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Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan — The relationship between President Barack Obama and the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has been put under severe strain by Gen Stanley McChrystal's comments on strategy for the war.
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Clear Voice of Bush's Pentagon Becomes Harder to Hear — WASHINGTON — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the face of the Iraq troop surge and a favorite of former President George W. Bush, spoke up or was called upon by President Obama “several times” during the big Afghanistan strategy session …
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Petraeus For President! (12 Months Late)
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Obama quietly tries to shore up Senate support for public option — The president has backed off from vocally supporting the idea of government-run healthcare, but he's working to build a coalition of supporters. The challenge: Find a version that can pass.
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Reid, Baucus ready to split on public option for healthcare as vote nears
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No vote until later this week — at the earliest
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Weekly Standard
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The Politics of Spite — There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago's bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games. — “Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard …
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Why Rupert Murdoch Will Fire Glenn Beck — Rupert Murdoch is a smart man. In the U.K, Murdoch aligns his newspapers with the popular political party and helps them enact their policies by giving them favorable coverage. For the past 12 years, he supported the Labour Party.
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GOP leaders to Steele: Back off — GOP leaders, in a private meeting last month, delivered a blunt and at times heated message to RNC Chairman Michael Steele: quit meddling in policy. — The plea was made during what was supposed to be a routine discussion about polling matters …
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Sandra Day O'Connor says rulings are being ‘dismantled’ — WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she regrets that some of her decisions “are being dismantled” by the current Supreme Court. — O'Connor, who generally has avoided questions on the substance …
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New Court Term Hints at Views on Regulating Business
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Some Republican Ideas for Health Care Reform — A majority of so-called Republican strategists believe that health care is a Democratic issue. They are wrong; health care is an American issue, and the Republican Party has an opportunity to demonstrate that conservative principles work when applied to real-world problems.
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The Atlantic Politics Channel, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Boston Globe, Townhall.com, D-Day, The Politico, The Hill, The Foundry, Commentary and msnbc.com
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Government Watchdog Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not Healthy — Senior Officials Had Financial Concerns About Nine Bank Instiutions Receiving TARP Funds — The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks …
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FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials — Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements — The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep …
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Obama to Address Gay Rights Organization — President Obama will speak to a gathering of gay rights activists this weekend, a day before thousands of people are expected to march on Washington in a demonstration calling for greater legal protections for gays, lesbians and transgendered Americans.
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Criminalizing everyone — Needed: A ‘clean line’ to determine lawfulness — “You don't need to know. You can't know.” That's what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search.
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Some thoughts on seeing “Capitalism: A Love Story.” — Here's the scene in the lobby at the Sundance Theater as we arrived for the 4:35 showing of Michael Moore's new movie: — “Dump ¢apitali$m/Join the Socialists.” And, indeed, the movie was a big promotion of socialism.
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Moe Lane
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ROVE FOR RUBIO — From NBC's Chuck Todd — Over the past few weeks, Florida GOP Gov. Charlie Crist has found himself being put on the defensive more and more in the primary thanks to the challenge by ex-state House Speaker Marco Rubio. While Crist has financially overwhelmed Rubio to date …
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Inequality as Usual — Not long ago, liberals were insisting that income inequality was America's most serious economic problem. — Now there are more immediate crises: A 9.8 percent unemployment rate, a yawning budget deficit. But the inequality issue hasn't gone away.
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You Can't Say That — At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech. — The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled …
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New Yorker Rewrites Economic History — People following the financial meltdown would be surprised to read in the New Yorker's profile of National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers that: “the banks with combined commercial and investment operations fared the best.” Yeah, Citigroup is doing just great.
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He's Back, Hat in Hand — Chastened by Reaction To His Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Comments, an ‘Older And Wiser’ Don Imus Returns to TV on the Fox Business Network — After holding forth for hours behind the mike on everything from Roman Polanski to Afghanistan …