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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dem: House GOP is “80 percent male, 100 percent white” — The National Republican Congressional Committee is urging Gen. Stanley McChrystal to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in her place” for weighing in on Afghanistan — prompting one female Pelosi ally to blast the House GOP as …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pelosi Rips McChrystal For Publicly Airing His Views On Afghanistan — This one should stir up Nancy Pelosi's critics on the right: Towards the end of an interview with Charlie Rose that ran late last night, Pelosi took a surprisingly hard shot at General Stanley McChrystal for publicly airing …
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Congressional GOP Fundraising Committee On Pelosi: It's Time To ‘Put Her In Her Place’ — The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has a press release today, hitting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for having the temerity to express doubts that Democratic members of Congress …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi says new tax is ‘on the table’ — A new value-added tax (VAT) is “on the table” to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night. — Pelosi, appearing on PBS's “The Charlie Rose Show” asserted that “it's fair to look at” …
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
The Cup of Coffee: White House's David Axelrod Meets With Fox News' Roger Ailes — On a recent visit to New York, White House adviser David Axelrod met over coffee with Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News network, which President Obama has described as a “television station …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Axelrod meets with Ailes — At a time of tension between their organizations, White House senior adviser David Axelrod met with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago, sources tell POLITICO. — The two met privately in Manhattan during the president's visit to the United Nations.
Erwin Chemerinsky / Los Angeles Times:
The constitutionality of healthcare — There's nothing illegal about requiring Americans to buy medical insurance. — Are the healthcare bills pending in the House and Senate unconstitutional? — That's what some of the bills' critics have alleged. Their argument focuses on the fact …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:Sotomayor Takes Active Role on Court's First Day
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People.com:
Tom DeLay to Quit Dancing with the Stars — It's the end of the road for Tom DeLay. — Sources tell PEOPLE that the former Republican House Majority Leader will withdraw from Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday's live results show due to stress fractures in both of his feet.
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
White House's botched ‘op’ — WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet — and handed out doctors' white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message. — In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
How Health Care Reform Won — The biggest story in health care reform this year has not been the town hall meetings, or President Obama's big speech on health care. It's that the Senate Democrats have decided they're going to pass a bill. You just haven't heard much about this story …
Felix Dennis / THE WEEK News & Opinion:
Is the Bible too liberal? — Conservapedia's attempt to weed out “liberal bias” from modern Bible translations — BEST OPINION: TIME, NEWSBUSTERS, BELIEFNET, SOUTHERN APPEAL ... “And you thought liberal bias was limited to the evil mainstream media,” said Amy Sullivan in Time.
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Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post:Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
MSNBC's Ratigan battles McCaughey — Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy — Anthony Weiner and Betsy McCaughey brought their act to MSNBC this morning, where Weiner — unlike last night — was a relatively mellow presence while host Dylan Ratigan tangled bitterly with McCaughey.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama kills funding for Iranian human-rights watch agency — The Iran Human Rights Watch Documentation Center can be excused for thinking that this year might make them more indispensable than ever. After all, the Iranian mullahcracy rigged a presidential election and brutally suppressed widespread protests …
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Farah Stockman / Boston Globe:US funds dry up for Iran rights watchdog
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
ACORN's Lewis suggests opponents are racist — ACORN's Bertha Lewis charged Tuesday that accusations about the embattled community organizing group are racist, alleging that a coordinated political effort started by former Bush adviser Karl Rove sought to stop the group from registering minority voters.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Webb calls McChrystal's public statements ‘odd’ — It has been “odd” for Gen. Stanley McChrystal to speak out so publicly about his opinions on strategy for Afghanistan, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) said Tuesday. — Webb, a veteran and former secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration …
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Beau Biden's reaction — Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden doesn't sound like he's quite ready to make a decision on whether he'll challenge Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) for the Senate seat that was recently held by his father. — He issued a statement this afternoon praising Castle …
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Matt Taibbi / Taibblog:
Michael Moore's Problems Are Our Fault — Michael Moore arrives at an LA premiere of his latest film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ in September 2009 (Kevin Winters/Getty Images for Overture) … The reaction to Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, reinforces a suspicion …
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Senate moderates echo GOP call for 72-hour disclosure — As the health care reform bill moves to the Senate floor, a key bloc of moderate Senate Democrats and an independent called on Senate Majority Leader Reid to increase the process' transparency. — Specifically, the senators called …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Cantor: Obama Still Deliberating Whether We Need to Defeat Taliban — Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) just wrapped up a conference call with reporters following a meeting he attended with other members of Congress, the president and his advisers at the White House this afternoon.
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Let's Remember That Letterman's a Clown, Not a Cleric or Congressman — One of many sad things about recent stanzas in the ballad of David Letterman is that now, in all media, Dave will be lumped in with other sexually misbehaving celebrities, even though he stands head and heart above most of them.
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The Huffington Post:
Fox News's Shepard Smith Goes After Sen. John Barrasso On Public Option — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Earlier this afternoon, Fox News's Shepard Smith demonstrated some of that trademarked independent thinking that so often gets him in dutch with the cable network's most dedicated viewers …
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Two Fish, One Barrel: Deconstructing Andrew Sullivan's ‘The Breitbart Standard,’ Demolishing Conor Friedersdorf's 'The Right's Lesser Media' — To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf's Daily Beast criticism of your's truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan's two-thumbs-up to it:
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
D.C. to Introduce Same-Sex Marriage Bill — Measure Is Expected to Pass Congress, but Its Viability May Depend on Tilt of Future Chambers — Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill said it appears unlikely that Congress will block a bill to be introduced Tuesday that would allow same-sex marriages in the District.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see! — Last month, Xeni blogged about the photoshop disaster that is this Ralph Lauren advertisement, in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body ("Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis").
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