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Monday, November 9, 2009
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Tea Partiers - "This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen in the nineteen years I have been here in Washington" John Boehner November 5, 2009 The gre...
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Obama and Netanyahu to hold talks - President Obama is due to meet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington tries to revive Mid-East peace talks.3 hours ago
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House version of health care bill passes -- all five Hoosier Democrats vote yes! - The full roll call can be found here. Statements and releases are still rolling out, but here's a sampling. Congressman Baron Hill: Out great nation has b...1 day ago
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Weather Feed Upgrade - To better support Blogliners, the Bloglines team will be migrating the weather provider to Weather.com, the world's leading weather service. During the m...3 months ago
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Fort Hood shooting suspect awake - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in last week's Fort Hood shooting rampage, is conscious and talking, according to the hospital where he is being treate...1 hour ago
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Donna Edwards: Giving voice to the real need for health-care reform - DOWNLOADS: (107) [image: Download WMV] [image: Download Quicktime] PLAYS: (221) [image: Play WMV] [image: Play Quicktime] (h/t CSPANjunkie) Donna...38 minutes ago
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What the Stupak-Pitts Coathanger Amendment Does - Here's what it says: The amendment will prohibit federal funds for abortion services in the public option. It also prohibits individuals who receive affo...18 minutes ago
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That F#$!ing Cartoonst: Tiananmen Square Imagery Wrong - In the current debate on health care reform, Republicans are often depicted as attempting to slow or delay the passage of meaningful reform. But are they r...1 hour ago
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Corcoran v. Levenhagen, No. 08-10495 - In a capital habeas matter, circuit court of appeals' order reversing a district court's order granting habeas relief on a Sixth Amendment claim is vacated a...2 weeks ago
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NARAL Board Member Lincoln Chaffee Voted for Cloture on Alito - Back during the Alito confirmation battle, I got into a scrap with NARAL. When Lincoln Chaffee announced that he would vote for cloture on the nomination o...53 minutes ago
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Delany's 'Desperate' Details - *WARNING: SPOILER ALERT:* Star spills secret details to Fox411 about 'Desperate Housewives' plane crash cliffhanger. Oops!1 hour ago
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Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin - [image: Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin] Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin 1:57 Gina Gershon as Sarah Palin answers her critics. Submitted by: *Gin...
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House Republicans Use GovTrack to Read the Bill - House Republicans are explaining their views on the health care bill by linking people directly to the paragraphs in the bills they find important.6 days ago
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Marshall Fine: Interview: Hal Holbrook relishes rediscovery - It's been more than two years since Sean Penn cast Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - but Holbrook is still singing his praises. "Sean...18 minutes ago
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Hugh Hewitt: Memo To Pete Sessions and John Cornyn, Part 2 - I wrote on this last night and do so again to urge the NRSC and NRCC seize the moment.Jim Geraghty is pulling together the sort of list and sort of informa...1 hour ago
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What they’re saying about T-Paw’s red-hot, smokin’ Iowa speech - Tim Pawlenty didn’t bring it. Or he did, depending on who you ask. Here’s a roundup of reaction to the Minnesota governor’s speech to Republican activists ...31 minutes ago
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High court to look at life in prison for juveniles - [image: Joe Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old was sentenced to life in prison without parole.]The Supreme Court is considering whe...1 hour ago
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The Predator War The risks of covertly targeting terrorists - Mayer, J.; NEW YORKER -NEW YORKER MAGAZINE INCORPORATED- 26-OCT-2009 pp. 36-454 days ago
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China's Divided Elite The ruling party shows its splits - Liu, M.; NEWSWEEK -INTERNATIONAL EDITION- 5-OCT-2009 pp. 24-274 weeks ago
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Walking Through Walls And Staring At Goats - The new George Clooney movie, *The Men Who Stare at Goats,* is filled with tough-to-believe notions. Here's one — the U.S. Army teaching one of its squads ...20 hours ago
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Skateboarder Tony Hawk Plays 'Not My Job' - Tony Hawk is without question the coolest guy ever to wear a dorky helmet and knee pads. The pro skateboarder has spent his career horrifying the concerned...2 days ago
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Cleveland Mass Murder Probe Expands To Other Cities - Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard in Cleveland harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in pla...44 minutes ago
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TIPS and inflation expectations - The same financial disruptions that wreaked havoc with many assets also did some funny stuff to TIPS.4 hours ago
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John Mashek: Gentleman Reporter - John Mashek, who has died at age 77, set himself apart from the journalistic pack by taking a deep and deliberative approach to the White House beat at U.S...3 days ago
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THOUGHTS ON THE PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM - Interesting reactions from left and right to the passage in the House of health care reform. A bill nobody has read, that contains nobody knows what, that ...1 day ago
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How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus, and Why He Must - The Administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment situation would become by Fall. As a re...5 days ago
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Song A Day #310. “I’m All... - Song A Day #310. “I’m All Alone.” there’s no one here i’m all alone looks like it’s just me myself and i tonight everybody’s gone there’s not a soul looks ...5 hours ago
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Live Review: Devo Rip Through “Q: Are We Not Men?” and “Freedom of Choice” on Full-Album Tour - Photo: Walter/GettyDuring their late-’70s and early ’80s heyday, Devo managed to be both extreme and mainstream: The Akron, Ohio quintet’s 1978 debut LP Q:...1 hour ago
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"Mad Men" finale: What's worth a fight? - Don Draper and the denizens of Sterling Cooper take drastic measures in the face of a brave new world8 hours ago
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The universality of extremists - *The Washington Post*'s David Ignatius today notes the irony that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being criticized by his country's "hard-liners...1 day ago
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"Road Trains" Ready To Roll - clickclickdrone writes to mention that "road trains," a system linking vehicles together via wireless sensors could soon be rolled out in Europe. The syste...50 minutes ago
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Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House - theodp writes "A hastily-crafted amendment imposing tough new restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance policies helped pave the way for the House to ...1 day ago
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How to reform the broken medical malpractice system. - For many doctors, the malpractice case against a family physician named Daniel Merenstein epitomized how the broken medical liability system drives up cost...1 hour ago
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Way cleared for Muhammad execution - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to delay the execution in Virginia Tuesday night of John Allen Muhammad for a murder that was part of a sniper shooting...1 hour ago
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No Photo of Barack and Bibi? - First Read: "The biggest event on President Obama's schedule today is a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at 7:00 pm ET. The Israelis usually l...1 hour ago
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Good Times - Earlier we mentioned the staff shake-up at the Washington Times -- and the possible departure of Editor John Solomon. Now there's another weird wrinkle. Th...47 minutes ago
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Merry Christmas Noah! - No politics this time. Just one of those stories that really puts things into perspective. Christmas came early for Noah Biorkman this year, but under sad...4 hours ago
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Time for another Stand-Up Comedy Blog - By GottaLaff *"Last Blog Standing" starts riiight....now! * Yes, it's time to steal a few more jokes from my father-in-law (F.I.L.). For those of you who...
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Conservatives register Tea Party as an official third party in Florida. - After hard-line conservatives and tea party activists forced moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race in New York’s 23rd congressional d...38 minutes ago
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10% unemployment is very hard these days - Again, people need to put health insurance into its proper context, if you lose your job today, unless you have boundless resources (or money), you lose your...13 hours ago
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Box Office Weekend: A Christmas Carol Wins -- And Loses - Jim Carrey's Scrooge leads the pack, but with a relatively miserly start. Meanwhile Precious opens big on just 18 screens1 day ago
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Rupert Murdoch vs. Google (and Reality) - In an interview with Sky News Australia, the News Corp. Tycoon laid out his vision for the future of the news business, which bears little resemblance to t...6 hours ago
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Big rig plummets off San Francisco bridge - A trucker is dead after his big rig plummeted 200 feet off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early Monday and smashed onto ...1 hour ago
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Weekend Update Puts Goldman Sachs in its Place - Last week, Goldman Sachs employees received the H1N1 vaccine before many public schools and hospitals did. This weekend, on Saturday Night Live. Weekend Up...4 hours ago
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Let’s be clear, Rush was rejected by his kind, a bunch of “rich white guys” - Sure Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton threatened to raise hell if the investors group Rush Limbaugh was part of was allowed to purchase the St. Loui...
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*Mad Men* vs. IEDs: Army Wants Anti-Bomb Ad Campaign in Afghanistan - Improvised bombs are now the number one threat to western forces in Afghanistan, killing 36 coalition troops last month. The U.S. Army is looking to battle...4 weeks ago
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