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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ELITE EIGHT.... House Republicans wanted to put up a united front against the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), but eight GOP lawmakers — Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), Mike Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Dave Reichert …
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
In Tehran, a Mood of Melancholy Descends  —  TEHRAN — An eerie stillness has settled over this normally frenetic city.  In more settled times, the streets are clogged with honking cars and cranky commuters grousing about the lack of decent parking.  —  But on Saturday, few cars and relatively few people were on the streets.
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José María Aznar / Wall Street Journal:
Silence Has Consequences for Iran  —  The less we protest, the more people will die.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  If there hadn't been dissidents in the Soviet Union, the Communist regime never would have crumbled.  And if the West hadn't been concerned about their fate, Soviet leaders would have ruthlessly done away with them.
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
The Pitfalls of the Public Option  —  IN the debate over health care reform, one issue looms large: whether to have a public option.  Should all Americans have the opportunity to sign up for government-run health insurance?  —  President Obama has made his own preferences clear.
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
British Rum Maker Got a $2.7 Billion Payout from TARP  —  I'm getting so tired of these stories.  I mean, what's the point?  Americans are perfectly happy to stay home and watch TV while our elected officials rob us blind and we struggle along without needed health care:
Orange County Register:
Mark Steyn: Jackson, Sanford and weirdness  —  Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.  —  Recommend  —  In a lousy week, Mark Sanford had one stroke of luck: Michael Jackson chose the day after the governor's news conference to moonwalk into eternity …
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
In Political Storm, Governor's Wife Is Hurt but Unbowed
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Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org:
Oliver Stone: ‘Reagan Was a Dumb Son of a Bitch’ Who Spawned Bush  —  Film producer/director Oliver Stone, a far-left promoter of conspiracies who is working on a sequel to his 1987 ‘Wall Street’ movie, declared on Friday night's edition of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher that …
Discussion: Moe_Lane's blog
New York Times:
Little Hope for G.O.P. to Support Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are finding much to dislike in Democratic health care proposals, illustrating the immense difficulty Democrats face in fashioning an overhaul that can attract enough Republican support to be portrayed as bipartisan.
CP24:
Parents separated from baby after transfer to US hospital because they lack passports  —  HAMILTON — A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don't have passports.
Discussion: The Reaction
Andy Alexander / Ombudsman Blog:
Froomkin Departs, Leaving Angry Loyalists And Questions  —  Dan Froomkin's online White House Watch ended today in The Post, leaving an army of angry followers and a string of unanswered questions about the decision to terminate his contract.  —  His release sparked an outcry from a loyal audience built after five and a half years.
David Freddoso / Washington Examiner:
On the House floor  —  By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy.  —  Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.
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Agence France Presse:
Too much time online strains Irish marriages: counsellors … Too much time spent on the Internet is causing increasing friction between couples in Ireland, a marriage counselling service said Friday.  —  Some seven percent of couples seen by ACCORD, the Catholic Church's marriage care service …
Discussion: Dr. Helen
 
 
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