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2:28 AM ET, August 13, 2010

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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 …
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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.
David Lat / Above the Law:
Breaking: Judge Walker Won't Stay Prop 8 Ruling Pending Appeal!
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Walker Rejects Stay Request
Discussion: Hot Air and Power Line
CNN:
Prop 8 stay lifted by judge
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Green Light and Delay on Same-Sex Marriage
Fhardingj / CNN:
Legislator resigns after ‘dead Palin’ comment  —  New Hampshire State Rep. Timothy Horrigan resigned Thursday after making comments about Sarah Palin on Facebook.  —  (CNN) - A New Hampshire state legislator resigned his office Thursday after becoming the second Democrat in as many days …
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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 …
Daily Kos:
Are We At War With All Of Islam?  Right Wingers Think So  —  Nearly every oath of service in this nation includes the phrase “Defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America” in some form or the other.  Not having a King we needed an object of loyalty, something bigger than the individual to focus our loyalty on.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and The Mahablog
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Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Daily Kos Holocaust Denial: 9/11 Attacks ‘Were More About Optics Than Actual Harm’  —  While the Ground Zero Mosque controversy strikes the media as an opportunity for “healing” that's being denied by stubborn conservatives, the leftists at the Daily Kos see it as an opportunity for Holocaust Denial.
Eric Hague / McSweeney's:
OUR DAUGHTER ISN'T A SELFISH BRAT; YOUR SON JUST HASN'T READ  —  ATLAS SHRUGGED.  —  I'd like to start by saying that I don't get into belligerent shouting matches at the playground very often.  The Tot Lot, by its very nature, can be an extremely volatile place—a veritable powder keg …
Ian M. / Think Progress:
GOP candidate calls for internment camps for ‘people that snuck into the country.’  —  Speaking at a rally sponsored by Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project, GOP state house candidate in Florida, Marg Baker, endorsed building concentration camps for undocumented immigrants: … Watch it:
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Elise / Blue Wave News:
Republican FL State House Candidate Marg Baker Wants 1940s Style Camps …
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.
Jeremy Holden / Media Matters for America:
FULL AUDIO: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word rant  —  On August 10, Dr. Laura Schlessinger launched into a racially charged rant, during which Schlessinger — in her own words — “articulated the ‘n’ word all the way out — more than one time.”  Among other things, Schlessinger also told …
Ezra Klein:
The difficulty of opposing gay marriage  —  When we talk about gay marriage, we should first be clear about what we're discussing: State-sanctioned marriage is a central element in American life.  It includes both legal and substantial, important cultural benefits.
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Ross Douthat:
Marriage in Thick and Thin
Discussion: The American Scene and Open Left
Alan Riquelmy / Ledger-Enquirer.com:
Justice Alito refers Orly Taitz's request to reverse sanctions to U.S. Supreme Court  —  A request to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito by “birther” attorney Orly Taitz asking that $20,000 in sanctions against her be reversed was referred on Tuesday to the entire court.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Department of Strategery  —  The latest poll numbers show the same thing that poll numbers have shown since January of 2009.  Barack Obama is more popular than congressional Democrats who are more popular than congressional Republicans:  —  The vast majority of congressional Democrats have …
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Ezra Klein:
Portrait of a frustrated electorate
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Paralysis at the Federal Reserve  —  Ten years ago, one of America's leading economists delivered a stinging critique of the Bank of Japan, Japan's equivalent of the Federal Reserve, titled “Japanese Monetary Policy: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?”
Discussion: Economist's View
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
With Off-the-Record Lunch, Obama Extends a Hand  —  It may seem odd, but the journalists assigned to cover President Obama on a daily basis often have less access to him than the columnists, television personalities and feature writers who cover the president less frequently.
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.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Strategic Angle  —  This week, the campaign for Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle will run 1,000 to 1,600 points' — about $575,000 — worth of television advertising.  Normally, an advertising onslaught such as this one would be well-suited to the final weeks of a campaign — and a bit much for the dog days of August.
Discussion: The Page and Riehl World View
John Carney / New York Times:
Too Big Not to Fail  —  THE Obama administration is set to discuss the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants that largely escaped reform in the financial overhaul of the Dodd-Frank law, at the Treasury Department on Tuesday.  —  It's about time: the government's role …
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Joseph Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Adios, Gray Lady  —  Joseph Epstein cancels his ‘New York Times’ subscription.  —  The New York Times used to be called the Gray Lady of American newspapers.  The sobriquet implied a certain stateliness, a sense of responsibility, the possession of high virtue.  But the Gray Lady is far from the grande dame she once was.
Discussion: Mediaite and Commentary
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
Race Card Is Maxed Out … - Recommended
Discussion: Big Hollywood
BBC:
Iran TV airs ‘confession’ from woman facing stoning  —  The BBC's Jon Leyne explains what the footage showed  —  Iranian state TV has aired what it says is a confession by a woman under threat of being stoned to death for adultery.  —  In the interview shown on Wednesday …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Obamas Plan Fifth Vacation Since July  —  There they go again.  For the fifth time since July, the first family has set plans to board Air Force One for a frilly vacation, a 10-day return trip to exclusive Martha's Vineyard where they are expected to stay at the 28-acre oceanfront Blue Heron Farm that rents for up to $50,000 a week.
Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Negative ads help push Bill McCollum ahead of Rick Scott, poll shows  —  The bare-knuckle Republican race for Florida governor is almost a tie right now.  The big beneficiary: Democrat Alex Sink.  —  Bill McCollum's nonstop attacks on Republican rival Rick Scott's integrity and business record …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
How propagandists function: Exhibit A  —  Jeffrey Goldberg, in the new cover story in The Atlantic, on an Israeli attack on Iran: … Good news!  Israel can successfully end a country's nuclear program by bombing them, as proven by its 1981 attack on Iraq, which, says Goldberg, halted …
 
 
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Huck: Don't change 14th Amendment
Telegraph:
US ‘on target’ to withdraw troops from Iraq despite military misgivings
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Denver Post:
Maes treated to silence from GOP after gubernatorial primary win
Discussion: Weigel and ColoradoPols.com
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
After Fox News hit, Paul avoids local TV reporter - in reporter's own studio
Discussion: Bluegrass Politics
Financial Times:
The great false choice, stimulus or austerity
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Ezra Klein:
Who can we blame for job losses?
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Christina Hoff Sommers / AMERICAN.COM:
Take Back the Sports Page?  —  The political wing of the women's …
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