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10:35 AM ET, September 16, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Why Obama's Health Plan Is Better  —  The big threat to growth in the next decade is not oil or food prices, but the rising cost of health care.  The doubling of health insurance premiums since 2000 makes employers choose between cutting benefits and hiring fewer workers.
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
McCain's Radical Agenda  —  Talk about a shock to the system.  Has anyone bothered to notice the radical changes that John McCain and Sarah Palin are planning for the nation's health insurance system?  —  These are changes that will set in motion nothing less than the dismantling …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
In Candidates, 2 Approaches to Wall Street  —  WASHINGTON — The crisis on Wall Street will leave the next president facing tough choices about how best to regulate the financial system, and although neither Senator Barack Obama nor Senator John McCain has yet offered a detailed plan …
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
As markets reel, the blame game begins
Discussion: The Swamp and TIME.com
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's character assassins target another National Review journalist  —  David Freddoso attempted to appear on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio show last night, and just as when Stanley Kurtz tried to talk on the same show, the Barack Obama campaign organized a disruption of the show.
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John McCormick / The Swamp:
WGN-AM again target of Obama campaign
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
Obamaphiles Drowning Out Criticism Again
Discussion: Media Blog and The American Mind
New York Times:
Fed Takes Steps to Aid A.I.G.  —  Major credit ratings agencies downgraded the American International Group late Monday, worsening its financial health, as Federal Reserve officials and two leading investment banks were in urgent talks to put together a $75 billion line of credit to stave off a crisis at the company.
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Randall W. Forsyth / Barron's Online:   An AIG Accident Could Dwarf Lehman's
John Berlau / OpenMarket.org:
Lehman bankruptcy: In capitalism, failure is not a dirty word
Discussion: The Corner and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Michael Lewitt / New York Times:
Wall Street's Next Big Problem
David Brooks / New York Times:
Why Experience Matters  —  Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times, and in the heat of this election season, one is now rising in Republican ranks.  The narrow question is this: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president?  Most conservatives say yes, on the grounds that something …
Lee Speigel / Political Punch:
Palin and the Teleprompter  —  At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had an interesting description of her speech to the Republican convention.  —  “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me,” Palin said.  “The teleprompter got messed up …
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Washington Wire:
Palin Tells Debunked Teleprompter Tale  —  Elizabeth Williamson reports from Canton, Ohio on the presidential campaign.  —  “Country Club First” read a lonely protestor's sign, lampooning the McCain campaign's Country First mantra, as the Sarah Palin motorcade swung past.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The Ugly New McCain  —  Following his loss to George W. Bush in the 2000 South Carolina primary, John McCain did something extraordinary: He confessed to lying about how he felt about the Confederate battle flag, which he actually abhorred.  “I broke my promise to always tell the truth,” McCain said.
Byron York / National Review:
On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right  —  In recent days, a consensus has developed among the Obama campaign and commentators in the press that John McCain has decided to lie his way to the White House.  Exhibit A in this new consensus is McCain's ad, released last week, claiming that Barack Obama's …
Drudge Report:
OBAMA BOOM ECONOMY: RECORD BANK IN BEV HILLS, $28,500 A PLATE!  —  The nation's financials may be in a spiral, but cash is flowing into the Obama campaign faster than Marvin Hamlisch can play “Niagara”!  —  Yesterday, Obama declared how we are in “the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression.”
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
A tanning bed in the Governor's Mansion  —  Sarah Palin brought one unusual accessory to the Alaska Governor's mansion after moving in last year: A tanning bed.  —  Al Giordano's NarcoNews first reported that Palin had the apparatus installed in the mansion in Juneau, and a spokesman …
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Rachel Paula Ab... / Us Weekly:
Sarah Palin Installed Tanning Bed at Governor's Mansion
Discussion: TMZ.com, Truthdig and NewsBusters.org
Benjamin Sarlin / New York Sun:
Poll: McCain Fast Approaching Obama Among New York State Voters  —  New York is on its way to becoming a battleground in this year's presidential election, with Senator McCain rapidly dissolving Senator Obama's lead in the Empire State, according to a new poll.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
IF OBAMA LOSES.  —  In this weekend's Washington Post, Randall Kennedy considers the effect of an Obama loss on the black community: … There's been a some racist fearmongering from the usual suspects about riots about the aftermath of an Obama loss (something that is extremely unlikely).
Quinnipiac University:
With White Support, McCain Nips At Obama's Heels In NJ, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Women Stay With Dem, But Men Move To GOP  —  Fueled by a surge of support from white voters, Republican Sen. John McCain has narrowed a 10-point gap and now trails Democratic Sen. Barack Obama 48 …
Lee Speigel / Political Punch:
Out West, Obama Faces Gun Battle  —  DENVER, Colo. — Colorado is home to more than 100,000 dues-paying members of the National Rifle Association, all of whom should have received THIS MAILER sometime in the last week, which says he would be “the most anti-gun president in American history …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Commentary
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Why The Lack Of Respect For The Netroots?  —  Matt Stoller and Chris Bowers discuss the Netroots and its actions.  Bowers uses the provocative title “Why Should Anyone Respect The Netroots?”  It is a good question.  I know I personally lost a lot of respect for the Netroots in the past 2 years.
Discussion: Open Left
Julia O'Malley / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' numbers  —  Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke has been suspended for a week for broadcasting the phone number of women involved in organizing a protest against Sarah Palin.  —  The women later received threatening phone calls.
Discussion: At-Largely and TheZoo
 
 
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New York Times:
Interest Groups Step Up Efforts in a Tight Race
Discussion: TIME.com and Associated Press
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
I Just Got Push-Polled on Obama and Israel
Amanda Scott / Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
Barack in Grand Junction, CO: “He doesn't get what's happening”
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Rangel, Pressured, Meets With Leaders
Yahoo! News:
McCain proposes 9/11 commission to address financial crisis …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
McCain Blinks  —  I think there's something unseemly to scoring …
Joseph Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Thinking Outside the Lox
Discussion: Commentary
Michael Grunwald / Time:
For Obama, Race Remains Elephant in the Room
Discussion: MSNBC
 Earlier Items: 
Fatimah Ali / Philly.com:
‘Race war’ in America
Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Iraq Bombings Leave 30 Dead
Discussion: Informed Comment
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Jamie Gorelick, Mistress of Disaster
Discussion: Commentary
C.J. Chivers / New York Times:
Georgia Offers Fresh Evidence on War's Start
BBC:
Ukraine's government falls apart
Editor and Publisher:
McCain Tells AP and Newspaper Editors: OK, Obama Did NOT Call Palin a ‘Pig’
Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Obama ad hits McCain on pay for women
Discussion: Commentary and MyDD
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Pakistan Is the Problem  —  AND BARACK OBAMA SEEMS …