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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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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 …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Why Obamacare Is Sinking — What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. — But you can't fake it in legislation.
ABCNEWS:Exclusive: President Obama Pushes Forward on Health Care Pitch
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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 …
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 …
Fox News:
Obama: ‘Victory’ Not Necessarily Goal in Afghanistan — The enemy facing U.S. and Afghan forces isn't so clearly defined defined, Obama explained in a TV interview — President Obama has put securing Afghanistan near the top of his foreign policy agenda, but “victory” …
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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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner says GOP health alternative is coming — Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Thursday afternoon that Republicans will have an alternative healthcare reform bill to offer but did not say when it would be ready. — He told reporters that Republicans will …
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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