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  01 AUG 10

  Burns Strider: Newt Gingrich Rejects Religious Freedom and the Golden Rule

  www.huffingtonpost.com/burns-strider/newt-gingrich-rejects-rel_b_663995.html?ref...

  The churches I grew up in have remarkable Veterans Day celebrations. They are like Father's Day, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day all rolled into one. I love those celebrations. The church choir sings "God Bless America," and the preacher or deacon calls out the various branches of military service: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines... And old soldiers stand

  
  
• 31 JUL 10

  Shield quality of life | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

  www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100730013

  On Tuesday, Brevard County commissioners will vote to set the property tax rates for the next fiscal year. This vote has the potential to damage our quality of life for years into the future.

  
  

• If Crist Can Win As An Independent Is The Republcian Party Less Relevant?

  networkedblogs.com/6p4vm

  A new Florida poll confirms a trend showing Charlie Crist ahead in a three-way race for the U.S. Senate from Florida (h/t Taegan Goddard)

  
  

• Scocca : Mort Zuckerman: If Obama Isn't Nicer to Us Rich People, We Will Destroy America

  www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2010/07/22/mort-zuckerman-if-obama-isn-...

  Did you think the health of the American economy was governed by supply and demand, overlaid with interest rates, worker productivity, and other things having to do with how well we make, distribute, buy, and sell stuff? Wrong! The American economy rises or falls based on whether or not the country's very richest people believe they are being properly respected and made happy. And Politico reports that the sensitive rich people are not happy with the Obama administration:

  
  

• t r u t h o u t | Strengthen Social Security Coalition Puts Both Parties on Notice

  www.truth-out.org/strengthen-social-security-coalition-puts-both-parties-on-noti...

  More than 60 organizations that represent more than 30 million Americans are banding together to deliver a straightforward message to politicians this fall: Don't mess with Social Security.

  
  

• Ask the Expert: Michael Linden on the Deficit Commission

  www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/04/linden_video.html

  What is the deficit commission? What are the commission's goals? What are the most effective ways it can meet its goals?

  
  

• Three Good Reasons to Let the High-End Bush Tax Cuts Disappear This Year

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  www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/07/let_cuts_expire.html

  President Bush and a Republican-controlled Congress passed a series of massive tax cuts from 2001 to 2006. Their cuts lowered everyone’s taxes, but they were skewed heavily to the wealthy. More than half of the total benefit from the Bush tax cuts this year alone will accrue solely to the richest 5 percent of Americans while the middle 20 percent of Americans will reap only 7 percent of the benefit.

  
  

• Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm: 'Cracking the Code' to Keeping Manufacturing Jobs in America

  www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-m-granholm/cracking-the-code-to-keep_b_664287.ht...

  For years, America's manufacturers shifted jobs to cheap labor markets across the globe. Under the mantra of "free trade" and goaded by the desire to keep shareholder profits soaring and the companies globally competitive, manufacturers first moved jobs and production to nearby low-wage pockets and then further and further offshore.

  
  

• Op-Ed Columnist - Curbing Your Enthusiasm - NYTimes.com

  www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?emc=eta1

  Why does the Obama administration keep looking for love in all the wrong places? Why does it go out of its way to alienate its friends, while wooing people who will never waver in their hatred?

  
  

• Anthony Weiner Goes Ballistic At GOP For Killing 9/11 Responders Health Care Bill (VIDEO)

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  www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/anthony-weiner-911-bill-ballistic_n_664568.html

  House Republicans late Thursday were able to corral enough votes to defeat a bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to those sickened by toxins resulting from the 9/11 attacks
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