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DETROIT FREE PRESS EXPOSES Democrats’ Fake Tea Party Scheme In Michigan. They’re desperate, and they’ll try anything. They’re also not very bright, apparently . . . .

RUSS FEINGOLD IS dodging Obama in Wisconsin.

A bomb kills at least 42 people at a Shia Muslim-organised rally in Pakistan's south-western city of Quetta.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 10 REASONS WHY PEOPLE ARE MISSING BUSH. Excerpt:

We naturally compare Bush to his chief critic and successor Barack Obama — and find the latter increasingly wanting as time goes by. Obama turned Bush’s misdemeanor deficits into felonious trillion-dollar annual shortfalls. He will pile up more debt than any other prior president. . . . Bush was tarred in 2004 for a ‘jobless recovery’ when unemployment hovered near 6%. It is now almost 10% and Obama still harps about ‘jobs saved.’ Scott McClellan may have been singularly inept; we are not so sure after Robert Gibbs.

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• Why does Barack Obama refuse to cultivate a warm, tender relationship with George W. Bush? Is it because Bush is the jackass who is largely responsible for all the problems that are making Obama’s life so miserable? Or is it because Obama is a mean old sourpuss, and racist against Texans as well? The second one, probably. Did you notice that Barack Obama didn’t even bother to thank Bush for starting the Iraq War the other day, when Obama went on TV to announce that we’d won it? That’s not gratitude. [NYT]
• Thanks to the Citizens United decision, an anti-abortion group can start running ads against Democrats because they voted for the health care bill — remember, the health care bill that pissed off all the pro-choice people because it limits abortion coverage? [WP]
• Democrats have finally realized that maybe people would be less likely to vote for David Vitter if they found out he liked to wear diapers and consort with prostitutes. [Fox]
• BP’s “little accident” has cost the company $8 billion so far. How can they pay for this mess, unless they’re allowed to drill for oil in the Gulf using their other explosion-prone oil rigs? [BBC/NYT]

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A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests is suspended from the medical register for three months.

MATH VS. BILL GATES: Advantage: Math! Math usually wins.

Welsh MP Chris Bryant says he believes his answer machine messages were intercepted by journalists at a tabloid newspaper.

The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show.

Edinburgh Fringe officials defend their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office returns.

Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of Walt Disney, defends the estate tax in a USA Today opinion piece. "In a far stricter tax environment, my grandfather still managed to accumulate and pass on ample funds to make three subsequent generations very comfortable indeed," she writes. "And as an inheritor I am here to tell you, the estate tax is not as much of a bogeyman as you've been led to believe."

Four teenagers deny murdering a 61-year-old man at his home in Conwy.

A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.

BEDBUG UPDATE: TripAdvisor reviews: Bedbug mentions soar 11% this year.

More here: “The bedbug infestation has reached epidemic proportions – taking over not only private homes and hotels, but stores and movie theaters.”

judgecorp writes "Steady progress on inductive wireless charging. There are now certified prototypes of chargers for Blackberry and iPhone devices that meet the Qi specification of the Wireless Power Consortium, which was announced last year. The spec has advanced from version 0.95 to 1.0, too."

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Nigel Farage says he will stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party, a position he held until last year.

Texas chef Mark Zable has invented deep-fried beer and will unveil it at the state fair. The beer is placed in a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds, a short enough time for the confection to remain alcoholic. "It tastes like you took a bite of hot pretzel dough and then took a drink of beer," he said.

Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with documents they requested. The suit, filed in federal court in Phoenix, claims the Maricopa County sheriff has failed to cooperate with the investigation into alleged discrimination against Hispanics by Arpaio's law enforcement officials.

IT’S COME TO THIS: A “Personal Activity Monitor” to remind you to get up and move around. “If you’ve been still for too long, the monitor vibrates gently to remind you to get up and get moving.” Sadly, this may be a good idea . . . .

Dublin delays a deal to allow transfers of EU citizens' data to Israel, which is accused of forging passports.