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• Obama firm, won't yield on tax hike for wealthiest (AP)
• Gulf compensation chief retreats from promises to speed claims process (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Fears of a second recession ease, at least for now (AP)
• Biden thanks Bush, troops on ‘The Colbert Show’ (The Upshot)
• Who Wants to Be Next Mayor of Chicago? (Time.com)
• Would raising taxes on the rich help or hurt the economy? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• How GOP front-runners are commemorating 9-11 (The Upshot)
• Some in Fla. GOP softer in condemnations (Politico)
• Clinton vets say 2010 is no 1994 (Politico)
• Fla. minister cancels burning of Qurans on 9/11 (AP)
• U.N.'s Ban talks up Rwanda amid crisis over leak (Reuters)
• Summary Box: China accused of trade violations (AP)
• BONFIRE OF THE INSANITIES (Ann Coulter)
• N.H. Could Be Next GOP Trouble Spot (CQPolitics.com)
• Haley Barbour, race, Ole Miss _ from black perspective (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Miller Marks Wilson's 'You Lie!' Anniversary (CQPolitics.com)
• Overhaul law may boost health spending only slightly (McClatchy Newspapers)

Obama firm, won't yield on tax hike for wealthiest (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:25 PM PDT AP - Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans — and some fellow Democrats — just two months before bruising midterm elections.

Gulf compensation chief retreats from promises to speed claims process (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:10 PM PDT Exclusive to Yahoo! News - Just over two weeks ago, Kenneth Feinberg took over the process for handling damage claims from the Gulf oil spill, pledging to cut down the response time from BP’s widely criticized system to two days for individuals and seven days for businesses that file fully documented claims.

Fears of a second recession ease, at least for now (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - No, the economy isn't roaring ahead. And no, companies aren't making lots of job offers. But a fresh batch of economic data Thursday at least eased summertime fears that the economy might be on the brink of another recession.

Biden thanks Bush, troops on ‘The Colbert Show’ (The Upshot) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 08:02 AM PDT The Upshot - Vice President Joe Biden publicly thanked former President George W. Bush for his role in helping to end major combat missions in Iraq, allowing that even though they had disagreed on "policy," the 43rd president deserves "a lot of credit." Appearing on "The Colbert Show" Wednesday night during a week of episodes devoted to honoring [...]

Who Wants to Be Next Mayor of Chicago? (Time.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:45 PM PDT Time.com - The floodgates have opened with Richard Daley's surprise decision not to run for a seventh term. But the wannabes don't have much time.

Would raising taxes on the rich help or hurt the economy? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:03 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, as President Barack Obama proposes to do, probably wouldn't wreck the moribund U.S. economy, but extending the tax cuts they've enjoyed since 2001 could spur some economic benefit.

How GOP front-runners are commemorating 9-11 (The Upshot) Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:36 PM PDT The Upshot - One of the narratives of the summer has been the Republican Party's changing attitude toward Islam as seen in the response to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. A few Republicans considered front-runners for the 2012 presidential nomination have taken very strong stances against the facility, known as the Park51 Islamic Center, aligning themselves with [...]

Some in Fla. GOP softer in condemnations (Politico) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:17 PM PDT Politico - GOP candidates fighting to unseat Democrats in the House are issuing only mild rebukes.

Clinton vets say 2010 is no 1994 (Politico) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:10 PM PDT Politico - Even as they worry about an enthusiasm gap, they say it won’t be as big a disaster as 16 years ago.

Fla. minister cancels burning of Qurans on 9/11 (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - A Florida minister who had created an international furor with his plan to burn the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11 canceled the event under intense pressure Thursday, saying he agreed to back off after reaching a deal to move the location of a controversial mosque near New York's ground zero. The imam planning the New York mosque said no such deal has been reached.

U.N.'s Ban talks up Rwanda amid crisis over leak (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 11:53 AM PDT Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had agreed with Rwanda's president, who threatened to pull troops out of Sudan, on the importance of Rwanda continuing in peacekeeping operations.

Summary Box: China accused of trade violations (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:24 PM PDT AP - UNION COMPLAINT: The United Steelworkers union asked the Obama administration on Thursday to crack down on various Chinese trade practices in the area of clean energy.

BONFIRE OF THE INSANITIES (Ann Coulter) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:03 PM PDT Ann Coulter - In response to Gen David Petraeus' denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones' right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: "Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center have the same right to freedom of speech and religion as anyone else in this country."

N.H. Could Be Next GOP Trouble Spot (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:59 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - The nation's most competitive Senate primary Tuesday may be 400 miles north of Delaware.

Haley Barbour, race, Ole Miss _ from black perspective (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:33 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — It's hard to believe that Haley Barbour and Verna Bailey attended the same University of Mississippi in 1965, and even sat next to each other in a class.

Miller Marks Wilson's 'You Lie!' Anniversary (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 10:09 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - To mark the one-year anniversary of Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C) infamous "You lie!" moment, his Democratic opponent sent a fundraising solicitation Thursday morning entitled "Joe Wilson's Shame."

Overhaul law may boost health spending only slightly (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:00 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The health care overhaul law will drive health care spending up only slightly over the next decade, new estimates found.

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