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Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters.org:
Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’ — Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama's Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world, he's sort of God.”
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NO QUARTER, PERRspectives, Cold Fury, PoliGazette, Macsmind, The Confluence, Confederate Yankee, Pajamas Media, Hot Air and Moonbattery
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John / Power Line:
Newsweek, Around the Bend — Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has announced that he wants to turn the magazine into a journal of liberal opinion with a smaller circulation. I'm not sure that readers will be able to tell the difference between the Newsweek of recent years and the forthcoming …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
We Stand With Sonia Sotomayor — [Poster by Favianna Rodriguez for Presente.] — The Right is throwing every little bit of ugliness they can at Sonia Sotomayor in hopes of derailing her nomination to the Supreme Court. — They've called her a racist. They've compared the National Council of La Raza to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Urges Effort on Health Care — WASHINGTON — President Obama, signaling the start of his health care push, called on Congress and his government to tackle “the root causes of skyrocketing health care costs.” — In his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday morning …
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Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option …
How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option …
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Corrente
Bloomberg:
Alabama County Set to Halt Services, Shut Buildings — Alabama's most populous county is preparing to stop road maintenance, close courthouses and shutter services for the elderly after a court struck down taxes that pay for about 35 percent of its budget. — Jefferson County …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamacare plan finally released; Update: Goodbye, 4th Amendment — And it's so large that Patients United Now had to split it into nine different parts, and to put out a bleg for an Army of Patients to scour the bill. The title:Quality Affordable Health Care for All Americans.
Times of London:
Labour suffers wipeout in its worst local election results — Gordon Brown was dealt another huge blow last night when Labour lost all its remaining county councils in its worst ever local election results. — Counties turned from red to blue in quick succession as the Labour vote collapsed in its heartlands.
Washington Post:
State Dept. Retiree, Wife Accused of Spying for Cuba for Decades — Official, Wife Passed Secrets to Cuba For Decades, Federal Prosecutors Say — A former State Department official with top-secret security clearance and his wife have been charged with spying for Cuba over the past three decades …
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Brand Spanking New Katherine Sebelius Motivational Poster — Barack Obama's HHS Secretary — Katherine “Plan B” Sebelius — followed orders to a tee this morning, Sergeant Schultz-style. She announced that America needs socialized medicine because, well, she just made some s*** up.
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American Power
William Glaberson / New York Times:
U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases — The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.
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The Moderate Voice, Salon, TalkLeft, The Huffington Post, Prairie Weather and Philly.com
Washington Post:
Semi-Submarines, Stealthily Plying Pacific, Arrive as a Way to Smuggle Cocaine — MEXICO CITY — When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke. — Now U.S. law enforcement officials …
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Raw Story
Scott Olstad / Time:
Tetris: From Russia With Fun! — Sputnik burned up in the atmosphere, Berlin is now one city, but 25 years later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains one of the most popular and ubiquitous video games ever created. It has sold over 125 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform …
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Moonbattery
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Pushed Fiat Deal on Chrysler — Internal Emails Reveal Resentment; Court Upholds Pact — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration rushed an alliance between Chrysler LLC and Fiat SpA despite Chrysler's worries about Fiat's financial health and its willingness to share technology, according to internal company emails.