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Washington Times Feds ignore rules and use stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels
While the Dems bash Romney for sending jobs overseas, they use stimulus funds—which are supposed to generate jobs here—to create jobs in China. Pot meet kettle.

USA Today:

• Just 96K jobs added in August; jobless rate falls to 8.1%
  Note the truth buried in the story:

  The drop in the August unemployment rate fell because 368,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force

  If another half million drop out over the next couple months, you can expect to hear Dear Leader crowing about reducing unemployment.

• Alpha closing 8 coal mines, cutting 1,200 jobs
  Those 1200 families? Not important to this President—after all, WV didn’t vote for him.

Daily Caller Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press
More from the most ethical and transparent administration ever.

NY Post America basher’s backfire: Killed by flag smoke
Epic fail.

Townhall:

• Jeff Jacoby Just as Intended, Teachers Strike Hurts Families
  If you don’t think the union knew the strike would hurt families and planned to use that pain against the city politically, you’re not paying attention.
• Dennis Prager Note to Paul Krugman: Here’s Real “Eliminationist” Rhetoric
• Michael Brown Is the Republican Party the Party of God?
  A timely word of caution.

Bret Stephens@WSJ Muslims, Mormons and Liberals: Why is it OK to mock one religion but not another?