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Constitutionality of Health Insurance Mandate Questioned — President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president's proposals.
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Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions — A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists. … A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals …
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CIA Used Gun, Drill in Interrogation — IG Report Describes Tactics Against Alleged Cole Mastermind — CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to try to frighten a captured al-Qaeda commander into giving up information, according to a long-concealed agency report due …
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Baucus does not represent his state, say Montanans — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 8/17-19. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines) — Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Max Baucus' actions on health care? — Approve Disapprove Not sure — All 42 44 14
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Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us
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'I've never seen anything like this' — MARIANNA, Fla. — Rep Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) is a skilled politician who has pretty much seen it all — a Deep South Democrat who's managed to dispatch all opponents in his conservative-leaning Panhandle district since winning election in 1996.
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DownWithTyranny!, American Power, Hot Air, Riehl World View, Wake up America and Seeing the Forest
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Monitors: Taliban cut off fingers of Afghan voters — KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Making good on a threat of election day violence, the Taliban sliced off the index fingers of at least two people in Kandahar province, according to a vote monitoring group. — After they cast their ballots …
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White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform — The White House revealed to FOX News that it hired a private communications firm to distribute mass e-mails, including unsolicited spam to help sell President Obama's health care plan. — FOXNews.com
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Is Donna Edwards Catching the #Rahmflu? — It was somewhat disconcerting when Donna Edwards would not confirm to the Hill this week that she would vote against any bill through conference that did not have a public plan: … So Howie Klein asked her if she'd like to clarify that.
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Stimulus hits a pothole — And Obamacare can't be rationalized on economic or medical grounds because it's not about that. It's about moving America left. — Recommend — The other day, wending my way from Woodsville, N.H., 40 miles south to Plymouth, I came across several “stimulus” …
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Lebanese man is target of first rendition under Obama — Contractor Raymond Azar is arrested in Afghanistan, hooded, stripped and flown to the U.S. His alleged crime? Bribery. A human rights activist calls the case ‘bizarre.’ — Reporting from Alexandria, Va. - A Lebanese citizen …
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“Wars of Necessity” — This phrase is getting kicked around a lot lately, I'm sort of in search of an operational definition. Fortunately, here's Richard Haas: … If that's what people mean by “war of necessity” then I think we can probably do without the phrase.
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Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Grasping Reality …, Washington Post and New York Times
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Snowe Says No Public Option, White House Says “That's Democracy” — The Senate Finance Committee will not include a public option in its health care bill, one of the key Republican negotiators said on Friday — to which the White House responded, with a shrug: “That's democracy.”
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