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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
FDL Statement on Senate Combined Health Care Bill — The Senate Health Care Reform Bill (photo by roemerman) — It is encouraging that Senator Reid respected the will of the American people and included a public option in the merged Senate bill. However, the addition of a state opt …
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Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Major tax increases in the Reid health care bill
Major tax increases in the Reid health care bill
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
NPR Shocker: Attorney General Holder Stumped By Lindsey Graham — During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Leahy: No need to interrogate bin Laden — If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday. — Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of that committee, said that arguments raised by Republican senators …
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Andy McCarthy vs. Thomas Paine.
Andy McCarthy vs. Thomas Paine.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll — FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake. — Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the crowd she is drawing …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The “Going Rogue” tour — by the numbers — With so much attention being paid to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's book tour, we decided to put our political nerd cap on — ok, fine, we always wear it — and go inside the numbers of where she's stopping and why. — All told, Palin is making 31 stops in 25 states.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Palin hits the (book) trail — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—If Sarah Palin were running for president, this is where she'd come: The outskirts of a second city in the conservative heartland of Western Michigan, where thousands gathered Wednesday to see her, shake her hand and have her sign their copies of “Going Rogue.”
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
To Our Readers, An Update — This Dish will resume as normal tomorrow morning. We apologize for the lacuna. And I suppose some will say we've gotten this book and the issues it raises out of perspective. But since the last campaign, we have raised many questions about Palin …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: California Governor Election — 2010 California Governor: Brown 41%, Whitman 41% — State Attorney General Jerry Brown is the only major Democrat still running for governor of California next year, and now he's tied with Republican hopeful Meg Whitman at 41% each …
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Rasmussen Reports:
To Create Jobs, Voters Say Cut Taxes and Stop Spending — As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington this year, voters have consistently believed that tax cuts would do more than increased government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Now that the nation's unemployment rate …
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Jude Seymour / Watertown Daily Times:
Hoffman: ACORN, unions, Dems tampered with NY-23 election — With his prospect of winning the 23rd Congressional District race now almost zero, Conservative Party candidate Douglas L. Hoffman suggested Wednesday in a letter that “ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party” “tampered” with results to deny him victory.
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Hoffman alleges vote fraud in NY 23
Hoffman alleges vote fraud in NY 23
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Quinnipiac University:
American Voters Like Obama, But Not His Policies, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Support For Public Option, But Not Overall Health Plan — Three-quarters of American voters - 74 percent - like President Barack Obama as a person, but only 47 percent like most of his policies …
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Daniel Zwerdling / NPR:
Hasan's Supervisor Warned Army In '07 … text sizeAAA — Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing. NPR has obtained a copy of the memo …
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Lauren Lipton / New York Times:
Only Palin's Stylist Knows for Sure — THE most elusive fashion stylist in America was nervous. Sitting on a reporter's sofa, dressed in yoga pants and a hoodie, she tucked her slender legs underneath her, averted her eyes and explained why she had decided to out herself after avoiding the spotlight for so long.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving — SEOUL — President Barack Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said on Thursday. — The news came as the president greeted 1,500 troops …
New York Times:
The Senate's Health Care Calculations — CRITICS of the health care reform plan often refer to it derisively as “ObamaCare.” On the policy merits, this is highly questionable: the White House has taken a hands-off approach toward the legislation that recently passed in the House and the version that is being worked out in the Senate.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Breast Brouhaha — Everyone has been trying to come up with a good nickname for the 10 years we're concluding next month. Terror Era really sounds like too much of a downer. How about the Decade of Medical Backtracking? — Somewhere between the reports that Pap smears and tests …
Mitt Romney / The Politico:
The cost of on-the-job training — During the presidential campaign, many Americans thought that Barack Obama's lack of leadership experience would not prevent him from being an effective president. His eloquence, his insistence that, yes, he could solve any problem and his image …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
House Dem: ‘Growing’ liberal consensus to dump Geithner — A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there's “growing consensus” among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down. — {mosads}Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that he and other liberal House members …
Dave Montgomery / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages — AUSTIN — Texans: Are you really married? — Maybe not. — Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed …