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EXCLUSIVE: Democratic donors rewarded with W.H. perks — Offered access to bowling alley, movie theater — During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers …
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Another bad moment for White House in war on Fox — The White House keeps up its attack on Fox News as biased in this video with Valerie Jarrett, another senior adviser to President Obama making the claim. But watch how fast Jarrett folds when CNN anchor Campbell Brown asks her if pro-administration MSNBC isn't just as biased.
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Obama Not Comfortable With Women in Basketball, Golf ... or Anywhere Else — By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog — President Obama drew heat last week for a story that surfaced outing his private White House male-only b-ball games. The story was that even though two female members …
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Fox News and White House: “Truce”
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Traitor Joe — Blogs and Stories — The ex-Democrat now says he'll join the GOP in a health-care filibuster. Paul Begala on Lieberman's latest and most shameless betrayal. — It's journalistic shorthand to note a politician's party identification and state after his or her name.
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Drum Roll ... House Health Care Bill To Be Unveiled Tomorrow
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Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll — KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years …
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Don't Build Up — It is crunch time on Afghanistan …
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The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week
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CNN Poll: 7 in 10 say Palin not qualified to be president — WASHINGTON (CNN) - More than seven in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president, according to a new national poll. — Seventy-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …
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Palin Headed to Iowa?
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The lineup: Harry Reid's toughest votes — MoveOn says that 93 percent of its Arkansas members won't vote for Lincoln if she joins a GOP filibuster, and it plans to hold news conferences outside her district office — along with the district offices of Snowe, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) …
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Did Schwarzenegger drop 4-letter bomb in veto? — Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnists — (10-27) 19:19 PDT SACRAMENTO — Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to “kiss my gay ass”?
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On Healthcare, Americans Trust Obama More Than Congress — By 48% to 37%, more trust the Democrats than the Republicans in Congress — PRINCETON, NJ — As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tries to advance a healthcare reform bill onto the Senate floor, just under half of Americans, 48% …
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Rep. Stupak threatens to work with Republicans to kill healthcare bill — Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Tuesday threatened that he may work with Republicans to torpedo healthcare reform unless he gets a vote to strip abortion-related provisions out of the House bill.
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Republican dirty tricks in NY 23 — A brand-new organization calling itself Common Sense in America is up with a major television ad buy in the New York special election, praising Republican Dede Scozzafava as the “best choice for progressives.” — At first glance, the group's ad looks like it's an endorsement of Scozzafava.
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Pew Political IQ Poll: Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable — You likely won't see this poll result elsewhere, so I thought I'd highlight it here. This is a Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults from Oct. 1-4. They were asked 12 questions …
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The Most Important Number in Politics Today — That's the percentage of voters in a new Quinnipiac poll that agree with the sentiment that independent candidate Chris Daggett has “no chance” of winning the New Jersey governor's race next Tuesday. — What that number indicates …
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Cheney backs Hutchison — How much more fun could the Texas governor's race get? — The latest from AP: — Former Vice President Dick Cheney will throw his support behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign for Texas governor. — Hutchison's campaign confirmed Wednesday …
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Obama appoints Hagel to intelligence post — President Barack Obama has appointed former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) to serve as a co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. — During his time in the Senate, Hagel was highly critical of the Bush administration's approach to the Iraq war.
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To find right PR guru, Beck looked to his left — A few weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, Glenn Beck, a young Tampa-based disc jockey eager to break into conservative talk radio, called his new Manhattan agent, George Hiltzik, to help arrange a visit to Ground Zero.
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Obama Is Right About Fox News — Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. And the Newseum in Washington, D.C., establishes the profession's legitimacy …
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News gets worse for the MSM — There have been a lot of bad days recently for what's come to be known as the mainstream media — or MSM — but Monday was one of the worst. — New circulation figures showed that big city papers had lost as much as a quarter of their circulation in the past six months.
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LameStream Media: Why Did You Bypass These Juicy ACORN Nuggets? — The “Pimp and Pro” ACORN story hit America hard a few weeks ago. It is a ripe story with endless angles to report on, and yet the Mainstream Media's favorite approach seems to be the method in which James and I orchestrated and gathered the information.
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