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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
My Apologies to Publius — On reflection, I now realize that, completely apart from any debate over our respective rights and completely apart from our competing views on the merits of pseudonymous blogging, I have been uncharitable in my conduct towards the blogger who has used the pseudonym Publius.
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Publius / Obsidian Wings:
Moving On — Ed Whelan has written both publicly and privately and apologized. I know it was not an easy thing to do, and it is of course accepted. I therefore consider the matter done, and don't intend on writing about it anymore. — The real story here wasn't really about me anyway …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Palin makes little splash at dinner — Ending weeks of she-said, they-said drama, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turned in a cameo appearance at the gala fundraising dinner for her party's House and Senate candidates in Washington Monday night. — But in spite of all the back-and-forth between …
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City Room:
Republicans Seize Control of State Senate — ALBANY - Republicans seized control of the New York State Senate on Monday, in a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for the Democratic Party, which controlled the chamber for barely five months. — A raucous leadership fight erupted …
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New York Times:G.O.P. Regains Control of New York State Senate
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed — Al-Qaeda Could Use Contents, Agency Says — The Obama administration objected yesterday to the release of certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons, arguing to a federal judge …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:Breaking: Lieberman-Graham Dropped From Supplemental
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Associated Press:
10 Banks Allowed to Repay $68B in Bailout Money — WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation's largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money. — The department on Tuesday said the banks, which were not named, will be allowed to repay the money …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:U.S. says TARP issue out of Court's reach
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Cautious at Heart — Sonia Sotomayor had bad timing. If she'd entered college in the late-1950s or early-1960s, she would have been surrounded by an ethos that encouraged smart young ethnic kids to assimilate. If she'd entered Princeton and Yale in the 1980s, her ethnicity and gender …
Frank J. Gaffney Jr / Washington Times:
GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president? — Obama aligns with the policies of Shariah-adherents — During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton — someone Judge Sonia Sotomayor might call a “white male” — was dubbed “America's first black president” by a black admirer.
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The Huffington Post:
Blue Dogs Backsliding On Health Care — Conservative House Democrats agreed to a set of health care principles late last week that angered advocates of a overhaul of the health care system. — The Blue Dog Coalition issued a statement that said it would only support the public health care option …
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Phil Bronstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room — When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, “So, stop it all of you!” He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Not All Abortions Are Equal — The case of Dr. George Tiller, murdered just over a week ago in the lobby of his church, helps explain why so many people believe that abortion should be available at any stage of pregnancy. — Tiller did abortions in third trimester, when almost no one else would do them …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Boston Globe Union Rejects Deal on Pay Cuts — BOSTON — After weeks of labor tension and 12 hours of suspenseful voting, members of the Newspaper Guild at The Boston Globe narrowly rejected a proposed package of wage and compensation cuts. As a result, the newspaper's owner …
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David B. Wilkerson / MarketWatch:Boston Globe union rejects contract offer
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David Gratzer / Wall Street Journal:
Canada's ObamaCare Precedent — Governments always ration care by making you wait. That can be deadly. — Printer — Friendly — Congressional Democrats will soon put forward their legislative proposals for reforming health care. Should they succeed, tens of millions of Americans …
Wall Street Journal:
The Media Fall for Phony ‘Jobs’ Claims — The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction. — Printer — Friendly — Tony Fratto is envious. — Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight — WASHINGTON — President Obama recently summoned aides to the Oval Office to discuss a magazine article investigating why the border town of McAllen, Tex., was the country's most expensive place for health care.
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Washington Post:
Primary Hinges On Voter Turnout — Democrats Hoping To Be Governor Going Full Throttle — Virginia voters go to the polls today to select the Democratic standard-bearer for governor against Republican Robert F. McDonnell, an outcome that is likely to rest with a few hundred thousand voters …
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Kevin Hassett / Bloomberg:
Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett — I've finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business.
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Gateway Pundit
Courtney Schlisserman / Bloomberg:
Nobel Winner Krugman Sees U.S. Recession Ending Soon — The U.S. economy probably will emerge from the recession by September, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said. — “I would not be surprised if the official end of the U.S. recession ends up being, in retrospect …
André Aciman / New York Times:
The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention — PRESIDENT OBAMA'S speech to the Islamic world was a groundbreaking event. Never before has a young, dynamic American president, beloved both by his countrymen and the nations of the world, extended so timely and eager a hand to a part of the globe that …
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Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Understanding the House Democrats' health care bill — Yesterday I posted and described the draft Kennedy-Dodd health care bill. Today I would like to do the same for an outline produced by House Democrats. — Here is a three-page outline of “Key Features of the Tri-Committee Health Reform Draft Proposal …
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