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Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Acorn — Community organizers, phony voters, and your tax dollars. — At the recent Emmy Awards, historian Laura Linney averred that America's Founders had been “community organizers” — like Barack Obama. Too bad they aren't like that any more.
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Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
MORE REPORTS OF MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD BY ACORN. “They turn in 5000 new voter registration forms in Indiana, election officials start checking them and give up after the first 2100 were found to be fraudulent.” Where's the Department of Justice on this? CNN report below.
National Enquirer:
OBAMA SEX PERV SCANDAL — The ENQUIRER exclusively reports a “sex pervert” was Sen. Barack Obama's longtime mentor and “father figure”. — For seven years, the presidential candidate had a “father-son” relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who has confessed to having sex with children …
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Confederate Yankee:
Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis an Admitted Child Rapist — Somehow I missed this when it was published in August in the U.K. Telegraph: … I only found this Telegraph story after a new commenter named “Krys” dumped the text of this current National Enquirer story in the comments of an unrelated post.
Erick Erickson / www.redstate.com:
Obama's Special Relationship — What goes around and all of that . . . Remember John Edwards? Who broke the Edwards story? The National Enquirer of course. — After that coup, the left, which patently refused to mention the Edwards scandal decided that anything the Enquirer wrote about Sarah Palin had to be the gospel truth.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Investing $250 Billion in Banks — WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department, in its boldest move yet, is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to invest up to $250 billion in large and small banks, according to officials. The United States is also expected to guarantee new debt issued …
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Washington Post:
U.S. Forces Nine Major Banks To Accept Partial Nationalization — Dow Soars 11 Percent; Biggest Point Gain Ever — The U.S. government is dramatically escalating its response to the financial crisis by planning to invest $250 billion in the country's banks, forcing nine of the largest …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:Bank Program Reignites Debate on Executive Pay
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Worst Case Scenario — What an Obama administration and a heavily Democratic Congress would accomplish. — John McCain trails Barack Obama and shows no signs, at the moment anyway, of propelling himself into the lead. Democrats lead in eight Senate seats currently held by Republicans and are close in three others.
Washington Post:
A New Wrinkle (or Unwrinkle) in the Campaign: The Biden Brow — Joe Biden looks . . . different. — Something about his eyes, which seem smaller, and his forehead, which seems smoother. Compared with images from last year, he seems better rested — yet also, strangely, a little sleepier.
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Don Surber
Marc Ambinder:
Sen. McCain Stood With ACORN Rally In 2006 — A goldfish's lifetime ago, Sen. John McCain was happy to accept the honors and acclamation of the Service Employees International Union, People for the American Way, UNITE HERE — and ACORN. Here he is, on Feb. 20, 2006, telling immigration rights activists …
Stephen Green / Vodkapundit:
Fighting Words — Glenn, Brian — you guys don't know the half of it. — If (when?) Obama is elected, by my estimation there's an at least even chance that the newly-reconstructed FCC will reverse course and attempt to apply the New Fairness Doctrine to blogs. — If (when?) it happens, I'll break that law.
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Fox News:
Obama to Plumber: My Plan Will ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ — Barack Obama tells a plumber in Ohio he wants to “spread the wealth around,” eliciting criticism that his economic recovery plan is socialist in nature. — FOXNews.com — Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend …
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Washington Wire:
McCain's Monday Campaigning Leaves Some Puzzled — Elizabeth Holmes reports from Wilmington, N.C., on the presidential race. — Several things about John McCain's Monday caused some head scratching, including the tease of some new economic policies to a town hall meeting with no Q&A.
CNN:
McCain calls Lewis remarks ‘outrageous’ — (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were “so disturbing” that they “stopped me in my tracks.” — Lewis, a Georgia representative and veteran of the civil rights movement, on Saturday compared the feeling …
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Tucker Carlson / The Daily Beast:Bring Back Rev. Wright — Why won't the McCain campaign attack …
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The Moderate Voice
The Jed Report:
McCain Claims Obama Rally Crowds Call Him Terrorist, Traitor — The man is just a pathological liar. Here's video, from a CNN interview with Dana Bash. (And by the way, Bash gets serious minus points for not challenging McCain on his lie.) — YouTube link
David Brooks / New York Times:
Big Government Ahead — We're in the middle of a financial crisis, but most economists say there is a broader economic crisis still to come. The unemployment rate will shoot upward. Companies will go bankrupt. Commercial real estate values will decline. Credit card defaults will rise.
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The New Republic
Edward L. Glaeser / Economix:
Honoring Paul Krugman — Edward L. Glaeser is an economist at Harvard. — Rarely, if ever, has an economics Nobel laureate been as widely known before receiving the prize than Paul Krugman. His New York Times columns have been read by millions; he has argued economic policy eloquently in a large number of popular books.
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Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law — Updated at 12:45 p.m. PDT with quotes. — President Bush on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position.
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