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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 …
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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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ABCNEWS:
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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Jane Hamsher / Campaign Silo:Baucus, Snowe, Enzi “Bipartisan” Deal Close in Finance Committee
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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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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin — ABC News-Washington Post Poll: 53 Percent View Sarah Palin Unfavorably — As she packs up the Alaska governor's mansion and pushes back against the latest ethics brouhaha, Sarah Palin's got other problems: A more negative public image than she held during the 2008 campaign …
Amanda Carpenter / Washington Times:Hot Button — More ethics claims — The Associated Press claims …
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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.
Don Surber:
The Gates Rohrsach — The Boston Herald: “911, police tapes key in Gates case: Officials mull release of recorded evidence.” — The Boston Globe: “Accomplished, but not insulated: Some successful blacks find Gates's case all too familiar.” — All I know about Sunday's arrest …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:Bias, Racism, Being a Jerk, and Abuse of Power
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Dr. Boyce Watkins / msnbc.com:Consider this before crying ‘racial profiling’
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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.
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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.
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: California Senate — California Senate: Boxer 45%, Fiorina 41% — Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer leads former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in an early look at California's 2010 race for the U.S. Senate. — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds …
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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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.
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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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 …
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.
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.
Matt Friedman / politickernj.com:
Christie, in West New York, takes questions — It was a familiar scene in some respects: Chris Christie holding court, peppered with questions from a scrum of reporters about a fresh corruption bust. Only now, Christie wasn't U.S. Attorney, but the frontrunner candidate for the top office in the state …
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