OPINION OCTOBER 14, 2009, 7:00 P.M. ET
Obama Hasn’t Closed the Health-Care Sale
Wait until the voters figure out how Congress is proposing to pay for reform.
By KARL ROVE
Now that the Senate Finance Committee has voted for the health-care bill drafted by Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, negotiations over the real bill can begin in Senate Majority [...]

Pakistan: The South Waziristan Migration
October 14, 2009 | 1812 GMT
By Scott Stewart
Pakistan has been a busy place over the past few weeks. The Pakistani armed forces have been conducting raids and airstrikes against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other foreign Islamist fighters in Bajaur Agency, a district inside Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), while [...]

THE GREAT GIVEAWAY PRESIDENCY

Obama proposes $250 each for retirees
By Walter Alarkon – 10/14/09 05:24 PM ET
President Barack Obama proposed giving payments of $250 to more than 50 million retired Americans who won’t get an increase in their Social Security checks next year.
The announcement on Wednesday came ahead of the Social Security Administration’s expected announcement that [...]

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health cry is tax them, not us
By CHARLES BABINGTON (AP) – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — Insurance companies, unions and other special interest groups pushed back hard Wednesday against health care legislation that could cost their members billions of dollars.
If they succeed in shifting the proposed taxes away from them, then Congress and [...]

Oct 14, 11:48 AM EDT
Another GOP senator open to health care overhaul
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
WASHINGTON (AP) — A second Republican senator signaled Wednesday she’s open to voting for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting President Barack Obama closer to a historic achievement that has eluded generations of Democratic leaders.
But Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told The [...]

House Republicans accuse Muslim group of trying to plant spies
By Jordy Yager – 10/14/09 11:01 AM ET
Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies.
Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus say the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), tried to plant “spies” within key national security committees to shape [...]

October 14, 2009
What Soros Wanted, Obama Delivers
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
In January 2004, George Soros proclaimed to the world, “I have made rejection of the Bush doctrine the central project of my life.”  To which he added, “America, under Bush, is a danger to the world.  And I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.”  [...]

Whiner-in-Chief
posted by JOHN NICHOLS on 10/12/2009 @ 8:08pm
The Obama administration really needs to get over itself.
First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant.
Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant.
These are not disconnected developments.
An administration that [...]

OCTOBER 14, 2009
Sorting Out Tax Effects in the Bill
By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS
Some questions and answers regarding the Senate Finance Committee health-care bill and how it affects taxes.
Q: Would the legislation raise my income taxes?
A: No. Unlike a House bill that would impose a surtax on the wealthiest Americans, the Senate Finance bill doesn’t directly raise [...]

FILE — This is a Feb. 24, 2009, file photo showing Indianapois Colts owner Jim Irsay during a news conference in Indianapolis. Irsay doesn’t want Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams. Irsay said at the NFL owners’ meetings Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, he wouldn’t vote to approve the radio talk show host. (AP [...]