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• Pelosi tells Harvard students she read every page of healthcare bill

  
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  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told students at Harvard University on Friday that she had indeed done her reading. Taking questions during the 90-minute event, Pelosi assured one skeptical undergraduate that she, and many other House members, had read “every page” of the roughly 1,900-page healthcare bill passed by ...
  19 hours ago

• McCain camp pushes back against Palin

  
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  You’ve seen the Sarah Palin book excerpts in which she complains about being “bottled up” by Republican John McCain’s campaign last year. Long-time McCain adviser Mark Salter explains here the thinking behind the McCain campaign’s media strategy that Palin seems to be complaining about in an excerpt of ...
  23 hours ago

• Republican sees Democrats passing healthcare overhaul

  
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  Sarah Palin says on her Facebook page that the healthcare overhaul passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week should be “Dead on Arrival” in the U.S. Senate.  The House-passed bill, which includes a new government health insurance plan, may not be what the Senate passes. But the ...
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• The First Draft: NYC awaits day in court 8 years after 9/11

  
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  Today seems a day of numbers: 8, 11, 5, 3000, 13. Put another way, more than 8 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the brutally violated City of New York learns that 5 men accused in the deaths of the nearly 3,000 people will face an actual criminal trial — in New York. Oh, yeah, and the news comes on Friday the ...
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• Making peace with the MILF

  
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  Grappling with the alphabet stew of world insurgencies can have its pitfalls. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discovered as much Friday as she fielded questions about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front during a town hall-style gathering in Manila. MILF has the same acronym as an obscene phrase that gained ...
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• Clinton pays tribute to U.S. war dead at Manila cemetery

  
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  U.S.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid a wreath on Friday at the Manila American Cemetery,  paying tribute to American war dead in the Pacific two days after the U.S. Veterans Day holiday.    Most of the 17,202 Americans buried in the 152-acre (61.5-hectare) cemetery were killed in the defense of the ...
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• It’s not quite dishing, but Palin chats to Oprah about Levi, Couric

  
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  Apparently all is forgiven. Sarah Palin tells Oprah Winfrey she wants to welcome Levi Johnston back into the fold. Her daughter’s ex-fiance and father of her grandchild has been all over TV shows and in print media making unflattering comments about Palin, but the former Alaska governor says he’s part of the ...
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• Shades of intelligence failures past? Blame game percolating

  
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  The shooting rampage that killed 13 people at Fort Hood in which a Muslim Army psychiatrist is the suspected gunman has set off a chain of inquiries into who knew what when. In the post-9/11 era, government officials want to show that they are doing everything they can to protect the public and, when something ...
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• Great gift ideas for the political animal

  
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  The Vietnam War caused the biggest political division in the United States since the Civil War. It also radicalized a generation and drove a president from office. Yet Democrats are using a photograph of two of the Vietnam War’s leading characters to try to rally the party and raise money. The fund-raising outfit ...
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• Clinton finds ‘Hillary fans and fanatics’ in Philippines

  
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  If you’re a hard-traveling foreign secretary and need a place to recharge your batteries after a week of diplomacy, the Philippines seems to be the place to go. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got an enthusiastic welcome on arrival in the capital Manila Thursday after a week of visits that included stops ...
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• Who is the racist, Obama or Murdoch?

  
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  So is U.S. President Barack Obama a racist? Or is Rupert Murdoch? Well the Australian media mogul appears to think that the president made a “very racist comment” and agrees that he hates white people. But that apparently doesn’t make him a racist. Confused? Me too. The News Corporation chairman, one of ...
  2 days ago

• The First Draft: What if Congress turned Republican on Obama?

  
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  A Republican-controlled Congress could be a real possibility for the second half of President Barack Obama’s four-year term, according to the latest Gallup poll . The poll of 894 registered voters suggests Republicans would win the U.S. House of Representatives by 48 percent to 44 percent if the 2010 ...
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• Will latest polls weigh on Obama?

  
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  President Barack Obama summoned his war council today for what may be a pivotal meeting as he decides what to do in Afghanistan. While Obama weighs up his options on whether to send in more troops — with most money on about 30,000 more – he might also glance at the latest round of public opinion polls on ...
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• Get ready, America: Here comes Sarah Palin

  
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  Get ready, America. Like her or not, Sarah Palin is coming to a city near you. Last year’s Republican vice presidential nominee is starting a book tour next week to promote her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Is it a thinly-veiled bid to test the waters for a possible 2012 Republican presidential bid, ...
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• Obama walks in rain-soaked cemetery of U.S. war dead

  
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  President Barack Obama walked in the rain among the graves of U.S. casualties from the Iraq and Afghan wars at Arlington National Cemetery and took an unscheduled detour into section 60 , a thicket of simple white headstones, to mark Veterans Day. Underscoring the poignancy of the visit, Obama was due to hold a ...
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• The First Draft: should Obama embrace new structural reforms?

  
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  Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs are two guys who think President Barack Obama better embrace new structural reforms if he wants a growing economy that isn’t hard-wired to go bust. Dodd, a Democrat fighting for his political life at home, proposed sweeping ...
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• Calls growing for Congress to investigate Fort Hood gunman

  
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  Amid the growing calls for congressional investigations into the Fort Hood rampage, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton is advocating a different approach — wait and see how investigations by the Army and the FBI progress. “It is important that we get to the bottom of this incident, but we must be ...
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• Republican senators call for ending era of ‘permanent politicians’

  
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  Don’t expect the U.S. Congress — packed with old men and women who have been in office for decades — to embrace a proposal to term limit themselves. Republican senators Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Sam Brownback offered such a measure on Tuesday, saying it would be good to get fresh blood on ...
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• Clinton hopes for success where his effort failed

  
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  Former President Bill Clinton is clearly hoping that Congress succeeds this time around where his administration failed 15 years ago. And perfection is not required — just get healthcare reform done. That was Clinton’s message to Senate Democrats who are now behind the steering wheel in trying to move ...
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• Latest book on Obama’s reading list: Life of Pi

  
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  Presidential reading lists have a tendency to set Washington abuzz. Last month, when the Wall Street Journal reported that President Barack Obama was reading Gordon Goldstein’s “Lessons in Disaster,” pundits wondered if the book about the mistakes of the Vietnam War might hold clues to the president’s ...
  3 days ago

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