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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Judge Voids Key Element of Obama Health Care Law — A federal district judge in Virginia ruled on Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitutional, becoming the first court in the country to invalidate any part of the sprawling act and ensuring that appellate courts …
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Ezra Klein:
Is the Hudson ruling good news for health reform? — District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson, a George W. Bush appointee, has, as expected, ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional. So why are health reformers so unexpectedly pleased? — There are two reasons, but first, let's put this into context.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CHEERING A VICTORY OVER THEIR OWN IDEA.... Many on the right are, not surprisingly, delighted with today's federal district court ruling on the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. That's to be expected — they're hoping to gut the law. The two previous legal defeats notwithstanding …
John Cook / Gawker:
Judge Who Ruled Health Care Reform Unconstitutional Owns Piece of GOP Consulting Firm — Henry E. Hudson, the federal judge in Virginia who just ruled health care reform unconstitutional, owns between $15,000 and $50,000 in a GOP political consulting firm that worked against health care reform.
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Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:
The Radicalism of Judge Hudson's Health Care Law Decision
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Significant Error in Judge Hudson's Opinion
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Amazing — A year ago, no one took seriously the idea …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Virginia health-care ruling strikes down key provision of Obama's plan
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Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Today's Health Care Court Ruling
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Richard Holbrooke dies: Veteran U.S. diplomat brokered Dayton peace accords — Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, whose relentless prodding and deft maneuvering yielded the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia - a success he hoped to repeat as President Obama's chief envoy …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Strong American Voice in Diplomacy and Crisis — Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009 and a diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for every Democratic president since the late 1960s and oversaw the negotiations that ended …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Richard Holbrooke Has Died — ABC News has learned that Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died. — On Friday, Holbrooke was rushed to the hospital with a torn aorta. He went through more than 20 hours of surgery.
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ABCNEWS:
Family members said his last words before he headed into surgery were: “You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan,” according to the Washington Post. — President Obama was at a dinner in the East Room of the White House when the news came, said a senior administration official.
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Joe Sterling / CNN:
Holbrooke dies days after aorta tear — (CNN) — Richard C. Holbrooke, the high-octane diplomat who spearheaded the end of the Bosnian war and most recently served as the Obama administration's point man in the volatile Afghan-Pakistani war zone, has died, officials said.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Huge Senate majority votes to advance $858B tax package — President Obama's $858 billion tax package won a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate Monday evening, setting it up for a contentious debate in the House. — In a 83-15 vote, the Senate quashed a filibuster by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Va.).
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David M. Herszenhorn / The Caucus:
Senate Advances Tax Cut Package
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The Politico:
Tax deal advances in Senate
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Senate votes for tax cut deal. What's route through House?
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate expected to advance $858B tax, benefits package
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Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Steele Seeks Second Term As RNC Chair — Controversial Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who last month presided over the GOP's biggest electoral gains since 1938, announced Monday night that he is running for re-election. — Ending weeks of rumors that he would not seek …
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CNN:
TRENDING: Steele admits stumbles, announces re-election bid — Washington (CNN) - Michael Steele broke a weeks-long silence Monday night and announced that he will seek a second term as chairman of the Republican National Committee. — Steele revealed his intentions in a lengthy private conference call …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Designer: No Labels lifted penguins of bipartisanship — Gothamist reports that No Labels wonderful, kooky logo was taken from a New York graphic designer who knew nothing of the group. — The designer, Thomas Porostocky, tells the site: — I'm still a little stunned at the blatant plagiarism. …
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John Del Signore / Gothamist:
Did No Labels Rip Off Design From More Party Animals?
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
No Labels: No Specifics, No Coherence, No Point.
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Tax Cut Deal Wildly Popular — ABC News and the Washington Post have the first poll out about public reaction to the Obama tax cut deal. ABC created a colorful chart of the results, so I'll link to them: — Support for the overall package was extremely high: 68% among Democrats and Independents and 75% among Republicans.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Broad Backing for Obama-GOP Tax Deal
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Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Brain Oddities: Spelling is Irrelevant to Comprehension — In trying to make sense of the world around us, our brains have evolved to do some very odd things. The more we learn about our cognitive processes, the more it seems we have inherited a very weird wetware set, filled with bizarre and misleading foibles.
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James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Atheist Ads on Buses Rattle Fort Worth — FORT WORTH — Stand on a corner in this city and you might get a case of theological whiplash. — A public bus rolls by with an atheist message on its side: “Millions of people are good without God.” Seconds later, a van follows bearing a riposte: “I still love you.
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Miller appeals ruling on write-in vote count — Republican Joe Miller is taking his challenge to Alaska's U.S. Senate race to the state Supreme Court. — Miller filed his appeal Monday, three days after a lower court ruled against his lawsuit challenging how the state counted write-in ballots for his rival, Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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Elisabeth Roudinesco / Worldmeets.us:
Who Rules Us? Hackers, the Global Press and Our Leadership - in that Order — “The decision to disclose one archive rather than another is now, as we all know, more a matter of negotiation between hackers and the press then between the press and global leaders.
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