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House health-care reform bill includes public option, Medicaid expansion — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a health-care reform bill on Thursday that includes a government insurance option and a historic expansion of Medicaid, although sticking points in the legislation involving abortion and immigration remain unresolved.
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Affordable Health Care for America Act — For the first time in U.S. history, all Americans would have access to quality, affordable health care under updated health insurance reform legislation unveiled by House Democrats. — The Affordable Health Care for America Act [H.R. 3962] …
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The Huffington Post, Washington Wire, Matthew Yglesias, pandagon.net and Washington Monthly
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Rehearsal for an anti-choice protest: 'Okay, you stand here and she's gonna whip you with this whip.' — This week, radical anti-choice activist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry launched a contest encouraging people to make videos burning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) …
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Breaking: Pelosi Unveils Merged House Health Care Reform Bill
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Riehl World View
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Democrats in House Present $894 Billion Health Package
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House Health Reform Bill Outlaws Treating Domestic Violence …
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The Politico
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The Outlook for the 2009 Elections — We are still a few days away from Election Day, but party strategists, operatives and local activists are already blaming their own nominees for their defeats. — The clearest evidence that the Virginia gubernatorial race is over …
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Hot Air, Power Line, Wall Street Journal, Top of the Ticket, Conservatives4Palin.com, Commentary, Erick's blog, Politics Nation and Redhot
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Christie: 'Man up and say I'm fat' — Chris Christie, New Jersey's Republican nominee for governor, said Thursday that Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine should quit hinting at his weight with unflattering ads and “man up and say I'm fat.” — Christie declared that he will be “a big fat winner” …
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Iowa Republicans wince at Palin fee — A conservative Iowa group's effort to lure Sarah Palin to its banquet next month has had an unintended effect: Rather than exciting conservatives about the prospect of a visit from the former Alaska governor, the group's plan to raise a six-figure sum …
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‘Audacity to Win’: Excerpt by Plouffe on Obama Campaign — In a new memoir, The Audacity to Win, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama's 2008 race for the White House, provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the campaign. Here's an excerpt: — Agony. Ecstasy.
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Nervous W.H. intervened in N.J. race; top Obama adviser now in charge — One of President Barack Obama's key political advisers has become the central strategist in New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's bruising campaign for re-election, a race the White House desperately wants to win to avert …
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TPMDC
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Gates, Crowley Spotted Together In Cambridge Bar — CAMBRIDGE (WBZ) ― Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley were spotted at a pub in Cambridge Wednesday night. — The owner of “River Gods” told WBZ the two sat in a booth together and talked for about an hour.
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U.S. Economy Started to Grow Again in the Third Quarter — For the first time in a year, the United States economy grew, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. But even if a recovery is technically in the offing, job seekers likely will not begin to feel the benefits for months to come.
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Obama Visits Returning War Dead — President Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base early Thursday morning to meet with family members and pay his respects as the flag-draped coffins carrying bodies of 18 American troops killed this week in Afghanistan were returned to the United States.
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Associated Press, Political Punch, The Moderate Voice, Mudville Gazette, Gateway Pundit, protein wisdom, The Swamp, The Corner on National …, Neptunus Lex, Right Wing Nut House, Hot Air, The Reaction, Indecision Forever, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Greenroom, The Page, Washington Monthly, BLACKFIVE and Taylor Marsh
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Attorney O'Quinn killed in Houston wreck — Prominent Houston attorney John O'Quinn was one of two men who died this morning when their SUV slammed into a large tree on Allen Parkway after the driver apparently lost control, police said. — “I'm stunned.
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Perry on Palin vs. Cheney — Gov. Rick Perry, a bit breathless from running, was on 98.1 KVET this morning to tout the Rise Across Texas Challenge, an 850-mile bike ride next March benefiting the Rise School. — The governor also talked politics a bit. He said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour …
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Orly Taitz Smacked Down: Birther Lawsuit Dismissed — Central District of California Judge David O. Carter has dismissed Barnett et al v. Obama et al, Orly Taitz's most successful lawsuit — that is, the one that got the furthest through the legal system — demanding proof of the president's citizenship.
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Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Below The Beltway, 24Ahead and TPMMuckraker
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Report: Cash for Clunkers was a lemon — A study by Edmunds.com released Wednesday suggests that Cash for Clunkers mostly gave money to people who were going to buy a new car anyway. — American taxpayers paid a lot of cash for those clunkers: $24,000 for each new car sold, according to a study released Wednesday.
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A Question — Last night at a roundtable for our nations's elite, that is to say, “bloggers,” Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President, implied, though did not say outright, that one consequence of the real estate bubble was that manufacturing and other types of businesses were finding it difficult to obtain credit at favorable terms.
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Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests — By: Jim Geraghty — This year, New Jersey's registered voters can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. (Before 2005, voters needed to provide a reason for why they needed an absentee ballot.)
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Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations — Attitudes toward race not significantly improved from previous years — PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America's race-relations problem will eventually be worked out — a figure that is roughly …
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Shooting at North Hollywood synagogue investigated as hate crime; man detained [Updated] — A gunman approached a North Hollywood synagogue this morning and shot two people before fleeing, according to police, who are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
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The Moderate Voice
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Victory for Obama Over Military Lobby — When the Obama administration proposed canceling a host of expensive weapons systems last spring, some of the military industry's allies in Congress assumed, as they had in the past, that they would have the final say.
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Politicians Butt In at Bailed-Out GM — Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg was no fan of the $58 billion federal rescue of General Motors Co., saying he worried taxpayer money would be wasted and the restructuring process would be vulnerable to “political pressure.” Now the lawmaker says it's his “patriotic duty” to wade into GM's affairs.
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Health and A Well-Being — If you follow some of the links I have been supplying as of late, you'll notice many are focused on the propaganda build up to our day of reckoning with the Swine Flu virus. I say ‘propaganda’ because, in my heart, there is something mighty suspicious about declaring …