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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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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.
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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...
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ …
Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day — Here's a rare Saturday OOTD …
Obamateurism of the Day — Here's a rare Saturday OOTD …
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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 …
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 …
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.
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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Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Low rating for Culver reveals vulnerability — Gov. Chet Culver's job approval has fallen to a critical new low, and former Gov. Terry Branstad poses a major potential threat to Culver's re-election, according to The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll.
Richard H. Thaler / New York Times:
Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt — IF a business school professor is running short on cash, there is a sure-fire solution: run a dollar auction game in class. — To start, the professor offers to sell the class a $20 bill. Bidding starts at $1 and goes up in $1 increments.
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naked capitalism
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 …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Glenn Beck gets to ask dumb white-guy questions to a room full of black conservatives — It is hard to explain to white people like Glenn Beck why their “innocent” questions about race actually just reveal their ignorance and their false assumptions about people of other races and the nature of race relations.
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
High Costs Weigh on Troop Debate for Afghan War — While President Obama's decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan is primarily a military one, it also has substantial budget implications that are adding pressure to limit the commitment, senior administration officials say.
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