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David Frum / FrumForum:
AEI Says Goodbye — I have been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2003. At lunch today, AEI President Arthur Brooks and I came to a termination of that relationship. — Below is the text of my letter of resignation. … Follow David Frum on twitter: @davidfrum
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Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind — As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years since …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
David Frum: AEI Says They Didn't Axe Me For Slamming GOP — I just got off the phone with writer David Frum, and he says the conservative American Enterprise Institute assured him today that he isn't being fired because of his recent blistering criticism of the GOP, as has been widely speculated this afternoon.
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
President Obama to repeal-minded Republicans: ‘Go for it’ — President Barack Obama on Thursday flipped into campaign mode and dared Republicans to repeal the healthcare law. — With his signature agenda item signed into law, Obama switched from selling the bill to aggressively promoting …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Embracing the freakshow — As Barack Obama's campaign for president heated up, the Secret Service fielded a stream of threats of various seriousness. His canvassers sometimes encountered hostile, even racist, remarks and scary situations. The long, ugly spring of 2008 produced a smashed window …
Rasmussen Reports:
55% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill — Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
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Quinnipiac University:
Obama Gets Small Bounce From Health Care Win, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Net Disapproval Of Health Reform Drops 9 Points — Despite passage of his signature health reform bill, President Barack Obama still gets a split 45 - 46 percent approval from American voters …
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Fox News:
Cantor Says Campaign Office Was Shot At, Accuses Dems of Exploiting Threats — Republican Rep. Eric Cantor said Thursday that his Richmond campaign office has been shot at and that he's received “threatening e-mails” — but at the same time accused top Democrats of trying to exploit …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker now reports threat over healthcare stance — U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a threatening voicemail left in the office of Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), her chief of staff said Thursday. — Schmidt's office was left a voicemail late Wednesday night in what appears …
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Associated Press:
Cantor says shot fired at campaign office building
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Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
“White Powder” Package Sent to Congressman Weiner's Office — Letter references “health care” vote — Law enforcement officials say a package with white powder was sent to Congressman Weiner's Queens office today. — A preliminary review shows the letter in part complained …
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Sarah Ebner / Times of London:
Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama ‘dumped him for dinner’ — Giles Whittell, Washington, and James Hider, Jerusalem — For a head of state to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws …
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Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
Social Security Payout to Exceed Revenue This Year — The bursting of the real estate bubble and the ensuing recession have hurt jobs, home prices and now Social Security. — This year, the system will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold …
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New York Times:
Senate Passes Set of Changes to Health Care Overhaul — WASHINGTON — After running through an obstacle course of Republican amendments and procedural objections, the Senate on Thursday afternoon approved of a package of changes to the Democrats' sweeping health care overhaul …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea partiers air doubts about Armey — It seemed a strange fit to begin with — a former House Republican leader turned $750,000-a-year Washington lobbyist who resurfaced as perhaps the single most identifiable leader of a populist, anti-Washington movement.
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Janelle Rucker / The Roanoke Times:
Perriello's brother attacked after Tea Party posts wrong address …
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Ezra Klein:
11 predictions for the health-care reform bill — I'm a little confused by this post Megan McArdle has written saying that I refuse to make testable predictions regarding the eventual impact of health-care reform. As I told her in the e-mail exchange that led to her post …
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The Washington Independent:
Gates Sharply Limits 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' — Changes Will Make It Difficult to Remove a Service Member Who Does Not Come Out as Gay — In a major victory for opponents of the military's ban on open homosexual service, Defense Secretary Robert Gates significantly revised how the Pentagon …
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / Gold Dome Live:
Breaking: Perdue will sue feds over health care on his own — By Jim Tharpe/jtharpe@ajc.com and Aaron Gould Sheinin/asheinin@ajc.com — Gov. Sonny Perdue said Thursday he will appoint a “special attorney general” to challenge federal health care legislation signed into law this week by President Obama.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP senators warn Obama of using recess appointment for labor board — All Senate Republicans wrote President Barack Obama on Thursday, demanding he not use a recess appointment to fill spots on a labor board. — Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), joined …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's healthcare: Iowa then and now — President Barack Obama returned to Iowa City, Iowa, today to tout the healthcare legislation that he signed into law today. It was Iowa City, on May 29, 2007, where candidate Obama first proposed his vision of a healthcare overhaul for millions of uninsured Americans.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
OfA fundraises off threats — The Democrats continue to take political advantage of reports of Republican vandalism and threats, with the head of the Obama campaign organization, Mitch Stewart, referring to the incident at Tom Perriello's brother's house in a fundraising appeal. — He writes:
NPR Blogs:
NPR Changes Abortion Language — Last week, I wrote a post about how NPR identifies people who support or oppose abortion. It engendered a lively debate inside and outside NPR. Today, some top editors got together to review the 2005 policy and decided to no longer use “pro-choice” or “pro-life.”
Washington Post:
Obama administration to order lenders to cut mortgage payments for jobless — The Obama administration plans to overhaul how it's tackling the foreclosure crisis, in part by requiring lenders to temporarily slash or eliminate monthly mortgage payments for many borrowers who are unemployed, senior officials said Thursday.
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