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• Martha Coakley Wins Nomination For Democratic Senate Race

  
  IntoxiNation — Authority: 533
  Coakley is the most favored to win against the Republican next month: Attorney General Martha Coakley has defeated three other candidates to win the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. On the Republican side, State Sen. Scott Brown defeated attorney Jack E. Robinson.
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• Deal Near to Kill Public Option in Senate

  
  Lakeshore Laments — Authority: 141
  Big question now, is what happens next . Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and moderates have been discussing an alternative, including a private insurance ...
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• In yer faces, Conference of Catholic Bishops

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 478
  Good news in US healthcare reform:  the Nelson Amendment, which used the same language as the Stupak Amendment to restrict abortion availability even to women paying for it with their own money , was rejected by the Senate today : The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion ...
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• Senate Majority Leader Reid: A True Statist?

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 622
  An insult was in order for Harry Reid after reading this lead story in Politics Daily but why stoop to name calling? Harry Reid is what he is and that is someone who either truly believes that the country is better off with a free market that has been subverted by people who do [...]
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• POMED Event: U.S. Military Assistance: Obstacle or Opportunity for Reform?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  On Friday, POMED and the Heinrich  Böll Foundation will host a luncheon discussion, entitled “U.S. Military Assistance: Obstacle or Opportunity for Reform?” Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations and Emile Hokayem of the Stimson Center will discuss the role of U.S. military aid to non-democratic ...
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• Afghanistan: Hill Testimonies Continue

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  Ambassador Eikenberry and General McChrysta l are on the Hill today  testifying  before the Armed Services Committees in both the House and Senate. They will continue to flesh out the new Afghan strategy in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tomorrow and in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. ...
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• Sen. Boxer Compares Viagra to Abortion During Health Care Debate

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 754
  
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• Obama’s Brookings speech on jobs

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 572
  No great surprises in Obama’s speech on jobs. As expected, he proposed additional tax relief for small firms, including “a tax incentive to encourage small businesses to add and keep employees”; lower fees and bigger guarantees for loans backed by the Small Business Administration; some additional infrastructure ...
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• ‘Where’s C-SPAN’: McCain Blasts Obama on Promise About Transparency

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 754
  
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• Hansen vs cap and trade

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 572
  Like Paul Krugman, I am puzzled by James Hansen’s piece in the NYT attacking cap and trade. Hansen writes:Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. If every polluter’s emissions fell below the incrementally ...
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• Tennessee mayor calls Obama a Muslim for pre-empting A Charlie Brown Christmas

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 628
  Arlington, Tennessee mayor Russell Wiseman is in hot water after calling President Barack Obama a Muslim on his Facebook status line because the Presidents speech from West Point on the Afghanistan war pre-empted a showing of the Peanuts Christmas...( read more )
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• This Guy Has My Vote

  
  NoelBagwell.com — Authority: 129
  I want this man to run for President of the United States of America:
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• Dr. Inhofe Gets It Wrong: Oklahoma Senator Distorts the Facts to Support His Views

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 131
  C limate scientist Jim Inhofe , Ph. D., is blabbing environmental nonsense again. Thats right, Sooner fans, Sen. Jim Inhofe, convinced by years of detailed study of the data , has determined that climate change and global warning is a huge scam and hes going to lead us to sweetness and light. Well, not ...
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• Fox Fails Simple Math: Poll Numbers Add Up to 120 Percent of Those Polled

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 131
  T he fake news types at Fox News cant get the numbers to add up. Or, more pointedly, Fox math is sometimes fake math —all to prove a political point. When new polling numbers about global warming data were released this week, Fox News promptly produced an on-screen graphic explaining the numbers. One ...
  12 hours ago

• You say tomato

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 478
  I say “I N C O M I N G !!!” : A Minnesota man was arrested Monday for throwing two tomatoes at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. According to police, 33-year-old Jeremy Paul Olson threw the tomatoes at Palin from a second floor balcony in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., while the former GOP vice ...
  13 hours ago

• This might not end well

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 478
  Rasmussen Reports released a poll yesterday that shows an as-yet-nonexistent “Teabagger Party” in the States would poll better than the GOP.  No, seriously : Should the “Tea Party” movement organize itself to run congressio nal candidates across the country, it would poll better than the ...
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• Can Repaid TARP Funds Be Devoted to Job Creation?

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 430
  An idea for how to spur investment in new job opportunities has been floating around the world of financial and political analysis: could the money coming in as banks repay their TARP bailout loans be devoted to infrastructure development in a way that creates tens or even hundreds of thousands of jobs? Early this ...
  16 hours ago

• Sarah Palin rides the birther bandwagon | Jennifer Abel

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Why bother tackling Americas real problems when you can stoke paranoid delusions over Obamas birth certificate? Sarah Palin couldnt leave well enough alone, could she? Just when I started hoping Orly Taitz and her factually challenged followers were fading from public memory, the Mooseburger Barbie added her ...
  17 hours ago

• Miranda Rights Rewrite Under SCOTUS Review

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 696
  The Supreme Court is considering making the Miranda warning more explicit . The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation. The arguments in front of the justices were the latest over how ...
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• Palin pokes fun at self, others

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 585
  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., were guests of honor Saturday at the Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C., a gathering of political reporters — or “media elite,” as Palin would normally say. Palin joked that she could see the Russian Embassy from her hotel room. She also teased that ...
  17 hours ago

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