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David K. Li / New York Post:
RON SILVER DEAD — SUCCUMBS TO CANCER AT AGE 62 — Actor and longtime political activist Ron Silver died Sunday morning, succumbing to a long battle with cancer, friends of the liberal Democrat-turned-GOP stalwart told The Post. — “Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around …
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Ron Silver, R.I.P; Flashback: Silver's 2004 RNC speech — The New York Post reports the sad news that actor Ron Silver has died. He succumbed to cancer. The 9/11 jihadi attacks were a pivotal moment in Silver's political evolution from Hollywood liberal to Hollywood hawk: " …
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
In Memoriam - Ron Silver — Some people have more courage than others. — And still other people have dead on guts that make the rest of us seem like terrified guppies in a sea of cowards. — That was Ron Silver. — Ron had been fighting terminal stomach cancer for well over two years …
Robert Kuttner / The Huffington Post:
Lifting the Tarp: Will President Obama's Economic Team Lead Him Off a Cliff? — In the past two weeks, political support for the Tim Geithner/Larry Summers approach to solving the banking crisis has been unraveling in Congress, with blistering criticism from legislators of both parties.
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Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
A.I.G. Lists Firms It Paid With Taxpayer Money — Amid rising pressure from Congress and taxpayers, the American International Group on Sunday released the names of dozens of financial institutions that benefited from the Federal Reserve's decision last fall to save the giant insurer from collapse with a huge rescue loan.
Eamon Javers / The Politico:
AIG ships billions in bailout abroad — Billions of American taxpayer dollars used to bailout insurance giant AIG are flowing to some of the largest foreign banks in the world, according to new documents released by beleaguered company Sunday. — The revelation seemed sure …
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
AIG Discloses $75 Billion in Bailout Payments — Insurer Reveals List of Taxpayer Funds Doled Out to Settle Debts With Companies, Municipalities — In the six months since the government's bailout of insurance giant American International Group, a rescue that has become increasingly costly …
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A.I.G. Reveals Biggest Beneficiaries of Its Rescue — The disclosure included counterparties to both its credit default swap operations and its securities lending businesses, both of which contributed heavily to A.I.G.'s troubles, as well as to muncipalities who participated in certain investment programs.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS NOT DUE.... Wall Street had a nice little rally …
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
John King cites Human Events headline, asks Cheney, “Is the president of the United States trying to brazenly deceive the American people?”
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Mike Allen / The Politico:VIDEO: Cheney: Obama wants ‘massive expansion’
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
THE CINCINNATI TEA PARTY IS UNDERWAY, and a reader sends this photo via Blackberry. — Also, reader Russell Sayre sends this aerial view: “This was taken from the 17th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower above Fountain Square in Cincinnati as the rally began. I have no idea how many people are there …
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Michael Goodwin / NY Daily News:
Goodwin: More than a bad day — Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, “Do you think they know what they're doing?” — The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter.
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Frayed Thread in a Free Society — BOSTON — The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry. — Yes, Dittoheads, you heard it right.
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The rise of Roland Burris. — Roland Burris still occupies temporary office space in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in a suite far from the floor of the United States Senate, so when the buzzer signalling an imminent vote interrupted his lunch the other day, he put down his plastic soupspoon …
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off — SOMEDAY we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.
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