilation.  —  Assimilation and the Founding Fathers  —  by Michelle Malkin  —  Creators Syndicate  —  Copyright 2010
Discussion: Riehl World View
Jon Ortiz / Sacramento Bee:
Schwarzenegger orders minimum wage for state workers  —  The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers.  —  The instructions from the Department …
Discussion: Hot Air
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Kagan Reminds Senators: Legislation Is Your Job  —  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court confirmation hearings are usually designed to probe a nominee's conception of the role of the justices.  But this week's questioning of Elena Kagan turned into a tutorial on Congressional responsibility.
David Paul Kuhn / Real Clear Politics:
The Polarization of the Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court has gradually come to act more like a political institution.  The share of one-vote majority rulings has risen more than four-fold in the past six decades, compared to the half-century prior, based on a RealClearPolitics analysis of rulings from 1801 to the present.
LoriC / RADAR:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson's Racist Rant Caught On Tape - Tells Oksana She Would Get ‘Raped By N***ers’  —  In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her …
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Congressional Report Claims Administration Misled About Efforts on Oil Spill  —  (CNSNews.com) - Billy Nungesser, president of New Orleans' Plaquemines Parish, sensed that a chart showing 140 oil skimmers at work — a chart given to him by BP and the Coast Guard — was “somewhat inaccurate.”
Discussion: Townhall.com and Weasel Zippers
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats shaping battle plan against Republicans for November  —  Architects of President Obama's 2008 victory are braced for potentially sizable Democratic losses in November's midterm elections.  But they say voters' unease about a GOP takeover will help their party maintain congressional majorities.
Discussion: The Plum Line
Associated Press:
21 killed in shootout between drug, migrant trafficking gangs near Arizona border  —  HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said.
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Health law risks turning away sick  —  The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured.  —  Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014.
 
 
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
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CNN:
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