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3:00 PM ET, August 6, 2010

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Flimflam Man  —  One depressing aspect of American politics is the susceptibility of the political and media establishment to charlatans.  You might have thought, given past experience, that D.C. insiders would be on their guard against conservatives with grandiose plans.
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Paul Krugman:
How To Read A CBO Report
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Private Growth Is Tepid as U.S. Economy Sheds Jobs Overall  —  With the American economic recovery hanging in the balance, private employers added 71,000 jobs in July, up from a downwardly revised 31,000 in June but below the consensus forecast of 90,000.  The unemployment rate stayed steady at 9.5 percent.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Employers Shed Jobs  —  Unemployment Rate Held Steady at 9.5% in July  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic recovery may be losing momentum.
Calculated Risk:
July Employment Report: 12K Jobs ex-Census, 9.5% Unemployment Rate
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Scalia Was Right  —  Why the same-sex marriage ruling will stand.  —  For the first time, a federal judge has held that the Constitution mandates the legal redefinition of marriage.  The California Supreme Court had reached a similar conclusion in 2008, and voters responded by amending …
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David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Time for a divorce  —  In the 1500s, a pestering theologian …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Private Sector Adding Jobs, State Budget Crises Killing Economy  —  The new unemployment report highlights the fact that the economy remains lousy and John Boehner is going to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.  Ironically, it also demonstrates the bankruptcy of Boehner's way of thinking.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein:
Jobs report: Public sector loses 202,000 jobs; private sector gains 71,000  —  The July jobs report is bad news for jobs, but tepidly good news for recovery.  Another 143,000 census positions expired, contributing to a total public sector job loss of more than 200,000 jobs.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:   Jobs Report Terrible, Again
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What Collapsing Empire looks like  —  As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and TPMDC
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On  —  Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further — it furloughed its schoolchildren.  Public schools across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the past school year to save money …
Discussion: Clusterstock and Ezra Klein
Bloomberg:
Obama Fed Board Pick Diamond Gets Referred Back to White House by Senate  —  The Senate sent the nomination of Peter Diamond, one of President Barack Obama's three nominees for the Federal Reserve Board, back to the White House because of objections from at least one lawmaker.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Christina Romer, chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, to resign  —  Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has resigned her post to return to her old job as an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House said Thursday.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IGNORING AN ALARM.... In light of the latest discouraging jobs report — the third consecutive month in which the job totals were disappointing — there's an obvious course ahead.  Heidi Shierholz, an economist from the Economic Policy Institute, said, “The economic case for more government action …
Discussion: The Politico, Eschaton and The Page
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Christina Romer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
The Employment Situation in July
Discussion: CNN, Los Angeles Times and The Swamp
Kenzaburo Oe / New York Times:
Hiroshima and the Art of Outrage  —  THE Futenma Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa, one of the largest United States military bases in East Asia, is in the center of a crowded city.  The American and Japanese governments acknowledge the dangers of this situation, and they agreed nearly 15 years ago …
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
U.S. Envoy Attends Hiroshima Event
Discussion: Commentary and Guardian
Richard Fernandez / Pajamas Media:   The Foundations of Our World  —  As the New York Times remembers Hiroshima, try this quiz.
New York Sun:
Palin's Fraternal Greetings  —  No sooner had President Obama concluded his dirge before the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations than Sarah Palin was out with a posting on her Facebook page, commiserating with her husband's fellow union members on having to sit through another “Blame Bush” lecture.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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Alan Snyder / Big Government:
Ridicule and Disdain: The Reagan-Palin Connection
Discussion: Whiskey Fire and Da Techguy's Blog
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt  —  In the spring of 2008, the Denver public school system needed to plug a $400 million hole in its pension fund.  Bankers at JPMorgan Chase offered what seemed to be a perfect solution.  —  The bankers said that the school system …
Brookings Institute:
2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll: Results of Arab Opinion Survey Conducted June 29-July 20, 2010  —  Shibley Telhami, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy  —  On Thursday, August 5, Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Old Washington hands break with GOP leaders on Bush-era tax cuts  —  A number of old Republican hands warning of a deficit crisis have split with the GOP leadership over extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts.  —  Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), President Reagan's budget chief David Stockman …
John Cook / Yahoo! News:
Fox News chief packs heat  —  Fox News chief Roger Ailes has a license to carry a firearm in New York City on his person at all times, according to the NYPD's newly released list of handgun-permit holders.  And he's not alone among his Fox News colleagues: Prime-time shouter Sean Hannity also has a city license to carry a gun.
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
The RNC's least favorite reporter  —  One Times scribe has made the infighting within the Republican National Committee his beat.  Reuters  —  The Republican National Committee, embroiled in an internal squabble over the leadership of chairman Michael Steele, is leaking like a sieve.
Discussion: CNN
Wayne Besen / Truth Wins Out:
Bulletin: Porno Pete's ‘Truth Academy’ a Poorly Attended Dud  —  Earlier today, Peter LaBarbera opened his Truth Academy confernece, a three day gay bashing extravaganza in a Chicago exurb.  Despite weeks of flogging the event and several stories in right wing media, our spies tell us that the event was a major dud.
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
How ‘urban hunters’ outfoxed the media  —  Chris Atkins and Johnny Howorth, the team behind Starsuckers, say film was satirical swipe at press coverage of fox attacks  —  It was the internet video that sparked a media outcry: grainy footage that seemed to show four masked men drugging a fox …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Gregory White / Clusterstock:
Watch The Hilarious Way White House Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Tries To Spin The Jobs Report As Positive  —  U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke to CNBC after the jobs report release today and made an effort to spin the report as a positive for the amount of jobs the U.S. has gained in this recovery.
Discussion: NO QUARTER, Hot Air and Money Game
Wall Street Journal:
America Is at Risk of Boiling Over  —  And out-of-touch leaders don't see the need to cool things off.  —  It is, obviously, self-referential to quote yourself, but I do it to make a point.  I wrote the following on New Year's day, 1994.  America 16 years ago was a relatively content nation …
 
 
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Tony Romm / The Politico:
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CNN:
Officer in Obama birth certificate case defers his plea
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
2 Top Economists Differ Sharply on Risk of Deflation