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TWI’s Spencer Ackerman is filing live updates on the McChrystal-Eikenberry Afghanistan hearings; follow them here.
Delegates to the Copenhagen summit will face the world’s biggest climate protest ever.
Last week, Tiger Woods and the White House party crashers got more media coverage than health care, More…
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Marc Ambinder previews the “Obama surge” in seven bullet points.
But it’s not really a surge, is it?
Keith Olbermann says “declare victory and get out.”
Politico botches its Cheney interview over Bush’s botching of Afghanistan.
Harry Reid is “confident” that he’ll find a public option More…
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As President Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, a new poll finds the public split on the deployment.
Palin 2012: the apocalyptic film, as envisioned by SNL.
Steele: Palin has the “gravitas” to be president.
The conservative 60 Plus Association More…
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Health care lobbying has almost doubled in 2009.
The gun lobby claim that the Senate health bill would allow the government to crack down on gun ownership.
The weak public option compromises in the House and Senate bills could be bad politics.
Blanche Lincoln’s Website More…
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One poll reveals a sharp divide over health reform; another shows broad support for taxing the wealthy to finance the overhaul.
The Post profiles embattled senator and health care swing vote Blanche Lincoln.
Obama urges China to talk with the Dalai Lama.
Fox News is More…
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Drug companies have been raising prices at the fastest rate since 1992.
President 2.0 Barack Obama has never used Twitter.
Karl Rove rips into Obama for his bow to the Japanese Emperor.
The energy industry targets Lindsey Graham for supporting cap-and-trade — More…
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Pelosi fills Kennedy’s shoes on health care.
The “no’s” on the House health bill received one-third more from health insurance interests than the “yeses.”
The conservative League of American Voters rips into government-run health care.
Politico illustrates the socialist “Scream” through the More…
Huckabee: Conservative Party Asked Me Not to Get Involved in NY-23 (Video)
Here’s another nugget from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s appearance today in Washington. Huckabee caught some heat from the right, particularly from RedState’s Erick Erickson, for withholding his endorsement for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman until Republican Dede Scozzafava had dropped out of the race.
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Huckabee: NY-23 GOP Candidate Scozzafava ‘a Total Train Wreck’ (Video)
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee came under harsh criticism from the right for withholding his endorsement for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman until after Republican Dede Scozzafava withdrew from the race. At an event today at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, Huckabee ripped into the GOP candidate — More…
NY-23: 86 Percent of Owens’ Contributions From Outside District
Here’s a follow up to my post yesterday on NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s outside-of-the-district fundraising, which came in at a remarkable 95 percent. Today I crunched the Federal Election Commission numbers for Democratic candidate Bill Owens. Nearly 86 percent of his contributions More…
