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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Criticizes Arrest of Harvard Professor  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama bluntly accused the police of acting “stupidly” in arresting the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week after an officer had established that Mr. Gates had not broken into his own home in Cambridge, Mass.
William Kristol / PostPartisan:
Obama Attacks Docs and Cops  —  President Obama spent most of his press conference tonight denying what President Kennedy famously affirmed — that to govern is to choose.  Obama promised us health care this is at once better and cheaper, with both more regulation and more freedom to choose …
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
HENRY LOUIS “SKIP” GATES ARRESTED OUTSIDE HIS HOME.
New York Times:
Obama's Fifth News Conference  —  Following is a transcript of President Obama's fifth news conference, the fourth given in prime-time, as provided by Federal News Service.  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening.  Please be seated.  —  Before I take your questions, I want to talk for a few minutes …
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Imperfect Health Reform Still Beats the Status Quo  —  Among the range of options for health-care reform, there's one that is sure to raise your taxes, increase your out-of-pocket medical expenses, swell the federal deficit, leave more Americans without insurance and guarantee that wages will remain stagnant.
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Obama's Overreach  —  Obama Presser: Instant[ reaction] rant: … He's still in the thrall of Orszagism!  Here we're dramatically changing insurance (no more “preexisting conditions") and insuring the uninsured and creating a health care exchange and promoting a public option …
Discussion: Wizbang and Betsy's Page
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama, healthcare: 'This isn't about me'  —  by Mark Silva and updated at 8:30 pm EDT
Discussion: The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Durbin: No pre-recess vote on healthcare  —  Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that a pre-recess vote on healthcare reform is unlikely.  —  “We're going to take a little longer to get it right,” Durbin told The Hill when asked …
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Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Two key House Dems dispute Pelosi's health care assessment
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
54 House Democrats and All Republicans Against Obamacare?
Discussion: Hot Air and Commentary
Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Grassley wants 80 votes in Senate for final health bill
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Josh Gerstein / Josh Gerstein's Blog:
WH discloses health-care execs' visits  —  The Secret Service had earlier rejected a request for the same information, asserting executive privilege.  The issue could have been an embarassment for Obama at the presser in light of his promises during the campaign to make public White House visitors …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama: Greedy doctors are coming after your tonsils or something  —  Gee, I'm really sorry I decided to skip this for “Ghost Hunters.”  Watching The One explain how the medical industry has designs on your body parts would have been much better in hindsight.
Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan  —  · U.S. officials believe Saad bin Laden — a son of Osama bin Laden — has been killed by an American missile in Pakistan.  —  Saad bin Laden reportedly spent years under house arrest in Iran before traveling last year to Pakistan …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
N. Korea Escalates War of Words, Calls Clinton Vulgar, Unintelligent  —  The war of words between North Korea and the United States escalated Thursday, with North Korea's Foreign Ministry lashing out at Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in unusually personal terms for “vulgar remarks” …
Tomoeh Murakami Tse / Washington Post:
On Wall Street, Compensation Is Rocketing Back to Pre-Crisis Levels  —  Lawmakers Warn Against Return to Pre-Crisis Levels  —  Wall Street's biggest banks are setting aside billions of dollars more to pay their executives and other employees just months after these firms were rescued …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Dude, Where's My Sperm?  —  I've been freaking myself out over the past 24 hours by reading Reece Rushing's CAP report on dangerous chemicals impairing American fertility.  For the fellows, there's reduced sperm count:  —  And the ladies aren't being spared either:  —  What's to blame?  Well:
Stephen Green / Pajamas Media:
Drunkblogging ObamaCare  —  Stephen Green listens carefully to President Obama's press conference on health care — and tries to determine whether care of his vodka-challenged liver will be covered.  (Watch PJTV's virtual health care forum here.)  —  4:48PM I'm watching Fox News tonight, instead of the usual CNN.
Discussion: Right Wing News
Kelly Evans / Real Time Economics:
Would You Stand on Short Flights if It Meant Cheaper Fares?  —  Irish-based discount airline Ryanair recently polled 120,000 passengers on its Web site with the following question: would you be willing to stand on short flights?  —  The answer was an overwhelming “yes” - if the tickets were free.
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Obama's Press Conference  —  He's good.  You forget that when you haven't seen him in a while.  He seemed entirely in command, not at all rattled by the toxic political dust storm swirling in Washington.  His answers were supple, substantive.  The questions were pretty good.
New York Times:
L.I. Man Helped Qaeda, Then Informed  —  He grew up in the solid middle class of Suffolk County, the son of an engineer, the child of a couple that had emigrated from South America, a fan of football and video games, an altar boy and, eventually, a Boy Scout.
Discussion: ThreatsWatch and MoJo Blog Posts
J. Patrick Coolican / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Ensign's chief of staff leaving  —  John Lopez, Sen. John Ensign's chief of staff, is leaving the senator's employ, as first reported by Sun columnist Jon Ralston.  —  Lopez is described by Republican insiders as a talented staffer, particularly adept at securing appropriations for Nevada.
Discussion: The Politico and The Page
The Campaign Spot:
Oooh, Don't Forget, ‘Now Is The Time To Act’!  —  Senate Republicans e-mail me: … It's good, don't get me wrong, but they left off a few of my favorite Obama cliches, some of which are straw men, some of which are rhetorical crutches: “We inherited these problems”; “the alternative is to do nothing” …
Ed Hornick / CNN:
Will Obama's health care plan mirror Clinton's '94 failure?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — In 1994, universal health care was a key policy plan for then-President Bill Clinton.  It eventually failed.  —  Now, 15 years later, another Democratic president is taking on the challenge …
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
After Senate vote, F-22 loses House support  —  The Senate's decisive vote this week to cut off the F-22 program is resonating in the House, where leading appropriators on Wednesday said they would back away from an effort to continue production of the radar-evading fighter.
Discussion: The Politico
Christina Boyle / NY Daily News:
PETA video shows Ringling Bros. handlers beating elephants  —  The world-famous Ringling Bros. circus faces fresh accusations of animal abuse today after undercover videos show handlers beating elephants before they enter the ring.  —  The tape, made by a man who posed as a stagehand for six months …
Bruce A. Dixon / Black Agenda Report:
Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?  —  By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon  —  Candidate Barack Obama told us to judge his first term by whether he delivers quality affordable health care for all Americans, including nearly fifty million uninsured.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and The Confluence
 
 
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