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11:15 AM ET, October 28, 2009

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New York Times:
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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New York Times:
U.S. to Protect Populous Afghan Areas, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's advisers are coalescing around a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials said Tuesday, describing an approach that would stop short …
Abu Muqawama:
The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read This Week  —  Why, you ask?  Because if this is true, and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The CIA Is In Afghanistan
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Don't Build Up  —  It is crunch time on Afghanistan …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
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 …
Discussion: The Note
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Wall Street Journal:
Lieberman Steps Up  —  Opposing Reid's public option gambit.  —  Printer
Discussion: Commentary
Paul Begala / Blogs and Stories:
Traitor Joe
Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blog
The Hill:
Kyl prefers opt-in healthcare over opt-out
Discussion: Washington Monthly and msnbc.com
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Lieberman: I'll block vote on Reid plan
Bonnie Erbe:
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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Matthew Mosk / Washington Times:
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 …
David Zurawik / Z on TV:
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.
Discussion: Riehl World View and AmSpecBlog
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Isn't on the Ballot in Virginia Governor's Race, and Yet ...
Discussion: msnbc.com
Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:
For First Time Under Obama, Majority Says U.S. Is on Wrong Track  —  While the stock market has picked up and the country appears to be pulling out of the recession, a majority of Americans - for the first time in the Obama presidency - says the U.S. is headed down the wrong track …
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Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
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 …
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Support for Afghan surge rises
Discussion: The Plum Line
Tim Redmond / Politics:
Arnold to SF: F**k You  —  It was hardly a bill of cosmic import, but Assemblymember Tom Ammiano's AB 1176 would have helped the Port of San Francisco with some financing issues.  It's the kind of bill that legislators offer on behalf of their cities all the time — and generally, they are non-controversial.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Schwarzenegger's secret message to the state Assembly: ‘F*ck you.’  —  The California Assembly and Senate recently unanimously approved Assembly Bill 1176 to help the port of San Francisco with financing issues.  But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has decided to veto the legislation …
Capitol Weekly:
Reading between the lines
Discussion: protein wisdom
CNN:
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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John Koblin / New York Times:
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.
Discussion: Gawker, Mediaite and The Awl
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
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 last six months.
Ismail Khan / New York Times:
Car Bomb Kills Scores in Pakistan  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A huge car bomb tore through a congested market of narrow alleys and crowded stalls in Peshawar's old town on Wednesday, killing more than 80 people, many of them women, while 160 more were injured, many of them seriously, local authorities said.
Discussion: Politics Daily
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Wall Street Journal:
GMAC Asks for Fresh Lifeline  —  Lender in Advanced Talks for Third Slug of Taxpayer Cash — at Least $2.8 Billion More  —  In a stark reminder of how some battered financial firms remain dependent on government lifelines, GMAC Financial Services Inc. and the Treasury Department …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace  —  I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?”  As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, most of which I was right on and he was wrong on.  But one thing he said in his opening remarks …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Romney: Mass. plan had no impact on cost
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Josh Rogin / The Cable:
Hagel to lead Obama's intelligence oversight panel
USA Today:
Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact
Discussion: Columns
John McCain / CNN:
Why we can — and must — win the war in Afghanistan
Discussion: TPM LiveWire
New York Times:
Gunmen Attack U.N. Workers in Kabul
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Flu-wary telecommuters may clog Web networks, GAO says
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
D.C. vote hopes fade on the Hill
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Silencing Voices for School Choice
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Tara Parker-Pope / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Glittering Eye and Neatorama
Ben Frumin / TPM LiveWire:
GOP Honors Tea Party Marchers — And Inflates Their Numbers
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