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Throwback in South Carolina
MSNBC, Hardball by Chris Matthews
Freshman Congressman Jason Chaffettz -- he's the republican from Utah --
was confronted by a conspiracy theorist in a town hall this week. He goes
along with the bearded fellow that's pushing the "truther" line that 9/11 was an
inside job by the ...
Posted by Kristin Gorski

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Today's News (MSM)
Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide
New York Times by Nelson D. Schwartz, ...
Bets by some of the same banks that helped Greece shroud its mounting
debts ...
via Dan Gillmor

3.6

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Today's News (IND)
Health Care Summit Squabbles
FactCheck by Brooks Jackson, Viveca ...
We tuned in to watch the president’s health care summit at Blair House today
— all six-plus hours of it. And we ...
Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

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Editors Pick - News
Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason
Mother Jones by Justine Sharrock
Glenn Beck loves them. Tea Partiers court them. Congressmen listen to them.
Meet the fast-growing ...
Posted by Joey Baker

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Today's Opinion (MSM)
Did Obama send the correct message?
MSNBC, Hardball by Chris Matthews, ...
(Video) This Hardball panel discusses whether or not President Obama is late
in presenting his ideas to Congress ...
Posted by Fabrice Florin

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Today's Opinion (IND)
Dems Hiding Behind Filibuster to Justify Political ...
Democracy Now by Glenn Greenwald
(Multimedia) The Obama administration is holding a bi-partisan ...
Posted by Dwight Rousu

4.8

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Editors Pick - Opinion
The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in ...
Press Think by Jay Rosen
(Blog Post) This sounds like politics the way our journalists ...
Posted by Joey Baker

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Blackwater workers took police assault rifles, hearing told
The Guardian by Daniel Nasaw | Feb. 25, 2010 (News Report)
Employees of American defence contractor Blackwater took more than 500
assault rifles intended for Afghan police force Employees of American
defence contractor Blackwater took ...
Posted by Mary Smith

3.6

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C.I.A. and ISI Train Wary Eye on Goals, and Each Other
New York Times by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez | Feb. 25, 2010 (News
Report)
Despite a tormented relationship, the U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies
are working together on tactical operations, as the C.I.A. extends its secret
war deep into ...
via Foreign Policy
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Fact-checking Obama's bipartisan health care reform meeting
PolitiFact by Angie Drobnic Holan | Feb. 25, 2010 (News Analysis)
It's not clear whether Thursday's health care reform summit will be a roll-up-
their-sleeves negotiating session, or just another forum to repeat party talking
points.
Posted by Jon Mitchell

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What The Antitrust Exemption For Health Insurers Means
NPR by Jenny Gold | Feb. 25, 2010 (Special Report)
... many antitrust experts say that ending the exemption — by repealing the
1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act — wouldn't significantly increase competition or
reduce premiums.
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Health Care Summit: We Rebut A Pre-buttal
FactCheck by Justin Bank | Feb. 25, 2010 (News Report)
The conservative American Future Fund has released an attack ad in
anticipation of President Obama’s health care summit with Democrats and
Republicans at the Blair House on ...
via NewsRack
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More than healthcare riding on Thursday's summit
Los Angeles Times by Peter Nicholas | Feb. 25, 2010 (News Analysis)
The healthcare summit that convenes Thursday in Washington has emerged
as a high-stakes gambit for President Obama and opposing Republican
lawmakers, carrying risks for both ...
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business
Who Are You and What Did You Eat?
Miller-McCune by Michael Scott Moore | Feb. 25, 2010 (Special Report)
Meanwhile, the U.S. also started requesting loads of private information from
airlines, including passenger cell phone numbers and the names of people
who’d ordered a ...
Posted by J Sinclaire

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13 Republicans break rank as Senate passes $15 billion jobs bill
Christian Science Monitor by Gail Russell Chaddock | Feb. 25, 2010 (News
Report)
Breaking partisan stalemate, 13 Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday to
approve a $15 billion jobs bill. Both sides see the cooperation as a template
for progress on future ...
via Christian Science Monitor
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Facebook Glitch Sends Wrong Messages - Digits - WSJ
blogs.wsj.com by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries | Feb. 25, 2010 (News)
Last night, in an embarrassing glitch for Facebook, some users of the social-
networking site began getting hundreds of personal messages that weren't
intended for them.
Posted by Subramanya Sastry
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EPA takes heat on climate rule
The Politico by Lisa Lerer | Feb. 24, 2010 (Special Report)
Republicans, major business groups and a handful of coal-state Democrats
are launching a barrage of attacks against the Environmental Protection
Agency, hoping to stop new ...
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Author Shane Harris on "The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance
State"
Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez | Feb. 25, 2010 (Review)
(Multimedia) For his new book, "The Watchers: The Rise of America's
Surveillance State", National Journal correspondent Shane Harris spoke to
the key architects of the US government's ...
Posted by Dwight Rousu

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Reconciliation and truth
Washington Post by Post | Feb. 25, 2010 (Editorial)
LET'S GET a few things straight about reconciliation, the procedure by which
Democrats may be able to pass health-care reform by a simple majority. We
aren't fans of using the ...
Posted by Randy Morrow

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A route to resolution for Syria and Israel | Gabrielle Rifkind
The Guardian (Opinion)
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Ancient Horned Crocodile Found—Ate Early Humans?
National Geographic
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Taliban Hit 5 Star Hotel, Indian Hostels in Downtown Kabul; 18 Dead, 32
Wounded; Indians Targeted
Informed Comment (Opinion)
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Switching sides in Afghanistan
Washington Post
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Health summit, health showdown
San Francisco Chronicle (Opinion)
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Throwback in South Carolina
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