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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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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, so here's my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, the domestic support …
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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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FIRST THOUGHTS: BUSINESS AS USUAL — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg — *** Business as usual: We're soon coming up on the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama's presidential win. And one of the messages he used during the two-year campaign …
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Palin Headed to Iowa? — TheIowaRepublican.com has learned that former Alaska Governor and Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could be the featured speaker for the Iowa Family Policy Center's fall fundraiser in Des Moines on November 21. The appearance would be Palin's first in Iowa since …
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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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Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature A Hidden Finger
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Schwarzenegger's secret message to the state Assembly: ‘F*ck you.’
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Arnold to SF: F**k You
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Defections have Dems ISO Plan B — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's appeals for party unity landed with a thud Tuesday with the very group he needs for his public-option push to pay off: centrists who hold the key to health reform. — And not just any centrists but one who makes liberals see red …
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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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Pelosi to unveil health bill to House Democrats Thursday morning — House Democrats are planning to unveil a healthcare bill Thursday that could disappoint liberals in the caucus. — The bill is expected to include a public health insurance option divorced from Medicare rates …
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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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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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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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Times Buyout Package Reveals More than Expected — Just over a week ago, every person in the Times newsroom was sent out a buyout package via UPS Next Day Air. If 100 staffers don't raise their hands by Dec. 7, there will be layoffs. — We got our hands on one of the thickish brown envelopes that went to employees' homes.
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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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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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Election 2009: Virginia Governor Election — Virginia Governor: McDonnell Stretches Lead To 13 — Republican Robert F. McDonnell has now opened a 13-point lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds with less than a week to go in the race for governor of Virginia.
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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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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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Krauthammer: Obama attacks on Bush “disgusting” — When does a President stop blaming his predecessor and start taking responsibility for his own actions? To be fair, that has been an eternal question in the American context, but it does seem as though Barack Obama has a crutch that he refuses to put aside.