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Exclusive: President Obama Pushes Forward on Health Care Pitch — Despite Setback, Obama Warns Against ‘Scare Tactics,’ Says ‘America Has to Win it Here’ — President Obama continued to push forward on health care reform today, despite suffering a setback with news that a health care reform bill …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Healthcare Timeout is Fine. — To hear the defeatism and paranoia on some liberal blogs this afternoon, the “timeout” that Harry Reid and the Senate called on health care today — they won't vote on the measure before the August recess — is just about the stupidest thing since Chris Webber …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Pawlenty blasts Obama plan — On Fox just now, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty blasted away at Obama's health care plans. — “This whole health care proposal by president Obama is really quite a joke on a number of levels,” Pawlenty told Neil Cavuto. “I think he is scamming the American people.
New York Times:As Health Bill Is Delayed, White House Negotiates
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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert … CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on racial profiling.
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Boston Herald:
911, police tapes key in Gates case — Officials mull release of recorded evidence — Mounting pressure to get to the bottom of the controversial arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is centering on recorded police tapes that may offer a dose of reality amid all the media and political noise.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:Bias, Racism, Being a Jerk, and Abuse of Power
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Washington Post:
Palin's Favorability Rating Drops as She Prepares to Leave Office, Poll Finds — As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares for the next stage of her political career, a majority of Americans hold an unfavorable view of her, and there is broad public doubt about her leadership skills and understanding …
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No Sheeples Here:
Never Interrupt This President While He's Making A Mistake — In the beginning there was HillaryCare. Back in 1993, according to an internal White House staff memo, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton's staff saw federal coverage of children as a forerunner to universal health coverage.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Health Expert Gets Political — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's health-care plan is in jeopardy because of serious concerns that costs will spin out of control. As much as anyone, it's White House budget director Peter Orszag's job to save it.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Costs and Compassion — The talking heads on cable TV panned President Obama's Wednesday press conference. You see, he didn't offer a lot of folksy anecdotes. — Shame on them. The health care system is in crisis. The fate of America's middle class hangs in the balance.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Complains About the News Cycle but Manipulates It, Worrying Some — WASHINGTON — It has become his common lament. Challenged about difficulties with his economic or legislative programs, President Obama complains about the tyranny of “the news cycle,” pronouncing the words with an air …
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Jimmy Orr / Christian Science Monitor:
Bill Cosby ‘shocked’ at Obama's statement on Harvard prof's arrest — On a Boston radio program this morning, Bill Cosby suggested that President Obama spoke too soon on the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. — “I've heard about five different reports …
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April Fulton / NPR:
Emanuel: Changes To Health System Take Time — · With one-sixth of the nation's economy at stake, a debate over how to remake the health care system is not anywhere near being over, despite concerted efforts to hammer out legislation before Congress takes its summer break.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“The guy forgot his keys, jimmied his way to get into the house... if I was trying to jigger into...” — I've already written about what Obama said about racism, Skip Gates, and the “stupidity” of the police. You can find the context of the issue there, including the whole text of Obama's remarks.
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed — It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors' orders and, critics say, even subtly manipulate share prices. — It is called high-frequency trading …
Daily Show Videos:
The Born Identity — Barack Obama is not only the United States' first black president — he's also the first not-American president.
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Rival to Karzai Gains Strength in Afghan Race — HERAT, Afghanistan — When Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the main election challenger to President Hamid Karzai, arrived here to campaign last weekend, thousands of supporters choked the six-mile drive from the airport. Cars were plastered with his posters.
Kleinheider / Post Politics:
Stanley's First Wife Swore Out A Restraining Order In 1994 — While Sen. Paul Stanley tries desperately to hang on to his current marriage amid reports of a TBI confirmed admission of an extramarital affair with an intern and subsequent blackmailing by her boyfriend, allow Post Politics to take you on a trip down memory lane.
Jason Embry / First Reading:
NCSL: Texas relied most heavily on stimulus — NCSL report says state closed gap with stimulus dollars ... Sharp puts in another big loan ... White camp says he's not running for governor — Austin weather: High of 96, possible thunder showers. — (If you want a link to First Reading directly …
Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Baghdad Furious over Secret US contact with Guerrillas; Iraq may Retain US Trainers beyond 2011 — I have been saying for some time that the US military presence in Iraq is highly unlikely to completely end at the close of 2011. I think the important thing is that the combat troops …
Amanda Carpenter / Washington Times:
Hot Button — More ethics claims — The Associated Press claims that outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be found guilty of violating her state's ethics rules, citing a report leaked from the State Personnel Board on one of the 19 ethics complaints filed against her.
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