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4:35 PM ET, November 13, 2007

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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush vetoes health and education bill  —  NEW ALBANY, Ind. - President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats.  —  He also signed a big increase in the Pentagon's non-war budget although …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Veto Sets Stage for Budget Battle  —  President Bush vetoed a $606 billion spending bill Tuesday that would have funded education, health and labor programs for the current fiscal year, complaining that it was larded with pork and too expensive as he took aim at a top priority of the new Democratic Congress.
New York Times:
Bush Vetoes Major Domestic Spending Measure  —  President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a major spending measure that would have funded education, health care and job training programs, saying it contained money for too many of the special projects known as earmarks.
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Reid calls on Bush to withdraw troops
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Washington Wire:   Veto Marks Shift in Funding Fight
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Vultures circling in Iowa  —  A key Obama supporter in Iowa, former Democratic Party Chair Gordon Fischer, offered a glimpse into where his campaign sees growth: In scooping up Edwards supporters.  —  "It's going to move much more to a two-person race - Barack Obama and Hillary," …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
A Not-So-Perfect Picture of Party Unity  —  On both sides of the ticket, the presidential nominating contest is growing increasingly combative, as voters may well witness Thursday during a debate in Las Vegas among the Democratic candidates.  —  So how is John Edwards feeling …
GOP.com:
HILLARY CLINTON LIBRARY CARD  —  On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton consistently speaks to her level of experience; yet, she will not allow details of that experience to be reviewed by the public.  —  The American people deserve to know what information is being guarded in her libraries.
The Politico:
Democrats remain stalled on Iraq debate  —  As the congressional session lurches toward a close, Democrats are confronting some demoralizing arithmetic on Iraq.  —  The numbers tell a story of political and substantive paralysis more starkly than most members are willing to acknowledge publicly, or perhaps even to themselves.
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Dems Fool Netroots: Quietly Fund Iraq While Talking Tough
Discussion: Wake up America
The Fact Hub:
Sen. Edwards Proposes Unconstitutional Law In New Ad  —  Sen. Edwards has a new TV advertisement about health care where he proposes the following law: … The problem is, Sen. Edwards doesn't have the power to take health care away from Congress unilaterally—he'd have to propose a law.
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Ezra Klein:
His Ideas Are Good, But I Want More Bullet Points
Discussion: Political Machine
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Sunstein on Edwards' health care threat
Discussion: Ezra Klein
WJXT-TV:
Man Found Dead, Stuck In Cat Door  —  \32-Year-Old Trying To Get In Girlfriend's Home  —  ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — St. Johns County deputies recently launched an investigation into what they called one of the strangest accidents they've ever seen when a man was found dead after getting stuck in a cat door.
The Sandmonkey / Rantings of a Sandmonkey:
Karim Amer is getting tortured in Prison  —  Abdel Karim Soliman, famously now known as Karim Amer, who got jailed for "disdain for religion" and "insulting the president" on his blog, is reportedly getting tortured by the Prison authorities. … I wish I could say I am surprised by this …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Say It Enough Times It Must Be True  —  First the Clinton campaign whines that the other candidates were picking on the girl.  Then, standing up to Russert is like standing up to Hitler.  Then Bill Clinton compared Russert to the Swift Boat Vets.  Now the Clinton campaign is warning Wolf Blizter that he better not "pull a Russert."
Alan Krueger / AMERICAN.COM:
What Makes a Terrorist  —  It's not poverty and lack of education, according to economic research by Princeton's ALAN KRUEGER.  Look elsewhere.  —  In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, policymakers, scholars, and ordinary citizens asked a key question …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court takes no action on gun case  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced no action on a new case testing the meaning of the Second Amendment — an issue the Court has not considered in 68 years.  The Orders List contained no mention of either the District of Columbia's appeal (07-290) …
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Planting Paranoia  —  There are good reasons to be paranoid after seven years of the Bush administration.  Questions for pres conferences are frequently screened beforehand.  Pundits are paid off to shill for Bush administration policy without revealing it.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Post Critic Page Apologizes for E-Mail Remarks To Barry Aide  —  A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The Washington Post has apologized to D.C. Council member Marion Barry for sending an intemperate e-mail to his spokesman.  —  "It's the stupidest thing I've done in 30 years in journalism," music critic Tim Page said yesterday.
Opinion Journal:
Movin' On Up  —  A Treasury study refutes populist hokum about "income inequality."  —  If you've been listening to Mike Huckabee or John Edwards on the Presidential trail, you may have heard that the U.S. is becoming a nation of rising inequality and shrinking opportunity.
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Turn-Around In Iraq  —  My optimistic military emailer from yesterday …
Discussion: Instapundit.com and INSTAPUTZ
siena.edu:
2/3 of NYers Oppose Gov's License Proposals - New & Old
Tim Grieve / Salon:
Clinton, McCain and the B-word
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Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show  —  IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species.
New York Post:
A 'FORGOTTEN' WAR  —  AS IRAQ IMPROVES, COVERAGE DRIES UP
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Creative Destruction  —  The best case against universal health care.
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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