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State budgets in crisis: Happy new year
Economist - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
Every state but two, commodity-rich North Dakota and Montana, has faced a deficit this year. One legislator in New ...
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Selling the Post Dinners
Atlantic Monthly - by Joshua Green - Jul. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
Mike Allen’s recent report on the controversial Washington Post lobbyist dinners has sparked a furor. One thing ...
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Kennedy, Dodd unveil trimmer Senate healthcare bill
Associated Press - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Report)
Americans who refuse to buy medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a healthcare ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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Obama, Party Tout Lower Figure for Health Reform
Washington Post - by Ceci Connolly - Jul. 3, 2009 (News Report)
Senate Democrats and President Obama, trying to assuage fears about the cost of health reform, yesterday touted new ...
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In Political Ads, Christian Left Mounts Sermonic Campaigns
Wall Street Journal - by Stephanie Simon - Jul. 3, 2009 (Special Report)
Emboldened by what they see as a kindred spirit in the White House, progressive and liberal Christians are stepping ...
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Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska's Governor
Huffington Post - by Shannyn Moore - Jul. 3, 2009 (News Report)
After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has announced she will be stepping down in a few ...
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Daily Show Iran | Colbert Report Iraq
GlobalPost - by Thomas Mucha - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
It’s been a fascinating few weeks for global news — the real kind, of course — but also for the fake stuff. ...
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Your guide to the cap-and-trade estimates
PolitiFact - by Catharine Richert - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
With Congress considering a sweeping cap-and-trade bill to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming, there ...
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The Problem With The Public Option Is That It Lowers The Cost Of Health Insurance
AlterNet - by Chris Bowers - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
It is pretty amazing that many moderates and industry figures are actually arguing that the problem with including ...
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More From the HELP Bill
Washington Post - by Ezra Klein - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) ... today's CBO score is low in part because we've made some of the policy worse. It would be a good thing for 15 ...
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Letters - The Firefighters’ Test - Flawed or Fair? - NYTimes.com
New York Times - Jul. 2, 2009 (Opinion)
First, you argue that the test for firefighter promotions in New Haven was flawed, and possibly illegal, because ...
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Obama enters decisive phase of presidency
Financial Times, Washington Post - by Edward Luce - Jul. 2, 2009 (Opinion)
Barack Obama is gearing up for the most decisive phase of his presidency when the fate of his core legislative ...
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What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party.
Slate - by Christopher Hitchens - Jul. 1, 2009 (Opinion)
I wonder sometimes whether the Nixon tapes really will just continue to be the gift that never stops giving. I was ...
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Reading Barack Obama's mind on health care
The Politico - by Carrie Budoff Brown - Jul. 1, 2009 (Opinion)
In the end, there’s only one person who really matters when it comes to getting a health care overhaul done this ...
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Stonewall Plus Forty
New Yorker - by Hendrik Hertzberg - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
The President has said all the right things. But there have been signs, before the election and after, that where ...
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The Bureaucrat between 50 million Americans and Health Care
Talking Points Memo - by Ted Oehmke - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
As one of the 50 million Americans presently without health insurance, I'm sitting here, fingers crossed, hoping I ...
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Jon Stewart Blasts Glenn Beck & Michael Scheuer For Promoting Slaughter Of Americans (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, The Daily Show - by Jason Linkins, Jon Stewart - Jul. 2, 2009 (Comedy News)
STEWART: What the fuck is that? And by the way, here's the fascinating thing about our culture. My guess is that ...
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No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible
OurFuture.org - by Phillip Cryan - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – ...
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Rising Costs
New Republic - by Jonathan Cohn - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Notwithstanding the predictable fits-and-starts of the legislative process, it seems likely that Obama will have a ...
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U.S. court cuts off appeals in Monsanto alfalfa case
Reuters - by Gina Keating - Jul. 1, 2009 (News Report)
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday left in place an injunction barring Monsanto Co from selling its Roundup Ready ...
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Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies
Washington Post - by Ceci Connolly - Jun. 28, 2009 (News Report)
In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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Obama's curiously close labor friendship
Los Angeles Times - by Peter Nicholas - Jun. 28, 2009 (News Analysis)
They led the most powerful forces in healthcare -- the trade groups representing doctors, insurance companies, ...
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Obama shows flexibility on health care
Associated Press - by David Espo - Jun. 27, 2009 (News Analysis)
The reversals, hints of concessions and politically dicey proposals on health care are piling up for President ...
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To Fix Health Care, Some Study Developing World
Wall Street Journal - by Amy Dockser Marcus - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of ...
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Daily Show Iran | Colbert Report Iraq
GlobalPost - by Thomas Mucha - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
It’s been a fascinating few weeks for global news — the real kind, of course — but also for the fake stuff. ...
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Debating the Options on Paying for Health Care
Congressional Quarterly - Jun. 29, 2009 (News Report)
While President Obama has left the details on health care overhaul to the congressional committees charged with ...
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What the placebo effect can teach us about health care reform. An interview with Peter Orszag.
Slate - by John Dickerson - Jun. 30, 2009 (Interview)
Defaults matter in health plans, too: Most people don't switch their health plans during "open enrollment season," ...
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More From the HELP Bill
Washington Post - by Ezra Klein - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) ... today's CBO score is low in part because we've made some of the policy worse. It would be a good thing for 15 ...
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Genius in the Bottle
New York Times - by Maureen Dowd - Jun. 28, 2009 (Opinion)
Sanford should give his piety a rest. He told his cabinet that the Psalms taught him humility. (There’s a chance ...
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No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible
OurFuture.org - by Phillip Cryan - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – ...
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Rising Costs
New Republic - by Jonathan Cohn - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Notwithstanding the predictable fits-and-starts of the legislative process, it seems likely that Obama will have a ...
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What the Latest Polls Show on Health Care
Congressional Quarterly - by Ron Faucheux - Jun. 27, 2009 (Opinion)
On one hand, Americans believe that the health care system needs fundamental change. But on the other hand, ...