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Obama Heads to the Front to Do Battle on Health-Care Reform — Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks. — With skepticism about the president's …
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
The Chris Matthews Show: On Health Care Reform, Won't Someone Think About Us Rich People??? — You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! — DOWNLOADS: (718) — PLAYS: (2410) — (h/t Heather) — Clearly, the Beltway Bubble operates …
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
White House putting off release of budget update — WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape. — The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama feels the heat, changes the play — Finally, we're starting to see him sweat. — President Barack Obama made his personal icy cool the trademark of his campaign, the tenor of his White House and the hallmark of an early run of successes at home and abroad.
Washington Post:
Approval Ratings Drop for Obama on Health Care, Other Issues — Approval Rating on Health Care Falls Below 50 Percent — Obama's approval ratings on other front-burner issues, such as the economy and the federal budget deficit, have also slipped over the summer, as rising concern …
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The Politico:
Whiteboard Archives — Health care, health care, health care: It is a make-or-break week for Obama when it comes to health care - a new poll shows his approval rating on the issue has dropped below 50 percent. While there's plenty going on behind the scenes, Obama has just one health care-related event …
William Grimes / New York Times:
Frank McCourt, 'Angela's Ashes' Author, Dies at 78 — Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Angela's Ashes,” died in Manhattan on Sunday. He was 78 and lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Conn.
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Rinker Buck / Baltimore Sun:
Frank McCourt, Author Of Angela's Ashes, Dies At 78
Frank McCourt, Author Of Angela's Ashes, Dies At 78
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New York Times:
Governors Fear Medicaid Costs in Health Plan — BILOXI, Miss. — The nation's governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern Sunday about the shape of the health care plan emerging from Congress, fearing that Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them.
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Video: Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl Full Hostage Video — Here is the entire video showing Private Bowe Berdahl in Taliban captivity. The Taliban have threatened to murder him if the U.S. does not leave Afghanistan. — Until Bowe Bergdahl's captors are dead I will not rest.
Tim Lindell / Conservatives4Palin.com:
Palin Hairdresser: NYT Was Lying About “Hair Thinning” Claim — Chalk this up as Stupid Palin Meme of the Week: — In a July 12th hit piece published on the front page of the New York Times, reporters Jim Rutenberg and Serge Kovaleski (assisted by Kim Severson and William Yardley in Alaska) made the following claim:
Michael D. Griffin / Washington Post:
Let's Reach for The Stars Again — What is most striking about this 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon is that we can no longer do what we're celebrating. Not “do not choose to,” but “can't.” — By the 40th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Oregon Trail was carrying settlers to the West.
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God, Guns, Guts, and CNN's Idiot Reporters — Greetings, Instapundit readers! — “You don't have a problem with God, do ya?” — This is a question posed to CNN reporter Carol Costello during a recent interview with Mark Muller, a Missouri car dealer whose company is offering an unusual incentive …
NY Daily News:
Hooker who worked for Kristin Davis says Eliot Spitzer wasn't her only governor — Another gubernatorial sex scandal may be looming. Even as South Carolina's Mark Sanford waits to see whether his wife, Jenny, forgives his romp in the pampas, a New York call girl could plunge one of America's …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Race in 2028 — During last week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Republican senators kept bringing the conversation back to 2001 — the year when Sonia Sotomayor delivered the most famous version of her line about how a “wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences” might outshine a white male judge.
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
After bashing K Street, Dodd mingles with lobbyists — After distancing himself from lobbyists in campaign ads, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) was on Martha's Vineyard this weekend meeting with some of the most well known names on K Street. — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee …
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers — LOS ANGELES — From the ninth floor of a downtown office building on Wilshire Boulevard, Jack Soussana delivered staggering numbers of mortgages to homeowners during the real estate boom, amassing a fortune. — By Mr. Soussana's own account, his customers fared less happily.
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
TWO MILLION VISITORS! — About 3 p.m. today, The Other McCain recorded its 2 millionth visitor. It took slightly more than 11 months to hit the 1-million mark on Feb. 13, and barely five months to knock down the next million. — We must therefore begin by thanking Carrie Prejean nude.
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Sabina Amidi / Jerusalem Post:
‘I wed Iranian girls before execution’ — Article's topics: Basiji, Ali Khamenei — In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's religious regime in Iran, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia has told this reporter …
Rick Hampson / USA Today:
As wars' death toll nears 5,000, Dover shows quiet dignity — DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — Tonight, as always, the passengers stop talking when the van makes a sharp left on the tarmac and rolls toward the rear hatch of the C-17 transport. Now they see its cargo: two gleaming …
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The New Republic
Wall Street Journal:
Why Toxic Assets Are So Hard to Clean Up — Securitization was maddeningly complex. Mandated transparency is the only solution. — Printer — Friendly — Despite trillions of dollars of new government programs, one of the original causes of the financial crisis …
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Matt Bai / New York Times:
The Shuffle President — Like romantic comedies and superhero blockbusters, the modern presidency has evolved into a reliable form of dramatic narrative. A candidate comes into office brandishing a broad theme — a vow to clean up government, perhaps, or to fearlessly prune it back …
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