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New York Times:
Cryptic Iranian Note Ignited an Urgent Nuclear Strategy Debate — PITTSBURGH — On Tuesday evening in New York, top officials of the world nuclear watchdog agency approached two of President Obama's senior advisers to deliver the news: Iran had just sent a cryptic letter describing a small …
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Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Obama's unplanned Iran news — Late Thursday night, two hours after it sent out President Barack Obama's Friday schedule, the White House told reporters it was adding another event - a statement that he would give in the morning. Amid all the hoopla of the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh …
David Ignatius / PostPartisan:
With Iran, ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion’ — Graham Allison, a Harvard professor who is one of America's leading security strategists, likes to speak of the U.S.-Iranian nuclear confrontation as “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion.” Well, on Friday morning …
Associated Press:
Hanged Census Worker Found Naked, Bound — BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago.
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Josh / Right Wing Watch:
Right-Wing Census Paranoia [VIDEO] — There are many unanswered questions about the tragic hanging death of Bill Sparkman, a US Census Bureau employee, in rural Kentucky. But one thing is clear. Right-Wing leaders like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and media outlets like Fox News …
Richard M. Benjamin / The Huffington Post:
Sparkman: Casualty of Methland, USA? Or Victim of Anti-Government Bile?
Sparkman: Casualty of Methland, USA? Or Victim of Anti-Government Bile?
Maura Flynn / Big Government:
Sarkozy Mocks Obama at UN Security Council: Hello, Big Media? — One of my favorite features of the Newseum in Washington, DC is the daily display of newspaper front pages from around the world. Today, Canada's National Post was a standout with Alex Spillius' coverage of a clash between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy.
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
NBC News prez blasts ALG: ‘reckless’ and ‘defamatory’ UPDATE — NBC News president Steve Capus fired back at Americans for Limited Government Friday, after the conservative group published an email allegedly from NBC producer Jane Stone to its director of media outreach Alex Rosenwald, with one line: “Bite me Jew Boy.”
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The Huffington Post:
Neil Barofsky, TARP Inspector: Financial System May Now Be In A “Far More Dangerous Place” (VIDEO) — The Huffington Post Investigative Fund — Neil Barofsky is the man who tracks the historic bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The 39-year-old special inspector …
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
AP sources: Guantanamo might not close by January — WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged for the first time Friday that it might not be able to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay by January as President Barack Obama has promised. — Senior administration officials told …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Will the media ever report about how low in the polling Republicans have sunk? — We constantly are seeing polling down from the major news services that follow President Obama's approval ratings and it is an important stat to keep track of, but can you tell me what the media is not covering?
Washington Examiner:
tiredofit — So what if it would take 2 weeks to put it on the net, what is the big rush? Obama promised that EVERY bill would be posted on the net 3-5 days before it was voted on so people would have time to read it. What happened to that promise? Put the bill on the net so people …
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Mandatory Flu Shots Hit Resistance — Many Health-Care Workers Required to Get Vaccines — With the H1N1 pandemic spreading rapidly, hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, orderlies and other U.S. health-care workers for the first time are being required to get flu shots …
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Ron Lieber / New York Times:
The Fight Over Flexible Spending Accounts — The tumult at the town hall meetings has mostly died down and the debates over socialized medicine have gotten a bit old for everyone. But the fate of a benefit that puts hundreds of millions of dollars in Americans' pockets each year remained unresolved …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
U.S. Military Leaders Discuss Troop Needs in Afghanistan — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, held an unannounced meeting with senior U.S. military leaders on Friday to lay out his needs for additional troops for the war, as the Obama administration engages …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Ensign receives handwritten confirmation — This doesn't happen often enough. — Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
BUS YOUR OWN TRAY:
Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent. — On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood …
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