memeorandum: When did the actual last combat brigade return from Iraq? (Greyhawk/Mudville Gazette)

10:45 AM ET, August 24, 2010

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Minority leader Boehner to call for mass firing of Obama's economic team — CLEVELAND — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will call Tuesday for the mass firing of the Obama administration's economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, White House.gov Blog Feed, The Powers That Be, Hot Air, AMERICAblog News, Weasel Zippers, Taegan Goddard's …, The Page, Top of the Ticket and CNN

gopleader.gov:

Full Text: Boehner Delivers Remarks on Jobs & The Economy in Cleveland, OH — Follow @GOPLeader for updates on Leader Boehner's remarks — Remarks by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) on Jobs & The Economy — As Prepared for Delivery — The City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Political Punch, Gateway Pundit and Politics Extra

Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:

Boehner Wants WH Economic Team Fired — House Min. Leader John Boehner will ask Pres. Obama to fire his top economic advisors today in a major speech touting the GOP's plans to revitalize the marketplace. — “Pres. Obama should ask for — and accept — the resignations of the remaining members …

Discussion: Riehl World View and Moe Lane

Ed Hornick / CNN:

10 things Republicans must do in 10 weeks — Members of the Republican House leadership introduce the party's “America Speaking Out” campaign in May. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is at far right. — Washington (CNN) — With the midterm elections just 10 weeks away, analysts expect big wins for Republicans.

Discussion: Right Wing News

Jake Sherman / The Politico: John Boehner: Fire Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Islamic group calls Boehner's mosque stance ‘un-American’

Discussion: CNN, Politics Extra, JammieWearingFool and Weasel Zippers

Ann McElhinney / Not Evil Just Wrong:

James Cameron—King of Hypocrites — Last March James Cameron sounded defiant. — The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed.

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, Climate Depot and Right Wing News

Aaron Hedge / Aspen Times:
Filmmaker Cameron, in Aspen, has harsh words for global warming skeptics

Discussion: Questions and Observations

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Filmmaker James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate HE Organized

Discussion: Climate Depot, The Daily Caller, Nice Deb and Weasel Zippers

Ben Geman / The Hill:
Report: Director James Cameron calls climate change skeptics ‘swine’

Discussion: RedState, Flopping Aces, Climate Depot, American Power and HotAirPundit

Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:

Fed Split on Move to Bolster Sluggish Economy — WASHINGTON—The Aug. 10 meeting of top Federal Reserve officials was among the most contentious in Ben Bernanke's four-and-a-half year tenure as central bank chairman. — With the economic outlook unexpectedly darkening …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Economist's View, Gavyn Davies, Mother Jones, Clusterstock, Mish's Global Economic …, The Confluence, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Calculated Risk

Paul Krugman:

Hangover Theory At The Fed — This Jon Hilsenrath piece on the Fed is an impressive piece of reporting; it seems that somebody is talking out of school. And as Tim Duy says, it's also depressing for anyone believing, as I do, that we're sliding steadily into a long-run low-growth …

Discussion: Economist's View and Calculated Risk

Gardiner Harris / New York Times:

U.S. Judge Rules Against Obama's Stem Cell Policy — WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Guardian, Law Blog, Think Progress, nancynall.com, Firedoglake, The Confluence and Talking Points Memo

Washington Post:
NIH cannot fund embryonic stem cell research, judge rules

Discussion: Politics Daily and Hot Air

Reuters:
U.S. Court Rules Against Obama's Stem Cell Policy

Discussion: Wake up America, TalkLeft, Pundit & Pundette, Dow Jones Newswires and ACS Blog

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Anti-Semitic Incident at Ground Zero Mosque Counter Protest — At Sunday's Ground Zero mosque protest, I spoke to one man who had been with the counter-protesters, Joey “Boots” Bassolino, immediately after the police pulled him out from the crowd. What happened, I asked?

Discussion: Whiskey Fire, Comments from Left Field, Macsmind, Solomonia, Weasel Zippers, Israel Matzav, Big Peace and Michelle Malkin

Mark Williams / MarkTalk.com News & Commentary:
Ground Zero Mosque Imam: USA is the terrorist organization

Discussion: TPMMuckraker, CNN and Hullabaloo

Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
Rage Against Teh Joos! WTC Supporters Attack Man at Rally

Discussion: theblogprof, American Power, Weekly Standard, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:

Rangel on the Hot Seat in Debate — It was a gentle but unmistakable nudge President Obama gave Representative Charles B. Rangel recently, suggesting in an interview three weeks ago that Mr. Rangel, 80, should retire to “end his career with dignity.” — At a tense and sometimes fiery …

Discussion: NY Daily News, Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, JammieWearingFool and The Page

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:

Is Obama ‘American Enough’? — Suddenly, it's not “racist” to criticize the president. — The good news for President Obama is that this week is likely to be better for him than last week was. The bad news? Last week! A week so bad, as we observed Friday, that the president ended …

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Commentary

Christopher Hitchens / Slate:

The “Ground Zero mosque” debate is about tolerance—and a whole lot more. … - The Florida Congressman Showing Democrats How To Beat the Tea Party- So What if the Islamic Community Center's Location Is “Insensitive”? - The NYT's Bogus Story About Technology Endangering National Park Visitors- What Ever Happened to Quicksand?

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Pajamas Media, Betsy's Page, Front Page Magazine, Althouse, Macsmind, Weekly Standard, Wake up America and News Hounds

Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:

L.A. Times Runs Most Biased Top Story Ever Published In Any Free-World Newspaper — In one of its many books of guidelines, the Los Angeles Times instructs employees to write so that a reader “cannot detect” the political views of the reporter. If there's any place where you'd expect …

Discussion: Roger Ailes, Los Angeles Times and Doug Ross

Rasmussen Reports:

48% Say Obama's Views Are Extreme; 51% Say Hillary Is Mainstream — Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now regard President Obama's political views as extreme. Forty-two percent (42%) place his views in the mainstream, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Discussion: Don Surber, Commentary, National Review, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit

Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:

GOP Targets Obama's ‘Recovery Summer’ Amid Economic Gloom — Republicans Poised to Hammer Democrats on Jobs Promises Ahead of November — After months of withering job losses and weak economic growth, summer was going to be the season of recovery, the Obama administration heralded in June.

Discussion: Hot Air

Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:

A 25-state midterm swing for Romney — Former governor positioned for '12 — WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, having met last weekend in New Hampshire with the staff of his 2008 presidential campaign, is preparing to embark on an aggressive schedule that will take him to more than 25 states …

Ann Althouse / Althouse:

About that Daily Caller article claiming a lot bloggers “on the Republican side” are “secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns.” — The first paragraph of this attention-getting article by Jonathan Strong says there's “a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement.”

Discussion: TBogg, The Sundries Shack, The TrogloPundit, Macsmind, ProfessorBainbridge.com and Riehl World View

Ace / minx.cc:
Blogola! — The Daily Caller reports: … No, it's really not.

Discussion: Left Coast Rebel, Riehl World View, The Daily Caller, Don Surber, Liberty Pundits Blog, Right Wing News, POWIP, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and The Other McCain

CNN:

TRENDING: Poll: Jersey voters give ‘Shore’ thumbs down — The cast of ‘The Jersey Shore’ gets low marks from New Jersey voters. — (CNN) - It appears a majority of New Jersey residents agree with Gov. Chris Christie: The hit MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” is doing more harm than good to the Garden State.

Discussion: Cubachi

Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:

Responding to Dr. Krugman's column on tax cuts for the rich — In his column yesterday, Dr. Paul Krugman argues for raising the top marginal income tax rates on January 1. His polemic is useful because it encapsulates most of the Left's arguments. — Language trick #1: “We” (the government) should not “give money to the rich.”

Discussion: Mother Jones, Paul Krugman, Chicago Boyz, Daily Kos, protein wisdom, Think Progress, The Huffington Post and The Enterprise Blog

Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:

For Obama, a chance to regain some political momentum — The White House faces a delicate messaging task next week as President Obama seeks to bring one foreign engagement to an end while making a new bid for American influence abroad. — Obama's return to Washington from 10 days …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Page

Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:

When did the actual last combat brigade return from Iraq? — (Introductory note: Marines and fans of Marines click here. End of story.) — No doubt there's something else on TV now - but last week I caught a bit of the coverage of “the last American combat brigade leaving Iraq.”

Discussion: The Jawa Report and BLACKFIVE