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12:15 PM ET, August 11, 2010

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John F. Harris / The Politico:
Primary night yields good news for President Obama and Democrats  —  The headline victory of the primaries belonged to Sen. Michael Bennet, who gallops to a surprisingly wide nine-point victory over challenger Andrew Romanoff.  AP  —  President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party …
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / Georgia Elections News:
Handel concedes GOP nomination for governor to Deal  —  Yesterday, Karen Handel called Nathan Deal a “corrupt relic of Washington.”  Today, however, Handel said she is endorsing him as the GOP nominee for governor.  —  In a statement just released from the Handel campaign …
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Colorado Race Could Reassure Obama and Democrats  —  DENVER — The predictions of doom for incumbents and establishment candidates this campaign season are proving to be more complex in the real world.  On Tuesday, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, a Democrat who had hitched his star …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Point of No Return  —  For the Obama administration, the prospect of a nuclearized Iran is dismal to contemplate— it would create major new national-security challenges and crush the president's dream of ending nuclear proliferation.  But the view from Jerusalem is still more dire …
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Jeffrey Goldberg Probes Israel's Iran Strike Option: Is Netanyahu a “Bomber Boy”?  —  In an important article titled “The Point of No Return” to be published in The Atlantic tomorrow, national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg recounts something many people didn't realize at the time and still have a hard time believing.
Rasmussen Reports:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president.  Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Florida Senate  —  Florida Senate: Rubio (R) 38%, Crist (I) 33%, Meek (D) 21%  —  The race for the U.S. Senate in Florida continues to be all about Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, regardless of which Democrat they face.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
NYT On The So-Called Ground Zero Mosque.  —  The New York Times has a new piece up on Faisal Rauf and Daisy Khan, the couple behind the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero that has brought rank Islamophobia into the Republican mainstream:
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Andy McCarthy / National Review:
The Government Confiscates Your Money to Build Mosques  —  Interesting news in a Washington Times editorial this morning.  It is all worth reading, including the first part, which deals with the strong evidence that, in funding Imam Feisal Rauf's sojourn to the Arabian Peninsula …
Discussion: Washington Times and AmSpecBlog
Washington Times:
Tax dollars to build mosques
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Reid courts Hispanics  —  GOP blocking immigration reform, senator tells Latinos  —  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday slammed Republicans for blocking comprehensive immigration reform and told Hispanics they shouldn't be treated differently because “their skin's a tone darker” …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Harry Reid: How could Hispanics be in the Republican Party?
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Reid: I don't know how any Hispanic voter could be a Republican
Discussion: Fausta's Blog and iOwnTheWorld.com
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Kerry: McMahon ‘roid rage attacks’ need to be stopped  —  Connecticut Senate nominee Linda McMahon's “GOP/WWE roid rage attacks” need to be stopped, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Wednesday.  —  Kerry took a shot at McMahon's past as CEO of the wrestling outfit a day after she won …
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CBS News:
Ex-WWE Exec Linda McMahon Wins CT Senate Primary
Discussion: CNN and SportsGrid
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Connecticut Senate Race Poses a Test for Democrats
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Some Benefits  —  One of the distinctive features of the Great Recession has been the enormous number of people who have been out of work for months on end.  Almost 45 percent of today's unemployed workers have been without a job for at least 27 weeks.
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
What's the actual problem in the labor market?
Telegraph:
Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on Greenwich  —  For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.  —  But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Study Looks at Tax Cut Lapse for Rich  —  WASHINGTON — As debate heats up over President Obama's proposal to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthy but to extend them for everyone else, a nonpartisan Congressional analysis circulated on Capitol Hill on Tuesday provides a look at the impact …
NY Daily News:
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater emerges from jail, basks in new status as celebrity  —  Fired-up flight attendant Steven Slater was walking on air as he emerged from jail Tuesday night as a folk hero.  —  “I knew there was a brouhaha about this, but while I was on the inside …
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Does The 2012 GOP Convention Logo Include A Minaret?  —  The RNC's 2012 convention logo features the Tampa Bay skyline and one of the buildings apparently represented in the logo is what was formerly the Old Tampa Bay Hotel, a prominent feature of the Florida city's skyline.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet the Prankster Brothers Behind “Jenny,” the Whiteboard-Using, Farmville-Exposing, HPOA Girl  —  Yesterday, everyone on the Internet loved Steve Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job by cursing out his passengers and bolting out of his plane using the emergency slide.
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theCHIVE:
Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)
Fox News:
Democrats, Advocacy Groups Blast Cuts to Food Stamps to Fund $26B Aid Bill  —  Some Democrats are upset and advocacy groups are outraged over the raiding of the food-stamp cupboard to fund a state-aid bailout that some call a gift to teachers and government union workers.
Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
With the passage of a $26 billion aid package Tuesday to help states pay for Medicaid and teacher salaries, most state budgets will get some help in paying for education programs, but states not facing massive teacher layoffs and cutbacks are also set to receive millions in federal money.
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama: ‘I know how to politick pretty good’  —  President Obama has been raising campaign money for awhile now, but yesterday in Texas he seemed to officially declare open campaign season.  —  The announcement came as Obama accused the Republicans of playing politics with his agenda during his entire term.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Pam Spaulding / Pam's House Blend:
NC: PHB exclusive video of NOM's Brian Brown at Raleigh rally - plus I am mistaken for a fundie (!)  —  My high-quality vid is still uploading, but I have this lower-res version for those excited to see the flopsweat on Brian Brown's brow ASAP.  So the background first — I did this on my lunch hour …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AN UNLIKELY LAME-DUCK CRITIC.... Republican activism in opposition to a lame-duck session on the Hill this year has been pretty strong of late.  The notion that the Democratic majority might try to legislate after the November elections — the way the GOP has in years past …
Discussion: The Fix and The Hill
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Elite Isolation  —  It seems to me that this chart is the key to understanding today's political economy:  —  Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate.
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Atlantic Online
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rangel's rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn't recognize him  —  The Democrats, at long last, had strung together a good day.  They forced House Republicans to return, grumbling, from summer vacation for votes that allowed Democrats to show support for teachers, cops and strong borders.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Why the GOP really wants to alter the 14th Amendment  —  As Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans explain it, their sudden turn against conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States was prompted by the mortal threat of “anchor babies” — the children of foreigners who scurry …
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Hugh Hewitt Lacerates Lib Talkers
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Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:
California Roundup: Jobs! Jobs!! Jobs!!!
Discussion: Hot Air
Sandra Guy / Chicago Sun Times:
Desiree Rogers named CEO of Johnson Publishing
Discussion: Politics Daily
Paul Wiseman / USA Today:
Feds rethink policies that encourage home ownership
Discussion: Riehl World View
Nathaniel Popper / Los Angeles Times:
Goldman Sachs could be largely unaffected by financial overhaul
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Rand Paul Denies Kidnapping, Says He Can't Remember The Rest (VIDEO)
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Left Owes a Very Big Thank You to Robert Gibbs
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Mark Dayton wins in Minnesota by 1,500 votes
Discussion: The Page
Van Helsing / Moonbattery:
The 3 Things You Need to Know About Liberals' Favorite Religion
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ground Zero mosque spokesman to Gutfeld: Your gay bar won't build …
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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