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1:40 PM ET, September 24, 2009

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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Effort to replace Kennedy hits snag  —  The Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday granted Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, but with one catch: when the appointment can be made.  —  Lawmakers declined to allow the law …
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Boston Globe:
Kirk named interim senator  —  Governor Deval Patrick today named Paul G. Kirk Jr. to serve as interim US senator, making the announcement in the presence of the immediate family of the late Edward M. Kennedy.  —  “He is a distinguished lawyer, volunteer, and citizen, and he shares the sense …
Boston Globe:
Signs point to Kirk for interim senator
Discussion: Washington Wire
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Gateway Pundit:
Sick.  School Children Taught to Sing Praises to Obama  —  The radical left is now teaching American youth to sing praises to Obama:  —  Hat Tip Steve Tum  —  From the video: This was filmed around June 19, 2009 at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ.  —  Barack Hussein Obama
Megan Fox / New York Post:
Prez comes across as a gullible sap  —  President Obama yesterday did his best impression of a high-school soph omore participating in his first Model UN meeting, retailing pious clichés he learned from his pony-tailed social studies teacher.  —  Even Woodrow Wilson might have blanched …
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The Note:
Finance Fireworks - Cutting Benefits vs. a Govt. Takeover  —  ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports:  —  Tempers flared this morning as the Senate Finance Committee continues to slog through its mark up of a sweeping health care reform bill.  —  Sen. Max Baucus, who chairs the Finance Committee …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:   Sleep-deprived senators start the day bickering
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Dem campaign anxiety: Vulnerables say they lack cover from Pelosi  —  Politically vulnerable Democrats say Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders aren't offering them the protection from tough votes that they did in the last Congress.  —  Conservative Democrats fear that dozens …
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi shoots down public option ‘trigger’
Discussion: Hot Air
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Sometimes it takes an outsider to show the press corps the way.  —  Among the many glorious things about American journalism is that no credentialing organization or regulatory body stands between an individual who wants to break a story and his public reporting of it.
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Doug Wilder whacks Deeds  —  Former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder announced Thursday that he will not be endorsing a candidate in the Virginia gubernatorial race, while mounting some sharp criticism at Democrat Creigh Deeds over his stance on taxes and guns.
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L. Douglas Wilder / Virginia Tomorrow:
Statement on the 2009 Governor's Race  —  There may have been no period in our State's history when the voters are more aware of what issues confront them in their choice for Governor.  We have undergone the worst economic downturn since the Depression.  I have previously set forth the things …
Discussion: Politics Nation
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama to Use Current Law to Support Detentions  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to seek new legislation from Congress authorizing the indefinite detention of about 50 terrorism suspects being held without charges at at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Victory on preventive detention law: in context
Frances Robles / MiamiHerald.com:
They're torturing me, Honduras' Manuel Zelaya claims  —  Honduras' fallen leader told The Miami Herald he is being subjected to mind-altering gas and radiation — and that ‘Israeli mercenaries’ are planning to assassinate him.  —  FROBLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM  —  TEGUCIGALPA — It's been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power.
Federal Eye:
Eye Opener: Census Worker Found Hanged  —  A part-time Census Bureau field worker was found hanged in Kentucky Sept. 12 with the word “fed” scrawled across his chest, according to a law enforcement source.  Bill Sparkman, 51 was found in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest …
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Matt Kelley / USA Today:
Stimulus funds boost number of federal jobs
Discussion: AlterNet
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin breaks with McCain on F-22 cuts  —  Sarah Palin, outlying her “common sense conservative” foreign policy views in Hong Kong yesterday, denounced her former running mate's push to cut new F-22 Raptor fighter jets, an efficiency move in which Senator John McCain allied himself …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and GOP 12
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Rich Lowry / The Corner on National Review Online:
Palin's Hong Kong Speech — By: Rich Lowry
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper  —  Soft Toilet Paper's Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative?  —  By David A. Fahrenthold, Page A01  —  ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — There is a battle for America's behinds.
BBC:
UN council endorses nuclear curbs  —  US President Barack Obama issues nuclear disarmament call  —  The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament, in a session chaired by US President Barack Obama.  —  The resolution calls for further efforts …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Truthdig
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Pushes for Nuke-Free World
New York Times:
New York Police Official in Terror Unit Is Removed  —  The New York Police Department has removed a senior official from one of its two sometimes competing antiterrorism units, after it played a role in disrupting a sensitive federal terrorism investigation, current and former police officials said on Wednesday.
Marist Poll:
9/24: NY Voters to Obama, “Mind Your Business”  —  The White House is urging Governor David Paterson not to run for office next year, but what do New York State voters think?  62% say the Obama Administration is wrong to suggest the governor should not run while 27% think Washington is well within its rights to get involved.
Ben Johnson / NewsReal Blog:
MSNBC Commentator: Republicans “Want to See You Dead...They Kinda Like It When That Woman Has Cancer”  —  Click to see Ed Schultz's unhinged meltdown.  —  On the Wednesday evening edition of “The Ed Show,” MSNBC commentator Ed Schultz stated that Republicans want Americans to die …
Discussion: PoliGazette and The Greenroom
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 2012 foes  —  If Barack Obama had to stand for reelection today he'd win by as much as he did last year, if not more.  —  He leads Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Sarah Palin by anywhere from 7-15 points in hypothetical 2012 contests.  —  Huckabee comes the closest, trailing Obama 48-41.
BBC:
Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found … The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.  —  Experts say the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, is unparalleled in size and worth “a seven figure sum”.
Discussion: On Deadline
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The President Risks Getting Stale  —  Continuous TV appearances can't rescue a bad argument.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  It sounded to White House advisers like a good idea.  Put President Barack Obama on five Sunday morning talk shows.  This would focus attention on health care …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and TPMDC
Andrew Porter / Telegraph:
Barack Obama rebuffs Gordon Brown as ‘special relationship’ sinks to new low  —  Gordon Brown has been snubbed repeatedly by Barack Obama during his trip to the United States, as the fall-out from the release of the Lockerbie bomber appeared to have left “the special relationship” at its lowest ebb for nearly 20 years.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Obama's ‘Policy Presidency’  —  A new publication came across my desk this week containing an essay that offers as good an insight into President Obama's approach to government as anything I have read — and is particularly useful in understanding the struggle over health-care reform.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LOOK WHO'LL BE ON THE TEEVEE (AGAIN).... ABC News announced the guest list for Sunday's episode of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and you'll never guess who's going to be on.  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will go first, followed by the guy who didn't win last year's presidential election.
 
 
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David Rogers / The Politico:
A Postal Service bailout?
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Tim Cavanaugh / Reason:
Corpse of a Thousand Houses
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Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
‘Extremely Unlikely’ Taxpayers Will Be Repaid $700B
Discussion: Don Surber
Mallary Jean Tenore / poynter.org:
News Consumer Study: Media Helped Elect and Continue to Promote Obama
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Big Hollywood:
Enviros Use ACORN Tactics and Attack the Journalist (Literally)
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Don Loos / Big Government:
Obama Administration Moves to Shutdown Disclosure of Big Labor-ACORN Connections
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Why the 6-Week Deadline for Health Care Matters
Discussion: Commentary, Big Hollywood and Bloomberg
 Earlier Items: 
Gene Lyons / Salon:
The public knows the GOP is fibbing
Discussion: Hullabaloo, TalkLeft and The Sideshow
Karen Schuberg / CNSNews:
Obama's Policies Would Redistribute Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth Every Year
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Glenn Beck explains McCain comment, boils fake frog
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Riehl World View
Forbes:
Health, Race And Obama
 

 
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