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Lisa Depaulo / GQ Magazine: GQ:
Hello, America, My Name Is Rielle Hunter — We've heard from former senator John Edwards, we've heard from his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Saint Elizabeth, and we've heard (bleh) from Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide and faux father. But through it all—the affair and the cancer-stricken spouse …
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Art Beast / The Daily Beast:
Edwards Sex Tape Details — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — Andrew Young tells The Daily Beast he's going on the offensive against his old boss, John Edwards. Diane Dimond reveals how the sex tape imperils the ex-candidate-and what exactly is on it.
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Rielle Hunter speaks for the first time in GQ interview about John and Elizabeth Edwards, Andrew Young, and the big-money donors — Rielle Hunter at her home in Charlotte, N.C. (Photo by Mark Seliger / Courtesy of GQ) — For more than two years after Rielle Hunter emerged at the center …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Millions Spent to Sway Democrats on Health Care — WASHINGTON — The yearlong legislative fight over health care is drawing to a frenzied close as a multimillion-dollar wave of advertising that rivals the ferocity of a presidential campaign takes aim at about 40 House Democrats whose votes …
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Laura Meckler / Washington Wire:
Getting Onboard? Obama Travels to Ohio With Kucinich
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Obama heads to Ohio looking for health care votes
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pelosi: ‘I Have No Intention Of Not Passing This Bill’ — At a roundtable meeting with several health care reporters and bloggers this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once again predicted final passage of a far-reaching heath care bill by week's end—but she insisted that success …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pelosi: Passing Health Reform Will Set Stage For Great Debate With GOP
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John Feehery / Pundits Blog:
Pelosi to deploy a wide variety of tactics to win vote
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Move on student loans could win healthcare votes, House Dems say
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work — In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News. — And that may not be a good thing for the top-rated cable news channel, as many of its staffers are acutely aware.
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The Huffington Post:
J.D. Hayworth: Gay Marriage Law Could Produce Man-Horse Nuptials — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) primary challenger, former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth, warned this past weekend that the same-sex marriage decision handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Court …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Hayworth: ‘Could marry your horse’ — Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that the expansion of state laws allowing gay marriage could lead to people marrying horses. — Hayworth, during an interview with an Orlando, Fla., radio station explained: “You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court …
Paul Ryan / Washington Post:
Rep. Paul Ryan on what real health reform should look like — Today, the House Budget Committee is to mark up a “reconciliation” vehicle, initiating the greatest expansion in government and entitlement spending in a generation through a partisan process to push “health-care reform” across the finish line.
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Turn Against Israel — The U.S. makes a diplomatic crisis out of a blunder. — In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has endorsed “healthy relations” between Iran and Syria, mildly rebuked Syrian President Bashar Assad for accusing the U.S. of “colonialism,” …
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Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Israel envoy: U.S. ties at their worst in 35 years
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader? — Supreme Court Justices are remembered for their opinions, but they are revealed by their questions. For many years, Sandra Day O'Connor chose to open the questioning in most cases, and thus show the lawyers—and her colleagues …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Taking On China — Tensions are rising over Chinese economic policy, and rightly so: China's policy of keeping its currency, the renminbi, undervalued has become a significant drag on global economic recovery. Something must be done. — To give you a sense of the problem …
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Not Larry Sabato:
COOCH GONE WILD — Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been in the news a lot recently for his lawsuit against the EPA, his letter to colleges telling them to change their non-discrimination policies and his efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. But he's not done making news yet!
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Social Security starts cashing in US debt — We've noticed the cash shortfalls at Social Security for more than a year, and now they appear to be permanent. For the first time, the Social Security Administration will start cashing in its IOUs from the Treasury in order to meet its benefits obligations.
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New York Times:
Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants — KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants …
James Oliphant / Los Angeles Times:
Obama losing chance to reshape judiciary — Liberals had hoped he would counter a slew of conservative appointments in federal courts made by his Republican predecessors. But that hasn't happened. — President Obama's appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is one high-profile success.
GOP.com:
The Buck-Oy State — Ohio Dems Are All Verklempt Thanks To Obama's Meshugeh Health Care Experiment PRESIDENT OBAMA: “I Know It's An Election Year. ... [I]t's Clear That Campaign Fever Has Come Even Earlier Than Usual. But We Still Need To Govern.” (President Barack Obama …
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