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The Politico:
Lincoln on board, 60 in hand — Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said she'd deliver the deciding vote to push forward with a sweeping health reform plan in the Senate Saturday, ending days of speculation over whether President Barack Obama's signature priority would proceed to the floor or suffer a debilitating blow.
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Reid reaches 60 as Sen. Lincoln pledges vote to begin debate — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation with the announcement by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) that she will vote with her party Saturday evening.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
David Broder: Fears of health-reform cost are justifiable — It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. — The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced …
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New York Times:
Democrats Press Ahead on Debate Before Health Vote — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats made a forceful case on Saturday for legislation to revamp the nation's health care system, condemning the practices of insurers and decrying the plight of the uninsured in a parade of floor speeches aimed …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:Reid Slams Broder As A Retiree Who ‘Writes A Column Once In A While’
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:Sen. Reid: Opposition to health procedural vote is ‘Orwellian’
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Chris Frates / The Politico:What to watch for in today's debate
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic Politics Channel:A Milestone In the Health Care Journey
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John / Power Line:
When In Doubt, Delete — One of the hacked East Anglia emails that has gotten considerable play on the web indicates that several alarmist scientists deleted emails that were subject to a Freedom of Information Act request rather than produce them. That's true; here is the context.
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Examiner:
Who leaked the Hadley CRU files and why — The anonymous tipster, whom many people initially assumed had “hacked” into the computers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (repeatedly called the “Hadley CRU,” by mistake), might in fact be a CRU insider who released the files for his own reasons.
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John / Power Line:
The Alarmists Do “Science”: A Case Study — A fascinating, hot-off-the-presses story emerges from the emails that were hacked yesterday from the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre. It is one of many exchanges that shed light on the priority that the global warming alarmists give …
James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science — Here's what the Times has had to say on the subject: … (Yep - definitely an improvement on their earlier, non-existent coverage; but not exactly pointing up the scandalousness of this scandal). — And the Independent:
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
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Fox News:
‘Factor’ Debut, Part 2: Sarah Palin Discusses Obama, Iran, Afghanistan — This is a RUSH transcript from “The O'Reilly Factor,” November 20, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — Watch “The O'Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET!
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Daily Mail:
It's Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary — One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. — Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Michelle Goldberg Gets It — The lies of Sarah Palin are different from any other politicians'. They are different because they assert things that are demonstrably, empirically untrue; and they are different because once they have been deonstrated to the entire world that they are untrue …
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James Fallows:
Manufactured failure #2: the press, Obama, Asia — It's not just me. Two colleagues with different perspectives — from each other's, and sometimes from my own — marvel at how badly the mainstream American press distorted the picture of what happened during Barack Obama's just-ended tour of Asia.
TigerHawk:
Bratty greedy college students, again, and subsidies for higher education — Glenn Reynolds links to this bit from Anthony Dick at the Corner about University of California students protesting cuts in subsidies. The spectacle of generally left-wing students demanding that more wealth …
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KDVR:
Anti-Obama billboard stirs controversy — KDVR Denver — WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - Call it Freedom of Speech. A billboard recently erected in Wheat Ridge compares President Barack Obama to a terrorist and questions his U.S. citizenship. — The billboard, located at 4855 Miller Road …
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