Washington Post Top Online Stories: Wed 9/08/10

The Washington Post lead headline online early Wednesday morning says "Obama to unveil more stimulus, tax breaks for business." The paper says in the most read story President Obama will argue personally Wednesday against extending the Bush-era income tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest families even for a year or two, White House officials said Tuesday - a message aimed at wavering Democrats who have been swayed by arguments that the economy is too weak to raise anyone's taxes.

The paper says the last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.

It says the plan by a tiny Florida church to burn Korans on Sept. 11 is drawing condemnation from top U.S. officials and religious leaders, including the White House, the State Department and Gen. David H. Petraeus, who warned Tuesday that it could endanger U.S. troops in the Muslim world.

The paper says in a spasm of violence this spring, an angry mob toppled the Kyrgyzstan president, torched his office and ransacked other buildings associated with his hated authoritarian regime. It says

And the paper says old men weep but Jerry Lewis, 84, seemed on the verge of breaking down, or breaking apart, more often this year than usual during the Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).