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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: Hullabaloo
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 instituted something called the Marriage Ordinance in Geneva, which made “state registration and church consecration” a dual requirement of matrimony.  —  We have yet to get over this mistake.  But isn't it about time we freed marriage from the state?
Discussion: protein wisdom and GayPatriot
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Conservative Jurist, With Independent Streak  —  Judge Vaughn R. Walker has ruled on cases involving newspaper mergers, high-tech corporate battles and the Bush administration's use of wiretaps without warrants.  But nothing has earned him as much attention — and ire …
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
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.
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Ezra Klein:
Jobs report: Public sector loses 202,000 jobs; private sector gains 71,000
Discussion: gopleader.gov and Eschaton
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Jobs Report Terrible, Again
Discussion: Don Surber
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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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 …
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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
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 …
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CNN:
Sen. Bennet pushes back against critical report  —  Sen. Michael Bennet is pushing back against a critical report published Friday in the New York Times.  —  (CNN) - A front page article in Friday's New York Times could spell trouble for Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado …
Discussion: Hotline On Call
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
CNN:
RNC approves 2012 nominating calendar  —  The RNC has approved a 2012 presidential calendar that pushes the first GOP primaries to February 2012.  —  Kansas City, Missouri (CNN) - The Republican National Committee on Friday passed an amendment that would shift the 2012 presidential calendar …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
The RNC's least favorite reporter
Discussion: CNN
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 …
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Marc Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Arab confidence in Obama collapsing
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
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
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sharron Angle opposes gay adoption  —  Sharron Angle doesn't believe gays should be able to adopt, according to a questionnaire she filled out.  AP  —  Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle believes that gays should not be allowed to adopt children and that religious leaders should be allowed …
Discussion: Wonkette
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Anjeanette Damon / Las Vegas News …:
Sharron Angle's views rooted in biblical law
Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog
The Huffington Post:
Dean: Individual Mandate Will Be Removed From Health Care Reform By 2014  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean has never been a fan of the individual mandate for insurance coverage, both on policy and political grounds.  And once Senate negotiators removed any hope …
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 …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Five myths about the ‘tea party’  —  The grass-roots conservative activists who march under the “Don't tread on me” Gadsen flag and the “tea party” label have put a new twist on Gandhi's maxim: First they were ignored; then they were ridiculed; then they began to fight.
 
 
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Old Washington hands break with GOP leaders on Bush-era tax cuts