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6:00 AM ET, October 21, 2009

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WorldNetDaily:
Traditional Americans are losing their nation  —  In the brief age of Obama, we have had “truthers,” “birthers,” tea party activists and town-hall dissenters.  —  Comes now, the “Oath Keepers.”  And who might they be?  —  Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers …
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Pat Buchanan: White Americans Are “Losing” Their Country.  —  Pat Buchanan knows who America really belongs to.  After a litany of what he sees as white working class grievances in his latest column, Buchanan concludes: (via TPM) … There's been a lot of attention paid …
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Thought Experiments on Birth and Death  —  I'd like to think that Rush Limbaugh was floating a thought experiment, and not seriously proposing something, when he told millions of listeners the following: “Mr. Revkin, why don't you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying.”
Philip Boroff / Bloomberg:
Carnegie Hall Stagehand Moving Props Makes $530,044  —  Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — After you practice for years and get to Carnegie Hall, it's almost better to move music stands than actually play the piano.  —  Depending on wattage, a star pianist can receive $20,000 a night at the 118-year-old hall …
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room  —  Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren't present.  —  Towns' action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican …
Bill Donohue / Washington Post:
America's secular saboteurs  —  There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the classroom; sexual libertines seek to upend the cultural order by attacking religion …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess  —  President Barack Obama urged Republicans to help clean up the mess the Bush administration left behind in comments at a Tuesday night fundraiser.  —  Obama, speaking to donors to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama takes on Wall Street in New York City fundraiser
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Happy Hour Roundup: New CBO Score Bodes Well For Public Option  —  Update: This just in:  —  In another step forward for the public option, I'm told reliably by a source that House leaders have been given a new Congressional Budget Office “score” finding that the evolving House bill …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi Prepares To Move Ahead With Robust Public Option
Discussion: The Hill, The Politico and Open Left
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
‘They Tried to Steal an Election,’ N.Y. Voter Fraud Case Heats Up  —  Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:   ACORN's Party Likely Stole NY Election- Fraud Investigation Turns Up Bogus Ballots
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Volcker's Voice Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy  —  Listen to a top economist in the Obama administration describe Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who endorsed Mr. Obama early in his election campaign and who stood by his side during the financial crisis.
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Medicare for everyone  —  Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.”  —  House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and MyDD
Fiona Harvey / Financial Times:
UN climate negotiator knocks full treaty hopes  —  The Copenhagen climate change conference will not produce a new international treaty, the top United Nations climate change official has said, but the meeting will set out the political framework for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Oprah.com:
Oprah Winfrey Talks to Sarah Palin on The Oprah Winfrey Show  —  CHICAGO — In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to air Monday, November 16, 2009.  Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode …
NY Daily News:
Judge revokes Bernard Kerik bail, sends ex-NYPD top cop to jail for trying to taint jury pool  —  A judge tossed former NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik in jail for trying to taint the jury pool via the Internet Tuesday - days before the top cop's corruption trial starts.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
NY-23: Can Doug Hoffman Win?  —  President Barack Obama heads to New York City later today to raise campaign cash for businessman Bill Owens, the party's nominee in the Nov. 3 special election in New York's 23rd district, but the emerging storyline in the race is whether Conservative party …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Analysis: Courting doctors in health care battle  —  WASHINGTON — In the special interest war over health care, the White House and congressional Democrats have the nation's drug makers and hospitals generally on their side; the insurance industry, not so much.
Discussion: Associated Press and The Foundry
Bob Holmes / New Scientist:
Meet future woman: shorter, plumper, more fertile  — For similar stories, visit the Evolution and Human Evolution Topic Guides  —  Women of the future are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and longer reproductive windows.  These changes are predicted …
Sandra Block / USA Today:
Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month  —  You floss regularly, yield to oncoming traffic and use your credit cards judiciously, dutifully paying off your balance every month.  —  You may believe that your exemplary behavior shields you from unexpected credit card fees.
Michael Franzese / Big Government:
Rush or Reverend Al?... Will the Real Racist Please Stand Up?  —  Like everyone else who is a fan of the NFL, I have heard of the recent firestorm over Rush Limbaugh being ousted by Roger Goodell in his bid to become part owner of the St Louis Rams.  Apparently Limbaugh has been accused …
Vos Iz Neias:
Kinsman, IL - FBI Raids Halal Slaughterhouse  —  Kinsman, IL - Federal agents conducted a raid Sunday afternoon at a goat meat processing plant near Morris, Illinois.  The secretive operation was led by the Chicago FBI office, the Feds are being very tight-lipped on what they found and why they were even there.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Jawa Report
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Maddow Finally Apologizes for Saying Limbaugh Wanted MLK's Assassin to Get Medal of Honor  —  On June 3, Rachel Maddow said during her TV show that Rush Limbaugh is the “guy who says the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. should get the Medal of Honor.”  —  On Saturday, Sunday, and again Monday …
Discussion: American Glob and 24Ahead
Neil Offen / Durham Herald-Sun:
Hersh: Military waging war with White House  —  DURHAM — The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's most renowned investigative journalist says.  —  The army is also “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in …
 
 
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