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5:35 PM ET, August 5, 2010

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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Axelrod: President remains opposed to same-sex marriage  —  President Obama remains opposed to same-sex marriage despite a federal judge's decision to strike down a ban on such marriages, a top White House adviser said Thursday.  —  Senior adviser David Axelrod said the president supports …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Judge Walker's decision to overturn Prop 8 is factual, well-reasoned, and powerful. … - Charging the WikiLeaks Leaker With Treason Would Be Absurd- How Many Americans Can't Swim?  - Profitable Companies That Refuse To Restore the Benefits They Axed in 2008- Is It Possible To Write an Interesting Novel About a Nanny?
Gerard Bradley / Fox News:
Why Has Media Ignored Judge's Possible Bias In California's Gay Marriage Case?  —  Any minute now we will hear the result of another lawsuit about same-sex marriage.  —  This month a federal judge in Massachusetts threw out a Congressional law which defined marriage as the union of man and woman.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RECUSALS FOR EVERYONE.... I know practically nothing …
David Boaz / Cato @ Liberty:
Reagan-Appointed Judge Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Confirm Elena Kagan for U.S. Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to a seat on the Supreme Court on Thursday, giving President Obama his second appointment to the high court in a year, and a political victory as the Senate neared the end of its business for the summer.
Discussion: MyDD, Indecision Forever and GOOD
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USA Today:
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan confirmed by Senate  —  Chalk up another legacy for President Obama, as the Senate confirms Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.  —  Kagan, who will be the fourth woman to serve on the high court after she is sworn in, won the job on a Senate vote of 63-37.
CNN:
Senate approves Kagan for high court  —  Washington (CNN) — Solicitor General Elena Kagan was easily confirmed Thursday as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, completing the 50-year-old native New Yorker's climb to the peak of the American legal profession.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Scott Brown will vote against confirming Kagan
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate confirms Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
Discussion: RHRealityCheck.org
ABCNEWS:
Senate Confirms Elena Kagan to Supreme Court
Discussion: Washington Monthly
James Pethokoukis:
An August Surprise from Obama?  —  Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout.  Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Is Obama about to forgive billions in mortgage principal?
Media Matters for America:
Ben Dimiero & Eric Hananoki: Meet Breitbart's Sherrod writer: Racist sexual “expert” and inventor (who cured cancer)  —  In two posts on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment website, Dr. Kevin Pezzi smears Shirley Sherrod as a racist, claiming that “if someone deserves to be put on a pedestal for overcoming racism, it isn't Sherrod.”
NY Daily News:
Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation  —  Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn.  It was a key theme in President Obama's inaugural address to the nation …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Michelle Obama could face ‘appearance’ issue over luxury Spain vacation
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Townhall.com
Annie Lowrey / The Washington Independent:
The Return of the $1,000 Down Mortgage  —  In Wisconsin and other states, home buyers might be eligible for 100 percent financing on mortgages.  (Creative Commons.)  —  “Buy new with $1,000 down,” the advertisement says, the words resting atop a trim green clapboard house offset by a bright blue sky.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Sharia vs. The New Deal.  —  Andy McCarthy on the central political question of our time: … Sure.  —  In any case, McCarthy has been tying all of his likes and dislikes to elaborate conspiracy theories involving Sharia for some time now, and his paranoia about Elena Kagan …
Helen Jung / Oregonian:
Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate  —  It's hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.  —  So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Is the GOP shedding a birthright?  —  Rather than shout, I'll just ask the question in a civil way: Dear Republicans, do you really want to endanger your party's greatest political legacy by turning the 14th Amendment to our Constitution into an excuse for election-year ugliness?
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Jill Lawrence / Politics Daily:
GOP's McConnell on Birthright Citizenship: No One Wants to Alter 14th Amendment
Discussion: TPMDC, GRITtv and Indecision Forever
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority  —  WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Source: Debt Commission Fights Over Freezing Military Pay, Slashing Benefits  —  Republicans would like you to think that Democrats have sinister plans for the post-election lame duck session of Congress, and Democrats are at pains to insist otherwise.  But the one winter initiative progressives fear …
Paul Revoir / Daily Mail:
Briton held for wearing a bikini in Dubai shopping mall after fight with Arabic woman  —  A British holidaymaker has been charged with indecency in Dubai after walking through the world's largest shopping centre in a bikini.  —  The woman was buying clothes and gifts in the Dubai Mall …
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Bush reportedly pushed back publication of his memoir until after the elections so GOP isn't tarnished.  —  Former President Bush has been working on a memoir about his tenure in the White House, titled “Decision Points,” that is scheduled to be released this fall.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Bush memoirs delayed, say friends
Discussion: Mediaite and The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post:
Kristol's Hawkish Pro-Israel Group Launches New Ad Against Endangered Dem (VIDEO)  —  What's Your Reaction: … A hawkish, pro-Israel group that includes some of the most prominent neo-conservative and evangelical voices in the country is launching the second salvo in an ad campaign targeting primarily congressional Democrats.
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Fact-checking the Fact-checkers on the $3.8 Trillion Obama Tax Hike  —  Yesterday, PolitiFact.com fact-checked my statement about the coming $3.8 trillion Obama tax hike - the largest tax increase in history.  They did such a bad job of it, however, that I feel compelled to fact-check the fact-checkers.
Discussion: Hot Air
Jill Rosen / Baltimore Sun:
After flood of outrage, police will investigate shooting of husky in dog park  —  A day after dog's death becomes public, officials vow to look into the incident  —  Bea-Bear the Siberian husky was shot and killed at an Anne Arundel County dog park.  (Baltimore Sun / August 3, 2010)
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Marcela Hoeven Bikini Scandal?  —  North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven is 47 points ahead in a Senate campaign that is, by all odds, the closest thing to a surefire pick-up for Republicans this fall.  And yet it appears that there are some fiendish Democrats who hope that “family values” …
 
 
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Dems accused of tea party tampering
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
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Sue Pleming / Reuters:
Pentagon tells WikiLeaks: “Do right thing”
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The Hill:
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) believes the November elections …
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown / Daily Mail:
The Talibanisation of British childhood by hardline parents
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
King: Dead heroes on Dems' hands
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Reid decries ‘Charlie Brown theory of government’ in the Senate
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
You Know How Jesus Prized Wealth.
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