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James O'Keefe / Big Government:
ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA — With 70 miles of stunning beaches and picture-perfect weather all year round, having fun during the summer in San Diego doesn't require a lot of money. — The city combines old-fashioned Mexican charm with a modern edge.
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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 …
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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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.
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Peter Spiegel / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Shelves Nuclear-Missile Shield — Czech Interim Prime Minister Gets Midnight Call — WASHINGTON — The White House will shelve Bush administration plans to build a missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move likely to cheer Moscow and roil the security debate in Europe.
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New York Times:
White House to Scrap Bush's Approach to Missile Shield — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will scrap former President George W. Bush's planned missile defense system in Eastern Europe and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Czech Premier: Obama Scrapping Missile Shield — President Obama appears poised to abandon plans for a missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic that had been embraced by the administration of former president George W. Bush and cheered in Eastern Europe, but had deeply angered Russian leaders.
Political Punch:President Obama to Replace Bush's Permanent Missile Defense Shield …
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:(Updated & Bumped) Sources: Admin Officials Head to Poland …
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Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Analysis: Baucus Health-Care Bill Appears to Be Moving Forward — On the surface, it appears that no one is happy with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — and that may be the best news President Obama has had in months. — Within minutes of the release of the Senate Finance Committee chairman's …
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Ezra Klein:The Baucus Bill: CBO Luvs It
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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
William Grimes / New York Times:
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 72 — Mary Travers, whose ringing, earnest vocals with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary made songs like “Blowin' in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” enduring anthems of the 1960s protest movement, died on Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Democrats join GOP czar wars — In the war on the czars, Glenn Beck and the GOP are picking up reinforcements from an unlikely source: the Democratic Party. — The Fox News host and leading Republican lawmakers have been hammering President Barack Obama for weeks over a proliferation of policy …
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Anita Dunn / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:Reality Check: The Truth About “Czars”
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Justin Elliott / LiveWire:
Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason — In an interview with TPM just now, Birther evangelist Orly Taitz fired back at Clay Land, the U.S. district court judge who tore apart Birtherism and threatened Taitz with sanctions in an order today, saying that …
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Quinnipiac University:
Dodd Inching Back Up In Connecticut, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama Slide Continues — Connecticut voters disapprove 49 - 43 percent of the job Sen. Christopher Dodd is doing, his best score in six months and better than his 52 - 42 percent disapproval July 23, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Sotomayor Challenges Corporate Law — WASHINGTON — In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law. — During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court's majority conservatives seemed persuaded …
David Hume Kennerly / Lens:
Essay: Chop and Crop — [David Hume Kennerly is a former contributing editor of Newsweek. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his photographs of the Vietnam War. A response from Newsweek follows immediately below.] — The Sept. 14th Newsweek cover line — “Is Your Baby Racist?”
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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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Hannah Giles / Big Government:Girl Talk: My Time with Tresa Kaelke
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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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Karen Shiffman / WBUR and NPR:
Questions of Civility, and More — Kanye West, left, at the MTV Music Video Awards on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Right: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) on the floor of the House of Representatives on Sept. 9, 2009. (AP photos) — Post your comments below — American public life has always had its rough edges.
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Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Michelle Obama turns to health care — Pushing for health care reform didn't turn out so well for the last first lady in a Democratic White House. — But with a retooled staff, and an under-the-radar summer behind her, Michelle Obama plans a packed autumn that aides say will include a …
New York Post:
Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off — WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.
Jeanna Bryner / msnbc.com:
Teen birth rates highest in most religious states — Link may be due to communities frowning on contraception, researchers say — U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests.
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