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Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington —In every recession over the last three decades, it has been America’s small businesses — those Lilliputian companies with fewer than 100 employees — that stepped forward, began hiring and pulled the country out of the mire. Not this time. Small firms are on the sidelines, and it’s not [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama and the Democrats head into the summer campaign season with the economy slowing, unemployment flirting with double-digits — and few options for a quick fix. Obama’s economic stimulus plan is winding down, right when Democrats need it most. And a big new jobs bill? Forget it. House Democrats had to battle [...]

The Hill: Several House Democrats have asked the Obama administration to investigate claims that dozens of trailers contaminated with formaldehyde are being used to house oil spill clean-up crews along the Gulf of Mexico. The trailers were initially provided to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA [...]

Politico: The story of Al Gore’s alleged unwanted sexual advances toward a Portland, Ore., masseuse, which had been simmering since the National Enquirer first published the allegations last week, broke into the mainstream news cycle Friday after the Portland police announced they would reopen their investigation. Anderson Cooper did a segment on the story on [...]

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PLYMOUTH, Vt. (AP) – In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard will gather at noon on the village green and walk down to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried, trailed by [...]

The Independent: Thousands more jobs in key public services are now under threat after the Chancellor, George Osborne, last night issued a shock edict demanding spending cuts of up to 40 per cent across Whitehall – 15 percentage points more than threatened in his emergency Budget last month. The Chancellor has ordered cabinet ministers to [...]

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The Wall Street Journal: College graduates who took a detour around the weak job market by going back for advanced degrees are beginning to emerge from those programs—and finding job prospects aren’t much better than they were a couple of years ago. The jobless rate for 20- to 34-year-olds with master’s degrees, though well below [...]

Pajamas Media: After the elections in 2008, Daily Kos, the largest liberal community blog out there, contracted pollster Research 2000 to conduct a large number of race-specific and “State of the Nation” polls. The results of Research 2000’s surveys have come under increasingly intense fire lately, and on July 1, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas [...]

It already has. CNN: When signs of a severe economic downfall emerged more than two years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama was quick to point a finger at the man he hoped to replace. Seventeen months into his administration, the message is often the same, and Republicans say it’s time for him to drop the Bush [...]

Jerusalem Post: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the latest US sanctions passed against the Islamic Republic “pathetic” on Saturday in his first speech since the new measures were signed into law by US President Barack Obama on Thursday, Reuters reported. The US legislation affects the gasoline, financial, insurance and shipping sectors, among others, as it [...]

Financial Times: The widespread mockery of Russian spies after this week’s arrests in the US has angered well-placed British intelligence experts, who believe it would be foolish to underestimate the espionage efforts of the heirs of the KGB. The global media has ridiculed the antics of the alleged Russian agents arrested by the FBI and [...]