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9:55 AM ET, September 8, 2009

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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Thank you, Glenn Beck.  By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country.  But in the exact opposite way than what you intended.  —  Your vile and vicious smear campaign has helped reverse one of the worst examples of miscasting since John Wayne took …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why did the press ignore the Van Jones scandal?  —  On March 13, 2008, ABC News broke the story that Barack Obama's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, had made a number of incendiary statements from the pulpit of Obama's church in Chicago.  The most inflammatory of those remarks was Wright's notorious “God damn America” sermon.
Discussion: Discriminations
Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Left  —  The lesson of the rise and fall of Van Jones.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  The abrupt resignation of White House aide Van Jones, deep in the news hiatus of Labor Day weekend, will probably be forgotten in a few days.  But it's a story that still deserves elaboration …
Row 2, Seat 4:
Van Jones Did Not Fill Out WH Questionnaire  —  Van Jones, the Obama green jobs czar who resigned shortly after midnight Sunday, did not fill out the exhaustive questionnaire White House officials required of every Cabinet-level secretary and deputy-secretary position.
New York Times:
As Obama Speech Nears, Details on a Compromise  —  WASHINGTON — As President Obama and top advisers drafted his eagerly awaited health care speech to Congress, new details emerged Monday about fees and coverage limits under a proposal being floated by the chairman of a crucial Senate committee.
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The Hill:
Already, 23 Dems have said they will vote ‘no’ on healthcare reform  —  At least 23 House Democrats already have told constituents or hometown media that they oppose the massive healthcare overhaul touted by President Barack Obama.  —  If Republicans offer the blanket opposition they've promised …
Washington Post:
Deeply Divided House Democrats Return to Work — and the Same Set of Problems  —  After a nearly 40-day recess that was anything but restful, House Democrats are returning to work Tuesday still unsettled over pending health-care legislation and sure only that the people have had their say.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings  —  The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.  But when President George H.W. Bush delivered …
Discussion: Reason, Cold Fury and JammieWearingFool
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John / Power Line:
No Investigation This Time  —  When President Obama's speech to school children became controversial, the press was quick to remind us that President George H.W. Bush had done the same thing in 1991.  What they didn't often mention, however, was the Democrats' reaction.  Byron York reminds us:
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Many presidents spoke in schools
Discussion: DISSENTING JUSTICE
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Reversal of Supreme Court Precedents at Issue  —  Campaign Case Touches on Justices' Stance on Earlier Rulings  —  The Supreme Court's unusual hearing Wednesday on the role corporations can play in influencing elections carries the potential not only for rewriting the nation's campaign finance laws …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and MyDD
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Theodore B. Olson / Wall Street Journal:
The Chance for a Free Speech Do-Over
Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Oyez! Oyez! Court set for Sotomayor ceremony
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Page
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
As ‘Rescissions’ Spawn Outrage, Health Insurers Cite Fraud Control  —  Firms Defend ‘Rescissions’ as Fraud Control  —  LOS ANGELES — The untimely disappearance of Sally Marrari's medical coverage goes a long way toward explaining why insurance companies are cast as the villain in the health-care reform drama.
Discussion: Think Progress and Obsidian Wings
Elliott Abrams / Washington Post:
What President Jimmy Carter Missed in His Op-Ed on the Middle East  —  In an op-ed on Sunday ["The Elders' View of the Middle East"], former president Jimmy Carter, speaking on behalf of a self-appointed group of “Elders,” described a rapacious Israel facing long-suffering, blameless Palestinians …
Just A Grunt / JammieWearingFool:
Who Is Ron Bloom?  —  A lot of attention is being brought to bear on all of these so-called czars that Obama is now making an integral part of his administration.  It is a tactic that has proven to be effective since these appointments avoid scrutiny from congress, like they really scrutinize anybody …
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Fox News:
Defying Critics, Obama Names Another Czar After Resignation of Environmental Adviser
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Nissan Ratzlav-Katz / Arutz Sheva:
Al-Qaeda Targeting Germany for ‘Next 9/11’ - Within Weeks  —  Follow Israel news on and .  —  (IsraelNN.com) Jihadists close to al-Qaeda explicitly warned in new communications that Germany will be the target of the next 9/11-scale terrorist attack.  The timing of the strike, they say, will be within the next few weeks.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Barney Frank wants Cabinet post  —  Rep. Barney Frank is interested in capping his political career as a member of the president's Cabinet, according to a new biography of the Financial Services Committee chairman.  —  Frank (D-Mass.) told author Stuart Weisberg that he would like to be Housing and Urban Development secretary.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Weasel Zippers
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Baucus sends health bill proposal  —  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has sent members of a bipartisan negotiating group a framework for health care legislation that would cost less than $900 billion, levy new fees on insurers and create a network of consumer-owned insurance cooperatives.
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Boston Globe:
Joseph Kennedy will not run for Senate  —  Joseph P. Kennedy II announced today that he will not seek the Senate seat held by his uncle, a move likely to end the Kennedy family's half century of political dominance in Massachusetts and entice several other candidates to jump into the race.
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Associated Press:   Former Rep. Joseph Kennedy Won't Run for Senate
 
 
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John Steele Gordon / AMERICAN.COM:
Debt Be Not Proud: The Sorry Tale of America's Out-of-control Spending
Discussion: Cold Fury
CNN:
Laura Bush praises Obama, bemoans excessive partisanship
Discussion: The Page
Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Airline terror trial: The bomb plot to kill 10000 people
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
For Obama, A Pivotal Moment in Afghanistan
New York Times:
Crux of Afghan Debate: Will More Troops Curb Terror?
Discussion: At War
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Bush White House Sought to Soften Treaty on ÂÂ'Enforced Disappearances'
Discussion: At-Largely
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
On Jews and liberals
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Balloon Juice
James Kanter / Green Inc.:
France Mulls CO2 Taxes on Citizens
Discussion: QandO
The Note:
Florida GOP Chair on Obama's Speech to Students: “It's a Good Speech …
Discussion: TPMDC
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama fires up labor allies in health fight
Discussion: The Politico and The Swamp
D. Brad Wright / The Huffington Post:
Why Poor Women With Breast Cancer Should Move to Canada
Discussion: Hullabaloo