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5:40 PM ET, August 12, 2010

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Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Judge who overturned Prop. 8 extends temporary hold on gay marriage [Updated]  —  A federal judge Thursday refused to permanently stay his ruling overturning Proposition 8's ban of gay marriage but extended a temporary hold to give supporters time to appeal the historic ruling.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace  —  In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country.  Now, it appears to have risen by several points …
Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Judge keeps California gay marriage ruling on hold  —  The federal judge who last week overturned the state's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, agreed to a continued hold on his ruling while foes appeal.  —  Reporting from San Francisco — A federal judge Thursday refused to permanently stay …
CNN:
Prop 8 stay lifted by judge
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Ben Smith's Blog
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Judge Allows, but Delays, Gay Marriage in California
Discussion: New York Magazine
David Lat / Above the Law:
Breaking: Judge Walker Won't Stay Prop 8 Ruling Pending Appeal!
Discussion: L.A. NOW, Daily Kos and The Awl
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dem group launches ‘F*ck Tea’ campaign  —  Last summer, Democrats argued that the Tea Party movement was the astroturf creation of corporate groups.  Now that the grassroots conservative resurgence has emerged as a clear force on the right, the left is making a different case: That tea parties are simply the enemy.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Public favors Tea Party over top Dems  —  The American public has a more positive view of the Tea Party movement than both leaders of the majority party in Congress, according to a poll released Wednesday.  —  An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that 30 percent view the grassroots conservative groups …
Wall Street Journal:
Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer  —  Pessimism Rises on Economy and War; Bad Reviews for Both Democrats and GOP  —  Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and the war in Afghanistan, and are losing faith that Democrats have better solutions than Republicans, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
KPIX-TV:
CBS 5 Poll: Fiorina Widens Lead Over Boxer  —  Dead Heats In Governor, Lt. Governor Races; Marijuana Prop.  16 Passing  —  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
GOP plan to extend tax cuts for rich adds $36 billion to deficit, panel finds  —  A Republican plan to extend tax cuts for the rich would add more than $36 billion to the federal deficit next year — and transfer the bulk of that cash into the pockets of the nation's millionaires …
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Ezra Klein:
The Bush tax plan vs. the Obama tax plan in one chart  —  Source.  —  United States - Tax - Democratic Party - Accounting - President
Discussion: Donklephant
Ezra Klein:
Portrait of a frustrated electorate  —  Want sure-footed polling analysis?  Ask Nate Silver.  Want a sort of bemused confusion?  Well, then you're in the right place.  —  I was on “Morning Joe” today talking about the new NBC/WSJ poll (pdf), and I don't think we had time to really dig into how weird the results are.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Department of Strategery  —  The latest poll numbers show …
CNN:
CNN Poll shows big similarities between 2010, 1994
Discussion: The Hill and Ballot Box
Michelle Malkin:
The vulgarity of liberal female “comedians”  —  Left-wing female comedians are proving that they can be as crude and stupid as their male counterparts.  Who knew that striving for gender equality meant pursuing the dream that one day, someday, liberal women would be able to mock …
Megan Carpentier / TPMMuckraker:
‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Imam Was A Bush-Era Partner For Mideast Peace  —  Tuesday, Reps. Peter King (R-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) called Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf — best known for his work with multicultural Cordoba Initiative to build a mosque and community center in Lower Manhattan …
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Clifford D. May / National Review:
The Taboo of the Intellectuals
City Room:
Dinkins Offers the Finger, and Everybody's Talking  —  It was not so much the gesture — the raised middle finger is a familiar salute on the streets of New York — but the person who made it and the setting that has set off all the buzz.  —  The finger belonged to former Mayor David N. Dinkins …
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Congressman Rangel's Party a Display of Defiance
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
But It's Awesome Broccoli for the Rich!  —  Matt Bai writes about the Paul Ryan's budget plan ... without writing about Paul Ryan's budget plan: … Unless, of course, you're wealthy, because the plan cuts upper-income tax brackets by 10 percent, so that “households with incomes …
Stan Collender / NiemanWatchdog.org:
Six essential questions about the deficit, Wall Street and Washington  —  Fiscal expert Stan Collender points out that the bond market is not demanding deficit reduction — in fact, quite the opposite.  So where is the Washington establishment's obsession with the deficit coming from?
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Ezra Klein
Peter Baker / New York Times:
The First Wave of Weary Aides Heads for the Exits  —  WASHINGTON — Linda Douglass slept nearly 12 hours the day after she left her job as a communications aide at the White House.  And the day after that and the day after that.  It took two weeks until she finally felt rested.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Not An Ounce Of Contrition”  —  There is some bizarre notion among the punditocracy that the Obama administration cannot and should not blame Bush and the GOP for the awful recession, looming tax rises and entitlement cuts, endless wars, tainted moral standing, crumbling infrastructure and massive debt that Obama inherited.
Discussion: Guardian
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown  —  The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
George W. Bush makes surprise visit to U.S. troops  —  Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a surprise visit to U.S. troops this afternoon.  —  They showed up at the USO in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.  There they mingled with the returning soldiers, thanked them …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Netanyahu, the anti-Obama  —  Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.  Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike — in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies — than Netanyahu …
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Housing crisis reaches full boil in East Point; 62 injured  —  Thirty thousand people turned out in East Point on Wednesday seeking applications for government-subsidized housing, and their confusion and frustration, combined with the summer heat, led to a chaotic mob scene that left 62 people injured.
Discussion: Clusterstock, theblogprof and Salon
Christina Hoff Sommers / AMERICAN.COM:
Take Back the Sports Page?  —  The political wing of the women's sports movement is in trouble.  These activists are accustomed to challenging timid bureaucrats and university administrators.  But in taking on TV sports coverage, they are challenging the market itself.
Ezra Klein:
Who can we blame for job losses?  —  “Obama's America,” tweets Republican political consultant Patrick Ruffini, linking to this map of economic devastation.  —  Fairly or not, Ruffini raises an interesting question: How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration?
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Updated Senate and Governor rankings!  —  With the 2010 primary season (nearly) over, the Fix and Post senior political reporter — and co-author of “The Battle for America” — Dan Balz sat down to revisit our rankings of the most competitive Senate and governor's races in the country.
Shira Rawlinson / ij.org:
Free the Monks and Free Enterprise  —  Challenging Louisiana's Casket Cartel in Federal Court  —  Arlington, Va.—Can the government restrict economic liberty just to enrich a group of politically favored insiders?  —  That's the question the Institute for Justice (IJ) and its client …
Brett Michael Dykes / Yahoo! News:
Cringe-inducing typo outside N.C. school  —  Well, here's something to make your old English teacher gasp in horror: A road contractor hired to paint the word “school” on a freshly paved stretch of road near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina rendered the traffic area in question a “shcool” zone.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Borrowers Refuse to Pay Billions in Home Equity Loans  —  PHOENIX — During the great housing boom, homeowners nationwide borrowed a trillion dollars from banks, using the soaring value of their houses as security.  Now the money has been spent and struggling borrowers are unable or unwilling to pay it back.
Newsdesk / Blagojevich on Trial:
Blago jury has verdict on 2 counts, deadlocked on others  —  The federal jury in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trial has reached a verdict on only two counts in the case and is deadlocked on others, U.S. District Judge James Zagel announced in court today.  —  The jury still hasn't deliberated …
 
 
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Financial Times:
The great false choice, stimulus or austerity
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Dueling attack ads in Nevada Senate race
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First Read / msnbc.com:
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Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
Race Card Is Maxed Out
Discussion: Big Hollywood
Wall Street Journal:
Washington vs. Paul Ryan
Melissa Gray / CNN:
‘Cathy’ comic strip to end after 34 years
Chicago Breaking News:
Durbin has tumor removed; aide says no cancer found
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and The Swamp
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Robert Gibbs keeps jabbing the left
William Poole / New York Times:
Say Goodbye to Fannie and Freddie
ABCNEWS:
Civil Unrest: The Death of Decorum in Washington?
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer

Laurence Peter / BBC:
Russia's Ministry of Justice labels BBC Russian correspondent Ilya Barabanov and science reporter Asya Kazantseva as “foreign agents”; both now live abroad

Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Disney plans old-style TV channels within Disney+, with a continuous, scheduled stream of shows that are focused on certain genres like Star Wars
 
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