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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.
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Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: The Neutered Co-Ops — The co-ops have never been a satisfying alternative to the public option. But the version in Baucus's bill isn't even a satisfying alternative to the co-op option. It's a neutered version of the co-op idea, which was in turn a neutered version of the public option.
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Preliminary Analysis of Specifications for the Chairman's Mark …
Preliminary Analysis of Specifications for the Chairman's Mark …
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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Hot Air, Christian Science Monitor, Wizbang, Moderate in the Middle, The Rhetorican and Blue Crab Boulevard
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Acorn — Is there a case for a special prosecutor?
Obama and Acorn — Is there a case for a special prosecutor?
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Political Punch:
Blowback in the ACORN Wars
Blowback in the ACORN Wars
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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
Johns Hopkins student from N.J. kills suspected burglar with samurai sword
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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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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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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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.
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Justin Elliott / LiveWire:
Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason
Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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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.
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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Atlas Shrugs, The Jawa Report, American Power, Carol's Closet, Jihad Watch, The Daley Gator and Whiskey Fire
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Maxine Waters Wants Probe of ‘Birthers’ and ‘Teabaggers’ (AUDIO) — Maxine Waters is reallly too much some times. See, “Waters: Probe ‘Birthers and the Teabaggers’ at Rallies for Racist Views.” Listen to her at the video: … See also, Gateway Pundit, “Maxine Waters: Media Should Probe the “Birthers & Teabaggers” at Rallies.”
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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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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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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.