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11:30 AM ET, September 9, 2010

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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
President Obama to Pastor Jones: ‘Stunt’ Endangers Troops - Full Transcript of Exclusive Interview  —  I covered a lot of ground with the president in Cleveland yesterday: His decision to make John Boehner the midterm punching bag.  Will he veto a sanction of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy?
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Koran Burning Is Insensitive, Unnecessary; Pastor Jones, Please Stand Down  —  Book burning is antithetical to American ideals.  People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
What Speaker Boehner would do first — Matt Bai thinks Obama may have missed his Mt. Rushmore moment - Kinsley and Scarborough to write columns for POLITICO — Ceci Connolly to McKinsey  —  “THE PRESIDENT TAKES ON THE PASTOR” — PRESIDENT OBAMA on “Good Morning America,” …
ABCNEWS:
FBI Says Retaliation for Koran Burning ‘Likely’  —  Intel Bulletin Cites ‘High Confidence’ of Backlash  —  The FBI is concerned that Islamic extremists might attack and retaliate at this Saturday's Koran burning planned by radical Florida pastor Terry Jones, ABC News has learned.
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: President Obama Says Terry Jones' Plan to Burn Korans Is ‘A Destructive Act’  —  President: Pastor's ‘Stunt’ Could Endanger Lives Here and Abroad  —  A Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 could result in “serious violence” …
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Washington Post:
Most Americans object to planned Islamic center near Ground Zero, poll finds
Washington Post:
Political controversy over Islam surrounds 9/11 anniversary
National Review:
This Is Where We Begin to Say No  —  On the Ground Zero mosque …
Discussion: Firedoglake and INSTAPUTZ
Paul / Power Line:
Feisal Abdul Rauf then and now — positively the same guy
Discussion: Whiskey Fire and New York Times
Associated Press:
Imam fears moving NYC mosque could inflame tension
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Jihad Watch
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C.I.A. could not sue over their alleged torture in overseas prisons because such a lawsuit might expose secret government information.
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Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Biden: Bush deserves ‘a lot of credit’  —  Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday night said that former President George W. Bush deserves ‘a lot of credit’ for his handling of the initial Iraq war drawdown.  —  Speaking to Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who conducted a rare …
Discussion: CNN, Weasel Zippers and Wake up America
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Florida College Shuts Down Conservative Event After Seeing Anti-Obama Literature (Video)  —  It begins... School officials at Palm Beach State College kicked members of the Young America's for Freedom off campus after they saw anti-Obama literature at their table.  —  It was offensive.
Discussion: Power Line
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Hatch: History will judge Clinton a better president than Obama  —  History will judge President Clinton more favorably than President Obama, a senior Republican senator charged Wednesday evening.  —  Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a 34-year veteran of the Senate, suggested that Clinton …
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NY Daily News:
Cupp: After Obama, a dose of Clinton?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Murkowski Likely to Lose Leadership Spot if Campaign Continues  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will likely be forced out of her party leadership position should she decide to launch a write-in or third-party candidacy, a Senate Republican said Wednesday.  —  Murkowski, who conceded …
Discussion: Firedoglake, Fox News and Guardian
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Whatever Happened to Obama's Army?  —  What happened to Barack Obama's once vaunted political machine?  The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008 — known as Organizing for America — is a ghost of its former self.  Its staff has shrunk from 6,000 to 300 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Swampland
The Hill:
Wall Street fills coffers of top GOP candidates  —  Wall Street and financial interests are putting their money behind a handful of top-tier Senate Republican candidates as the GOP looks to win back power in the midterm elections.  —  The industry's contributions, which favored Democrats …
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
DNC Chair: Gibbs ‘had a bad day’  —  Democratic National Committee chairman and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine on Wednesday said that White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was having “a bad day” when he lambasted the “professional left” in an interview with The Hill last month.
Paul Haven / Associated Press:
Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work  —  HAVANA - Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Health Outlays Still Seen Rising  —  The health-care overhaul enacted last spring won't significantly change national health spending over the next decade compared with projections before the law was passed, according to government figures set to be released Thursday.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
The Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: A Huge Chunk Of The Old Stimulus Hasn't Even Hit The Economy Yet  —  Despite talk about how the U.S. economy will soon lose the support of economic stimulus, or that stimulus 'hasn't worked', U.S. fiscal stimulus for the economy is far from finished, and this doesn't even consider additional measures being debated.
Bloomberg:
Super PACs Flourish to Influence U.S. Vote After Companies Freed to Give  —  At least 25 “super PACS,” including one linked to Karl Rove, are fueling a surge in money for this year's elections following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on corporate campaign spending.
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Barbara Boxer aide charged with possession of pot  —  A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports.  —  Marcus Stanley, who served as a senior economic adviser …
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Jerry Brown: 'I Have a Plan, I'll Tell You After the Election'  —  While speaking to business leaders in Silicon Valley, California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown announces that he has a plan for the State's fiscal crisis, but he won't reveal it until after the election.
Ezra Klein:
The Keynesian experiment  —  It's become common to hear Republicans saying that Democrats' “Keynesian experiment,” or in Paul Ryan's case, their “Neo-Keynesian economic experiment,” has failed.  You'd think that Keynesian economics was a big divide between the parties.  But it wasn't and it's not.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Facebook
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages  —  Says Translators Failed Language Tests, Were Still Embedded With US Troops In Afghanistan  —  More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams …
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Emanuel moves event for Rep. Halvorson, prompting speculation  —  Illinois Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D) was planning to get some fundraising help from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Sunday.  But the event has been rescheduled amid growing speculation Emanuel is planning to run for mayor of Chicago.
Discussion: CNN, NBC Chicago and The Hill
Alissa Torres / Salon:
9/11 widow: The media duped us  —  As I watch other victims argue over Park51, I feel like reporters turned us into the experts we never were  —  The first time I heard about the Park51 Islamic community center was on May 6, 2010, when I received the following e-mail from a New York TV reporter:
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Michael Joseph Gross Responds to Criticism of His Article on Sarah Palin  —  It has been only a few days since the appearance of my Vanity Fair article “Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury,” and the response, to put it mildly, has been considerable.  I won't address simple differences …
 
 
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U.S. Student Became Mexican Drug Kingpin
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Chicago Breaking News:
U.S. names Asian carp czar
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Federal Reserve ‘beige book’ signals widespread slowdown of economic growth
Discussion: Hot Air and Robert Reich
CNN:
Group vows to replace burned Qurans
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Pacifica Radio in talks to air Al Jazeera in major U.S. markets
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Obama firm against tax cuts for rich
Discussion: The Reaction
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Scarborough and Kinsley Will Write for Politico
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican Governors Association moves $500,000 to New Mexico
BBC:
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs fined £17.5m by FSA
Discussion: The First Post and Truthdig
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Big lead for GOP in Maine
Discussion: Daily Kos and National Review
Mark Liberman / Language Log:
“They talk about me like a dog”  —  President Obama went off script …
Discussion: Wonkette