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Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.
Notwithstanding Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) infamous outburst, President Obama’s big speech Wednesday before both houses of Congress appears to have been a success — at least for now. According to several recent polls, support for health care reform is enjoying a bit of a bounce, ranging from [...]

There’s been an outpouring of praise for the life and legacy of Sen. Edward Kennedy from advocates of immigration reform, who call him the leading champion for immigrants’ rights, from his championing the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated national-origin quotas, to his tireless efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007. That [...]

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen today commends the Bush administration’s “well-run, highly disciplined CIA interrogation program, where clear guidelines were established and abuses or deviations from approved techniques were stopped, reported and addressed.”
I guess Thiessen didn’t read the same CIA inspector general report that so many of us have been scrutinizing in the [...]

In a letter to Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), President Obama yesterday gave the strongest indication yet that he wants to include a public plan option as part of the Democrats’ strategy to overhaul the nation’s health care system this year.
The plans you are discussing embody my core belief that Americans should [...]

ABC News is reporting that newly minted Republican superstar and vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has said war “may be” necessary if Russia invades another country. Um, yeah.
But, when campaigning in Michigan, back when the Russians invaded Georgia, Sen. John McCain stood next to his wife, Cindy, Sens. Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, [...]

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the nine-term Massachusetts Democrat currently being treated for a cancerous brain tumor, will not return to Capitol Hill this year, Congressional Quarterly reported today:
“As Sen. Kennedy said two weeks ago in Denver, he intends to be on the floor of the United States Senate next January, when we begin to write [...]