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2:35 AM ET, October 20, 2009

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TheTandD.com:
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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Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post:
GOPers: DeMint Like A Jew “Watching Our Nation's Pennies”  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Two South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen stepped up to rebut criticism of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in a newspaper editorial Sunday.  But their defense of the senator might be overshadowed …
Adam Fogle / The Palmetto Scoop:
Jews, Gentiles and Jim DeMint  —  2 STATE GOP COUNTY CHAIRS USE ETHNIC STEREOTYPE TO DEFEND SENATOR  —  A pair of South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen came to the defense of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint Sunday by using a not-so-defensible comment about Jewish people.
Washington Post:
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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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Support for Legalizing Marijuana Reaches New High  —  Majority in the West favors taxing marijuana sales to boost state revenues  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal and 54% opposed.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi Aims to Squeeze Skeptics on Public Option With Cheaper Bill Than Senate  —  The House health care bill is getting cheaper, but Democrats aren't boasting just yet.  Because when they ultimately break silence the hope is to present conservative Democrats in both chambers with a bill …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
The Politico:
CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax  —  In a dramatic shift, the Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that it is throwing its support behind climate change legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate.  —  Only it didn't.  —  An e-mail press release announcing the change is a hoax, say Chamber officials.
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
Finance Committee bill has been filed  —  Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today.  S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages.  It's still not up yet on the Finance Committee website or Thomas.gov. We'll post a link as soon as we get one.
Discussion: Hot Air
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The Note:
Finance Bill's Final Language: 1,502 Pages
Wall Street Journal:
Public Option Gets New Life in Senate
Discussion: New York Magazine
Emily Cadei / Eye on 2010:
Ensign's Parents Among Reid's Campaign Donors
Discussion: The Hill
Manu Raju / The Politico:   Lobbyists' $100K haul for Reid
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Losing: Helen Thomas, NYT, and The Nation Object to White House Fight With Fox News  —  Well, it's not the first time the Grande Liberal Dame of the press corps has had words for the Obama White House, but today Helen Thomas is voicing more unlikely sentiments by telling the White House attack dogs to heel in the Fox News fight.
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Jamie Fly / Weekly Standard:
Sen. Kerry's Colossal Error of Judgment  —  Over the weekend, Sen. John Kerry provided some covering fire for President Obama's dithering about his strategy for Afghanistan, telling CBS News that:  —  “I don't see how President Obama can make a decision about the committing of our additional forces …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CBS News
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US Department of Justice:
Maryland Scientist Charged with Attempted Espionage  —  A Maryland scientist who once worked in varying capacities for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been arrested for attempted espionage, David Kris …
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:   U.S. Scientist Arrested for Allegedly Attempting to Pass Secrets to Israel
Terry Frieden / CNN:
Scientist charged with improperly passing on classified information
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
John / Power Line:
Iran Double-Crosses Obama  —  This morning, I noted that Iran's government is telling the Iranian people that the Obama administration has consented to Iranian enrichment of uranium, thereby dismaying our European allies.  I linked to, but did not discuss in detail, a Time article that appeared today.
Discussion: Fars News Agency and Telegraph
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Iran Threatens to Back Out of Fuel Deal
Discussion: BBC and The Washington Independent
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
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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Lindsay Beyerstein / Working In These Times:   GOP House Candidate Would Co-Sponsor EFCA With Card Check
Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:
Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs  —  The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs - about 8 percent of the total - by year's end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday.
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Club for Growth:
New TV Ad in NY-23  —  Club and Club PAC Launch TV Ad in NY-23  —  Washington - Club for Growth and Club for Growth PAC will launch a $300,000 television ad campaign tomorrow in the special election for New York's 23rd Congressional District.  The campaign follows the Club …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Illinois Senate Election  —  Illinois 2010 Senate Race Still Neck-and-Neck  —  The 2010 U.S. Senate race in Illinois is now a dead heat between the top Democratic and Republican contenders.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Republican hopeful Mark Kirk tied …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Gates Blindsided by Rahm  —  Yesterday, in light of Rahm Emanuel's comments on delaying the decision on troops for Afghanistan, I asked: “Are Sunday talk show declarations by Emanuel and political advisor David Axelrod an appropriate way to announce the considered judgment of the president …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Will Federal Medical Marijuana Raids Continue?  —  While it's good news that the Obama administration is putting its less aggressive approach to medical marijuana in writing (as Nick Gillespie and Peter Suderman noted earlier today), the ambiguity about which forms of cannabis distribution …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's commendable change in federal drug enforcement policy
 
 
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Radley Balko / Reason:
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“Global warming” at Yankee Stadium
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Field Study: Just How Relevant Is Political Science?
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Blanche Lincoln Taken to the Woodshed by Public Option Supporters
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He's in the Army now  —  Wife's cancer prompts man to enlist
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Once Convicts' Last Hope, Now a Students' Advocate
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New York Times:
Afghan Leader Said to Accept Runoff After Election Audit
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Mika: With One Exception, Every CBS Reporter, Director, Anchor A Liberal
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