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Democrats Clear Impasse Blocking Health Care Vote

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By David Espo, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Nov. 07 (Breaking News) - Capping months of months of struggle, House Democrats cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote

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A Deal Finally Ends Honduras' Coup Crisis

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tim Padgett - Oct. 31 (News) - Related Photos Violence Erupts During Honduras Protests More Related •Clinton Helps Push Honduran Foes to Negotiations •Is the U.S. Softening Its Opposition to the Honduras Coup? •Why Obama Won’t Use the M-Word for Honduras’ CoupThe pact may well restore Zelaya to office before the country's Nov. 29 presidential elections. It may also salvage the Obama Administration's standing in the hemisphere.

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What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech | Health and Wellness

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Martha Rosenberg - Oct. 28 (News) - "Agribusiness gets plenty of opportunities to preach its point of view at agriculture schools such as Cal Poly, where the likes of Monsanto and Cargill fund research," the Times wrote, calling the 800-acre Harris Ranch, near Coalinga, whose "smell assaults passersby long before the panorama of thousands of cattle packed atop layers of their own manure,"--"Cowschwitz." Ouch.

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Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lydia Saad - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group.

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Rightist on BBC Panel Draws Protests and Viewers

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John F. Burns - Oct. 24 (News) - The appearance of Nick Griffin, leader of the far right British National Party, on the BBC’s flagship politics show unleashed a storm of protests in London.

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W.H. attacks worry moderate Dems

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jonathan Allen, Jake Sherman - Oct. 23 (News Report) - A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans. “It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

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Behind War Between White House and Fox

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Rutenberg - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tête-à-tête.

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'Fairness' in talk radio

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Carol Costello - Oct. 22 (News Report) - CNN's Carol Costello looks at the idea of a "Fairness Doctrine," being pushed by some Democrats, for political talk radio.

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Neutralizing the opposition

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - The Foxified debate over whether the White House is being mean to a certain network is morphing into a broader argument about the politics of negativity. The question, which is being pushed on the right, is whether the Obama team is using its muscle to demonize its opponents. The president bears a special burden in this regard. He ran as a post-partisan guy who would reach out to the other side. (Of course, Bush also ran as a uniter-not-a-divider, and that didn't work out too well.) But while Obama is a conciliator by nature, what should a politician do when the opposition refuses to meet him even a quarter-way? Number of Republican votes for the stimulus: zero. Number of Republican votes so far for health-care reform: one. And if the insurance industry, after making a deal with the White House, attempts to sink health care? What administration wouldn't fight back? I just wonder if Obama is being held to a higher standard when he practices plain ol' politics.

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Ruckus on the right

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Rachel Maddow, Dave Weigel - Oct. 20 (News Report) - The right has fractured over this one race. They are not only disagreeing over whether to chose the conservative or republican candidate, they are denouncing one other, pledging the death of one another's political career over this split. The local impact of this chaos on the right, the ultimate effect for New York's 23rd disctrict, may very well be that the 23rd disctrict of New York elect its first democrat since around the time of the Civil War. With Republicans split over the two candidates on the right, the Democrat in the race is now ahead in recent polling.

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A Volley Between Fox News and Obama Administration

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Oct. 12 (News Analysis) - A presidential spokeswoman said, “We don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

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House behind a public option

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann, Lawrence O'Donnell - Oct. 07 (News Report) - MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and the Huffington Post's Lawrence O'Donnell discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's comment that the House of Representatives will produce a bill with a public option in it.

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All Evidence to the Contrary

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Lane Wallace - Sep. 25 (Special Report) - One hundred years ago this month, two intrepid explorers returned from the Arctic reaches and declared that they had reached the North Pole. Not together, but on competing expeditions to become the first person and team to the Pole. Robert E. Peary led one expedition, and Frederick A. Cook led the other. And each declared the other's claim to the Pole untrue. Today, of course, that kind of controversy could be settled far more easily. At the very least, we would expect a GPS track record showing that the Pole had been reached, and airborne photographs or other corroborating evidence might be required, as well. Without that technology, however, the claims were a little harder to confirm. It's not like there was an exact marker at the spot, because nobody had been there before. And unlike the peak of Mt. Everest, the landscape at the precise location of the North Pole doesn't look distinctly different from the rest of the terrain--for hundreds of miles in any given direction.

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Bill Moyers interviews Sam Tanenhaus (Transcript)

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, Sam Tanenhaus - Sep. 18 (Special Report) - BILL MOYERS: Conservatives were out in force in Washington over the weekend. They had come to express their opposition to big government, to taxes and wasteful spending, and health care reform they fear would lead to a nightmare of bureaucracy. Max Blumenthal, author of REPUBLICAN GOMORRAH waded into their midst to sample opinions. MAX BLUMENTHAL: So you're saying if the government eliminates Social Security and Medicare then you'll get out of the program? WOMAN: No, I said if they get out of my life. MAX BLUMENTHAL: Out of your Social Security and- WOMAN: No, out of everything. BILL MOYERS: But they had also come to deplore and denounce President Obama- in their minds a tyrant akin to Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein. MAN: I'm afraid he's going to do what Hitler could never do and that's destroy the United States of America. MAX BLUMENTHAL: And what's the Obama revolution, what's going to happen?

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Obama to Speed Up Tort Reform Tests, but Doctors Want More

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 17 (News Report) - Senator Harry Reid received $1 million in contributions in 2009 from lawyers. Quashed Tort Reform in Baucus bill

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Populist Vein Resurfaces in Protests

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Gerald F. Seib - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - ea Party Patriots and like-minded brethren represent the latest resurfacing of a vein that has always been there and that simply goes below ground from time to time. This vein is populist and antiestablishment; it alternates between suspicion of government in general, and anger at the idea that government seems to be doing more to help fat cats or the other guy. In some fashion or another, it has been around since the time George Washington quelled the Whiskey Rebellion.

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With Health-Care Reform on the Line, Obama Reframes Critical Debate

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dan Balz - Sep. 10 (News Analysis) - After a month of angry town hall meetings and dire predictions about the state of his top domestic priority, President Obama moved forcefully Wednesday night to take the initiative on health care -- and in the process rejuvenate his presidency and unite his fractious Democratic Party.

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Obama's Plea: 'Deliver On Health Care'

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Liz Halloran - Sep. 10 (News Report) - President Obama used the power of his bully pulpit Wednesday night to take on critics of his beleaguered health care plan, decrying scare tactics used by opponents and pushing again for a non-profit public insurance option.

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The Story Behind the Story

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Mark Bowden - Sep. 09 (Special Report) - With journalists being laid off in droves, savvy political operatives have stepped eagerly into the breach. What’s most troubling is not that TV-news producers mistake their work for journalism, which is bad enough, but that young people drawn to journalism increasingly see no distinction between disinterested reporting and hit-jobbery. The very smart and capable young men (more on them in a moment) who actually dug up and initially posted the Sotomayor clips both originally described themselves to me as part-time, or aspiring, journalists.

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Seven things to watch tonight

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Eamon Javers - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - Viewers who tune into President Barack Obama’s health-care address tonight will see all the usual trappings of a big-time speech – members of Congress applauding or sitting quietly, depending on their partisan viewpoint, and guests in the gallery carefully selected to match key message points.

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Reversal of Supreme Court Precedents at Issue

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert Barnes - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - The Supreme Court's unusual hearing Wednesday on the role corporations can play in influencing elections carries the potential not only for rewriting the nation's campaign finance laws but also for testing the willingness of the court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to defy the decisions of Congress and to set aside its own precedents.

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Supreme Court: campaign finance overhaul in 'Hillary' case?

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Warren Richey - Sep. 09 (News Report) - The US Supreme Court this week takes up a potential crossroads case that could greatly expand the ability of corporations and labor unions to wield influence in federal elections. The high court on Wednesday is re-hearing a case it heard last spring

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Why 'GQ' Doesn't Want Russians To Read Its Story

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By David Folkenflik - Sep. 05 (News Analysis) - Scott Anderson's piece in the September issue of GQ challenges the official line on a series of bombings that killed hundreds of people in 1999 in Russia. Although no issues have been raised to date about the article's accuracy, GQ management is trying to prevent Russians from reading it.

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Fox News host sparks outrage

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Sep. 02 (News Analysis) - If the White House is trying to figure how it lost control of the debate over healthcare in August, it could take a look at Glenn Beck’s television and radio ratings. The conservative talk radio host, who also has an hourly slot on Fox News every day, has seen his viewer numbers soar even as opponents have pressed companies to withdraw advertising from the show.

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Fighting Health Care Change, and Proud of It

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Katharine Q. Seelye - Aug. 31 (Special Report) - Senator Jim DeMint, a first-term Republican from South Carolina, is gaining attention as he stokes anger over the health care issue.

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