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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.
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 …
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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 …
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 Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama tied in hypothetical 2012 matchup — Washington (CNN) - The public is split right down the middle on whether President Barack Obama should be re-elected and a majority of Americans predict he will be a one-term president, according to a new national poll.
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 …
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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Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Obama snubbed Netanyahu for dinner with Michelle and the girls, Israelis claim
Obama snubbed Netanyahu for dinner with Michelle and the girls, Israelis claim
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“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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The Hill:
House passes reconciliation fixes for healthcare bill — The House put the finishing touches on healthcare reform Thursday night by passing a “fixes” bill that finally will allow President Barack Obama and his allies on Capitol Hill to declare final victory on what had been one of the …
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New York Times:
Senate Passes Set of Changes to Health Care Overhaul
Senate Passes Set of Changes to Health Care Overhaul
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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.
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 …
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 Atlantic Online
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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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US Senator Orrin Hatch:
HATCH, MCCAIN SECURE SUPPORT OF 41 GOP SENATORS AGAINST RECESS APPOINTMENT OF NLRB NOMINEE CRAIG BECKER — In a Letter Today, Entire Senate GOP Conference Urges President to “Not to Overturn Bipartisan Vote” Against His Nomination — WASHINGTON - Led by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) …
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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.”
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Zeitgeist Shifts — The psychology of victory and defeat is a remarkable thing. A week ago, the Democrats were perceived to have an enormous political problem. Their agenda was stalled in Congress. There was a mass groundswell of public anger they had to contend with.
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Condom sent to Democrat who voted for health care bill — Rep. Betty McCollum is a Democrat from Minnesota who voted for the health care bill. — Washington (CNN) - Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minnesota, was one of several members of Congress who reported receiving obscene and threatening letters …
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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George Bush's clean hands in Haiti — George Bush unfairly mocked after video appears to show him wiping hand on Bill Clinton after handshake in Haiti — Does this video really show George Bush cleaning his hand on Bill Clinton? — The above video has been doing the rounds of the interweb …
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
2010: A Race Odyssey — Disproving a Negative for Cash Prizes or, How the Civil Rights Movement Jumped the Shark — As I have said over and over and over, the left has one trick that it will use again and again when its back is in the corner: shout ‘racist’ in a crowded country.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Rove: I did not want Cheney as VP — Karl Rove did not want President George W. Bush to pick Dick Cheney as his vice presidential nominee in 2000, the former top White House adviser said Thursday. — In an interview set to air on CNN, Rove, who was Bush's deputy chief of staff …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Rahm Emanuel: ‘A lot of heat... not light’ — The initial reaction to passage of an historic healthcare bill in some quarters of the country this spring is staring to make the TEA Party protests against taxes and the rest last summer look tame — now come bricks through the windows …
Kos / Daily Kos:
AR-Sen: Halter gains on Lincoln, strongest vs GOP — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/22-24. Likely voters. MoE 4%, 5% for primary sample. (11/30-12/2-2009 results) — Democratic Senate Primary — Blanche Lincoln (D) 44 (42) — Bill Halter (D) 31 (26) — Undecided 25 (32)