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White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News — Anita Dunn, White House communications director, calls Fox News a “wing of the Republican Party,” after the White House began using its government blog to criticize “Fox lies.” — FOXNews.com — Calling Fox News “a wing of the Republican Party …
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White House Talks DADT Repeal With Lieberman — Shortly after President Barack Obama pledged Saturday to end “don't ask, don't tell,” the Administration's highest-ranking LGBT official said the White House is speaking with certain senators about strategies for repealing the policy …

White House Disavows Report That It Disdains Gay Critics, Bloggers As “Internet Left Fringe” — The White House is strongly denying a report making the rounds that it views gay critics and bloggers as part of an “Internet left fringe,” with a senior adviser asserting to me that this sentiment …
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Harwood Confirms: Comment Came from “Obama Adviser” — In response to the comment about White House disdain for the “liberal fringe” reported by NBC's John Harwood last night, some are suggesting that the word “adviser” could mean this is coming from someone outside the White House. — Steve Benen:

Angry White Men Have Real Grievances — It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama will probably hurt him among some of his fellow citizens. — His opponents are describing the award as premature.
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Obama Job Approval at 56% After Nobel Win — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama appears to have gotten a slight bounce in support after he was announced as the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday. His 56% job approval rating for the last two Gallup Daily tracking updates is up from a term-low 50% …

NOBEL SURPRISE — If President Obama really had to get a gift …
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Dumb “Reform” — Today's big news story is the release of a report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on the impact the Senate Finance Committee's health care “reform” bill will have on health insurance premiums. PWC concluded that the cost of health insurance for the average family will rise by $4,000 by 2019, as compared with doing nothing:
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The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report
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Insurance Industry Report Promises To Increase Premiums By 111% Under Health Reform


Views on Afghanistan Buildup Bring Clinton and Gates Together in an Alliance — WASHINGTON — The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert M. Gates delivered a one-two punch in favor of a more ambitious approach.
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Number of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Overlooks Thousands of Support Troops — Additional Deployments Not Announced and Rarely Noted — President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized …

Two Americans Are Awarded Nobel in Economics — In a departure from prevailing economic theory, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded Monday to two social scientists for their work in demonstrating that business people — co-workers as well as competitors …
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A Question of When Dishonesty Becomes Criminal — In February, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that federal prosecutors had developed an unseemly crush on a particularly vague law, one that had “been invoked to impose criminal penalties upon a staggeringly broad swath of behavior.”


It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon? — NEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.
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Limbaugh: 'The media didn't make me, and they can't break me' — (CNN) - Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is dismissing Democratic campaigns to paint him as the man steering the Republican Party, and media frenzies over his most controversial comments.
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Limbaugh: Obama's presidency worsening relations between races
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Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president again — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she would not run for president again, and brushed off suggestions that she is being marginalized in the Obama White House. — Clinton, who lost the Democratic …

Nevada Senate Moved to Toss-Up — With recent polls continuing to show Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) trailing potential GOP challengers in next year's midterm election, Reid's hold on his Nevada Senate seat looks increasingly questionable. We are moving the seat from Narrow Advantage for Incumbent Party to Toss-Up.


EXIT THROUGH LOBBY — Resigning in protest is not in the American grain. Robert McNamara stuck around as Secretary of Defense even after he decided that the Vietnam War was a disaster; Colin Powell did the same during the Bush Administration's push for war with Iraq; and in the lead …