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False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots — WASHINGTON — The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama's health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Multiple Republican Leaders Voted In 2003 For Measure Similar …
Multiple Republican Leaders Voted In 2003 For Measure Similar …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Obama Death Panel “Rumors” - The Times Looks Everywhere But The Mirror
The Obama Death Panel “Rumors” - The Times Looks Everywhere But The Mirror
Bloomberg:
Climate Change Measure Should Be Set Aside, U.S. Senators Say — Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republican Death Trip — “I am in this race because I don't want to see us spend the next year re-fighting the Washington battles of the 1990s. I don't want to pit Blue America against Red America; I want to lead a United States of America.” So declared Barack Obama in November 2007 …
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Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Was Whole Foods CEO's Op-Ed in Bad Taste? — Branding Experts Say CEOs Should Stay Quiet When It Comes to Politics — Joshua has been taking the bus to his local Whole Foods in New York City every five days for the past two years. This week, he said he'll go elsewhere to fulfill his fresh vegetable and organic produce needs.
ABCNEWS:
Fear for Obama's Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash — Violent Signs, Gun, Standoff Latest in Emerging Anger Towards the President — Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Host Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama Remark — ABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after Glenn Beck, the person, said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT COLOR OF CHANGE IS HAMMERING GLENN BECK. — So far, it's been difficult to gauge public reaction to some of the extreme reactions on the right to the health care debate, at least as far as polling is concerned. But there's one place where left-leaning political outrage …
Lane Hudson / Firedoglake:
Why I Interrupted Bill Clinton's Speech at Netroots Nation — I love Bill Clinton, but we all make mistakes. Sometimes we even are forced to do things we don't want to. That's why I was prepared to ask Bill Clinton a tough question last night as he delivered the opening keynote address at Netroots Nation 2009.
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Wall Street Journal:
From ‘Yes, We Can,’ to 'No! Don't!' — Obama turns out to be brilliant at becoming, not being, president. — Printer — Friendly — Don't strain the system. Don't add to the national stress level. Don't pierce when you can envelop. Don't show even understandable indignation when you can show legitimate regard.
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return — Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — More than 150 publicly traded U.S. lenders own nonperforming loans that equal 5 percent or more of their holdings, a level that former regulators say can wipe out a bank's equity and threaten its survival.
CNN:
‘Squeaky’ Fromme released from prison — (CNN) — Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was released from federal custody Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said. — Fromme was convicted in 1975 of pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Down with the health insurers — Dear conservatives: Health insurance companies are not your friends. Keep opposing a new government-run insurer, a single-payer plan, and new regulations on the HMOs. But grant that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is correct on this: Insurance companies are villains.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP thinks the unthinkable: Victory in 2010 — It's a possibility many Republicans speak of only in whispers and Democrats are just now beginning to face. After passionate and contentious fights over health care, the environment, and taxes, could Democrats lose big — really big — in next year's elections?
Monica Potts / Stamford Advocate:
Stamford Marriott claims woman was negligent in her own rape — STAMFORD — A downtown hotel being sued by a woman raped at gunpoint in its parking garage is claiming she was careless, negligent and “failed to exercise due care for her own safety and the safety of her children and proper use …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Mixed News for Burr — PPP's monthly look at Richard Burr's popularity brings good news and bad news for the first term Senator. — First the good news: —He now leads 42-35 when tested against a generic Democrat. That's an improvement from June when he trailed 41-38 on that measure and July when he led just 40-38.
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Senior Moment — Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care. — Printer — Friendly — Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing to worry about. Allow us to referee.
Zombie / zomblog:
Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective — At recent rallies, town hall meetings and “tea parties,” a few protesters have shown up with signs comparing Obama to Hitler (i.e. depicting him with a Hitler mustache), or displaying swastikas in the context of implying that Obama and/or his administration are Nazi-like.
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Newt's advice for Palin comeback — If Sarah Palin wants to make a 2012 political comeback, she'll need three types of speeches, some serious television face time, a credible organization and a bucket load of sheer determination. — Oh, and she might want to get a place outside of Alaska, somewhere in the lower 48.
Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
Out with “Mobs”... ...in with There Are Far More Civil Town Halls Taking Place That Conflict-Loving Cable News Stations Aren't Covering. — Roll Call's John Stanton: — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday argued that despite extensive media coverage of the protests …
CNSNews:
Speaking in Mexico, Obama Calls American Opponents of Immigration Amnesty ‘Demagogues’ — (CNSNews.com) - At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico on Monday, President Barack Obama referred …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Palin continues Facebook attacks on healthcare — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) kept up her Facebook attacks on the White House healthcare reform bill Friday, praising a Senate committee's decision to drop an end-of-life provision. — She also singled out for criticism a proposal …
Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Boswell: Obama willing to be one-term president — Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines, Iowa) held a town hall meeting in Sigourney this afternoon. Despite one group's ad which “thanks Boswell for his support” of health care reform, Boswell told the crowd he may vote against it.
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Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Hagel Climbing the Ladder in Obama White House — Former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel (R), a senior administration official-in-waiting either later this term or in President Obama's second term (if there is one), is taking another step into Obama's national security team.
The Huffington Post:
Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High: STUDY — Income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression, according to a recently updated paper by University of California, Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Palin signed resolution promoting end-of-life directives in 2008 — Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) recently claimed that the end-of-live provision in the healthcare reform legislation would create a government “death panel” to decide such issues. But during her term as governor …
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Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Ørsted gets Google Doodled — Thanks to Google, hundreds of millions of people are today celebrating Hans Christian Ørsted's birthday without having much of a clue who he is ... so who exactly was he? — Probably not even the physics geeks remember much about Hans Christian Ørsted …
Adam Thierer / The Technology Liberation Front:
The Technology Liberation Front Turns 5 Today! — Five years ago today the Technology Liberation Front (the “TLF") got underway with this post. The idea for the TLF came about after I asked some tech policy wonks whether it was worth put together a blog dedicated to covering Internet-related issues …
Pat G. / Think Progress:
Rove Claims ‘A Lot Of Economists’ Think The Stimulus Package Is ‘Retarding The Day Of Growth’ — Ever since the latest jobs report showed that fewer jobs were lost in July than expected, conservatives have been scrambling to claim that the slowing economic freefall has nothing to do with the economic stimulus package.
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