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Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: The Worst Policy in the Bill, and Possibly in the World — Baucus's bill retains the noxious “free rider” provision on employers. Rather than a simple employer mandate that forces every employer over a certain size to provide health-care insurance or pay a small fee …
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Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: CBO Luvs It — The Congressional Budget Office has released its preliminary score (pdf) of Max Baucus's bill. According to the CBO, the bill covers 94 percent of legal residents and actually reduces the deficit. More to the point, it keeps reducing the deficit as time goes on.
Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: The Neutered Co-Ops
The Baucus Bill: The Neutered Co-Ops
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TPMDC, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, The Politico and rubber hose
Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Analysis: Baucus Health-Care Bill Appears to Be Moving Forward
Analysis: Baucus Health-Care Bill Appears to Be Moving Forward
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Sadly, No!
Alicia M. Cohn / Human Events:
BREAKING: More ACORN Videos To Be Revealed — “There are more,” Mike Flynn, Editor-in-chief of new site BigGovernment.com, told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview this afternoon regarding the number of undercover films exposing ACORN. Flynn would not reveal the location of the ACORN office …
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Political Punch:
Blowback in the ACORN Wars — Recent videos posted online and aired repeatedly on Fox News Channel that seem to show ACORN workers allegedly advising two 20-somethings dressed up as a pimp and prostitute on how to skirt the law, the community group has taken some major hits as of late.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Acorn — Is there a case for a special prosecutor? — Printer — Friendly — The Acorn scandal continues to mushroom. Yesterday BigGovernment.com published videos from a fourth Acorn office visit by freelance investigators James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles.
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Baltimore Sun:
Sword-wielding Hopkins student kills intruder — Intruder was repeat offender, released from prison Saturday — Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo's house and taken two laptops and a video-game console. Now it was past midnight, and he heard noises coming from the garage out back.
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The Star-Ledger Continuous / New Jersey Online:
Johns Hopkins student from N.J. kills suspected burglar with samurai sword … BALTIMORE — A Johns Hopkins University student from Monmouth County armed with a samurai sword killed a man early today who broke into his off-campus home in Baltimore, according to a report by the Baltimore Sun.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Extremism in New Jersey — We've been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people's feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the Anti-Christ.
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SpeakupAmerica / CBS News:
Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year — Posted by Declan McCullagh The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.
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Amanda Carpenter / Washington Times:
Hot Button — Energy office — Officials at the Treasury Department …
Hot Button — Energy office — Officials at the Treasury Department …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Jon Stewart to media on ACORN: “Where the hell were you?” — Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn't sugar-coat the embarrassment at all — to the apparent delight of his audience, who get kudos of their own. How can the national news media ignore the many allegations of corruption at ACORN …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Waters: Probe ‘birthers and the teabaggers’ at rallies for racist views — The media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists like the ones who descended on Washington last weekend, one liberal congresswoman said Wednesday. — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) …
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Andrew Jackson's mother advises this response to Charles Johnson's lies … Charles Johnson's gutless passive-aggressive act — outrageously libeling me, trying to prevent me from reporting on the 9/12 March on DC, and then falsely claiming that I am attacking him — has been permitted to continue too long.
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New York Post:
Duo who turned this trick — The two conservative activists who captured ACORN employ ees giving advice on the sex trade and money-laundering only play a pimp and prostitute on video. — In real life, Hannah Giles, 20, isn't a lady of the night. She's a minister's daughter studying jour nalism at Florida International Uni versity.
Anita Dunn / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Reality Check: The Truth About “Czars” — Last week, when the President addressed the Joint Session of Congress in a speech on health reform, he referred to some of the untruths - okay, lies - that have been spread about the plan and sent a clear message to those who seek to undermine …
Alan Riquelmy / Ledger-Enquirer.com:
Judge tosses out Army captain's complaint questioning president's birth; Orly Taitz on notice — U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land tossed out on Wednesday a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama.
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Used Faulty Anecdote — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered …
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Jim Treacher / Jim Treacher's Blog …:
Freedom still lives in the breast of every American, but some have more room for it — As successful as the 9/12 Washington Tea Party was, it still left us with some questions: Who were those wonderful czars? Where did they come from? And most importantly, do they mind if we take some more pictures?
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
(Updated & Bumped) Sources: Admin Officials Head to Poland, Czech Rep. to Kill Missile Defense — According to reliable sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news. The administration intends to cancel completely …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New ACORN video: The San Diego sting — I've been waiting 45 minutes for Big Government to post the new clip but it looks like this is the best we'll do for now. Fifty-eight seconds long and it looks like we've got (a) a conspiracy to smuggle underaged sex slaves across the border and (b) a kinda sorta proposition to Hannah Giles.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Times:
ACORN says workers conduct ‘indefensible’ — Suspends, plans audit, in wake of videos — UPDATED: — ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
‘Jackass!’ — And here's that video, which shows, above all else, the president as a normal person — and moreover, a normal pol, utterly immersed in the cable-news frivolity he affects to disdain. — UPDATE: Not so much: Wiser heads than mine at POLITICO made the call to take down the video of the “jackass” moment.
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iOwnTheWorld.com:
iOTW Sneak Peek — Mr.Pinko has obtained an exclusive from the Photographer Michael A. Beck and FreedomWorks.org. Pinko sat on this image for days before just now getting the green light to publish. — This is a RARE photo of the 9/12 Rally taken in extreme High Resolution from atop the Capitol Building.
Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life — On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting …
Associated Press:
Paul Simon Chimes in on Health Care Reform — Singer Paul Simon Tries to Lend Harmony to Raucous Health Care Debate — Singer-songwriter Paul Simon tried to lend a little harmony to the raucous health care debate Wednesday by pushing for a health care overhaul with Democratic leaders of Congress.
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