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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
What's really behind Obama's sudden plea for troubled health reforms today — Friday afternoons and evenings — as we've mentioned here previously — are usually a dumping ground for political news its originators do not want noticed much. Especially entering warm summer weekends.
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The Huffington Post:
GOP Scoffed At CBO Score For Iraq That Was Twice The Cost Of Health Care — Testimony from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf that preliminary versions of health care legislation lack effective cost-containing mechanisms has roiled the nation's capital.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
DNC now targets House Democrats in health care push — The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America Arm — criticized by Harry Reid yesterday for an ad pressuring Senate Democrats on health care — has launched a similar effort in the House. — A version of the same ad …
Washington Post:
Alliances Splinter in Debate Over Health-Care Reform — Once-Friendly Groups Split as Details Emerge — Months of relative cooperation among disparate interest groups in the heath-care reform debate appear to be coming to an end, as the major political parties and their surrogates unleash …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:Concerns Over Health-Care Reform's Scope, Price Tag Slow Momentum
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
And That's the Way Cronkite Was . . . As Walter Cronkite's night of retirement from “The CBS Evening News” grew closer and closer back in 1981, there were signs of palpable public panic — one of them a briefly popular T-shirt on which was printed the horrified rhetorical question, “Oh …
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Media Decoder:Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies at 92
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John / Power Line:
A Year Without A Summer? — 1816 was the “year without a summer.” There were several causes of the abnormally cold weather that year, as this source recounts: … If this account is correct, the “year without a summer” played a role in the development of the American Midwest:
Wall Street Journal:
Their Own Medicine — Senators prefer the insurance they have. — Printer — Friendly — In the health debate, liberals sing Hari Krishnas to the “public option” — a new federal insurance program like Medicare — but if it's good enough for the middle class, then surely it's good enough for the political class too?
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
AmeriCorps IG sues government over “unlawful” firing — Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who was summarily fired in June amid controversy over his investigation of a politically-connected supporter of President Obama, has filed suit alleging that the firing was “unlawful,” …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Last Post — I had all kinds of ideas for things I wanted to write before I left, but between last-minute packing and phone calls from friends and family, it didn't happen. So I'll just say a few things quickly. — As I said before, one of the things that led me to start blogging …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle — In George Orwell's “1984,” government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the “memory hole.” — On Friday, it was “1984” and another Orwell book, “Animal Farm,” …
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead — I never imagined I'd print a press release in full. Then, an hour ago, Howard Lovy e-mailed me the most incredible press release of all time... POMPANO BEACH, Fla.- In response to rumors circulating the internet on sites such as FoxNews.com …
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
As Mexico Border Tightens, Smugglers Take to Sea — SAN DIEGO — They move north in rickety fishing boats, often overloaded and barely seaworthy, slipping through the darkness and hidden from the watchful radar of American patrols. — Along beaches north of here, the migrants from Mexico …
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Washington Post:
U.S. Commanders Are Concerned About New Iraqi Restrictions on American Troops — American Officials See Link Between Limits, Spate of Attacks — The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement …
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