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1:50 PM ET, July 16, 2010

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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE RACE: Reid takes lead on Angle  —  New poll shows Republican losing support among every voter group  —  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has opened a strong lead over Republican opponent Sharron Angle after pummeling her in a ubiquitous TV and radio ad campaign that portrays the Tea Party favorite as …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
HOW THE POLL WAS CONDUCTED
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Reid grabs lead over Angle in latest poll
Discussion: Ballot Box and Associated Press
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin aide swats Romney team  —  In possibly the first inter-staff dust-up of the 2012 presidential race, an aide of Sarah Palin is hitting back at Mitt Romney's camp for saying the former Alaska governor is “not a serious human being.”  —  A “Romney intimate” was quoted by “Time” …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Palin's 76% Favorable Among Republicans Tops Others in GOP  —  Former Alaska governor's image more mixed among all Americans  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the best known and most positively rated of five possible contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
CNN:
TRENDING: Poll: Palin hot amongst Republicans, others not so much
Discussion: Say Anything
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Early signs of 2012 power
Discussion: The Page
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's next act  —  In the political marketplace, there's now a run on Obama shares.  The left is disappointed with the president.  Independents are abandoning him in droves.  And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday …
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
President's ally: Expectations were set too high after 2008
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Scott / Power Line:
On the road to find out  —  The Obama administration doesn't seem …
Discussion: Flopping Aces and National Review
Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
Ex-Manchin aide tapped for Byrd seat  —  Democratic officials tell AP his pick is former aide Carte Goodwin  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Joe Manchin is tapping former chief counsel Carte Goodwin, a member of a prominent West Virginia family, to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd …
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The Fix:
Joe Manchin to pick Carte Goodwin to replace Byrd  —  The governor's office declined to confirm the pick to replace the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), saying only to stay tuned until a 2 p.m. eastern press conference.  The AP has also reported that Goodwin is the pick, citing anonymous sources.
Ezra Klein:
The scariest jobs graph you've seen yet  —  That's job growth per month on the X axis, and how many months that level of job growth would take to get us back to pre-recession levels on the Y axis.  Notice that adding new jobs at a rate of 200,000 a month would take us 150 months — or 12.5 years — to get back to normalcy.
Bloomberg:
Greenspan Says Lawmakers Should Let All Bush's Tax Cuts Lapse  —  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose endorsement of George W. Bush's 2001 tax cuts helped persuade Congress to pass them, said lawmakers should allow the cuts to expire at the end of the year.
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Bloomberg:
Greenspan Says Congress Should Let Bush Era Tax Cuts Expire (Transcript)
Discussion: Think Progress
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Redo That Voodoo  —  Republicans are feeling good about the midterms …
The Huffington Post:
Tim Geithner Opposes Nominating Elizabeth Warren To Lead New Consumer Agency  —  What's Your Reaction: … Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has expressed opposition to the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a source with knowledge of Geithner's views.
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Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
Elizabeth Warren in Treasury Crosshairs Again, Geithner Opposes …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The NAACP Is Right  —  The NAACP on the Tea Party: … The reaction to this announcement has been swift and, in the main, negative.  Next door, Dave Weigel, whose knowledge of the Tea Party is formidable, dismisses the resolution as “silliness” and “a stunt,” and Chris Bodenner bemoans …
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Peggy Noonan / Telegraph:
David Cameron, don't follow Barack Obama  —  When David Cameron visits America next week he will learn a lot - about how not to run a country, says Peggy Noonan.  —  Dear Mr Cameron, welcome young friend.  Welcome to America.  Bring your bright, dashing self to our shores.
Discussion: Marbury and alicublog
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New York Times:
Oil Spill Capped for a Second Day, Offering Some Hope  —  NEW ORLEANS — The hemorrhaging well that has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico remained capped for a second day Friday, providing some hope of a long-term solution to the environmental disaster.
Discussion: Jay Bookman, The Politico and The Page
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama calls well cap ‘good news’ but strikes cautious note on spill
Discussion: The Politico
New York Post:
Attorney who helped terrorist gets 10 years in prison  —  A judge had resentenced a 70-year-old civil rights lawyer to 10 years in prison for letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers.  —  Federal Judge John Koeltl sentenced Lynne Stewart in Manhattan after she pleaded …
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Rebecca Spitz / manhattan.ny1.com:
Civil Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart Receives 10-Year Sentence
Luca Di Leo / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Gets More Power, Responsibility  —  After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has emerged from a bruising debate on the overhaul of U.S. financial rules as perhaps the pre-eminent regulator in the sector.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Forbes:   Financial Reform, R.I.P.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Internal Memo: Intelligence Community Frets About Washington Post Series  —  Below, a memorandum sent two weeks ago by Art House, director of communications for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to public affairs officers in the intelligence community about the Washington Post's upcoming series on contractors.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Romenesko
Washington Times:
Racialist Justice  —  Attorney General Holder's lawyers won't protect whites  —  By now, the default judgment about the Barack Obama-Eric H. Holder Jr. Justice Department is that it discriminates intentionally on the basis of race.  By the precise definition used in the American Heritage dictionary, the department is racialist.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
AFFIDAVITS: Former DOJ Colleagues Confirm Whistleblower Adams' Accusations.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Dem Rep Sheila Jackson Lee Tells NAACP: “All Those Who Wore Sheets a Long Time Ago Lifted Them Off to Wear Tea Party Clothing” (Applause!)  —  Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) told the NAACP this week that those who wore sheets lifted them off and are now wearing tea party clothing.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Governor Paterson To Sign Bill Ending Stop-and-Frisk Database.  —  New York Governor David Paterson has terrible approval ratings, he is mired in a domestic violence and coverup scandal involving one of his aides, and he's just generally considered a failure as a governor.
 
 
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Crazed Libtalker: Rush Limbaugh Worse Than Westboro's Fred Phelps
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
GOP fights immigration lawsuit
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Fed's volte face sends the dollar tumbling
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and DealBook
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Gospel of Mel Gibson
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Median Duration of Unemployment
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Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
Mysterious ads attacking GOP candidate as ‘liberal’ paid for by ... Democrats?
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Arizona Halts Photo Enforcement of Speed Laws
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Scott Brown slams Kathy Griffin for calling daughters ‘prostitutes’
 

 
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