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1:50 PM ET, July 23, 2009

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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 …
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Boston Herald:
Officer in Henry Gates flap tried to save Reggie Lewis  —  Denies he's a racist, won't apologize  —  The Cambridge cop prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. claims is a racist gave a dying Reggie Lewis mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to save the Celtics …
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Obama Goes Off-Topic, Clearly  —  When a politician says “Let me be clear,” what follows is often anything but.  It's a tradition in obfuscation that probably got a big boost from Richard Nixon's “Let me make this perfectly clear,” one of that president's signature phrases.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Obama Destroyed His Post-Racial Theme
Discussion: Right Wing News
Boston Globe:
Sergeant at eye of storm says he won't apologize
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama on Gates arrest: No regrets
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
At Press Conference, Obama Condemns Arrest of Harvard Scholar
Discussion: Reason, Swampland and The Corner
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org:
Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Arrest Report From Website
MyFox Boston:
Obama: Cambridge police acted stupidly
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Townhall.com
The New Republic:
Race, Power, and the Law
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Joe Ryan / New Jersey Online:
N.J. officials, N.Y. rabbis caught in federal money laundering, corruption sweep  —  NEWARK — A New Jersey assemblyman and the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus were among public officials arrested this morning by FBI agents in an international money laundering and corruption probe that includes rabbis …
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CNN:
Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe  —  (CNN) — About 30 people, including some New Jersey mayors and several rabbis, were arrested Thursday in a federal investigation of public corruption, the U.S. attorney's office in Newark, New Jersey, said.  —  The probe also involves a …
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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Ben Smith / The Politico:
At big moment, Obama goes small  —  President Barack Obama came alive about 50 minutes into Wednesday night's news conference — when somebody finally changed the subject.  —  The president's remarks on his chosen subject, health care, were cautious and choreographed, hemmed in on one side …
Time:
Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days  —  Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude.  For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
More delays in House on healthcare reform  —  The House Energy and Commerce Committee canceled its healthcare markup session again Thursday, further dimming hopes that the House can complete its work before the August recess is scheduled to begin.  —  The committee began its drafting sessions on Friday and Monday.
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Dems punting on August deadline
Discussion: Newsweek Blogs
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor  —  The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives.  —  And we've got the latest example.  —  On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded …
CNN:
North Korea launches attack on Clinton  —  BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) — North Korea launched a scathing personal attack on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday after she likened the leadership in Pyongyang to “small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention.”
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
N. Korea Escalates War of Words, Calls Clinton Vulgar, Unintelligent
Harold Meyerson / Los Angeles Times:
GOP: Going Over the Precipice  —  Because of a quirk in California's Constitution, the minority Republicans have managed to push through a budget that makes the state sicker and dumber.  Where is the Democrats' white knight?  —  The most basic principle of any democracy is that of majority rule …
Jackie Kucinich / Roll Call:
Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing  —  Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority's health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.  —  House Republicans are crying foul …
New York Times:
Experts Dispute Some Points in Health Talk  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama showed great fluency in the intricate details of health policy at his news conference on Wednesday night, but experts said some of his points were debatable.  —  Mr. Obama said doctors, nurses, hospitals …
Roll Call:
Democrats Tire of Baucus Talks  —  Members Feel Out of the Loop  —  Senate Democrats are increasingly frustrated by the secrecy and duration of Finance Chairman Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) bipartisan talks on health care reform, with some saying it could undermine Democratic support for the bill.
Discussion: TPMDC
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