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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
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Limbaugh's Wrong: Gallup's Obama Approval Below 50%

New survey is latest disappointment for President

1 hour, 39 minutes ago
BLAGO FALLOUT


 Ethics Panel 
 Slaps Burris 
 on the Wrist 

'Letter of admonition' cites fibs surrounding Blagojevich

3 hours, 55 minutes ago

Plastic Surgeons Make Faces Over Health Care Tax

Senate bill calls for 5% levy; critics cry sex discrimination

4 hours, 58 minutes ago
poll shows dead heat


 Far-Right 
 Challenger 
 a Threat 
 to McCain 

Talk show host JD Hayworth gets close in new poll

5 hours, 34 minutes ago
Paul Krugman

 AIG Bailout Squandered Our Money, Trust

Geithner & Co. were afraid to ask Wall Street for concessions

5 hours, 47 minutes ago
Nate Silver

Most Red State Dems Can Vote for Health Care

Only Blanche Lincoln faces 2010 fight, and she'll be a tough sell

6 hours, 15 minutes ago

Rush: Gallup Counting Too Many Blacks for Obama

That's why the president's approval ratings are above 50%, he says

7 hours, 27 minutes ago
finally over?

Hoffman Can't Catch Owens
in NY-23 Race

Not enough ballots remain for him to overcome margin

8 hours, 20 minutes ago




 Sarah Palin's 
 $25.6M Week 



Think of it as a 1-woman stimulus package for herself, publishing, media

8 hours, 31 minutes ago

 FHA Helps High-End Buyers  

Raised guarantee limit may be tough to roll back

10 hours, 8 minutes ago
DAVID BROOKS

 Geithner Got It Right 

Treasury secretary's pragmatic approach to financial crisis paid off

10 hours, 27 minutes ago
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

 KSM Trial 
 Will Be a 
 Perverse Farce 

It will be like rereleasing '9/11—the Director's Cut'

10 hours, 30 minutes ago

Huckabee: Obama
Attacks 'Shameful'

Republican condemns
knee-jerk criticism

12 hours, 10 minutes ago
OPINION

Mammogram Backdown
Hurts Health Reform

Sebelius played politics, missed chance to show leadership

13 hours, 53 minutes ago
SURPRISE, SURPRISE

 Sullivan Back; Still Hates Palin 

Calls her book 'manifesto for the imagined life'

Nov 19, 09 8:49 PM CST
men of the year

 Eastwood Is 
 Top 'Badass' 

Kobe Bryant, Chris Pine, Barack Obama make 2009's elite list

Nov 19, 09 7:33 PM CST
OPINION

In Piling On Palin, Liberals Make Fools of Themselves

 ...and legitimize her
as a true rogue

Nov 19, 09 5:30 PM CST

 America's 
 Best Political 
 Memoirs 

Sarah Palin hasn't got anything on Ulysses S. Grant

Nov 19, 09 4:38 PM CST

Obama to Cuban Blogger: Next Move Is Castro's

President sidesteps question on Castro government's legitimacy

Nov 19, 09 3:33 PM CST

Giuliani Plans Run for US Senate

He's also got his eye
on a 2012 presidential bid, say insiders

Nov 19, 09 2:56 PM CST
whose law applies?

Tribal Casino Defaults
May Sink Creditors  

Foxwood failure sparks debate over  'sovereign nation' status

Nov 19, 09 2:17 PM CST
OBAMA'S FREE RIDE

 Latest Undeserved 
 Honor: Black Belt 

Obama is now a master of tae kwon do, with 0 years practice

Nov 19, 09 2:07 PM CST

 McCain 
 Defends 
 Staffers 
 From Palin 

Says he's 'proud' of her, but 'it's just time to move on'

Nov 19, 09 11:47 AM CST

Disgruntled Dem Wants Geithner, Summers Sacked

Peter DeFazio says White House betrayed Main St. for Wall St.

Nov 19, 09 10:42 AM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

2
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

14
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

7
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

5
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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