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2:35 PM ET, February 18, 2009

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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Obama Plans $75 Billion Outlay to Fight Foreclosures  —  Seeking to stabilize the foundering housing market, President Obama on Wednesday laid out a plan to help as many as nine million families refinance their mortgages or avoid foreclosure.  —  The proposal, which is more ambitious than expected …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and TalkLeft
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The White House:
Help for homeowners  —  The President's strategy for economic recovery is a stool with several legs, as he's said, and one of them is solving the foreclosure crisis.  —  “We must stem the spread of foreclosures and falling home values for all Americans, and do everything …
Washington Post:
$75B Program Aims to Lower Mortgages, Foreclosures
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and Wonk Room
Associated Press:
Obama unveils $75 billion mortgage relief plan
Discussion: CBS News, TIME.com and Donklephant
Washington Post:
Buy-Buy, Mr. Burris  —  WHEN THEN-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in December for, among other things, allegedly trying to auction off the U.S. Senate seat left open by Barack Obama's election to the presidency, we feared that whomever Mr. Blagojevich eventually chose would be tainted by the association.
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Newsdesk / Clout St:
Roland Burris: ‘Stop the rush to judgment’  —  Embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris defended himself today in the midst of the multiple probes into the circumstances surrounding his appointment by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  —  “If I had done the things I've been accused of, I'd be too embarrassed to stand up here,” Burris said.
Chicago Tribune:   Burris' Senate-seat story changes again
Chicago Sun Times:
Senate opens Burris probe
Discussion: QandO and The Capitol Fax Blog
Lisa Demer / Anchorage Daily News:
Palin must pay tax on past per diem, state says  —  EXPENSES: Governor received meal money while living in Wasilla.  —  ldemer@adn.com  —  Gov. Sarah Palin must pay income taxes on thousands of dollars in expense money she received while living at her Wasilla home, under a new determination by state officials.
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Michael Leahy / Washington Post:
Back Home in Alaska, Palin Faces Scrutiny and Second-Guessing From All Sides  —  Scrutiny Has Been Intense Since Election  —  JUNEAU, Alaska — A couple of weeks before the Alaska legislature began this year's session, a bipartisan group of state senators on a retreat a few hours from here invited Gov. Sarah Palin to join them.
CNN:
Palin told to pay back taxes  —  (CNN) - Alaska officials have told Gov. Sarah Palin she must pay back taxes on the thousands of dollars she received in state per diem funds while living at her home in Wasilla.  —  The Washington Post first reported last September that Palin had billed …
Discussion: Political Machine
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
The White House's missing documents  —  In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor's system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D'Ivoire.
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
George McGovern To Be Honored At CPAC For ‘Courage Under Fire’  —  In August 2008, former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern published an op-ed on the conservative editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal attacking the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Blue Dogs To House Dem Leaders: Hold Off On Employee Free Choice
Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blogs and MyDD
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Charlie Savage's Alarm  —  The NYT reporter who, at the Boston Globe, helped expose the worst abuses of executive power under Bush-Cheney, writes a piece today that reminds all of us that vigilance is vital if we are to maximize civil liberty with potent measures to counter the terrorist threat.
Discussion: ACSBlog and Commentary
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pope lectures Pelosi on abortion stance  —  Pope Benedict XVI made clear to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday that she cannot advocate for abortion rights and still be a good Catholic.  —  After meeting with Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the Vatican, the pontiff stressed that Catholic politicians …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Dem exclusive?  Reporters jump ship  —  In three months since Election Day, at least a half-dozen prominent journalists have taken jobs working for the federal government.  —  Journalists, including some of those who've jumped ship, say it's better to have a solid job in government than a shaky job …
Wyatt Buchanan / San Francisco Chronicle:
GOP ousts Senate leader, budget deal in question  —  (02-18) 02:28 PST Sacramento — A state budget deal to close a $41 billion shortfall has been put further into question early this morning after Senate Republicans ousted their leader who had helped negotiate the long-awaited plan with other top lawmakers in California.
ABCNEWS:
Manhunt: Accused Financier Scammer Stanford Missing  —  Authorities say Investor Losses Could Rival Madoff Scandal  —  Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is accused of cheating 50,000 customers out of $8 billion dollars but despite raids Tuesday of his financial empire in Houston, Memphis …
Discussion: The Raw Story, Gawker and TVNewser
Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times:
Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.  —  Volunteer Judy Scharf, left, assistant lab supervisor Trevor Valle and volunteers Pat Simun and Linda Wright carefully brush away dirt surrounding the pelvis of a mammoth at the Page Museum in Rancho La Brea.  The mammoth, which museum researchers …
Discussion: D-Day
Paul Krugman:
Comrade Greenspan: Seize the economy's commanding heights!  —  Here.  Truly, it's amazing how compelling the logic of temporary nationalization is.  How long will it be before the Obama administration is ready to take the plunge?  —  The WaPo reports that Tim Geithner realized late …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Watchdog: Bush FDA decision put patients in danger  —  WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration put patients' lives at risk by halting enforcement of 30-year-old requirements that medical device makers meet federal laboratory standards prior to testing their products on humans, a watchdog group charges in a new report.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama approval over 50  —  Obama Approval in North Carolina:  —  Approve 52  —  Disapprove 41  —  Barack Obama has the highest approval PPP has ever found for the President in North Carolina.  Of course that may have something to do with the fact that we were formed during the Bush administration...
Discussion: Firedoglake and Stephen C. Rose
Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
Court Reverses Ruling Bringing 17 Detainees to U.S.  —  A federal appeals court this morning blocked the transfer to the United States of a small band of Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  —  In a decision released this morning, the three-judge panel …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog, TalkLeft and ACSBlog
The Independent:
Howard Jacobson: Let's see the ‘criticism’ of Israel for what it really is  —  Emotions have run high over recent events in Gaza.  And in this impassioned and searching essay, our writer argues that just below the surface runs a vicious strain of ancient prejudice
Discussion: Israellycool and Augean Stables
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
KNOWLEDGE MAY BE POWER, BUT INFORMATION IS PROFIT.  —  Doc-blogger Kevin Pho — no liberal, and no fan of government action — writes in defense of federally-funded comparative effectiveness research.  “Physicians need an authoritative source of unbiased data, untainted by the influence …
Discussion: KevinMD.com and MoJo Blog Posts
East Valley Tribune:
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival  —  GARY GRADO, SONU MUNSHI, HAYLEY RINGLE, TRIBUNE  —  Presidential protestors made their voices heard in chants and signs Wednesday outside Dobson High School.  —  The protestors, about 500 to 600 strong and growing, began arriving as ticket-holders walked in.
Jennifer Harper / Washington Times:
Obama has new flag frenzy  —  White House embraces a backdrop of red, white and blue  —  Oh, say - can you see?  Look.  It's President Obama, and he's surrounded by American flags.  —  They're on the dais in star-spangled glory.  They're at the town-hall meeting and the news conference, in bold folds of red, white and blue.
Sen. Fritz Hollings / The Huffington Post:
Why are we in Afghanistan?  —  I keep asking the question: “Why are we in Afghanistan?”  No one has a good answer.  A few without television respond, “To get Osama.”  But everyone agrees that he is somewhere in Pakistan.  Then the answer is: “As President George W. Bush said …
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
Obama's housing entitlement campaign & ACORN's civil disobedience mob
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Urban Planning / NY Daily News:
Bronx beep bound for D.C.
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Who Will Obama's Foreclosure Plan Bail Out?
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and Hot Air
Houston Chronicle:
Perry: Texas may turn down billions
Alan Scher Zagier / Associated Press:
Judge's ruling in Kezer case has harsh criticism for Hulshof
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Quinnipiac University:
Florida's Crist Has Pick Of Gov. Or Senate Race, Quinnipiac …
Discussion: The Hill
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
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Discussion: ACLU
Matt Lewis / Political Machine:
How Would Modern Americans React to a ‘Great Depression’?
Discussion: Megan McArdle and Right Wing News
Ben Farmer / Telegraph:
Geography professor claims to have found Osama bin Laden