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3:40 PM ET, September 9, 2009

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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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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 …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Media Challenge: Will They Take The Palin Bait?  —  Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, has every right to submit an opinion piece on health care to the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, and they've got every right to print it.  —  But Palin's existence …
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.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Our One-Party Democracy  —  Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
Thomas Friedman is a Liberal Fascist — By: Jonah Goldberg  —  Mark beat me to it, but I must put in my two cents.  Thomas Friedman writes: … So there you have it.  If only America could drop its inefficient and antiquated system, designed in the age before globalization and modernity and …
Discussion: Moonbattery and The Foundry
Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy:   Thomas Friedman, For One, Welcomes Our New Chinese Creditor Overlords …
The Hill:
Tide turns against public option on eve of President Obama's address  —  Political momentum appeared to swing sharply against the public health insurance option prized by liberals Tuesday, on the eve of President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress.
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Congress has already exempted itself from Public Option
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
GOP Lawmaker's Graphic Sex-Bragging Caught On Tape  —  We've all seen those stories where a careless politician gets a little too candid when speaking into a hot mic.  But this one's really in a whole different league.  —  Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California.
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Navel Gazing:
OC Assemblyman In Bed With Lobbyist . . . No, Literally In Bed  —  SACRAMENTO—Freshmen legislators arriving in Sacramento receive advice from veteran politicians about the intricacies of working in California's capital.  One of those tips is to remember that microphones broadcasting legislative debates …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Two precedents in jeopardy  —  Analysis  —  If supporters of federal curbs on political campaign spending by corporations were counting on Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to hesitate to strike down such restrictions, they could take no comfort …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Pressed for Broad Ruling in Campaign Case
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Supreme Court sharply questions ban on corporate spending
Discussion: The Politico and The Swamp
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Attacks on Sunstein Frustrate Conservative Fans  —  On January 8, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein would be nominated to run the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.  It was a surprising choice for a job, created in 1980 …
Gillian Reagan / New York Observer:
Are the Days of Drudge Over?  —  Just over a month ago, Linda Douglass, a former ABC News correspondent and current communications director for the Obama administration's Health Reform Office, appeared in a video posted on the White House's official blog titled “Facts Are Stubborn Things.”
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Ethan Porter / CJR:   Drudge Has Lost His Touch
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
With one simple sentence, ABC News confirms the death of Beltway journalism  —  It's from an online report about the Obama school “controversy,” and it's written by Dan Harris.  In his piece, Harris notes that conservatives pre-emptively blasted Obama's stay-in-school speech even though conservatives …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Washington Monthly
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Baucus moves forward with bill  —  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday that he will push ahead with a comprehensive health care reform bill with — or without — Republican support and start a committee markup the week of Sept. 21.
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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
Baucus Tells Democrats of Plan to Advance Health Bill
Discussion: Think Progress
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.)
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner: GOP leaders haven't met Obama for health talks since April  —  The ball is in President Obama's court to reach out to Republicans if he wants a bipartisan bill on healthcare reform, House GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio) said Monday morning.  —  Boehner told reporters that the president …
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Massachusetts Democratic Senate Primary  —  Coakley Takes Early Lead In Race To Fill Kennedy's Senate Seat  —  State Attorney General Martha Coakley is the early leader in the Democratic race to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of longtime Massachusetts Senator Edward M.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The GOP vs Fiscal Conservatism  —  Charlie Cook and others are predicting a sea-change in public mood, with support for the GOP rising because of deficits.  This strikes me as an amazing thing.  It makes Charlie Brown, the football and Lucy look like the model of intelligent interaction.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
After Thesis Uproar, McDonnell's Strongly Worded Comments on Gays Resurface  —  ‘Homosexual Conduct’ Comments ‘Irrelevant’ to Campaign, He Says  —  In January 2003, then-Del. Robert F. McDonnell helped gavel in one of the most extraordinary judicial reappointment hearings in Virginia history …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Less Spocky, More Rocky  —  As soon as I started covering Barack Obama, I knew he was going to be trouble.  —  Not Global Trouble, like W. and Dick Cheney.  Or Hanky-Panky Trouble, like Bill Clinton and John Edwards.  Or Tedious Trouble, like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis.
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 …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and theblogprof
New York Times:
Overspending on Debit Cards Is a Boon for Banks  —  When Peter Means returned to graduate school after a career as a civil servant, he turned to a debit card to help him spend his money more carefully.  —  So he was stunned when his bank charged him seven $34 fees to cover seven purchases …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As an Exotic Mortgage Resets, Payments Skyrocket  —  Edward and Maria Moller are worried about losing their house — not now, but in 2013.  —  That is when the suburban San Diego schoolteachers will see their mortgage payments jump, most likely beyond their ability to pay.
Discussion: DailyFinance
The Washington / New York Daily News Blogs:
Mouth of the Potomac  —  For fallen White House aides, the rallying cry apparently is John Podesta to the rescue!  The Obama administration's former green jobs czar Van Jones is headed back to Podesta's Center for American Progress after stepping down from his White House post four days ago amid controversy …
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
Health Care in the Senate: An Interview with Chuck Schumer.  —  Senator Chuck Schumer is the third-ranked Democrat in the Senate, one of the most prominent advocates for a public plan, and among the earliest Democrats to recognize that the ongoing negotiations with Senate Republicans had become a waste of time.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
 
 
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Harkin accepts chairmanship of HELP Committee
Discussion: The Politico
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
New Revelations Raise Questions About Justice Sotomayor's Temperament
Discussion: DCist and Wonkette
Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
A checklist for the President's health care speech
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Time for Obama to Stand Tall
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Doctors echo W.H. message
Discussion: The Foundry
Washington Examiner:
callawar  —  Mr. Barone: Where are the facts to back your assertions?
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Firedoglake
The Huffington Post:
Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Obama disapproval on health care up to 52 percent
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
‘E&P’ Asked Not to Report on ‘NYT’ …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Analysis: Public Option Is Likely Popular in Most Blue Dog Districts
Discussion: Capitol Briefing and Hullabaloo
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Let's End the Fear-Mongering Over Abortion
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
U.S. ‘Unlikely’ to Recoup Auto Outlay, Panel Finds
Discussion: Wonk Room, Ztower and The BLT
 

 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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