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Martina Stewart / CNN:
Key senator rejects ‘trigger’ for public health insurance option — WASHINGTON (CNN) - A moderate Republican who has previously broken with her party to support President Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill said Sunday that she does not support the idea of using a so called “trigger” …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
President Obama strongly supports Public Option in speech to Minneapolis — I know there's some debate over whether the president fully supports the public option and we know that the gang of six in the House of Lords is trying to derail it. Fox News is telling us that the public option …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Snowe says Obama should scrap the public option to pass bill — Key senators said Sunday the “public option” favored by House Democrats for healthcare is all but dead, but a pivotal Republican said it's not dead enough. — President Barack Obama “should take it off the table,” …
Fox News:
Wilson Defends Outburst, Says He Will Not Apologize on House Floor — Rep. Joe Wilson says he will not apologize again for his outburst during President Obama's health care address. — FOXNews.com — Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday that he will not apologize on the House floor …
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
Why the Public Option Is Not “Fading” — Just the Contrary
Why the Public Option Is Not “Fading” — Just the Contrary
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The Political Carnival
ABCNEWS:
ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size — ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said. — Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Size Matters; So Do Lies — Back in April, when there was a round of several hundred “tea party” protests across the country to coincide with Tax Day, I devoted significant attention to figuring out how many people had actually attended the rallies. The best figure I could come …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
ABC Denies It Ever Said Yesterday's Protest Rally Had 1 Million People
ABC Denies It Ever Said Yesterday's Protest Rally Had 1 Million People
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
UPDATED: Malkin's 2 million protester claim; it's like the blind leading the blind
UPDATED: Malkin's 2 million protester claim; it's like the blind leading the blind
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The Sideshow
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
9/12 Protests — Yesterday, somewhere between “tens of thousands” …
9/12 Protests — Yesterday, somewhere between “tens of thousands” …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
HEADLINE: Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest …
HEADLINE: Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Boy, Oh, Boy — The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. — Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men's club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn't.
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Obama's Squandered Summer — THE day before he gave his latest brilliant speech, Barack Obama repeated a well-worn mantra to a television interviewer: “My job is not to be distracted by the 24-hour news cycle.” The time has come for him to expand that job description.
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Matthew Yglesias, American Thinker, War in Context, The Rhetorican, Don Surber and Prairie Weather
Geoffrey Dunn / The Huffington Post:
Tina Fey Disses Palin — Saturday Night Live actress Tina Fey received an Emmy Award on Saturday for her spot-on impersonation of Republican vice presidential contender Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. — Accepting her trophy for best guest actress in a comedy, Fey went through the ritual …
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The Immoral Minority
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Ronald Bailey / Reason:
Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Saved More Human Lives Than Any Other Has Died — Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama: National debate is ‘coarsening’ — President Barack Obama said in an interview to be aired Sunday night on “60 Minutes” that he sees “a coarsening of our political dialogue.” — “The truth of the matter is that there has been, I think, a coarsening of our political dialogue,” …
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Jim Treacher / Jim Treacher's Blog …:
The most important story of 9/12, if not 2009 — If they can make Obama Girl famous, I see no reason we shouldn't do the same for the Boob Czar: In a move that is being praised by experts, it was announced today that the Boob Czar will also be serving as the Pogo Stick Czar....
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Redhot
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Van Jones — unfit for print — The green czar affair should put the final lie to The Times' ‘objectivity’ — “This is not an excuse,” the managing editor of The New York Times said after offering the following excuse for completely missing the Van Jones story, except in a blog post …
Jennifer Rubin / Pajamas Media:
Obama Administration Stonewalls U.S. Civil Rights Commission on Black Panther Case — The Justice Department won't cooperate with an inquiry into why they helped the New Black Panther party avoid the legal consequences of voter intimidation. — Last month, the Obama administration's decision …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Wall Street's Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables — IN the aftermath of the great meltdown of 2008, Wall Street's quants have been cast as the financial engineers of profit-driven innovation run amok. They, after all, invented the exotic securities that proved so troublesome.
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