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10:00 PM ET, September 14, 2009

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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Senate votes to cut off federal funding for ACORN; Update: Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance 7 identified; Update: Brooklyn DA “taking a look”; Update: ACORN disappointed  —  Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.
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Michelle Malkin:
Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds; Update: Amendment passes, 83-7  —  Just watched GOP Sen. Mike Johanns introduce his amendment on the Senate floor banning federal funds in the current transportation and housing appropriations bill from going to ACORN.
James O'Keefe / Big Government:
ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY … So, we headed up to New York...  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed.  Visit the blog entry to see the video.]  —  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed.  Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
Michael Falcone / The Politico:
ACORN mulls suit against Fox News  —  Facing intensifying scrutiny after the release of several disturbing hidden camera videos, the community organizing group, ACORN, is threatening to sue Fox News, the website Breitbart.com and the two conservative activists who produced the exposes.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.  —  The 83-7 vote would deny housing …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: ACORN doubles down on a 13  —  Give ACORN credit for having more testicles than brains, after the third episode of Big Government's exposure of their office practices in protecting tax evasion and pimps.  They're now threatening to sue Fox News, James O'Keefe, and Hannah Giles …
ColorOfChange.org:
Ad Boycott Costs Glenn Beck Over 50% of Ad Dollars  —  62 Companies Refusing to Advertise with Beck Cost Fox  —  Nearly $600k Per Week  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — The advertising boycott of Glenn Beck has cost the controversial host over half of his estimated advertising revenue since it was launched by ColorOfChange.org a month ago.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Dems to vote on Wilson sanction
Discussion: The Note
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Two in Three Americans Oppose Rep. Joe Wilson's Outburst
Discussion: The Swamp and Washington Wire
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Obama May Do Back-to-Back TV Interviews Sunday  —  It's going to be awfully hard to avoid President Obama on television this Sunday.  —  The president is going to appear on five Sunday talk shows - five - to press his case for health care, White House officials disclosed.  That is a presidential record.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans divided on President's health care plans  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — In the wake of President Barack Obama's nationally televised speech to Congress last week, a new national poll indicates that the president's approval rating is on the rise.
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Simon Parry / Daily Mail:
Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession  —  The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore.  Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
House Dems: We Will Condemn Wilson For “Breach Of Decorum,” Not For “Speech”  —  The House Dem leadership has decided that it must condemn Joe Wilson for his “you lie,” outburst, and is likely to decry his “conduct” and his “breach of decorum” as early as tomorrow, rather than censure him for …
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Democrats Need to Stop the Umbrage Game on Rep. Joe Wilson
Discussion: Commentary, Tim Blair and Swampland
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Boehner will vote “no” on anti-Wilson resolution
Discussion: Townhall.com
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON FINANCIAL RESCUE AND REFORM  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.  It is wonderful to be back in New York after having just been here last week.  It is a beautiful day and we have some extraordinary guests here in the Hall today.  I just want to mention a few.
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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
OBAMA CALLS KANYE ‘JACKASS’  —  ABC's Terry Moran set the Twitter-sphere all aflutter when he wrote:  —  We've reached out to Moran and will update this post when we learn more.  —  Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:  —  “In the process of reporting on remarks …
Political Punch:
RIP, Jody Powell  —  ABC News has learned that former White House press secretary Jody Powell has died.  —  This afternoon at his house on the Eastern Shore in Maryland, Powell had an apparent heart attack, a family friend said.  —  The former press secretary for President Jimmy Carter was the CEO of the PR firm Powell Tate.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Jody Powell dies at 65
Discussion: The Swamp
Josh Rogin / The Cable:
Murtha to Obama: No more troops  —  House defense spending cardinal John Murtha, an early bellwether of congressional opposition to the Iraq war, has made his strongest comments yet opposing more U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan.  —  The Pennsylvania lawmaker and Vietnam veteran …
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Tony Romm / The Hill:
Rep. Murtha compares surge to Vietnam
Discussion: Townhall.com
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Who are the undeserving “others” benefiting from expanded government actions?  —  The New York Times' Ross Douthat argues, uncontroversially, that the tea-party protests, townhall outbursts and related appendages aren't about specific health care proposals but, instead, are motivated …
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme  —  The Republican establishment hopes cooler heads will prevail over strongly anti-Obama parts of the conservative base.  —  Reporting from Washington - Amid a rebirth of conservative activism that could help Republicans win elections next year …
Jennifer Burns / The New Republic:
Wealthcare  —  Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right  —  I.  —  The current era of Democratic governance has provoked a florid response on the right, ranging from the prosaic (routine denunciations of big spending and debt) to the overheated (fears of socialism) …
Discussion: Reason and Matthew Yglesias
People-Press.org:
Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low  —  Public Evaluations of the News Media: 1985-2009  —  The public's assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans' views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Boortz compares President Obama to a child molester.  —  Today, on the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama will speak on Wall Street to “try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system.”  Hate radio host Neal Boortz used …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
VARIOUS READERS hope that the Boob Czar will become a fixture at Tea Party protests, the way the Debt Star already has.  We'll see!
Discussion: Power Line
Miriam Raftery / East County Magazine:
SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY  —  A Joint Investigative Report by East County Magazine and Liberty One Radio  —  “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous.  These are used in Iraq to control insurgents.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Danger Room
Walter Olson / Wall Street Journal:
A Destructive Toy Story Made in Washington  —  A dubious safety law is hammering small business, but Congress refuses to fix the mess it created in 2008.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee finally held a hearing on the highly controversial …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Unamplified, Beck's Voice Still Carries  —  Establishment Outlets Missed Van Jones Story  —  It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job.
Linda Holmes / msnbc.com:
Patrick Swayze was the ultimate romantic lead  —  In ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Ghost,’ he projected vulnerability and strength  —  Patrick Swayze did action movies and historical drama.  He even hosted a well-regarded episode of “Saturday Night Live.”  But he will be best remembered …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Paul Krugman:
Freshwater rage  —  I'm still on the road, with only sporadic internet access.  So I've missed out on much of the outpouring of rage over my magazine article.  I gather, though, that the usual suspects are utterly outraged at my suggestion that freshwater macro has spent several decades heading down the wrong path.
 
 
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Media shut out from Palin's Hong Kong speech
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Anthony Wright / The New Republic:
Yes, Those Uninsured Numbers Are Legit
Discussion: Reason and Ezra Klein
Jane Fonda / The Huffington Post:
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Aceh passes adultery stoning law
Discussion: TalkLeft and Jihad Watch
Tim Jones / Breitbart.tv:
ALTERCATION ENSUES OVER ACORN CREW SELLING GADSDEN 'DON'T TREAD …