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1:40 AM ET, August 22, 2010

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Associated Press:
Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder  —  Issued on rape allegations that Assange calls ‘without basis’  —  STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks on Saturday, saying less than a day after the document was issued that it was based on an unfounded accusation of rape.
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David Batty / Guardian:
Assange rape warrant cancelled
Discussion: Sweetness & Light and TalkLeft
Jkavcnn / This Just In:
Is Assange the target of a U.S. smear campaign?
Karl Ritter / The Huffington Post:
Julian Assange Rape Case: Sweden WITHDRAWS Arrest Warrant
BBC:
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape
The Local:
Sweden drops warrant for WikiLeaks founder
Discussion: Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
John / Power Line:
An Appalling Story  —  This afternoon at 4 p.m. Pacific, Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, is hosting a $500-per-person fundraiser for Jerry Brown.  John Nolte reports at Big Hollywood: … At Big Peace, a Gold Star Mother recounts her painful experience with Code Pink, a truly vile group.
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Debbie Lee / Big Peace:
Code Pink Tells Gold Star Mom: Your Son Deserved to Die  —  Note: Please join with me and Move America Forward in calling on Jerry Brown to return any money he has received from Jodie Evans and protest at her fundraiser tomorrow: Aug 21st at 4PM PST at the Home of Jodie Evans, 757 Palms Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Andy McCarthy / National Review:
Ground Zero Thought Experiment  —  A friend poses the following: Imagine that there really were these fundamentalist Christian terror cells all over the United States, as the Department of Homeland Security imagines.  Let's say a group of five of these terrorists hijacked a plane, flew it to Mecca, and plowed it into the Kaaba.
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Bruce Feiler / The Huffington Post:
Obama a Muslim!  Lincoln a Catholic! …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican National Committee closes July with just $5 million on hand  —  The Republican National Committee spent twice as much as it raised in July, leaving the committee with just over $5 million on hand with less than three months left before the 2010 midterm elections.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
RNC has just $5m for final push
Discussion: The Other McCain, POLISING and Gawker
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Oy Vey, Obama  —  Is President Obama good for the Jews?  For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no.  —  In a Pew Research Center report issued on Thursday and entitled “Growing Number of Americans Say Obama Is a Muslim” (tragic in its own right), there was another bit of bad news for Obama …
Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
With consumers slow to spend, businesses are slow to hire  —  CHICAGO — Corporate profits are soaring.  Companies are sitting on billions of dollars of cash.  And still, they've yet to amp up hiring or make major investments — the missing ingredients for a strong economic recovery.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
News Analysis: In Iraq, Obama Faces Balancing Act as Combat Mission Ends  —  WASHINGTON — The official end of America's combat mission in Iraq next week will fulfill the campaign promise that helped vault President Obama to the White House, but it also presents profound risks as he seeks …
Discussion: csis.org and The Page
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
In Striking Shift, Small Investors Flee Stock Market  —  Renewed economic uncertainty is testing Americans' generation-long love affair with the stock market.  —  Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year …
Discussion: Corrente
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Weekly Address: No Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy  —  The President calls out Republicans for blocking campaign finance reforms that would address the Supreme Court decision opening the floodgates of corporate money into elections.  —  Click here to see the video.
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
Obama cites recess ‘attack ads’ in call for campaign finance bill
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, CNN and The Politico
RushLimbaugh.com:
An Example of Why Nobody Trusts Old Media: WaPo's Joel Achenbach  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: Now, let's get to this Muslim business, ladies and gentlemen.  Joel Achenbach, an obscure, relatively unknown member of the ruling class partisan political operative media writes a blog at the Washington Post …
Discussion: theblogprof and Riehl World View
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
The New Culture War.  —  When Andrew Sullivan first wrote “Goodbye to All That,” believing that the candidacy of Barack Obama could be the beginning of a “truce” in the culture war, he was largely placing the blame on the narcissism of the baby-boomers.  The culture war as Sullivan was writing …
Agency / Telegraph:
Iran ‘12 months from nuclear weapon’ US warns as Bushehr reactor started  —  The US sought to reassure Israel that Iran is still a year away from building a nuclear weapon, as Iran's leadership hailed the fuelling of its first nuclear power plant on Saturday.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Saw Drill Ban Killing Many Jobs  —  Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn't trust the industry's safety equipment and the government's own inspection process …
 
 
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Angela K. Brown / Associated Press:
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Paul Krugman:
Bond Madness  —  Things are looking bleak for the economy …
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Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Nearly 50 percent leave Obama mortgage-aid program
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Harry Reid's strategy: Winning ugly
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