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8:45 AM ET, October 13, 2009

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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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New York Times:
Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans  —  WASHINGTON — A proposed tax on high-cost, or “Cadillac,” health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House as they wrestle over how to pay for legislation that would provide health benefits to millions of uninsured Americans.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Dems scramble after warning from health insurers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more.  Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate …
Associated Press:
Seniors lobby challenges health insurance report
Discussion: CBS News and TPMDC
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 …
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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.
The Politico:
BRUCE JENNER: BARACK OBAMA UNDESERVING OF NOBEL AWARD  —  TMZ has a video of former Olympian and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” reality star Bruce Jenner weighing in on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win.  —  “He's done nothing,” Jenner said.  “He's done absolutely nothing.”
Discussion: Balloon Juice, TMZ.com and Gawker
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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: The Fix and Prairie Weather
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 …
Vernon L. Smith / Forbes:
Governing The Commons  —  No one should now say “Elinor who?” Nobel Laureate, Elinor Ostrom, Oct. 12, 2009  —  I have just returned from an undergraduate multidisciplinary class that my colleague (Bart Wilson) and I teach, “Foundations of Economic Exchange.”
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David R. Henderson / Wall Street Journal:
A Nobel for Practical Economics  —  One winner helped us understand the social benefits of mergers, the other how to take care of common resources.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Yesterday's award of the Nobel Prize in economics to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson at first struck me as a good choice.
Paul Krugman:
An institutional economics prize
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 …
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The Huffington Post:
Bloggers Furious At White House For Anonymous Ridicule
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.”
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Liz Cheney group takes on ‘radical’ W.H.  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney's eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation's security.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Business Fends Off Tax Hit  —  President Barack Obama addresses business leaders in March in Washington.  The Obama administration has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 billion in new taxes on multinational companies.  —  The Obama administration has shelved a plan to raise …
Discussion: Clusterstock and FT Alphaville
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.
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
Wall Street Journal:
Cost Cuts Lift Profits but Hinder Economy  —  U.S. stocks notched new 52-week highs again on Monday, thanks to corporate America showing better-than-expected profits.  But that optimism belies deep worries among company executives about the strength of the economic recovery.
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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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
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James Pethokoukis:
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Washington Post:
McDonnell, Deeds Face Off in Televised Debate
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David Leigh / Guardian:
Guardian gagged in parliament
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Bloomberg:
Napolitano Says Al-Qaeda-Style Terrorists Are in U.S.
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