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3:30 PM ET, November 15, 2009

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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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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.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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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.
Discussion: Don Surber
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 …
Discussion: Commentary
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 …
Discussion: Guardian and Prairie Weather
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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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
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.
Discussion: TPM LiveWire and The Page
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.
Discussion: pandagon.net and TalkLeft
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Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:
Who's Afraid Of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?
Discussion: VetVoice
 
 
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Jamil Anderlini / Financial Times:
China detains dissidents ahead of US visit
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Big Government:
Obama Ally Code Pink Justifies Fort Hood Terrorist Attack …
CNN:
Obama urges Myanmar to free Suu Kyi
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Ken Kaye / Los Angeles Times:
TSA is secretly watching you
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Few Dems in big races jump headlong into backing House healthcare bill
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Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
The Fed Is Responsible for 10.2 Percent Unemployment in the Same …
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Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Low rating for Culver reveals vulnerability
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Nicola Smith / Times of London:
Irishman wants to kill for Islam
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Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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