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White House Kept Justice Lawyers in Dark on Warrantless Wiretapping — The Bush White House so strictly controlled access to its warrantless eavesdropping program that only three Justice Department lawyers were aware of the plan, which nearly ignited mass resignations and a constitutional crisis …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
For Huffington Post, left is right — Liberal bloggers came to a quick verdict on the Huffington Post's announcement Tuesday that it was hiring Dan Froomkin, the recently fired Washington Post blogger who made a name for himself criticizing former president George W. Bush: Old media's loss is new media's gain.
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:CIA Played a Leading Role in Warrantless Surveillance
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:‘Most PSP Leads Were Determined Not to Have Any Connection to Terrorism’
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:Long-Awaited Warrantless Surveillance Report Finally Released
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party. — Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how “the dignity code” has been “completely obliterated” in Washington, DC. Discussing the concept on MSNBC today …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Band of House centrists offers support for ‘robust’ public health insurance plan — A band of 22 New Democrat and Blue Dog lawmakers say they support a “robust” government-run health plan, boosting chances of moving healthcare reform with a public insurance plan through the House.
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Media Matters Action Network:Rep. Paul Broun Outrageously Claims The Public Option “Is Gonna Kill People”
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:House Democrats Delay Health Care Bill
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Kirk Opts Out of Senate Race (Or Maybe He Doesn't)? — Rep. Mark Kirk will not run for the Senate from Illinois (or will he?). Photo by Sabah Arar of AFP/Getty Images — Update, 10:30 p.m.: Rep. Mark Kirk and Illinois Republican party chairman Andy McKenna are now engaged in a staring match …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Leaders in House Would Tax Rich for Health Plan — WASHINGTON — House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Friday.
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M Peretz / The New Republic:
Christian Believers Would Be Excluded From Government If The Left Liberals Had Their Way — I don't know who's behind President Obama's appointment of Dr. Francis S. Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health. Maybe it was the influence on the president of Nobel Laureate in Medicine …
David Cho / Washington Post:
Administration Considers Bailout Funds for Small Businesses — Proposal Would Take Money From $700B Program for Banking System — The Obama administration is developing an initiative to take money from the $700 billion program for the banking system and make it available to millions of small businesses …
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Wall Street Journal:
A Farewell to Harms — Palin was bad for the Republicans—and the republic. — Printer — Friendly — Sarah Palin's resignation gives Republicans a new opportunity to see her plain—to review the bidding, see her strengths, acknowledge her limits, and let go of her drama.
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The Sleuth:
Palin Camp Takes on Levi Johnston — Just when you thought the plot couldn't possibly thicken more in the Days of Our Lives in Alaska, it has. Outgoing Gov. Sarah Palin is now fighting back against claims made by her daughter's ex-boyfriend that she bailed out on Alaska in order to cash in on her fame.
El Paso Times:
Two gay men kicked out of Chico's Tacos restaurant for kissing — EL PASO — Two gay men kissed at a Chico's Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster. — Civil-rights lawyers say the security staff was out of line.
Katie Connolly / Newsweek Blogs:
Was Obama Checking Out This Girl's Butt? — Photo courtesy Jason Reed / Reuters-Landov — You may have seen this rather misleading photo doing the rounds this morning. The photo appears to depict President Obama checking out the rear of 16 year old Brazilian girl Mayora Taveres.
Washington Post:
Commander to Seek Expansion of Afghan Forces, Officials Say — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the newly arrived top commander in Afghanistan, has concluded that Afghan security forces will have to expand far beyond currently planned levels if President Obama's strategy for winning the war there is to succeed …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:High-Priced F-22 Fighter Has Major Shortcomings
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Newzhound / Media Matters for America:
“Busted?” Fox News still running with Obama G8 photo story day after Van Susteren debunked it — SUMMARY: A day after Fox News host Greta Van Susteren debunked the “lying picture that's going around the Web” of President Obama purportedly “checking out” a young woman at a G8 photo shoot …
James Risen / New York Times:
U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.'s Died — WASHINGTON — After a mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of an American-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration officials repeatedly discouraged efforts …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
2 world leaders demonstrate the 2 ways of conspicuously gawking at a woman's ass. — I see a distinct difference between these 2 stances. Yes, there are similarities. Both are blatant and hilarious. But the Sarkozy ass-gawking stance says: I admire but I must not act.
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Yoga Faces Regulation, and Firmly Pushes Back — It seemed like a good idea at the time. Ten years ago, with yoga transforming into a ubiquitous pop culture phenomenon from a niche pursuit, yoga teachers banded together to create a voluntary online registry of schools meeting new standards for training instructors.
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Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Movin' Out — ADVANCE COPY from the July 20, 2009 issue: Sarah Palin on why she resigned and what it means for her future. — In early July, while most Americans were preparing for a long weekend of cheesy parades, charred meats, and noisy fireworks, Sarah Palin made some plans of her own.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up big on Pawlenty, Palin — Barack Obama's approval rating in Minnesota has dropped six points since April, but that doesn't mean voters are responding too positively to some of his Republican alternatives. — 54% of voters in the state now give Obama good marks, with 39% saying they disapprove of his job performance.
US News:
Obama Extends Cheney's Secret Service Protection — There appears no end in sight for when Dick Cheney, a rare former vice president with Secret Service protection, will lose his security detail. Whispers has learned that the political battler's Secret Service protection has been extended, though there were no details on the length.
Los Angeles Times:
Have Palin and Sanford damaged the GOP brand? — Katherine Mangu-Ward and Glenn Reynolds finish their discussion. … Palin and Sanford are the least of the GOP's problems — Point: Katherine Mangu-Ward — The modern Republican Party comprises racist white reactionaries, rich CEOs …
Wall Street Journal:
Lender CIT Group Is Facing a Crunch — CIT Hires Bankruptcy Adviser as Payment Looms; Financier to 1 Million Businesses — CIT Group Inc., a lender to almost a million mostly small and midsize businesses across the country, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing after so far failing …
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