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4:05 PM ET, August 4, 2010

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Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Prop C passes overwhelmingly  —  ST. LOUIS  • Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn …
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Missouri Votes Against Health Law  —  Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Democrats' craven silence on Ground Zero mosque continues  —  Steve Benen, Matthew Yglesias, and Kevin Drum all have posts up blasting Republicans for their unwillingness to step forward and condemn bigoted criticism of plans to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero.
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Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11  —  The enlightened class can't understand why the public is uneasy about the Ground Zero mosque.  —  Americans may have lacked for much in the course of their history, but never instruction in social values.  The question today is whether Americans …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bush and the Cordoba Initiative
Discussion: Washington Monthly
National Review:
Not at Ground Zero  —  The story of the proposed mosque …
Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Ground Zero Mosque: Are We Digging a Hole in the Soul of America?
Discussion: In Good Faith
Conservatives4Palin.com:
EXPLOSIVE: New Video of Couric Mocking Palin on the Day She was Named as McCain's Running Mate!  —  The following video was sent to C4P's tips account.  —  As you can see, the video shows Katie Couric preparing to go on the air on the day John McCain announced Governor Palin as his running mate.
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Bernie Quigley / Pundits Blog:
Katie Couric mocks Sarah Palin's children
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Gawker and Raw Story
Christopher Hitchens / Vanity Fair:
JOINING THE RESISTANCE?  —  I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.  But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually shackled to my own corpse.  The whole cave of my chest and thorax seemed to have been hollowed …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid plans September showdown on extension of Bush tax cuts  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to take up legislation in September to address the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush.  —  Senior Democrats had expected the controversial issue to be postponed until …
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The Hill:
House may cut recess short to move $26B state aid package
David Rogers / The Politico:
Big win for Reid on teacher money
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Hill
Ynetnews:
IDF: Journalists were tipped off  —  Presence of cameramen, journalists at site of deadly clash proves it was planned ambush, IDF says  —  Journalists and photographers were briefed in advance of the intention to ambush IDF troops and were therefore present at the site of Tuesday's deadly …
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle: “What's happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.”  —  That's what Sharron Angle, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, said in an April 21 interview with TruNews Christian Radio's Rick Wiles.
Christopher N. Osher / Denver Post:
Bike agenda spins cities toward U.N. control, Maes warns  —  Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Crazy Muslim conspiracy theories  —  Politico's Laura Rozen points to this Times of India article, recounting how Rashad Hussain, the Obama administration's envoy to the Muslim world, was angered and “shocked” yesterday when — as part of a tour of India to promote better relations with Muslims …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Times of India:
Anti-US ‘tirade’ upsets Obama man
Discussion: The Politico
CNN:
TRENDING: CNN Poll: Quarter doubt Obama was born in U.S.  —  President Obama's birth certificate (left) has been certified authentic by the Republican governor of Hawaii.  His birth announcement (right) appeared in print in 1961.  (PHOTO CREDIT: State of Hawaii)
Keith Koffler / The Politico:
Don't celebrate President Obama's birthday  —  Today is President Barack Obama's 49th birthday, which the president seems to think is an unhappy day.  He has taken to lamenting his fading youth and graying hair, showing all the signs of a midlife crisis — minus the red Corvette.
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ABCNEWS:
President Obama Grudgingly Celebrates His 49th Birthday
Discussion: Gawker and Political Punch
Anthony Weiner / New York Times:
Why I Was Angry  —  LAST week I got angry on the floor of the House.  In this age of cable and YouTube, millions of people evidently saw the one-minute-plus clip.  But there has been relatively little focus on why the substantive debate that sparked it matters.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers  —  $22 million, federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language.  —  Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S. …
Anne Gearan / Military Times:
Rolling Stone writer denied embed permission  —  WASHINGTON — The author of the Rolling Stone article that ended the military career of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander in Afghanistan, has been denied permission to join U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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CNN:
Army investigating run-up to McChrystal magazine article
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
U.S. Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk  —  WASHINGTON — The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest …
The Note:
Palin Scorecard: A Close Loss and a Surprising Addition  —  ABC News' Alex Pepper reports:  —  Sarah Palin's much-heralded slate of endorsements suffered a setback yesterday, with the first loss of a Palin-endorsed candidate in a statewide race.  —  Palin-backed Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. …
Discussion: CNN
The Politico:
GOP puzzled as Michael Steele courts diplomats  —  The Republican National Committee is trying to set up meetings between Chairman Michael Steele and foreign ambassadors to the United States, according to an email obtained by POLITICO - an effort that has puzzled diplomats as well as fellow Republicans.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
More Workers Face Pay Cuts, Not Furloughs  —  The furloughs that popped up during the recession are being replaced by a highly unusual tactic: actual cuts in pay.  —  Local and state governments, as well as some companies, are squeezing their employees to work the same amount for less money …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images  —  For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed.  The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.”
 
 
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Critics Decry ‘Secret Deal’ as AT&T, Google Huddle With FCC
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Daily Kos
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Karl Rove claims Bush didn't blame Clinton for the '01 recession.
Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Outsourcing to India Draws Western Lawyers
Discussion: Law Blog
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Court Poised to Issue California Gay Marriage Ruling
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
Daily Mail:
U.S. State Department lifts warning to African Americans about …
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Ezra Klein:
Can you have a middle class without middle-class jobs?
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Daniel Foster / National Review:
Chris Christie: The Scourge of Trenton
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Ezra Klein:
Spin one for the Gipper
Discussion: Paul Krugman and The New Republic
Brian Faughnan / Liberty Central:
GQR Poll: Obama & Democrats Collapsing; GOP Leads by 11
Discussion: Pajamas Media, Commentary and Hot Air
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Ex-President Clinton to stump for Sestak
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