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Guardian:
How nervous should those Blue Dogs be? — OK, as promised the other day, I've run some numbers about the Democratic Blue Dogs in the House of Representatives, and they're quite interesting. Here's the deal. This is a long post, but it's got lots of actual new information, and no difficult-to-discern irony.
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Liberals gag over health deal — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent half of Wednesday finalizing a deal with the Blue Dogs — and the other half quelling a brewing rebellion among progressives who think conservatives have hijacked health care reform. — Liberals, Hispanics and African-American members …
The Hill:
Health deal sparks fury on the left — A House leadership deal with Blue Dogs and an aggressive marketing push by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) shifted the healthcare debate sharply toward centrist positions Wednesday, sparking threats of rebellion from the left.
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The Politico:
Henry Waxman wins breakthrough on health bill — The new version of the bill would allow for states to set up health care co-ops, which the Senate Finance Committee has advanced as an alternative to the government-run insurance plan advanced in the House. The House bill still includes …
Matt Collette / Boston Globe:
Officer suspended for Gates slur in e-mail — An officer in the Boston Police Department was suspended yesterday for allegedly writing a racially charged e-mail about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, a law enforcement official said.
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MyFox Boston:
WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT: - A copy of the email sent by Police Officer Justin Barrett — Weather - Traffic - News - Sports - Business - Entertainment - Morning - Health - On TV - Blogs - About Us — Many pages in this Fox Television Stations, Inc. web site feature links to other sites …
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Katie Zezima / New York Times:Caller in Gates Case Speaks Out
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Swampland, The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Connecting.the.Dots, Mediaite, Sister Toldjah and Associated Press
Harvey A. Silverglate / Forbes:Prof. Gates' Unconstitutional Arrest
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Obama loses ground on health care — NBC/WSJ survey also shows a drop in his overall job-approval rating — President Barack Obama discusses health care reform during a town hall meeting at Broughton High School on Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C. — Deputy political director
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New York Times:
New Poll Finds Growing Unease on Health Plan — President Obama's ability to shape the debate on health care appears to be eroding as opponents aggressively portray his overhaul plan as a government takeover that could limit Americans' ability to choose their doctors and course of treatment …
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:Support Slips for Health Plan
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems warn Baucus with gavel threat — In an apparent warning to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), some liberal Democrats have suggested a secret-ballot vote every two years on whether or not to strip committee chairmen of their gavels.
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Wall Street Journal:
Debra Burlingame: Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’ — The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in. — Multimedia — previous — next — Health Care Reform — President Obama's effort to overhaul the health-care system may have momentum.
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: No. 3 at Justice OK'd Panther reversal — Case involved polling place in Philadelphia — Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Debts paid, Hillary Clinton builds $3+ million campaign fund for ...? — With all of the immense numbers coming out of Washington these days, former senator, ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign debt is chump change. Make that, “was.” — Here's the news: There is no more Hillary Clinton campaign debt.
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The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful 2009 - Top 10 (HTML) — 1. Rep. Martin Heinrich … Rep. Martin Heinrich has gone from climbing mountains to climbing stairs. — The avid outdoorsman, who once ran a wilderness adventure program for children and teens, now has to rely on his trips from his fifth-floor Longworth office …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Jihadi's Facebook Account: I will kill you (Updated: Pics Added) — ****STICKY OVERNIGHT****NEW POSTS BELOW*** — More on the banality of terror. You should read it for the context in understanding the federal indictments against Ziyad Yaghi, Mohammad Omar Aly Hussain, and six others.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Exclusive: Earmark critic steered cash to blimp, former aide — Rep. Pete Sessions — the chief of the Republicans' campaign arm in the House — says on his website that earmarks have become “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” — Yet in 2008, Sessions himself steered …
Mike Stark / Firedoglake:
Birthers, Part Deux: Republicans Divided — In this installment, we find the Republicans split into two camps. Mike Pence leads the sane brigade (he's joined by McClintock, and of all people, Peter King!), boldly going where no elected Republican had gone before and agreeing …
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Nicholas Graham / The Huffington Post:Lou Dobbs Slams “Tea-Bagging Queen Rachel Maddow,” …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
British Foreign Secretary: Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed — I've written several times before about the amazing quest of Binyam Mohamed — a British resident released from Guantanamo in February, 2009 after seven years in captivity …
BBC:
Iran police halt mourning protest — Iranian police have arrested mourners who had gathered at a cemetery in Tehran for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, reports say. — Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi tried to join mourners at the graveside of Neda Agha Soltan …
Megan McArdle:
America's Moral Panic Over Obesity — With health care in the news, everyone's looking for magic bullets to save money. Obesity seems to be a growing favorite: wouldn't it be great if we could make everyone look like Jennifer Anniston, and be cheaper to treat?
Andrew Travers / aspendailynews.com:
Dan Rather wants Obama to help save the news — Login or register to post comments — Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute.
The Huffington Post:
Obama's Doctor: President's Vision For Health Care Bound To Fail — The man Barack Obama consulted on medical matters for over two decades said on Tuesday that the president's vision for health care reform is bound for failure. — Dr. David Scheiner, a 70-year Chicago-based physician …
NPR Blogs:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Clarifies Resignation Talk, Kinda Sorta — Here are two things we have long assumed about Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. — One, she will challenge Gov. Rick Perry in next year's Texas gubernatorial primary. Yes, I know, it should be more than just “assumed,” …
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