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GOP Filibusters Small Business Bill After Criticizing Dems For Delay (Huffington Post)
July 30, 2010Huffington Post - For several days now, Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a bill that would benefit small businesses, arguing that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was putting electoral advantages over jobs for everyday people.
Obama Mocks Polls But Spends More On Them ($4.4M) Than Bush Did (Huffington Post)
July 30, 2010Huffington Post - With Reporting By Julian Hattem
Crack-Powder Sentencing Disparity Reformed By Congress (Huffington Post)
July 30, 2010Huffington Post - Update Below
Leaking to Avert Disaster (Joe Conason)
July 30, 2010Joe Conason - The outpouring of tens of thousands of classified military documents by WikiLeaks is not precisely comparable to the publication of the Pentagon Papers — but in at least one crucial respect, it may be more valuable.
BP Oil Spill: Has Environmental Damage Been Exaggerated? (Time.com)
July 30, 2010
Time.com - So far, predictions of ecological catastrophe on the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill seem overblown
Federal Judge Neuters Arizona Immigration Law: What's Next? (The Atlantic Wire)
July 30, 2010
The Atlantic Wire - The most controversial elements of Arizona's immigration law have been blocked
by a federal judge. Major provisions, such as one requiring authorities
to check the immigration status of individuals while enforcing other
laws, will not go into effect. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton also barred the state from requiring immigrants to carry their
papers at all times. While this isn't the last say on the Arizona law,
it's a major victory for the bill's opponents. Here's what observers are
looking at now and anticipating for the future:
Obama on 'The View': Canny Decision or Unpresidential? (The Atlantic Wire)
July 30, 2010
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The Bush Book Bomb (The Daily Beast)
July 30, 2010The Daily Beast - While 43's memoir isn't due in stores until after the 2010 midterm voting is over, Republicans are increasingly anxious about its impact. Former Bush aide Matt Latimer on the Dems' last best hope.
GOP Gains Weren't Always Inevitable This Year (CQPolitics.com)
July 30, 2010CQPolitics.com - Sometimes, you can almost hear the conventional wisdom and expectations shift, even when they are based on faulty premises.
Obama Ignores Warnings on AfghanistanâGoing Back to November 2008 (The Nation)
July 30, 2010The Nation - The Nation -- At my Daybook today I link to a remarkable Garry Wills blog item at The New York Review of Books site, in which he reveals that he is breaking a kind of embargo a year after he and other historians had dinner with President Obama. It seems that most of them warned him about the "folly" of continuing/escalating in Afghanistan—and Wills is sad and angry that the President didn't listen one bit.
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