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Writing from a completely different set of historical assumptions. http://tinyurl.com/ygbbv2s

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Kudos to Andrew Sullivan for an honest criticism of Anita Dunn, although I’d like to ask him why he thinks Hitler’s decrepid National Socialism was an extreme rightwing ideology. Is it because it was to the right of Bolshevism?

Poo on Gawker for assuming our complacence regarding Mao is because he never bombed our grandparents.  How many Korean War veterans would disagree?

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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:

U.S. official resigns over Afghan war  —  When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan.  —  A former Marine Corps captain …

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RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week (Daniel Tencer/Raw Story) http://tinyurl.com/yjry389

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Daniel Tencer / Raw Story:

RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week  —  Perhaps no one noticed.  Perhaps no one cared.  But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of controversial photos on the Republican National Committee’s Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.

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How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off (Tyler Cowen/New York Times) http://tinyurl.com/yz63osk

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Tyler Cowen / New York Times:

How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off  —  AMERICANS seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it.  With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off.

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Learning to Love Insider Trading (Donald J. Boudreaux/Wall Street Journal) http://tinyurl.com/yjoa8qx

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Donald J. Boudreaux / Wall Street Journal:

Learning to Love Insider Trading  —  Here’s a hot tip: Want to keep companies honest, make the markets work more efficiently and encourage investors to diversify?  Let insiders buy and sell, argues Donald J. Boudreaux.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  It’s Halloween season …

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Prognosis improves for public insurance (Washington Post) http://tinyurl.com/yl2tp55

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Washington Post:

Prognosis improves for public insurance  —  MOMENTUM SHIFT IS DRAMATIC Top Democrats push option in health-care legislation  —  Democratic leaders in the Senate and House have concluded that a government-run insurance plan is the cheapest way to expand health coverage …

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Fox News:

Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview  —  The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News.  But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided …

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Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview (Fox News) http://tinyurl.com/yg34vt4

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Behind War Between White House and Fox (Jim Rutenberg/New York Times) http://tinyurl.com/yl66rcf

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Behind War Between White House and Fox  —  WASHINGTON — Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Midtown Manhattan steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tête-à-tê te.

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Pay Czar to Slash Compensation at Seven Firms (Wall Street Journal) http://tinyurl.com/yhd9466

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Wall Street Journal:

Pay Czar to Slash Compensation at Seven Firms  —  The U.S. pay czar will cut in half the average compensation for 175 employees at firms receiving large sums of government aid, with the vast majority of salaries coming in under $500,000, according to people familiar with the government’s plans.

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Politico digs deep -DEEP! – to find a quote praising the Obama Administration’s executive pay mandates for bailout corporations:

“We commend the pay czar and the administration for telling the people who crashed the economy that they need to make the same sacrifices main street and real America have been forced to take on as a result of the economic crisis,” said Dan Pedrotty, director of the AFL-CIO Office of Investment. “The American people are fed up with watching Wall Street play by a different set of rules and pretend like the economic crisis which they created is for everyone else to suffer through and not them.”

Could they have quoted a more obvious position?

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All hail the Pay Czar! http://tinyurl.com/yh2mfcj

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Reid tells colleagues AMA led him astray, as ‘doc fix’ nears collapse (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) http://tinyurl.com/yf88yl2

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Reid tells colleagues AMA led him astray, as ‘doc fix’ nears collapse  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told colleagues that he was given bad information by the American Medical Association (AMA), which will result in a significant setback to Democrats’ healthcare reform strategy.

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Sam Youngman / The Hill:

President Obama takes on Wall Street in New York City fundraiser  —  President Barack Obama challenged Wall Street to embrace his proposed financial regulations at a New York City fundraiser Tuesday night.  —  Obama criticized the “reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few.”

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President Obama takes on Wall Street in New York City fundraiser (Sam Youngman/The Hill) http://tinyurl.com/yf7twfl

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But 2002 was soooo long ago.

That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics

Americans don’t want anything political in AFPAK, Mr. President.  We only want revenge on the well-funded lunatics of 9/11.  We don’t want the equivocation of a waffling pinko.

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Smart President formerly opposed to the political wars of others now seeks political advantage in his own. http://tinyurl.com/yjhql3y

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