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9:55 AM ET, October 12, 2009

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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
BREAKING FROM NBC: White House official calls gays part of “Internet left fringe”  —  UPDATE FROM PAM: … And let me just add that if we're all insignificant children who don't understand politics, and who the White House doesn't worry about, then why did a White House official feel the need …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Fox's Volley With Obama Intensifying  —  Attacking the news media is a time-honored White House tactic but to an unusual degree, the Obama administration has narrowed its sights to one specific organization, the Fox News Channel, calling it, in essence, part of the political opposition.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
White House Thinks Demonstrators “Internet Left Fringe” Who Need to “Take Off The Pajamas”  —  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy  —  Those anonymous White House aides are talking tough again, this time about what the New York Times calls …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Gay Rights Marchers Press Cause in Washington  —  WASHINGTON - Impatient and discouraged by what they see as a certain detachment by President Obama on their issues, gay rights supporters took to the streets of the capital on Sunday in the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade.
John Cloud / Time:
Obama's Gay Outreach: All Talk, No Action
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Insurance Group Says Health Bill Will Mean Higher Premiums  —  Report Issued Before Key Committee Vote  —  After months of collaboration on President Obama's attempt to overhaul the nation's health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Insurance Industry Assails Health Care Legislation  —  WASHINGTON — In a blistering new attack, the health insurance industry said Sunday that health care legislation drafted by Senate Democrats would drive up premiums, rather than making coverage more affordable, as the White House contends.
Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Finance health vote will require a leap of faith for several senators
Discussion: Capitol Briefing and Bloomberg
Fox News:
Insurers Mount Attack Against Health Reform
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Heckuva Job, Barack  —  This was Barack Obama's chance.  —  Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that's weighed his presidency down — the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha.  —  Here was a place to draw …
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David Von Drehle / Time:
Why the Nobel Peace Prize Should Go to Nuclear Weapons
Discussion: Power Line and Balloon Juice
Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
Pelosi Key to GOP 2010 Playbook  —  Republicans Hope Linking House Speaker to Democrats Can Turn Centrist Districts  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are stepping up attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, deciding that a major part of their 2010 electoral strategy will be linking Democratic candidates to her.
Discussion: CBS News, The Note and Commentary
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Foreclosures Grow in Housing Market's Top Tiers  —  New data suggest that foreclosures are rising in more expensive housing markets.  —  About 30% of foreclosures in June involved homes in the top third of local housing values, up from 16% when the foreclosure crisis began three years ago …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Why Email No Longer Rules...  And what that means for the way we communicate  —  Services like Twitter, Facebook and Google Wave create a constant stream of interaction among users—for better or worse.  —  Email has had a good run as king of communications.  But its reign is over.
Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Cable News Irony Alert: CNN, Fox and The Disappearing General Audience  —  White House Communications Director Anita Dunn appeared Sunday morning on Howard Kurtz's CNN show Reliable Sources to discuss her comments in my TIME magazine story this week.  She continued her criticism of Fox News:
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership  —  While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-Big Government tea party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party.  —  Whether it's the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups …
New York Times:
U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas  —  DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.
Discussion: Don Surber
Lewis Sorley / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Afghan Lessons From Vietnam  —  The ‘clear and hold’ strategy of Gen. Creighton Abrams was working in South Vietnam.  Then Congress pulled the plug on funding.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  More than 30 years have passed since North Vietnam, in gross violation of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, conquered South Vietnam.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Jill Treanor / Guardian:
ATMs monitored hourly during crisis  —  Special report: Extent of FSA fears and reason for taxpayers' bank bailout revealed  —  City watchdogs were monitoring cash withdrawals from Royal Bank of Scotland every hour during the height of the banking crisis, the Guardian can reveal.
Discussion: Clusterstock and AMERICAblog News
 
 
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Mark Steyn / The Corner on National Review Online:
The Withering of Free Speech — By: Mark Steyn
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Clinton Affirms U.S. Ties With Britain and Ireland
Discussion: The New Republic and The Page
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
After drill cancellation, Barak says Turkey major player in ME
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Jihad Watch
Joseph Rocha / Washington Post:
I Didn't Tell. It Didn't Matter.
Daniel Libit / The Politico:
Think Progress makes its mark
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Think Progress
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Katherine Skiba / Los Angeles Times:
Gays, lesbians march on Washington, calling for full equality
Discussion: American Power and Truthdig
David Cho / Washington Post:
Steep Losses Pose Crisis for Pensions