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Mark Landler / New York Times:Clinton Emerges as Key Link to Afghan Leader — KABUL, Afghanistan — It is far from clear that President Obama can depend on President Hamid Karzai to bring order to this violent country, but it is becoming clear that he will depend on Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his go-between in dealing wi (Read More)
New York Times:
As the city tries to find the way out of the financial abyss, its political system increasingly reflects the influence of evangelical churches.
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National Review Online:
Harry Reid offers the nation a mephitic Senate health-care bill that retains the worst features of Nancy Pelosi’s creation and adds fresh horrors of its own: It will force Americans to finance abortions and jack up some Americans’ Medicare taxes by 34 percent. On paper, the House bill costs a little more than $1 trillion, t (Read More)
National Review Online:
In the 2008 presidential race, John McCain often dueled with Barack Obama over health care. Over a year later, Obama is in the White House and McCain finds himself back on Capitol Hill. The battle, however, continues. With the president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) making a final push to pass Obamacare (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Progressives who were paying attention breathed a sigh of relief and gratitude when President Obama left abstinence-only funding out of the 2010 budget. Finally, we had a more reality-based approach to human sexuality reflected in government policy, or at least, not affront to it. Some people, therefore, hoped that when the (Read More)
National Review Online:
Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor’s writing chops, excerpting the following sentence from her book:“The apartment was small, (Read More)
National Review Online:
How much would you pay to watch Sarah Palin beat the stuffing out of Andrew Sullivan? What would Barack Obama’s official Kenyan birth certificate be worth to you? How about a videotape proving that Bill Ayers not only wrote Dreams from My Father, but also translated it from the original Russian? How about a new Christmas CD (Read More)
Huffington Post:
White House vs. Fox News is so last month. The final health care throw-down in the Senate hasn't quite arrived. But not since the Bob McDonnell-Creigh Deeds beatdown last month have we had a fresh, juicy political feud for the average Metro rider to talk about and take sides. Fortunately, the D.C. sports scene has been abn (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Never one to shy away from hyperbole, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) insisted on Friday that the Department of Justice's decision to try terrorist suspects in civilian court will result in a growth in domestic terrorism and the increased likelihood of American deaths.Speaking on a conference call with reporters, the Iowa Republic (Read More)
NY Post:
Repudiating his own campaign theme, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday praised Comptroller Bill Thompson as someone "who's really tried to make this city better" and who has based his decisions on facts, not politics.
When he was running against Thompson, ... (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Feminist blogger Kate Harding often takes issue with how cynical the progressives on Daily Kos write about abortion politics, but on Nov. 10, they found some common ground. Two days after the House voted to approve health care reform and the Stupak Amendment, which seemed to catch so many by surprise, Kate wrote on Salon a (Read More)