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• Judge overturns California's gay marriage ban (The Starting Point)
• Wyclef Jean to Run for President of Haiti (Time.com)
• Missouri's Prop C: Voters Set to Challenge Health Reform (Time.com)
• Liberals Cheer Bloomberg's Speech Defending NYC Mosque (The Atlantic Wire)
• Obama seeks to rally labor ahead of key elections (AP)
• Republicans detail wasteful U.S. stimulus spending (Reuters)
• BP's 'Static Kill' Is Working, Except for the Name (The Atlantic Wire)
• 41% of GOP: Obama foreign-born (Politico)
• Ehrlich welcomes Palin as a foil (Politico)
• Angle: Democrats want to 'make government our God' (AP)
• 'Stop-loss' pay unclaimed by thousands of troops (AP)
• Historian doubts Demjanjuk's wartime account (AP)
• Black caucus reels from ethics, election setbacks (AP)
• ENFORCEMENT OF ETHICS RULES IS EXACTLY WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS (Cynthia Tucker)
• Floor Test Promised on Change in Rules for Senate 'Holds' (CQPolitics.com)
• Snarky comments fail to roil Colorado GOP Senate race (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Reid Still Trying to Move Small-Business Bill Before Senate Leaves (CQPolitics.com)
• Tancredo could blow up Colorado's GOP this fall (McClatchy Newspapers)

Judge overturns California's gay marriage ban (The Starting Point) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:54 PM PDT The Starting Point - A federal judge today overturned California’s ban on gay marriage, saying the voter-approved initiative violates both the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

Wyclef Jean to Run for President of Haiti (Time.com) Posted: 03 Aug 2010 11:10 PM PDT Time.com - After much speculation, the hip hop superstar is making it official: he wants to lead the land of his birth

Missouri's Prop C: Voters Set to Challenge Health Reform (Time.com) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT Time.com - State Democrats tried to bury the referendum on health insurance in the dog days of August but the GOP will still use a likely victory to crow about the plan's unpopularity

Liberals Cheer Bloomberg's Speech Defending NYC Mosque (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 05:46 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an impassioned speech on Tuesday defending the Cordoba House, an Islamic community center planned for lower Manhattan and sometimes called the "Ground Zero Mosque." The center has come under increasing attack from conservatives, including Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin. But one-time Republican Bloomberg has drawn praise and applause from liberal observers for his speech, which placed the Cordoba House within New York and America's long histories of immigration and religious pluralism. Here are the reactions and, below that, speech highlights.

Obama seeks to rally labor ahead of key elections (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 01:46 PM PDT AP - Rallying a pivotal part of his base, President Barack Obama pleaded with labor leaders Wednesday to energize their members about the upcoming election, depicting a choice between those who fight for the middle class and those who are "not lifting a finger to help."

Republicans detail wasteful U.S. stimulus spending (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:31 AM PDT Reuters - An election-year war of words over the effectiveness of President Barack Obama's $862 billion economic stimulus law ratcheted up on Tuesday as Republicans detailed spending projects they said were wasteful and failed to achieve the main goal of job creation.

BP's 'Static Kill' Is Working, Except for the Name (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:01 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - "Static kill," BP's new mud-funneling plan for stopping its Gulf oil gusher, appears to be working. The company is hopeful that this might be all it takes to seal off the leak for good. Yet the question on the lips of everyone from the smallest blogger to Energy Secretary Steven Chu isn't so much technical as literary. It can be summed up simply: "Static kill"? Really?BP has already gone through an impressive cycle of odd, dramatic, murderous names for its operations. "Static kill" appears to have been the last straw. Perhaps as a sign of relief that the oil spill may be finished, hilarity is bursting through even the pages of The Washington Post.'You Want to Make Sure It's Really Dead Dead Dead,' Energy Secretary Chu tells the Post's Joel Achenbach. "'Don't want anything to rise out of the grave.'" Before getting to the serious part of the piece, Achenbach himself notes that "whether [the operation] will kill, slightly impede, or merely pester BP's Macondo well remained unknown late Tuesday." Here's the situation:Ideally, the heavy mud will cause the pressure in the well to drop to zero--but that alone won't mean the well is dead, according to federal scientists. The well could be playing dead. For example, when the mud will travels into the hot environment of the rock formation 2 1/2 miles below the seafloor, the heat could cause the mud to change form and allow the Macondo reservoir to "push back," as Chu put it.

41% of GOP: Obama foreign-born (Politico) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:12 AM PDT Politico - And 19 percent of independents are skeptics.

Ehrlich welcomes Palin as a foil (Politico) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 08:49 AM PDT Politico - Sarah Palin is choosing to back Brian Murphy's underdog bid, passing over former Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R-Md.).

Angle: Democrats want to 'make government our God' (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle says her campaign is "a war" with Democrats in Washington who are trying to "make government our God."

'Stop-loss' pay unclaimed by thousands of troops (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 11:17 AM PDT AP - The Pentagon is reminding an estimated 100,000 retired military men and women that they are owed back pay and should claim it.

Historian doubts Demjanjuk's wartime account (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 09:17 AM PDT AP - A U.S. military historian on Wednesday testified in the trial of the retired Ohio autoworker accused of being a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp and expressed doubt about John Demjanjuk's account of his whereabouts in the last years of World War II.

Black caucus reels from ethics, election setbacks (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - These were supposed to be heady days for African-Americans in Congress, with President Barack Obama occupying the White House and a half dozen blacks holding powerful committee chairmanships and leadership jobs.

ENFORCEMENT OF ETHICS RULES IS EXACTLY WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS (Cynthia Tucker) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:05 PM PDT Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- Charlie Rangel is right about this much: A clubby Congress has long basked in an atmosphere of privilege, lent a hand to the powerful and ignored the rules of propriety. Rangel's behavior, while egregious, is hardly unique.

Floor Test Promised on Change in Rules for Senate 'Holds' (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 10:38 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pledged Wednesday that a proposal to end the anonymous holds that senators use to block nominations or bills will get floor time after the Senate returns from its summer recess.

Snarky comments fail to roil Colorado GOP Senate race (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 10:19 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In another time, in another place, Ken Buck might have doomed his chances of helping the Republicans seize control of the U.S. Senate the minute he started talking about high heels.

Reid Still Trying to Move Small-Business Bill Before Senate Leaves (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 10:33 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Senate Democratic leaders hope they can pass a small-business bill before adjourning for the August recess.

Tancredo could blow up Colorado's GOP this fall (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 10:18 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — The breakfast coffee was starting to cool when Tom Tancredo wrapped up his talk on the evils of illegal immigration and President Barack Obama and opened the floor to questions from his fellow Republicans.

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