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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Report: Bill would reduce senior care — Medicare cuts approved by House may affect access to providers — A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system …
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
CMS: House bill increases health care costs — Democrats have promised that health reform would reduce health care costs, but legislation the House passed last week would increase costs over the next decade by $289 billion. By 2019, health costs would rise to 21.1 percent of GDP compared …
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President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan (Photos) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert — King of Morocco — Dick Cheney — Prime Minister Slovenia — President South Korea — President Kazakhstan — Prime Minister India — Vladimir Putin — President Obama...
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Kathy Kattenburg / The Moderate Voice:
The Yokels Are At It Again — Once again, Barack Obama has demonstrated his appalling hatred for America, and his elitism, and his arrogance, and his tearing down and bashing of his country and his predecessor's foreign policies, by greeting Japan's prime minister with a deep bow in a culturally appropriate way.
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ …
Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BRODER ON SPEED OVER ACCURACY.... I checked the byline a couple of times this morning, to make sure the column that was ostensibly written by David Broder wasn't, in fact, written by Charles Krauthammer. Regrettably, the so-called Dean of the D.C. Media Establishment actually wrote this.
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Financial Times:
Obama rules out Copenhagen treaty — Barack Obama conceded on Sunday that next month's Copenhagen summit would not produce a legally binding agreement to tackle global warming, in a move that prompted groans of disappointment from environmental groups. — Stating “we should not make the perfect …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists' — WASHINGTON — In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident. — Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten …
Sofia Santana / Sun-Sentinel:
Gore heckled at climate speech — Al Gore (Frazer Harrison, Getty Images / November 12, 2009) — BOCA RATON - Former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming speech Saturday night at Mizner Park drew about a thousand attendees, as well as more than 200 loud protesters.
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Memoir Is Palin's Payback to McCain Campaign — “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin's erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the campaign: among other things, for breaking with the campaign over its media strategy …
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Greg Klug / Breitbart.tv:
BOMBSHELL: UNCOVERED OBAMA STATEMENT — KSM WILL GET ‘FULL MILITARY TRIAL’ — “Justice will be carried out in his case.”
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Jim VandeHei / The Politico:
Jim VandeHei — Jim VandeHei, 36, is one of the co-founders of Politico. He left The Washington Post, where he was national political reporter, to join forces with John F. Harris (his former boss at the Post) and the finest collection of journalists around to attempt to create a new and exciting way of delivering political news.
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CNN:
Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops — WASHINGTON (CNN)- Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivered a scathing criticism of President Obama's Afghanistan strategy Friday night, accusing the president of delivering rhetoric and not action in the war-torn country.
Nicola Smith / Times of London:
Irishman wants to kill for Islam — An Irish jihadist living in Pakistan's Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan. — Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry …
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Palin Calls Decision To Try 9/11 Defendants In Federal Court ‘Atrocious,’ Wants To 'Hang ‘Em High’ — Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the five individuals accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks — including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — will be prosecuted in U.S. federal court.
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