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Business Insider: President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign sent an email to campaign supporters under his name Wednesday with the subject line “frustrated” — critiquing Congress for failing to focus on the critical issues facing the country. “It’s been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American people need them to be focused [...]

USA Today: House Speaker John Boehner will deliver his own speech about the economy, a week after President Obama addresses the nation about his jobs plan. Boehner, R-Ohio, will address the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. on Sept. 15. The speaker has given major policy speeches in these kinds of settings before, most notably in [...]

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Financial Times: A Chinese warship confronted an Indian navy vessel shortly after it left a Vietnamese port in late July in the first such encounter between the two countries’ navies in the South China Sea. The unidentified Chinese warship demanded that India’s INS Airavat, an amphibious assault vessel, identify itself and explain its presence in [...]

Big Government: It looks like the National Education Association is not putting its money where its mouth is. In its mission statement, the nation’s largest teachers union asserts that “we will focus the energy and resources of our 3.2 million members on improving the quality of teaching, increasing student achievement and making schools safer, better [...]

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Gabrielle Giffords Related: Giffords Boasted of Her Prowess With a Glock The Hill: The Pima County Republican Party is raffling off a Glock 23 handgun to raise money for get out the vote efforts in the district where a Glock was used last winter to kill six people and wound Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Arizona [...]

CNS: The United States does not have a short-term debt problem, just a “jobs crisis” that can be solved with greater government stimulus spending, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Speaking at a press conference on jobs Wednesday, Trumka called for greater government spending in areas like education and jobs. Asked whether such spending was [...]

Palm Beach Post: Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has repeatedly used the phrase “federal family” when describing the Obama administration’s response to the storm. “Under the [...]

CBS News: It’s no secret that war is expensive, but a report out Wednesday says the U.S. has wasted billions in Iraq and Afghanistan. More tax dollars will go down the drain unless the government makes big changes. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that in ten years of war, the U.S. has paid contractors [...]

What did Obama know, and when did he know it? Boston Globe: President Obama’s uncle will fight deportation to his native Kenya, one of his lawyers said yesterday, because he has lived in the United States for nearly 50 years and now considers it his home. Onyango Obama, 67, a half-brother of the president’s father, [...]

Real Clear Politics: “The interesting question is: What is it about this president that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the Office of the President? Why do Republicans think this president is unpresidential and should dare to request this kind of thing? It strikes me that it could be the economic [...]

Rasmussen: For the first time this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry leads President Obama in a national Election 2012 survey. Other Republican candidates trail the president by single digits. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows Perry picking up 44% of the vote while the president earns support from 41%. Given the margin of [...]

Al Jazeera: Yemeni military and medical officials say 30 al-Qaeda asuspects have been killed in US drone attacks and clashes with Yemeni soldiers in al-Qaeda held cities in the south. A military official said that the United States has been bombing al-Qaeda positions, which militants had seized taking advantage of the political turmoil in the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worker productivity in the United States fell this spring more quickly than previously estimated while labor costs were rising at a faster clip. Both developments could pose threats to a fragile economic recovery. The U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the April-June [...]

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Bloomberg: Jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 409,000 in the week ended Aug. 27, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected a drop to 410,000, according to the median forecast. The figure remains higher than it was three weeks earlier, before the labor dispute at Verizon pushed the numbers [...]

The Hill: Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy and unemployment is at an all-time high heading into his highly-anticipated speech on his jobs plan next week. A CNN/ORC poll released Thursday found deep dissatisfaction with the president’s management of the economy; 65 percent of Americans said they disapprove of the way Obama is [...]