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Ezra Klein:
The Divisions in the White House Over Health-Care Reform — This is health-care reform's endgame, or close to it. Next Wednesday, Barack Obama will give a prime-time address before both houses of Congress. But that's not all he's giving Congress. The administration is going to put a plan down on paper.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama to address Congress on reform — President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress on health care reform in prime time on Wednesday, Sept. 9, a senior official tells POLITICO. — Obama plans to give lawmakers a more specific prescription for health care legislation than he has in the past, aides said.
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Times:
WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a classroom assignment.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
White House Floating “Snowe” Trigger — Senior White House officials, in conversations with reporters today, are floating the idea that President Obama is secretly negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe over a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternative …
Political Punch:
Axelrod: Obama is Ready to ‘Close’ on Health Care
Axelrod: Obama is Ready to ‘Close’ on Health Care
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Divided We Stand, TPMDC, The Confluence, The Hill, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, The Note, The Opinionator, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog News, Open Left and TalkLeft
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
VAN JONES' OPINION OF THE GOP.... For a seven-month-old quote …
VAN JONES' OPINION OF THE GOP.... For a seven-month-old quote …
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TalkLeft
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
The 5 key Strategy Questions the White House is Considering on Health Care
The 5 key Strategy Questions the White House is Considering on Health Care
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The Politico, YID With LID, Think Progress, MoJo Blog Posts, Open Left, Hullabaloo, The Note, The Takeaway, Wonk Room, Reason, The Swamp, Truthdig, CNN, Notepad and Brave New Films blog
Michelle Malkin:
“I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama” — As if I needed any more evidence to bolster today's column about the Obama junior lobbyist campaign in America's schools, here's another item fresh from the headlines in Utah:
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Rosita the Prole, American Power, Bookworm Room, Flopping Aces, Freedom's Lighthouse and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Lisa Schencker / Salt Lake Tribune:
Parents upset over ‘leftist propaganda’ video — Education » Principal apologizes for showing ‘I Pledge’ to students. — A school principal has apologized for showing a video at an assembly that a politically conservative group leader is calling “radical, leftist propaganda.”
Kate Devlin / Telegraph:
Sentenced to death on the NHS — Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today. — In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Laurel Wentz / AdAge:
9/11 Ad for WWF Causes Tsunami of a Crisis for DDB Brasil — Apology Doesn't Stave Off Global Compensation; Video Version Surfaces — An obscure ad that ran once in a small Sao Paulo newspaper months ago has come back to haunt DDB Brasil and its conservation client, the WWF in Brazil …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Buchanan's Apologia for Hitler — As if some neocon were setting out to parody dovish thinking on contemporary issues, paleocon Pat Buchanan has gone and written a “blame Britian first” account of the origins of World War II. Apparently, according to Buchanan, Hitler was just seeking …
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Pat Buchanan: Sotomayor? Racist. Hitler? Misunderstood.
Pat Buchanan: Sotomayor? Racist. Hitler? Misunderstood.
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The Moderate Voice, The Jawa Report, Reason, Raw Story, TPMMuckraker and Air America Media blogs
Curt Schilling / 38 Pitches:
Potential Senate candidacy — While my family is obviously the priority, and 38 Studios is a priority, I do have some interest in the possibility. That being said, to get to there from where I am today, many many things would have to align themselves for that to truly happen.
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Republican Party of Florida:
Greer Condemns Obama's Attempt to Indoctrinate Students — Tallahassee- Â Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer today released the following statement condemning President Obama's use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda.
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TPMDC, The Politico, Pat Dollard, Raw Story, Washington Monthly, The Reaction, Hullabaloo and msnbc.com
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Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief reason that he was never able …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Department of Education Deletes Line About How Schoolkids Can Help Obama — By: Jim Geraghty — It appears there are two versions of the preparatory materials for the president's address to schoolchildren floating around, one with language urging teachers to have students write letters …
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RedState, PoliGazette, Atlas Shrugs, Cato @ Liberty, Pajamas Media and Patterico's Pontifications
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Perfect Political Storm — It's hard to sell change voters don't think they need. — Printer — Friendly — August was the worst month of Barack Obama's presidency. And he seems to know it—he is now planning to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress 232 days …
Abu Muqawama:
The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily defend the war.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Levi's latest — A Palin partisan points out that Levi Johnston has said previously — contrary his Vanity Fair claim — that there was never discussion of giving away the baby: — KING: Levi, was abortion ever considered? — L. JOHNSTON: No. — KING: Giving up for adoption ever considered?
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Daniel Terrapin / Conservatives4Palin.com:
Levi the Liar — It brings me no pleasure to address a habitual liar …
Levi the Liar — It brings me no pleasure to address a habitual liar …
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Top of the Ticket, TBogg, The TrogloPundit, Pam's House Blend, TalkLeft, The Mudflats, Hot Air and Another Black Conservative
Michael Hewlett / Winston-Salem Journal:
DNA to free another inmate — Winston-Salem man has served 14 years after being convicted of raping 2 girls — A 49-year-old man who has served more than 14 years of a life sentence for raping two teenage sisters will be released today after DNA tests determined that he wasn't the attacker.
Washington Monthly:
Rankings — Below are the Washington Monthly's 2009 national university college rankings. We rate schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs) …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Accountability, but at What Cost? — My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by interrogators of terrorist subjects during the last administration.
Peter Popham / The Independent:
I have been abducted by aliens, says Japan's first lady — Move over Michelle, watch your backs, Carla and Sarah. There's a new kid on the first lady block, and she looks like upstaging the lot of you. — Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Japan's Prime Minister-elect, Yukio Hatoyama …
DealBook:
Another View: Lock the Law School Doors — Dan Slater, a former litigator, argues that there are too many places at too many law schools, especially with the current hiring slump at law firms. — This summer, in the staid world of legal education, where curriculum is uniform and scholars …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner on National …:
Where Did the American Flag Go? — By: Kathryn Jean Lopez — The United States Mission to the United Nations has a new look online. If you check out the redesigned site, you see it's decked out in United Nations blue, with the U.N. logo prominently displayed. — Fine, the U.N. logo is there.
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The Daily Dish
BBC:
Online politics reserved for rich — US civic engagement remains in the hands of the middle-class despite hopes that the internet would democratise political involvement. — Those are the findings of a report from the Pew Internet Project. — Online political engagement such as contacting officials …