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Most back stricter financial reform, advantage Obama — About two-thirds of Americans support stricter regulations on the way banks and other financial institutions conduct their business, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — Majorities also back two main components …
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Democrat Ben Nelson Votes Against Moving Forward With Financial Regulation — Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has voted no on the cloture motion to start debate on Sen. Chris Dodd's (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill — meaning the motion will likely fail, 58 to 42, short of the 60 votes needed.
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G.O.P. Readies a Rival Bill on Financial Regulation — WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are working to finalize their own version of legislation to tighten regulation of the nation's financial system, and aides said their version could be put forward as a rival to the Democrats' proposal …
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Breaking: Ben Nelson votes for FinReg filibuster with his Republican buddies — The first test cloture vote is taking place right now in the Senate. In true form, Ben Nelson has voted with his Republican friends and Wall Street benefactors to filibuster financial reform.

Business and labor groups warn senators they're watching Wall St. reform votes
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Anti-Defamation League: National Security Adviser Jones Told “Inappropriate, Stereotypic” Joke About Jewish Merchant — As first noted by the Jewish newspaper The Forward, at an event last week at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - a pro-Israel think tank …
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Jones under fire for Jewish joke — National Security Advisor Jim Jones's speech to a top Middle East think thank last week has been overshadowed somewhat by a brewing controversy over a joke he told at the outset. But within the speech, Jones made big news on the foreign-policy front.

Jones apologizes for Jewish joke — National Security Adviser James Jones has apologized for an “off the cuff” joke that threatened to undermine a White House charm offensive aimed at American friends of Israel. — Though Jones's audience at a pro-Israel think tank didn't take offense …


Was Jones' Joke Anti-Semitic? UPDATE — President Obama's National Security Advisor, retired General James Jones, with an ice-breaker: — Is it offensive? — Why, yes. In our easily-offended society, you might say this joke wins the Triple Crown or the Insult Trifecta:
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National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones Scares Me
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Napolitano takes aim at Arizona immigration law — (CNN) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is taking aim at the new controversial law passed in her home state of Arizona dealing with illegal immigration, telling ABC News it is “not a good law in any number of reasons.”
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You wouldn't like Lindsey Graham when he's angry — If the policy inside the Kerry-Lieberman-Graham climate change bill seem to have finally come together, it looks like the politics are about to come apart. In a move that's surprised pretty much everybody, Harry Reid and the White House …
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Obama seeks to ‘reconnect...young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women’ for 2010 — The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama's express goal: “reconnecting” with the voters who voted …
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A Case Study In 21st Century Political Spin and Hot-Button Pushing
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Nationally, 60% Favor Letting Local Police Stop and Verify Immigration Status — Arizona Governor Jan Brewer last week signed a new law into effect that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
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Arizona immigration conflict heats up
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Creators of ‘Everybody Draw Muhammad Day’ drop gag after everybody gets angry — “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day?” — As South Park's Sheila Broflovski would say: “What, What, WHAT?” — The outcry from Comedy Central's decision to censor an episode of South Park with depictions of Muhammad …
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1 in 3 San Francisco employees earned $100,000 — More than 1 in 3 of San Francisco's nearly 27,000 city workers earned $100,000 or more last year - a number that has been growing steadily for the past decade. — The number of city workers paid at least $100,000 in base salary totaled 6,449 last year.
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Op-Ed Columnist: Berating the Rating Agencies — Let's hear it for the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Its work on the financial crisis is increasingly looking like the 21st-century version of the Pecora hearings, which helped usher in New Deal-era financial regulation.
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“In Palinworld, Palin, By Definition, Speaks The Truth.” — New York's cover story convinces Josh Green that Palin isn't running: … This is the conventional view in Washington. I think it's completely wrong, dangerously complacent, and out of touch with profound shifts in media, fundraising and politics.
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Texas lawmaker: Obama is 'God's punishment on us.' — On Saturday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) and several other elected officials boosted Fox News host Glenn Beck at an event at the Oil Palace in Tyler, TX. The day was full of right-wing flame-throwing, including Perry saying that he was …
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What to Make of ‘Boobquake’? — Today, women gathered in Washington's Dupont Circle for a protest. There weren't typo-ridden signs or rallying cries to pass legislation. Instead, there were just a lot of low-cut shirts. — Jen McCreight came up with the idea for the protest and proposed …

Economists: The stimulus didn't help — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government's stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.
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Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence — Britain's airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country. — Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas …