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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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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 …
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New Scrutiny of Judge's Most Controversial Case — WASHINGTON — Near the end of a long and heated appeals court argument over whether New Haven was entitled to throw out a promotional exam because black firefighters had performed poorly on it, a lawyer for white firefighters challenging …
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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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Health care reform draft bill released — The Senate committee chaired by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) began circulating draft language Friday of a health care reform bill that would create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers. — The bill also proposes requiring individuals …
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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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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
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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.
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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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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.
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Eureka! Writers Get Paid — I confess to never having read Harlan Ellison's novels but he has just become my hero — and a hero to all professional writers everywhere — since I watched this A-plus rant of his against all those who expect writers to offer their work gratis.
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Outside The Beltway
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National Review's Wise Latina Caricature Inexplicably Asian — As part of a cover package called “The Wise Latina,” the folks over at the conservative National Review—apparently flummoxed by the very idea of a “wise Latina”—have caricaturized the Puerto Rican-descended Sonia Sotomayor as an Asian Buddhist.
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Feministing, The Mahablog, Matthew Yglesias, Feministe, Althouse, Gawker, Boing Boing, Grasping Reality … and The Reaction
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The Bleak Jobs Outlook — David Madland's analysis of the latest jobs numbers reflects the fact that notwithstanding improvements in the rate of change the situation is still very bad and this chart remains alarming: — Of course for people who haven't lost their jobs, 401(k) …
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