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10:10 AM ET, January 27, 2010

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David Hammer / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
ACORN ‘gotcha’ man arrested in attempt to tamper with Mary Landrieu's office phones … Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe …
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Tom Schaller / FiveThirtyEight:
This President Ought to Know Better
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bringing Sexy Back  —  He's The One, all right.  —  The handsome, athletic pol with the comely wife and two lovely daughters who precipitously rose from the State Legislature to pull us all together.  —  The fresh face and disarming underdog America's been waiting for …
Michelle Cole / Oregonian:
Measures 66 and 67 passing by wide margin … It looks like Oregon corporations and high-income earners will pay higher state taxes as voters weighed in Tuesday on two hotly debated measures.  —  The latest results indicate both Measure 66 and 67 passed in 11 of Oregon's 36 counties.
Discussion: QandO and Mother Jones
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Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Voters in Oregon OK tax hikes for some
Discussion: Washington Monthly, MyDD and msnbc.com
William Yardley / New York Times:
Oregon Voters Approve Tax Increase
Harry Esteve / Oregonian:
Oregon voters pass tax increasing measures by big margin
Discussion: American Power
New York Times:
Democrats Put Lower Priority on Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON — With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama's top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying they no longer felt pressure to move quickly …
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Washington Wire:
Book Report: ‘The Politician’ By Andrew Young  —  If Washington Wire readers are interested in reading Andrew Young's forthcoming tell-all on his decade behind the scenes with John Edwards, the story heats up on page 154 when Young begins to recount how the 2008 presidential hopeful …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Inside the Edwards Trainwreck
Discussion: Hotline On Call and The Caucus
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
McCaskill on Edwards: 'He's Disgusting'
Discussion: Riehl World View and Raw Story
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes  —  U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders …
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Emptywheel:
The List of US Citizens Targeted for Killing (or Capture)
Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog
Rich Lowry / The Corner on National Review Online:
Teleprompter Shot of the Day — By: Rich Lowry  —  Here's Obama dropping in for a chat with his middle-class task force.  And people made fun of Reagan because of his notecards!
Washington Post:
Obama to promote more education spending in State of the Union speech  —  President Obama will propose a major increase in funding for elementary and secondary education for the coming year in Wednesday's State of the Union address, one of the few areas that would grow in an otherwise austere federal budget, officials said.
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New York Times:
Two at Fed Had Doubts Over Payout by A.I.G.  —  Weeks after rescuing the American International Group with an $85 billion taxpayer loan in late 2008, Federal Reserve Board officials rejected a proposal that would have forced the insurer's trading partners to return $30 billion in cash …
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The Huffington Post:   Is Bernanke Hiding A Smoking Gun?
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
House to Senate: We're Ready On Health Care If You Are  —  Leading Democrats in the House still insist that “all options are on the table” to move ahead on health care.  But for the first time since last Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts, it's clear that they're coalescing around …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Half say start anew on health care bill
Discussion: Swampland, Hot Air, TPMDC and The Hill
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Adults Only, Please  —  Maybe it's just me, but I've found the last few weeks in American politics particularly unnerving.  Our economy is still very fragile, yet you would never know that by the way the political class is acting.  We're like a patient that just got out of intensive care …
Quinnipiac University:
Republican Leads In Florida Governor's Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Yes To Oil Drilling, No To Haitians  —  Florida voters support State Attorney General Bill McCollum's promise to challenge the constitutionality of any federal health care bill that forces people …
Stephen Koff / Plain Dealer:
'I'm Ellie Light,' California man says: Obama letter writer talks … WASHINGTON — Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer whose name appeared in newspapers nationwide praising President Barack Obama, appears to really be a male health care worker from California.
Michael Steele / The Politico:
An explanation to the nation  —  As President Barack Obama steps up to the podium Wednesday night to deliver his State of the Union address, the American people will be intently listening for an explanation to the past year of failed policies.  This president was elected to change business …
Discussion: The Swamp
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ABCNEWS:
President to Deliver First State of the Union Tonight
Discussion: The Page and Political Punch
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Poll: Fox most trusted name in news  —  Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday.  —  A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.
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Orlando Sentinel:
Obama aims to ax moon mission  —  NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead.  So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.  —  When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money …
Discussion: Instapundit
CNN:
First on the Ticker: Wilson to deliver State of the Union Facebook response  —  Washington (CNN) - Congressman Joe Wilson will deliver the first ever live response to a State of the Union via Facebook on Wednesday.  —  The South Carolina Republican is most known for blurting out “You lie! …
Discussion: Mediaite
John Koblin / New York Observer:
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site  —  In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall.  The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall …
Andrew Neil / Andrew Neil's blog:
The dam is cracking  —  The bloggers are all over the UN IPCC 2007 report, the bible of global warming, which predicted all manner of dire outcomes for our planet unless we got a grip on rising temperatures — and it seems to be crumbling in some pretty significant areas.
Marty Peretz / The New Republic:
Maybe I'm Getting Paranoid ... About Obama  —  I've just read the transcript of the president's remarks about Haiti, the ones he made on January 15.  He noted that, in addition to assistance from the United States, significant aid had also come from “Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, among others.”
Discussion: Israel Matzav and GINA COBB
 
 
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Breitbart.tv:
CONGRESSMAN ADMITS: 'WE'RE TOLD NOT TO CALL IT ANOTHER STIMULUS …
Discussion: Hot Air
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
After Brown's Win, G.O.P. Officials Weigh ‘Purity’ Test
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
How Obama can reverse Iran's dangerous course
Discussion: Commentary and TBogg
Bloomberg:
Roubini Never More Pessimistic on Euro Area, Calls Spain a Risk
Discussion: Felix Salmon
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Reason:
The Forfeiture Racket  —  Police and prosecutors won't give up their license to steal.
Discussion: The Agitator
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Obama to push Hill on foreign cash
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and New York Times
Traci Shurley / Dallas Morning News:
Name confusion gets kid's author banned from Texas curriculum
Discussion: Firedoglake and Think Progress
Harold Ford, Jr / NY Post:
Gillbrand responds to Ford Jr.'s ‘parakeet’ comment
 

 
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