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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 …
HotAirPundit:
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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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama bowed to emperor as ‘protocol’ — SINGAPORE - A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
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.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Hundreds of Protesters Greet Al Gore at Florida Junk Science Speech (Video) — Hundreds of protesters greeted junk scientist Al Gore at his global warming speech in Florida on Saturday. — Florida WPTV reported: … Many of the protesters were with the groups Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow and South Florida Tea Party.
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FITSNews:
Two New Polls Show Graham Tanking — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's public support is collapsing in South Carolina - driven by a wholesale revolt among the GOP electorate and a steady erosion of his support amongst independents. — Already consistently loathed by a solid third of GOP voters …
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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.
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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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Axelrod rebuts Romney attack — White House senior adviser David Axelrod pushed back hard at criticism from former (and future) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney about White House deliberations on Afghanistan. — In an interview taped Saturday from Singapore with CNN's John King for …
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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 …
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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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.
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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