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6:50 PM ET, July 8, 2010

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Octavia Nasr's firing and what the liberal media allows  —  (updated below)  —  CNN yesterday ended the 20-year career of Octavia Nasr, its Atlanta-based Senior Middle East News Editor, because of a now-deleted tweet she wrote on Sunday upon learning of the death of one of the Shiite world's …
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Haaretz:
Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein  —  U.S. president tells Channel 2 Israel is unlikely to attack Iran without coordinating with the U.S.  —  U.S. President Barack Obama told Channel 2 News on Wednesday that he believed Israel would not try to surprise the U.S. with a unilateral attack on Iran.
Discussion: Mondoweiss and TPMDC
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
CNN's firing of Nasr protested
The Huffington Post:
Sharron Angle's Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has moderated a host of policy positions in her transition from a primary candidate to general election contender battling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Sharron Angle: The $20 billion in BP escrow cash was “slush fund”  —  Looks like Sharron Angle has now had her ultimate Rand Paul moment: During a radio appearance she labeled the $20 billion BP escrow fund secured by the White House as a “slush fund.”  —  Angle also seemed to agree …
Ben White / The Politico:
W.H.: We're not anti-business  —  The White House has launched a coordinated campaign to push back against the perception taking hold in corporate America and on Wall Street that President Barack Obama is promoting an anti-business agenda.  —  Obama has been happy to be seen by voters …
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Chicago Sun Times:
Feds: Jackson Jr. at meeting on Senate seat trade
Adam Bink / Open Left:   Mixed messaging
Rasmussen Reports:
56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State  —  Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department's decision to challenge the legality of Arizona's new immigration law in federal court.  Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact …
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Associated Press:
Lawyer Who Defended ‘American Taliban’ Now Heads DOJ Suit Against Arizona
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Townhall.com
Diana Furchtgott-Roth / RealClearMarkets:
Racial, Gender Quotas in the Financial Bill?  —  WASHINGTON - What one finds when reading congressional legislation is invariably surprising.  Take the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, for instance, which was created by merging Senate and House bills.  When the Senate returns from recess …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:   Financial regulation bill dictates ethnic, gender quotas
Carolyn Jones / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. considers banning sale of pets except fish  —  Sell a guinea pig, go to jail.  —  That's the law under consideration by San Francisco's Commission of Animal Control and Welfare.  If the commission approves the ordinance at its meeting tonight, San Francisco could soon have what is believed …
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Who Will Investigate the Investigators?  —  Another voter fraud scandal involving the Justice Department.  —  J. Christian Adams,, a former career Justice Department lawyer who resigned recently to protest political interference in cases he worked on, made some news yesterday in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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Fox News:
10 Plead Guilty in Spy Case Ahead of Expected Swap With Russia  —  July 1: Russian spy suspects Vicky Pelaez, Richard Murphy, Cynthia Murphy and Juan Lazaro, are seen in this courtroom sketch during an appearance at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York.  —  DEVELOPING: Ten people accused …
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David Weigel / Esquire:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Sarah Palin (Kinda)  —  I hailed the cab outside the offices of The Huffington Post around 10:30 P.M., bone-tired, slumping into my seat.  Five seconds later, the call came in from a number I didn't recognize.  At that moment, I knew I was screwed.
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Federal gay marriage ban unconstitutional  —  BOSTON — A U.S. judge in Boston has ruled that a federal gay marriage ban is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define marriage.  —  U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro on Thursday ruled in favor …
Discussion: The Eye
Ann Coulter / Human Events:
Bill Kristol Must Resign  —  Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right.  Afghanistan is Obama's war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn't likely to turn out well.  —  It has been idiotically claimed that Steele's statement …
Ry Rivard / Charleston Daily Mail:
McGraw: Byrd's seat could go on the ballot this fall  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va.— State law and the U.S. Constitution call for a special election to be held before 2012 to fill West Virginia's vacant U.S. Senate seat, Attorney General Darrell McGraw said Thursday.
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Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
W.Va. AG: Special election OK for Byrd's seat
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Open Congress
San Francisco Chronicle:
Boxer's approval ratings sink, Field Poll says  —  California voters are giving U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer some of the lowest approval ratings of her career, as the three-term Democrat is in a statistical dead heat against first-time GOP office-seeker Carly Fiorina, according to a new Field Poll released today.
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Steele: 'I ain't going anywhere'  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.  —  Live Poll  —  Do you think Michael Steele should resign as RNC Chairman?  —  Yes  —  No  —  Not sure/I don't know  —  VoteView Results  —  NBC's Sarah Blackwill reports …
Discussion: The Hill
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CNN:
TRENDING: Defiant Steele: ‘Stop the noise’
Discussion: The Politico
Arthur B. Laffer / Wall Street Journal:
Unemployment Benefits Aren't Stimulus  —  Let's not reduce the incentive to find work.  A federal tax holiday is a better way to cut the high jobless rate.  —  The current debate over extending and increasing federal unemployment benefits encapsulates the disagreement between the Democrats …
Washington Post:
Palin makes exception for military spending  —  Sarah Palin is waging a battle inside the “tea party” movement to exempt defense spending from the group's small-government, anti-deficit fervor.  —  There's growing concern among Republicans — and especially among the pro-defense neoconservative wing …
The Huffington Post:
Democrats Fear They Can't Match $200 Million GOP Campaign Avalanche  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Over the past few weeks, top strategists throughout the Democratic Party have been passed a chart by a concerned, well-respected operative underscoring the daunting task they face in the 2010 elections.
Lars Bevanger / BBC:
Norway no longer safe from harm  —  Most Norwegians reacted with disbelief when al-Qaeda - seemingly out-of-the-blue -threatened to attack the Scandinavian country back in 2003.  —  There was even speculation al-Qaeda had mistaken Norway for neighbouring Denmark, which at the time had sent troops to support the US invasion of Iraq.
Discussion: The Agonist
Christopher Edley Jr / New York Times:
Let Treasury Rescue the States  —  HERE in California, where people tiresomely boast that the state's gross domestic product exceeds that of all but seven nations, I keep expecting a ballot initiative demanding admission to the Group of 8 industrialized nations.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Moms Just Know When There's Something Wrong” Ctd  —  Several readers have remarked that there are no black or Hispanic or indeed any minority faces in the Palin presidential campaign web ad that has just been unveiled.  This is odd because there are usually a token few thrown into the mix.
 
 
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
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CNN:
Gates defends rules governing military's interaction with media
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Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:
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John Dickerson / Slate:
James Mattis will replace David Petraeus as the commander of Centcom.
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Robert Reich / AlterNet.org:
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