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1:45 AM ET, September 17, 2009

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Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: The Worst Policy in the Bill, and Possibly in the World  —  Baucus's bill retains the noxious “free rider” provision on employers.  Rather than a simple employer mandate that forces every employer over a certain size to provide health-care insurance or pay a small fee …
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Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: CBO Luvs It  —  The Congressional Budget Office has released its preliminary score (pdf) of Max Baucus's bill.  According to the CBO, the bill covers 94 percent of legal residents and actually reduces the deficit.  More to the point, it keeps reducing the deficit as time goes on.
Lisa Mascaro / Las Vegas Sun:
Harry Reid: Health care bill won't work for Nevada
Associated Press:
Paul Simon Chimes in on Health Care Reform
Discussion: Wilshire & Washington
Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Analysis: Baucus Health-Care Bill Appears to Be Moving Forward
Alicia M. Cohn / Human Events:
BREAKING: More ACORN Videos To Be Revealed  —  “There are more,” Mike Flynn, Editor-in-chief of new site BigGovernment.com, told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview this afternoon regarding the number of undercover films exposing ACORN.  Flynn would not reveal the location of the ACORN office …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Acorn  —  Is there a case for a special prosecutor?  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  The Acorn scandal continues to mushroom.  Yesterday BigGovernment.com published videos from a fourth Acorn office visit by freelance investigators James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles.
Hannah Giles / Big Government:
Girl Talk: My Time with Tresa Kaelke
Steve Padilla / Top of the Ticket:
Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger seeks state probe of ACORN (Updated)
Discussion: News Hounds and The Sundries Shack
Baltimore Sun:
Sword-wielding Hopkins student kills intruder  —  Intruder was repeat offender, released from prison Saturday  —  Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo's house and taken two laptops and a video-game console.  Now it was past midnight, and he heard noises coming from the garage out back.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Extremism in New Jersey  —  We've been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people's feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the Anti-Christ.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
(Updated & Bumped) Sources: Admin Officials Head to Poland, Czech Rep. to Kill Missile Defense  —  According to reliable sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news.  The administration intends to cancel completely …
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Associated Press:
AP sources: US to reveal Euro missile defense plan
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Justin Elliott / LiveWire:
Birther Orly Taitz Compares Self To Mandela, Wants Judge Tried For Treason
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
Anita Dunn / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Reality Check: The Truth About “Czars”  —  Last week, when the President addressed the Joint Session of Congress in a speech on health reform, he referred to some of the untruths - okay, lies - that have been spread about the plan and sent a clear message to those who seek to undermine …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Gibbs blasts GOP critics of Obama czars
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Jon Stewart to media on ACORN: “Where the hell were you?”  —  Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn't sugar-coat the embarrassment at all — to the apparent delight of his audience, who get kudos of their own.  How can the national news media ignore the many allegations of corruption at ACORN …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New ACORN video: The San Diego sting  —  I've been waiting 45 minutes for Big Government to post the new clip but it looks like this is the best we'll do for now.  Fifty-eight seconds long and it looks like we've got (a) a conspiracy to smuggle underaged sex slaves across the border and (b) a kinda sorta proposition to Hannah Giles.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:   W.H. distances from activist group
SpeakupAmerica / CBS News:
Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year  —  Posted by Declan McCullagh The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.
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Donald Douglas / American Power:
Maxine Waters Wants Probe of ‘Birthers’ and ‘Teabaggers’ (AUDIO)  —  Maxine Waters is reallly too much some times.  See, “Waters: Probe ‘Birthers and the Teabaggers’ at Rallies for Racist Views.”  Listen to her at the video: … See also, Gateway Pundit, “Maxine Waters: Media Should Probe the “Birthers & Teabaggers” at Rallies.”
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New York Post:
Duo who turned this trick  —  The two conservative activists who captured ACORN employ ees giving advice on the sex trade and money-laundering only play a pimp and prostitute on video.  —  In real life, Hannah Giles, 20, isn't a lady of the night.  She's a minister's daughter studying jour nalism at Florida International Uni versity.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Andrew Jackson's mother advises this response to Charles Johnson's lies … Charles Johnson's gutless passive-aggressive act — outrageously libeling me, trying to prevent me from reporting on the 9/12 March on DC, and then falsely claiming that I am attacking him — has been permitted to continue too long.
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Used Faulty Anecdote  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week.  An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered …
Discussion: Erick's blog
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Sotomayor Challenges Corporate Law  —  WASHINGTON — In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.  —  During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court's majority conservatives seemed persuaded …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Ezra Klein:
The Baucus Bill: The Neutered Co-Ops  —  The co-ops have never been a satisfying alternative to the public option.  But the version in Baucus's bill isn't even a satisfying alternative to the co-op option.  It's a neutered version of the co-op idea, which was in turn a neutered version of the public option.
Jim Treacher / Jim Treacher's Blog …:
Freedom still lives in the breast of every American, but some have more room for it  —  As successful as the 9/12 Washington Tea Party was, it still left us with some questions: Who were those wonderful czars?  Where did they come from?  And most importantly, do they mind if we take some more pictures?
John / Power Line:
Blowback  —  One of my themes lately has been that the Democrats' strategy of trying to demonize opponents of socialized medicine rather than honestly debate the merits of their proposal—whatever it is—is a political mistake.  People care about health care, they don't want their insurance taken away …
Discussion: GayPatriot, Ruby Slippers and Hot Air
 
 
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