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1:00 PM ET, September 23, 2009

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New York Times:
Obama Considers Strategy Shift in Afghan War  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
At Pentagon's Request, Washington Post Delayed Story on Afghanistan Report  —  To Bob Woodward, it was the modern-day equivalent of the Pentagon Papers.  But to Obama administration officials, the classified assessment of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, if disclosed by The Washington Post …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
It's Not About the Troops  —  Only a legitimate Afghan government can beat the Taliban.  —  The push is on for President Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan, perhaps as many as 40,000 more.  Boxing in Obama was almost certainly the aim of whoever gave the Washington Post's Bob Woodward …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
President Interdum Fidelis
Discussion: New York Times and The Nation
Mark McDonald / New York Times:
Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong  —  HONG KONG — Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first speech overseas, spoke on Wednesday to Asian bankers, investors and fund managers.  —  A number of people who heard the speech in a packed a hotel ballroom, which was closed to the media …
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BREITBART.COM:
Palin slams Obama's spending in debut speech in Asia  —  Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said the US government was wasting taxpayers' money and could aggravate poverty, said delegates at her first speech outside North America on Wednesday.  —  Palin, the former governor of Alaska …
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Obama's time warp: The U.S. is still the bad guy  —  Senior Political Analyst  —  In the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin America, I went to bookstores to find histories of the region.  All I could find were Marxist tracts arguing that “the people” were exploited …
Associated Press:
Palin re-emerges with Hong Kong speech
Discussion: CNN, Washington Wire and GOP 12
Nile Gardiner / Telegraph:
The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak  —  It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, writes Nile Gardiner.  —  Barack Obama's Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage …
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New York Times:
Obama's Speech to the United Nations General Assembly  —  Following is a text of President Obama's speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, as released by the White House.  —  Good morning.  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen …
Washington Times:
Worst foreign policy ever
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Wire:
Obama the U.N.: ‘New Era of Engagement’
The Huffington Post:
Conservatives Turn Their Sights On Health Care Reform's Most Obvious Provision  —  Democrats are bracing themselves for a new line of conservative attack against a provision in the health care legislation once considered so non-controversial that it was endorsed by several major Republican officials.
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Health Insurance Mandates
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Pundit
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: On Health Care, Republicans Aren't Listening
Discussion: Think Progress
Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
Triggering a Democratic Civil War  —  Media reports and insider buzz make it increasingly clear that key people at the White House have become obsessed with Olympia Snowe on health care, and are willing to do pretty much whatever she demands in order to get her on board.
Discussion: NOW! Blog and Taylor Marsh
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi backs away from deal with Blue Dogs
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Glenn Beck, Post-Modern Conservative  —  Buried in the cross-tabs of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is a question that takes a temperature reading of Glenn Beck.  Beck actually makes out pretty well.  While just 24 percent of Americans have a favorable view of him (13 percent strongly so) …
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Fox News:
Up to 24 More People Sought as NYC Tightens Security in Terror Probe  —  NEW YORK — Police in New York City stepped up their patrols and increased their random searches on subways and buses Wednesday following reports that as many as 24 more people are being sought in a suspected cross-country terror plot.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and GroupIntel
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ECONOMIC GROWTH VS. DEFICIT REDUCTION.... In the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, respondents were asked to prioritize from a list of issues the federal government may address.  “Job creation and economic growth” was easily the top priority (pdf), though it's down a bit from July, and “health care” was second.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   New poll: Democrat lead over GOP is smallest in five years …
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Carper Publicly Defends Secret PhRMA Pact; Deal Made in Exchange for Support Ads  —  In a stunning moment during the Senate Finance Committee markup Sen. Tom Carper defended a secret deal that the White House, Baucus, and PhRMA had reached.  The White House has long denied the deal.
Steven Edwards / National Post:
Canada to walk out on Ahmadinejad's UN speech  —  Ahmadinejad warned Western powers it was too late to stop Iran's nuclear programme, amid ...  UNITED NATIONS — Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, saying his outbursts about the Holocaust and Israel are “shameful.”
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Missouri Senate  —  2010 Missouri Senate: Blunt 46%, Carnahan 46%  —  Democrat Robin Carnahan and Republican Roy Blunt are dead even in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of the hotly contested race for the U.S. Senate in Missouri.
Ashley Womble / Cosmopolitan.com Conversation Starters …:
Senator Is the Centerfold  —  Long before he was a politician, the Republican candidate vying for Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat posed nude for the centerfold of Cosmo.  Scott Brown won our “America's Sexiest Man” contest and appeared in the June 1982 issue.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Wonkette and Gawker
New York Post:
Khadafy booted from Camp Trump  —  W'chester foils Trump guest  —  Unwelcome Libyan thug Moammar Khadafy briefly found a comfy spot to rest his foul head yesterday — at Donald Trump's palatial estate in suburban Westchester.  —  But town officials in tony Bedford put the kibosh …
Discussion: The New Republic, BBC and On Deadline
Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
Our $2 Trillion Bridge to Nowhere  —  Americans believe Washington squanders half of every tax dollar.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  If you want to know why Americans are so fearful of a government takeover of the health-care system, take a look at the results of a new Gallup poll on government waste released Sept. 15.
Ryan Young / The Politico:
Cap-and-trade will depress home prices  —  Cap and trade is back in the news.  By the end of this month, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is expected to unveil new legislation along the lines of the Waxman-Markey bill, which passed the House on June 26.
 
 
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Amanda Carpenter / Washington Times:
U.S. ‘diversity czar’ takes heat over remarks
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
White House Pares Its Financial Reform Plan
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama's Tire Tariff May Protect Unions but Harms the Nation
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Medical Malpractice System Breeds More Waste
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and Law Blog
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
On Human Rights, Liberals Paralyzed by Internal Struggles
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CNN:
McCain blasts ‘disconnect’ between WH and military leaders
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