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Most support public option for health insurance, poll finds — Americans still divided on overall packages — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.
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Morning Fix: A premature celebration for the GOP — Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama's political fortunes in the first nine months of the year but a new Washington Post/ABC News poll suggests the GOP still faces serious perception problems in the eyes of the American public.
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Public Option Gets New Life in Senate — WASHINGTON — The idea of creating a government-run health-insurance plan, once on life support in the Senate, is making a recovery among Democrats writing health-care legislation. — So far, no one is talking about a nationwide Medicare-like plan …
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Defending the insurance industry's report on health reform's cost impact
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Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast — AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group's critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission …
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Scozzafava Calls the Cops — Lowville, N.Y. — Tonight, Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate for the November 3 special election in the 23rd congressional district, spoke to about 100 Republicans at the Lewis County GOP dinner at the Elks Lodge 1605.
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Christie May Have Gotten Improper Aid — When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's office, he said he was merely helping a friend in need. He also said the aide, Michele Brown …
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Reid offers doctors a deal — The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They'll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors' support of healthcare reform. — At a meeting on Capitol Hill last week with nearly a dozen doctors groups …
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Financial Giants Donating Little to Obama Party — WASHINGTON — The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no compunction about paying big bonuses to their dealmakers and traders. But their willingness to deliver “thank you” gifts to President Obama …
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Obama's dumb war with Fox News — There's only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel — picking a fight with people who don't even have to buy ink. The Obama administration's war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels.
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Washington Monthly, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Media Matters for America, Wizbang, Don Surber, Commentary and Moe Lane
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W.H.: Media shouldn't follow Fox — A White House attempt to delegitimize Fox News - which in past times would have drawn howls of censorship from the press corps - has instead been greeted by a collective shrug. — That's true even though the motivations of the White House are clear …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Mediaite, Weekly Standard, Blue Crab Boulevard, Hot Air and The Opinionator
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Gates: Legitimate Afghan gov't could take months — ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY JET (AP) — The Obama administration needs to decide on a war strategy for Afghanistan without waiting for a government there to be widely accepted as legitimate, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday.
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Showdown on J Street — Pointed questions for director Jeremy Ben-Ami before the new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby's first big conference. — J Street's director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, published an open letter to Israel's Ambassador Michael Oren in the Jerusalem Post this week insisting …
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Maryland scientist arrested for attempted espionage for Israel — The FBI has arrested a former senior NASA space scientist who worked in the George H.W. Bush White House space office for attempted espionage for Israel, the Justice Department announced today.
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Maryland scientist Nozette is accused of spying for Israel
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U.S. Scientist Arrested for Allegedly Attempting to Pass Secrets to Israel
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Taylor Marsh
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Ex-Miss Cali owes us boob job payback: lawsuit — LOS ANGELES - Deposed beauty queen Carrie Prejean still owes $5,200 for breast implants floated by pageant organizers in January, a new lawsuit claims. — Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean stiffed pageant organizer K2 Productions even though …
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‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’ — A NERVOUS-LOOKING Pakistani soldier pointed a rocket-propelled grenade at our pickup truck in late January. The Taliban guard beside me loaded his rifle and ordered me to put a scarf over — my face.
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DeMint watches out for all of us — Recently your newspaper published a letter from state Rep. Bakari Sellers attacking U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and his opposition to congressional earmarks. — There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars …
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GOPers: DeMint Like A Jew “Watching Our Nation's Pennies”
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Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party — U.S. blocks N.C. city's nonpartisan vote — Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate …
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At rescued banks, perks keep rolling — Bosses benefit after bailout Fringe compensation rose 4 percent last year — NEW YORK — Even as the nation's biggest financial firms were struggling and the federal government was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to save many of them …
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Govt.-Run Health Care Isn't the Answer — Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., and GOProud's Christopher R. Barron say that the inefficiencies of the Ryan White CARE Act suggest that a government-run program is not the key to quality health care. — COMMENTARY: Right now, there are hundreds of patients …
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Employers Hold Off on Hiring — Companies across the economy are holding off on hiring even as the profit outlook improves, amid economic uncertainty and their own success at raising productivity in rough waters. — Hiring always lags behind in economic recoveries, but the outlook this time is worse, many economists say.