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Sarah Palin / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care — The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers. — Printer — Friendly — Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another …
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Pelosi and Reid Tell President: We Have the Votes; President Wants Bill Passed Soon — While White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today refrained from telling reporters whether President Obama in his speech Wednesday night will set a deadline for passing health care reform …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
How Obama Survived August — At the beginning of the month, I predicted that August might turn out be a bloodbath for Democrats. At the time, the Democratic self-containment on health care had dissolved, cranks were taking over constituent meetings, and that real anxiety about Obama had found …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Adviser losing patience with Obama — One of President Barack Obama's former top campaign advisers is “losing patience” with the White House, he told POLITICO Tuesday morning, as frustrations among the president's liberal allies crest over issues from health care legislation to gay rights.
Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Endorse Public Plan in Speech — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a high-stakes speech Wednesday to Congress and the nation, will press for a government-run insurance option in a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system that has divided lawmakers and voters for months.
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Washington Post:
Obama Speech Aims To Reenergize Effort — Senate Finance Chair Holds Out Hope That Bipartisan Accord Can Be Reached — President Obama will seek to rally Congress to pass health-care reform in a prime-time address Wednesday, even as lawmakers continue struggling to reach broad consensus on some of the toughest issues in the debate.
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Too late for Obama to turn it around? — Plus: The left's visionaries lost their bearings on drugs — but the GOP is led by losers — What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation …
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Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush — Smoke billows up Tuesday after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the military entrance to Kabul's airport, killing at least three. Read the story. (Photo by Hal Bernton of the Seattle Times.)
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Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Taliban Ambush in Eastern Kunar Kills Four U.S. Marines — In a sad for the U.S. Marine Corps, four Marines have perished in Afghanistan. Lamenting their deaths and praying for their families is appropriate, but it's also important to note the circumstances surrounding this incident.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Seized Times Reporter Is Freed in Afghan Raid That Kills Aide — Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter held captive by militants in northern Afghanistan, was freed in a military commando raid early Wednesday, but his Afghan interpreter was killed during the rescue effort.
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Greg Mitchell / The Huffington Post:Again: Media, and Wikipedia, Blackout on Kidnapping of ‘NYT’ Reporter in Afghanistan
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The Culture and Media Institute:
Unmentionable: Best-Selling Conservative Books and the Networks that Ignore Them — Research reveals a glaring imbalance in network coverage of liberal best-sellers and comparable conservative titles. — Culture and Media Institute — The most coveted real estate in the publishing industry …
Paul Krugman:
Why the public option matters — Most arguments against the public option are based either on deliberate misrepresentation of what that option would mean, or on remarkably thorough misunderstanding of the concept, which persists to a frustrating degree: I was really surprised to see Joe Klein worrying …
The Politico:
Dodd to stay as Banking chair — Sen. Christopher Dodd's expected announcement that he will remain in charge of the Banking Committee should give a big boost to his longtime colleague Tom Harkin while setting off a shuffle on other Senate panels. — Dodd has played stand …
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Washington Post:
In Illinois, a Similar Health-Care Fight Tested Obama as State Senator — From a back-row seat in the Illinois Senate chamber, Barack Obama listened silently as political adversaries mocked his health-care reform bill: Socialized medicine. Hillarycare redux. Too expensive.
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Daily Mail:
‘Doctors told me it was against the rules to save my premature baby’ — Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early. — They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines …
Victor Zapanta / Think Progress:
Rep. Jean Schmidt Tells Birther: ‘I Agree With You’ — Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) spoke at the Voice of America tea party this Labor Day weekend outside of Cincinnati, OH. Following a tense Q&A session — during which, the congresswoman was booed for acknowledging that the Constitution …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Olbermann Flip-flops, Tells Kossacks NOT to Dig Up Dirt on Beck — Want to know just how unstable MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is? — Within the course of 48 hours, he asked Daily Kos readers to send him everything they could dig up about Fox News host Glenn Beck, and then called off the dogs.
Rachel Slajda / LiveWire:
Chambliss: Obama Better Show Humility In Speech To Congress — Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said today that, because of angry town hallers and the like, President Obama should show “humility” when he speaks to Congress Wednesday night. — “What you're seeing is folks on my side anxious …
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Financial Times:
Obama to seal US-UN relationship — By Harvey Morris at the United Nations — Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
NSA-Intercepted E-Mails Helped Convict Would-Be Bombers — The three men convicted in the United Kingdom on Monday of a plot to bomb several transcontinental flights were prosecuted in part using crucial e-mail correspondences intercepted by the U.S. National Security Agency, according to Britain's Channel 4.
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDREN — THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.)
Patrick Courrielche / Big Hollywood:
WHO SET UP GOVERNMENT ‘PROPAGANDA’ CONFERENCE CALL? Newly Revealed White House, NEA Audio Contradict — Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues. — Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com …
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Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
What Obama Says vs. What He Does — The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them. — The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated.
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