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12:45 PM ET, July 23, 2009

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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 …
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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 …
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.
ABCNEWS:
Obama's Comments on Gates Arrest Stir Reaction  —  The Cop Who Arrested The Harvard Professor Says He Will Not Apologize  —  President Obama's comments about the arrest of prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates has added fuel to the story that has dominated national headlines …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Obama: Cambridge police acted ‘stupidly’  —  After spending most of an hour patiently reiterating his arguments for changing the health insurance system, President Barack Obama turned his press conference sharply toward an iconic moment in American race relations: The arrest …
Dan / Riehl World View:
Obama Destroyed His Post-Racial Theme
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Michelle Malkin
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 …
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 …
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Obama's Press Conference
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Treatment
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 …
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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Roll Call:
Democrats Tire of Baucus Talks
Discussion: TPMDC
Time:
Inside Bush and Cheney's Tense 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 …
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:
Clinton Discusses Relationship With Obama
Discussion: msnbc.com
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air, Townhall.com and Moe Lane
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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 …
Quinnipiac University:
Dodd In Slump In Connecticut Reelection Bid, Quinnipiac University Connecticut Poll Finds; Obama Approval Down 8 Points  —  Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd trails former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, a likely Republican challenger 48 - 39 percent in the 2010 Senate race, but he is inching …
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Businesses Far From Unified Against Health-Care Reform  —  Even as the national business lobby ramps up its opposition to health-care reform, there are signs that employers around the country are divided on the issue, reducing the force of an opposition push.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Mother Knows Best
Discussion: Moe Lane
 
 
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The Politico:
Blue Dogs fill campaign-cash bowls
Discussion: Think Progress and On Politics
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic Online:
Re-Engineering the Earth
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Sean D. Hamill / New York Times:
In Vote Fraud Case, Acorn Challenges a Law as Unconstitutional
Discussion: Sweetness & Light and AmSpecBlog
CNN:
Schwarzenegger offends some with knife video
Discussion: Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Annals of the Predictable  —  Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (wikimedia)
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Corner
Wall Street Journal:
Job Cuts Outpace GDP Fall
J. Patrick Coolican / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Ensign's chief of staff leaving