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2:55 PM ET, September 25, 2009

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New York Times:
Iran Is Warned Over Nuclear ‘Deception’  —  PITTSBURGH — President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.
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Washington Post:
Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant  —  President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain blasted Iran's construction of a previously unacknowledged uranium enrichment facility and demanded Friday that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law …
Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Ahmadinejad Stung By Obama's Nuke Revelation  —  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned President Barack Obama against pressing Tehran about new revelations that Iran has been constructing a secret uranium-enrichment plant.  “If I were Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise …
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
MEDVEDEV ON OBAMA, IRAN  —  From NBC's Andrea Mitchell  —  According to representatives of the Russian government, Russia's President Medvedev praised President Obama effusively during a question-and-answer session with students at the University of Pittsburgh.
Johanna Neuman / Top of the Ticket:
Was Hillary Clinton right on Iran?
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and The Swamp
CNN:   Sources: Obama shared Iran intel with Russia, China
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising  —  Complacency, Absence of Big Donors Cited  —  Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers …
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New York Times:
In Poll, Public Wary of Obama on War and Health  —  President Obama is confronting declining support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan and an electorate confused and anxious about a health care overhaul as he prepares for pivotal battles over both issues, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Public Thinks GOP Doesn't Want Compromise, But Wants Obama To Keep Trying Anyway
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
It's time for Obama to take off the kid gloves
Discussion: Moe Lane
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
So Off Message  —  From the new Times/CBS poll out this evening ...  “Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?”
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Boston Globe:
Judge rejects GOP bid to block Senate appointment  —  A Suffolk Superior Court judge today rejected a request by the state Republican Party to block the appointment of Paul G. Kirk Jr. as interim US senator, clearing the way for the Democrat to take the oath of office this afternoon in Washington.
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill, Law Blog and TPMDC
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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Court denies Massachusetts GOP effort to halt Paul Kirk's Senate appointment
Discussion: MyDD
Kirk Late / The Note:
Kirk Late for Work on First Day
Discussion: The Politico
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Ezra Klein:
CBO: A Strong Public Plan Saves Lots of Money  —  According to Congress Daily, the CBO says attaching the public plan to Medicare rates will save even more money than originally thought: … In other words, the conservatives want to spend $85 billion more than the liberals do.
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Confederate Yankee:
Drudge's Easy Libel of the Military  —  Earlier today I noted that Drudge's link to the use of LRADs as “acoustic weapons” was over the top, which he would have easily recognized on his own if he had simply applied logic to the very video he linked.  Put simply, if an LRAD is being used as a weapon …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: The purported military “arrest” …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Afghan Imperative  —  Always there is the illusion of the easy path.  Always there is the illusion, which gripped Donald Rumsfeld and now grips many Democrats, that you can fight a counterinsurgency war with a light footprint, with cruise missiles, with special forces operations and unmanned drones.
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: California Senate  —  2010 California Senate: Boxer Beats Fiorina, DeVore  —  So far, so good for incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer in match-ups against her two best-known Republican opponents to date in California's 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Ohio Senate Race
Discussion: Scorecard's Blog and The Hill
Igor / Wonk Room:
Stabenow Replies To Kyl: You Don't Need Maternity Benefits, ‘But Your Mother Did’  —  This afternoon, while debating an amendment to prohibit the federal government from “defining the health care benefits offered through private insurance,” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) argued, “I don't need maternity care …
Discussion: Think Progress and Ezra Klein
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   STABENOW 1, KYL .... As a rule, if a senator is pushing …
Telegraph:
Pakistan discovers ‘village’ of white German alQaeda insurgents  —  Investigators have discovered a “Jihadi village” of white German al-Qaeda insurgents, including Muslim converts, in Pakistan's tribal areas close to the Afghan border.  —  By Dean Nelson in New Delhi and Allan Hall in Berlin
New York Post:
Translator collapsed during Khadafy's rambling diatribe  —  After struggling to turn Khadafy's insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator's personal interpreter got lost in translation.  —  “I just can't take it any more,” Khadafy's interpreter shouted into the live microphone - in Arabic.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Easy Being Green  —  So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform?  Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents?  —  If so, you'll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change.
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Sources: Emanuel wanted Claypool to be placeholder  —  Plan to keep House seat warm may have included Cabinet consideration  —  It has long been claimed that Rahm Emanuel wanted to find someone to keep his congressional seat warm while he served as President Obama's chief of staff.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and TPMDC
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Banish the Cyber-Bigots  —  The transformation of Germany in the 1920s and '30s from the nation of Goethe to the nation of Goebbels is a specter that haunts, or should haunt, every nation.  —  The triumph of Nazi propaganda in this period is the subject of a remarkable exhibit …
Fox News:
Elementary School Students Taught to Sing Praises of President Obama  —  Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for “Barack Hussein Obama,” as they repeatedly chant the president's name and celebrate his accomplishments.
 
 
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Friday House Line: A GOP-Friendly Environment
Discussion: MyDD
Club for Growth:
Republican Big Spenders . . . and Savers
Discussion: The Conservatives
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Orszagism or Nothing  —  Stupidest question on the latest CBS/NYT poll:**
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Althouse
The Huffington Post:
New Progressive Memo Sent Around Hill Warns Against Finance Committee Health Care
Discussion: TalkLeft
Uwe E. Reinhardt / Economix:
How Much Money Do Insurance Companies Make? A Primer
Discussion: Ezra Klein and WSJ.com
Matthew Cooper / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
More Obamaites to Copenhagen  —  It looks like Ray LaHood …
Discussion: The Page
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David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Because the Democrats “Believe in” Government: During the Bush years …
Mark Hornbeck / Detroit News:
Poll shows edge for Cox as GOP opens leadership conference
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
New Analysis Brings Dire Global Warming Prediction
Karen Travers / Political Punch:
Biden on the Recovery Act: “If It Fails, I'm Dead”
Discussion: Riehl World View
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Wilson to Dems: You “mislead”!
Discussion: The Swamp