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12:30 AM ET, September 3, 2010

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dept. of stage fright  —  Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's opening statement in last night's debate reflects either an amazing lack of preparation, or sheer panic.  —  (The video caption isn't mine.)
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CNN:
Brewer takes heat for not addressing beheading claim
The Huffington Post:   Jan Brewer Starts Badly, Finishes Worse, In Last Night's Arizona …
Arizona Republic:
Brewer, Goddard spar over immigration, state budget
Discussion: Salon
Aharding / CNN:
Hillary Clinton for president ad hits airwaves  —  A new ad advocating for Hillary Clinton for president in 2012 began running in New Orleans Wednesday.  —  (CNN) - We've still got two months left until the 2010 midterm elections, but we now have our first television commercial of the 2012 presidential campaign.
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The Politico:
Few options for Barack Obama on 9/11  —  Every year it's a challenge for the White House: how to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  This year is especially awkward, given the controversy around President Barack Obama's remarks in support of an Islamic cultural center …
Discussion: American Glob
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
One Day Before Its Gulf Oil Rig Exploded, Mariner Energy Said Obama ‘Is Trying To Break Us’ With Moratorium  —  The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana.  A Coast Guard spokesperson said the platform …
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Associated Press:
Gulf oil platform explodes, burning off La. coast  —  GRAND ISLE, La. - An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.
New York Times:
BP Says Limits on Drilling Imperil Oil Spill Payouts
Discussion: New York Magazine
Washington Post:
Blast on gulf oil rig injures 1 worker
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Salon and Achenblog
Mallory Simon / This Just In:
Coast Guard: Platform on fire in Gulf; 13 workers rescued
msnbc.com:
Oil rig explodes off La. coast
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
White House considering major tax breaks for businesses, sources say  —  With the recovery faltering less than two months before the November congressional elections, President Obama's economic team is considering another big dose of stimulus in the form of tax breaks for businesses …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House rules out sequel to stimulus bill
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Saying anything about Palin, cont'd  —  I generally avoid playing press critic, knowing that I live in a particularly fragile glass house and that good reporters make mistakes.  —  But the Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin is so emblematic of much that's wrong about the way she's covered …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin rips ‘impotent’ reporters  —  Sarah Palin on Thursday tore into “impotent, limp and gutless reporters” who quote anonymous sources criticizing her.  —  Though she did not name a story in particular, Palin seemed to be referencing a new Vanity Fair story on her that relies heavily …
Richard Allen Greene / CNN:
Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe  —  LONDON, England (CNN) — God did not create the universe, world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book that aims to banish a divine creator from physics.  —  Hawking says in his book “The Grand Design” that, given the existence of gravity …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
It's Important To Be Right  —  I previously expressed hope that Markos Moulitsas' American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right would be better than the publicity material suggested.  Jamelle Bouie read it for The American Prospect and reports back that it isn't.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Argument by Analogy, Cont.
Ace / minx.cc:
Stay Classy, Christine O'Donnell  —  She didn't make the charge; a firm employed by her did.  She's not commenting. … She cannot win in Delaware, which is usually among the ten most Democratic states in the union.  Allow me to be a little elistist — what in this odd biography says “serious candidate for Senator”?
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Pam Key / The Blaze:
KEY OBAMA ALLY WORKS WITH SOCIALISTS FOR GLOBAL TAX  —  “It is possible for us to get a financial tax around the world.”  —  FREELANCER  —  The New Mafia.... I'm sure that none of these people will take a cut of what they take from the evil capitalists.  We had better stop these thugs …
David Frum / FrumForum:
The Purge at Cato  —  The summer's biggest inside-Washington story was the abrupt and simultaneous departure of co-authors Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson from the Cato Institute.  —  Lindsey was Cato's vice president for research; Wilkinson a Cato scholar.
Discussion: Beltway Confidential
The Onion:
8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live  —  'We're Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,' Entire Populace Reports  —  NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realizing …
Katherine Mangu-Ward / Hit & Run:
FTC Suspects Chuck E. Cheese of Marketing to Children  —  The eagle-eyed regulators at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have a sneaking suspicion that a company offering disgusting pizza, animatronic human-sized mice, and a ball pit may be trying to appeal to children.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Gateway Pundit
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Rich Thomaselli / AdAge:
FTC Subpoenas 48 Food Companies Regarding Marketing to Kids
The Huffington Post:
What I Learned Behind the Lines of the Anti-Obama Backlash  —  What's Your Reaction: … Last March, the week that the health care reform was signed into law, I plopped down on a sofa and watched Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck for an hour with two of his biggest fans.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Quantifying the Enthusiasm Gap  —  We hear about the enthusiasm gap all the time, usually in pretty abstract terms.  Here it is in black and white: in 10 key races for Senate and Governor in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, and Missouri it's costing Democratic candidates …
Discussion: MyDD and Moe Lane
Jerry Cope / The Huffington Post:
No Safe Harbor on Gulf Coast; Human Blood Tests Show Dangerous Levels of Toxic Exposure  —  What's Your Reaction:  —  Even as BP and US government officials continue to declare the oil spill over at Mississippi Canyon 252 and the cleanup operation an unqualified success …
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
The GOP's new fake racial history  —  Almost 50 years ago, the Republican Party made a decision to embrace the backlash generated by civil rights among white Southerners.  —  Traditionally, they had been staunch Democrats, but they were also culturally conservative, and as Lyndon Johnson …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Frank: GOP thinks Obama inauguration ranks with 9/11 as national tragedy  —  Democrat mocks Republicans at California event, saying party has suffered from “massive amnesia” since Obama was sworn in.  —  Republicans act as if President Obama's inauguration ranks with Pearl Harbor and 9/11 …
Forbes:
V-Shaped Dreams Evaporate  —  The U.S. must brace itself for a long period of below-potential growth.  —  The curtain has opened on Act II of our “Year of Two Halves”—RGE's theme since the end of 2009—with the slowdown forecast for H2 2010 getting here a bit earlier than expected.
Nicholas Riccardi / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. sues controversial Arizona sheriff in civil-rights investigation  —  Justice Department officials say Maricopa County's Joe Arpaio failed to turn over documents in a probe of his agency's immigration enforcement operations.  Among his tactics are ‘sweeps’ of immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.
 
 
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GOP Candidates' Zeal at Odds With Senate's Traditions
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Discussion: The New Republic and Hot Air
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
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Wall Street Journal:
If Saddam Had Stayed
Discussion: Neptunus Lex, Cold Fury and Denver Post
Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Newsweek's Big Name Economics Editor, Dan Gross …
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Gang Members Blast City, Police Policies
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
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