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3:40 PM ET, July 9, 2010

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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: West Virginia Senate Special Election  —  West Virginia Senate: Manchin (D) 53%, Capito (R) 39%  —  A special Senate election this November to replace the late Robert Byrd is still awaiting the green light from West Virginia's attorney general, but popular Democratic Governor Joe Manchin …
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2010 NOW
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Open Left
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Walking Away From Million-Dollar Mortgages  —  LOS ALTOS, Calif. — No need for tears, but the well-off are losing their master suites and saying goodbye to their wine cellars.  —  The housing bust that began among the working class in remote subdivisions and quickly progressed …
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy  —  Union ‘card-check,’ cap and trade, and so much more.  —  Democratic House members are so worried about the fall elections they're leaving Washington on July 30, a full week earlier than normal—and they won't return until mid-September.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:   Sen. Corker is calling on Democratic leaders to pledge that they …
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Discussion: The BLT and Weasel Zippers
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Mark Penn / The Huffington Post:   Poll Shows People Support Checks and Balances, But Want More Limits …
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
GOP leaders let demagogues set tone, lawmaker says  —  WASHINGTON - Too many Republican leaders are acquiescing to a poisonous “demagoguery” that threatens the party's long-term credibility, says a veteran GOP House member who was defeated in South Carolina's primary last month.
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Be Careful What You Wish For Department: Federal District Court Strikes Down DOMA  —  Today Judge Joseph Tauro in the federal district court in Massachusetts struck down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in two opinions, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, and Massachusetts v. HHS.
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New York Times:
Judge Topples U.S. Rejection of Gay Unions
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama is convinced of his own magnificence, and hardly any of his own country's.
Discussion: Moonbattery, Power Line and Wonkette
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Raising the Retirement Age  —  Via Ezra Klein, Here's a chart from Larry Mishel that's pretty astonishing.  It shows that since 1972 the life expectency of men with low incomes has increased by two years while life expectency for men with high incomes has increased by more than six years.
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More on raising the retirement age
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona  —  Jan Brewer has lost her head.  —  The Arizona governor, seemingly determined to repel every last tourist dollar from her pariah state, has sounded a new alarm about border violence.  “Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama?  —  The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.  —  Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Moonbattery
Chicago Tribune:
Family Says Nephew of Justice Clarence Thomas Was Beaten, Tazed at West Jeff Hospital  —  Meg Gatto - meg@abc26.com / Joe Rawley - joe@abc26.com  —  MARRERO — Family members of Derek Thomas, nephew of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, are alleging that the younger Thomas …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Pechar / The Jawa Report:
Now Appearing - Muslim Stripper - Limited NSFW Engagement  —  See amazing video (49 sec.) in extended entry.
The Atlantic Online:
How LeBron's Move Helps the Tea Party  —  So LeBron James is abandoning Cleveland for sunny Miami.  That's a tough break for Ohio sports fans.  But what effect might LeBron's departure have on Ohio's politics?  I think it helps the Tea Party, for reasons I'll lay out.
Claire Heininger / NorthJersey.com:
Christie looks to privatize motor vehicle inspections, other services  —  New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.  —  Buy this photo
Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
Brewer confident immigration law will stand  —  BOSTON, Mass. — More than 40 governors are attending this weekend's National Governors Association meeting, but few are attracting more attention than Arizona's Jan Brewer.  —  Reporters converged on the governor as she walked between sessions here today.
Discussion: D.C. Now
Randy Barnett / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Do the States Have the Power of Nullification?  —  In a recently published book, Nullification, author Tom Woods maintains that states have a power to nullify laws that exceed the powers of Congress to enact.  This claim has a long history, some of it distinguished-as in the case …
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Hit & Run
Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Ann Coulter vs. Bill Kristol: Beginnings of a Conservative Schism?  —  Ann Coulter's recent column, “Bill Kristol Must Resign” may have officially kicked off the next great schism within the conservative movement.  At issue is the war in Afghanistan — and, more specifically …
Joel Wing / Musings On Iraq:
U.S. Forces Drawing Down In Iraq  —  U.S. forces are scheduled to draw down to 50,000 by September 1, 2010 following President Obama's withdrawal plan.  It's hardly been noticed, but U.S. troops are almost at that level already.  —  Since 2009 over 60,000 U.S. soldiers have been pulled out of Iraq.
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Emmer In Damage Control Mode: Meeting Waiters After Claiming They Made $100K In Tips  —  Minnesota state Rep. Tom Emmer, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor, appears to be going into damage control mode in the wake of his proposal to lower the minimum wage for waiters by crediting …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Yes, The Government Creates Jobs  —  As I was saying to a friend last night, one of the most frustrating things about the Obama administration is the tendency of its leaders and communicators to project a message that's absolutely demoralizing to progressive political activists.
N.C. Aizenman / Washington Post:
‘Tan tax’ discussions include allegations of reverse racism  —  Mention the new “tan tax” in a major news outlet and cries of discrimination and reverse racism often follow.  —  The complaint surfaced on reader comment boards to blogs and news Web sites back in December …
Wall Street Journal:
The Town Hall Revolt, One Year Later  —  Democrats didn't get the message.  Will Republicans do better?  —  Much has happened in the dense and shifting political landscape of the past 18 months—the quick breakdown along partisan lines in Congress; continuing arguments over spending …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Emanuel: Business should be thanking this president - Palin video was shot by a single videographer - Dem. donors pressured by tally of GOP plans — Ask Matt Rhoades — P.K., Drew Hammill b'days  —  EXCLUSIVE: Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
 
 
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David Weigel sympathizes with Sarah Palin
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What Kirk did not want you to know: McConnell headlined fund-raiser for Kirk.
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
No Good News for Democrats
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Phillip Longman / Washington Monthly:
Start moving freight by water again, and we'll use less oil …
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