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6:45 PM ET, August 4, 2010

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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California [Updated]  —  A federal judge in San Francisco decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions.
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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Judge Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents, Gay-Marriage Ban Overturned  —  U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled on Wednesday that the California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative denying marriage rights to same-sex couples was unconstitutional, in a case that will almost certainly go all the way to the Supreme Court.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Fed Judge Finds Calif. Prop.  8 Unconstitutional  —  A federal lawsuit was filed in May 2009 challenging Proposition 8, the California referendum which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.  Prop. 8 previously was upheld by the California Supreme Court.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Sister Toldjah
Lisa Leff / Associated Press:
Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban  —  SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge overturned California's same-sex marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could eventually land before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if gays have a constitutional right to marry in America.
New York Times:
Court Rejects Same-Sex Marriage Ban in California  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that it unfairly targets gay men and women, a federal judge in San Francisco struck down California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, handing supporters of such unions a temporary victory …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
OVERTURNED: Judge Rules California Prop. 8 Unconstitutional
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional
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.
New York Post:
Sheriff Taylor's health pitch sparks cardiac arrest
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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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.
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.”
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)
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
41% of GOP: Obama foreign-born
Conservatives4Palin.com:
EXPLOSIVE: New Video of Couric Mocking Palin on the Day She was Named as McCain's Running Mate!  ; UPDATED  —  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.
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 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 …
National Review:
Not at Ground Zero  —  The story of the proposed mosque at the site of the World Trade Center has been thoroughly misrepresented, as have the parties behind the project.  They present themselves as ambassadors of moderate Islam.  Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Broadway and the Mosque
Discussion: Althouse
Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Ground Zero Mosque: Are We Digging a Hole in the Soul of America?
Discussion: In Good Faith
Times of India:
Anti-US ‘tirade’ upsets Obama man  —  Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN, Aug 4, 2010, 04.17am IST  —  MUMBAI: Rashad Hussain, the Barack Obama administration's Muslim face, was in for a shock on Tuesday when the head of a city-based Muslim institution slammed the US' policies, not just in the Middle East, but towards Muslims everywhere.
Discussion: The Politico
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:   Crazy Muslim conspiracy theories
Paul Krugman:
What Reagan Didn't Do  —  Via Ezra Klein, I see that the latest thing on the right is to compare the economic recovery from the 1981-2 recession with our current state and claim that it proves the superiority of conservative economic policies.  —  This shows why I can't maintain the pretense …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein:
Spin one for the Gipper
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.”
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. …
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 …
The Huffington Post:
Dodd Presses Senate Freshmen To Back Off Effort To End Filibuster  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Chris Dodd gathered with the Democratic Senate freshman class on Tuesday night at a dinner organized by Mark Warner to persuade them to back off their push to change Senate rules when the chamber returns …
Discussion: Open Left, Salon and Suburban Guerrilla
Cubachi:
Updated.  Must Watch: The Broken Window Fallacy  —  This brilliant video is a simple illustration on the fallacy of claiming that calamities stir economic growth.  Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist, says the attacks of 9/11 and World War II brought great economic benefits to the nation.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Keyes Hits Graham For Politicizing The 14th Amendment: This ‘Is Not Something That One Should Play With Lightly’  —  In recent days, several leading Republicans have launched a movement to review or revoke parts of the 14th amendment, which guarantees birthright citizenship.
Athan Manuel / Congress Blog:
How bad does it have to be?  —  H. Sterling Bennett's column Wednesday ("More Hype than Harm") claims the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn't that bad.  He says the environmental movement “is in absence of good evidence” when we call this BP oil disaster a massive catastrophe and horrible tragedy.
Discussion: The Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid plans September showdown on extension of 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 after the election …
 
 
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Andrew Samwick / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
This Is Neither Effective Deficit Reduction Nor Personnel Policy
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Aharding / CNN:
Black conservatives join hands to deny racism within the Tea Party movement
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi says on Twitter she'll reconvene House to vote on state aid bill
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Daily Kos and TPMDC
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McCaskill: ‘Message received’ from Missouri voters on health reform
Discussion: Hot Air, Swampland and The Note
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
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The Note:
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Discussion: CNN and brianmurphy2010.com
Ezra Klein:
Can you have a middle class without middle-class jobs?
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Daniel Foster / National Review:
Chris Christie: The Scourge of Trenton
Discussion: Power Line and Pajamas Media
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
U.S. Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk