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3:10 PM ET, August 4, 2010

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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.
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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 …
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, Raw Story and Gawker
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 …
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 …
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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
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 …
Discussion: National Review
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Annie Lowrey / The Washington Independent:
Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid, EduJobs
Discussion: Michigan Messenger and Open Left
David Rogers / The Politico:
Big win for Reid on teacher money
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Hill
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.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Sharron Angle: Obama and Reid are making government our false “God”
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bush and the Cordoba Initiative  —  Writing about the Cordoba Initiative controversy, Kevin Drum says “For once, I really do miss George Bush.  The damage he did to the American cause in the Muslim world is incalculable, but at least he never countenanced this kind of lunatic bigotry.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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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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.
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CNN:
RNC tries to stop damaging leaks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TPMDC
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 …
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.
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
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CNN:   In endorsement battle, score one for DeMint over Palin
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Court Poised to Issue California Gay Marriage Ruling  —  Attorneys for Both Sides Promise Immediate Appeal on Proposition 8 Ruling  —  A federal judge in California has reached a decision on whether the state's same-sex marriage ban amounts to unconstitutional discrimination.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Federal judge to rule on whether gays and lesbians have a …
Discussion: The Foundry and Law Blog
ABCNEWS:
President Obama Grudgingly Celebrates His 49th Birthday  —  Chicago-Bound President to Ring in Another Year With Little Fanfare, but More Gray Hair  —  President Obama turns 49 years old today, and while it's not quite the milestone of the big 5-0, clearly he is ringing in another year only grudgingly.
Discussion: Gawker and Political Punch
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Keith Koffler / The Politico:
Don't celebrate President Obama's birthday
Discussion: American Power and Washington Post
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)
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 …
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. …
Paul Krugman:
Beinart On The ADL  —  Peter Beinart has an excellent piece on how the Israeli occupation of the West Bank inexorably led the Anti-Defamation League into abandoning its principles, culminating in the awful decision to call for banning the Islamic Center in lower Manhattan.  —  Let me add two thoughts.
 
 
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Autolib  —  Car-sharing schemes have a lot of promise, in my opinion.
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Daily Mail:
U.S. State Department lifts warning to African Americans about …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems get pre-recess victory as Senate breaks funding impasse
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
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama says he'll ‘keep on fighting’ to pass ‘card check’ bill
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Brian Faughnan / Liberty Central:
GQR Poll: Obama & Democrats Collapsing; GOP Leads by 11
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Rolling Stone writer denied embed permission
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Ex-President Clinton to stump for Sestak
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Quayle mailers not actually what meets the eye
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