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3:55 AM ET, October 13, 2009

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Fox News:
White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News  —  Anita Dunn, White House communications director, calls Fox News a “wing of the Republican Party,” after the White House began using its government blog to criticize “Fox lies.”  —  FOXNews.com  —  Calling Fox News “a wing of the Republican Party …
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Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
White House Talks DADT Repeal With Lieberman  —  Shortly after President Barack Obama pledged Saturday to end “don't ask, don't tell,” the Administration's highest-ranking LGBT official said the White House is speaking with certain senators about strategies for repealing the policy …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House Disavows Report That It Disdains Gay Critics …
Wall Street Journal:
Business Fends Off Tax Hit
Discussion: FT Alphaville
The Note:
‘Top Line’ — President Obama's Blogger Problem
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Angry White Men Have Real Grievances  —  It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama will probably hurt him among some of his fellow citizens.  —  His opponents are describing the award as premature.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Job Approval at 56% After Nobel Win  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama appears to have gotten a slight bounce in support after he was announced as the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday.  His 56% job approval rating for the last two Gallup Daily tracking updates is up from a term-low 50% …
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
NOBEL SURPRISE  —  If President Obama really had to get a gift …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Robert D. Kaplan / The Atlantic Online:
Time for Decisiveness on Afghanistan
Discussion: Hot Air and Commentary
John / Power Line:
Dumb “Reform”  —  Today's big news story is the release of a report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on the impact the Senate Finance Committee's health care “reform” bill will have on health insurance premiums.  PWC concluded that the cost of health insurance for the average family will rise by $4,000 by 2019, as compared with doing nothing:
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Ezra Klein:
The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report
Associated Press:
Seniors lobby challenges health insurance report
Discussion: CBS News and TPMDC
Jesse Lee / WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
Reality Check: AHIP's “Study” Hard to Take Seriously
Discussion: The Hill and Ben Smith's Blog
New York Times:
Views on Afghanistan Buildup Bring Clinton and Gates Together in an Alliance  —  WASHINGTON — The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert M. Gates delivered a one-two punch in favor of a more ambitious approach.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Number of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Overlooks Thousands of Support Troops  —  Additional Deployments Not Announced and Rarely Noted  —  President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.  But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Question of When Dishonesty Becomes Criminal  —  In February, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that federal prosecutors had developed an unseemly crush on a particularly vague law, one that had “been invoked to impose criminal penalties upon a staggeringly broad swath of behavior.”
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon?  —  NEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy.  But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.
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Paul Krugman:
An institutional economics prize  —  Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson.  What a day for them!  —  The way to think about this prize is that it's an award for institutional economics, or maybe more specifically New Institutional Economics.
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Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Two Americans Are Awarded Nobel in Economics
Rebecca Sinderbrand / CNN:
Limbaugh: 'The media didn't make me, and they can't break me'  —  (CNN) - Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is dismissing Democratic campaigns to paint him as the man steering the Republican Party, and media frenzies over his most controversial comments.
Mark Preston / CNN:
Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president again  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she would not run for president again, and brushed off suggestions that she is being marginalized in the Obama White House.  —  Clinton, who lost the Democratic …
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Turkey sends ten ministers to Syria for strategic talks  —  Article's topics: Turkey, Syria, Ehud Barak  —  Less than a week after Turkey informed Israel that it was unwelcome in the Anatolian Eagle military exercise, 10 Turkish ministers are scheduled to travel to Syria on Tuesday …
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Jihad Watch
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
EXIT THROUGH LOBBY  —  Resigning in protest is not in the American grain.  Robert McNamara stuck around as Secretary of Defense even after he decided that the Vietnam War was a disaster; Colin Powell did the same during the Bush Administration's push for war with Iraq; and in the lead …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, EnviroKnow and Ezra Klein
The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
Nevada Senate Moved to Toss-Up  —  With recent polls continuing to show Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) trailing potential GOP challengers in next year's midterm election, Reid's hold on his Nevada Senate seat looks increasingly questionable.  We are moving the seat from Narrow Advantage for Incumbent Party to Toss-Up.
Spiegel Online:
German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran  —  US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed to Syria from Iran.  The shipment is in violation of a UN weapons embargo and has become a source of chagrin in Berlin.
 
 
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Napolitano Says Al-Qaeda-Style Terrorists Are in U.S.
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California Tries to Solve Water Woes
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Market Garden  —  Kandahar City, Afghanistan
Discussion: American Power
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McCain team gets behind Tim Pawlenty
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rangel gets primary challenge from former campaign director
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