In this photo taken Sept. 30, 2009, Chicago businessman Stewart Grill, 75, poses in his downtown condominium. The congressional plans for health care overhaul could mean a major restructuring of Medicare. What many seniors want to know, including Grill, is this: Can lawmakers pull this off without reducing benefits? (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Health care overhaul could raise Medicare Rx cost – AP
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Obama’s Olympic failure will only add to doubts about his presidency – Times Online
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October 2, 2009
Obama’s Olympic failure will only add to doubts about his presidency
Tim Reid in Washington
Barack Obama fails to make the case for Chicago to the IOC in Copenhagen
There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he [...]
Chart of the day, hours-worked edition Felix Salmon
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October 2nd, 2009
Chart of the day, hours-worked edition
Jake is on fire with employment charts this morning in the wake of the atrocious payrolls report. This one in particular is new to me, and extremely sobering:
Even at the worst points of the worst recessions of the 1970s and 1980s, never has the number of hours worked [...]
The Stopped Clock– Correct Twice in One Day: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 7
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Returning from extended leave, Wednesday, Keith Olbermann was delivered a Welcome Home gift from the conservative web site Newsmax—a column which all but called for a military coup against Barack Obama.
OLBERMANN: On the heels of a survey posted on Facebook asking should Obama be killed, one right wing columnist has floated the idea of [...]
PJTV’s Poliwood Confronts the Hollywood Left’s “Free Polanski” Movement
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Like most of the political blogosphere NewsReal has covered the controversy surrounding the recent arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski and the resulting reaction from the Hollywood Left. (See Joseph Klein’s take here, Kathy Shaidle’s reporting here, and Chris Yogerst’s initial contribution here.)
For the definitive take on the scandal, though, check out this two part video [...]
U.S. Job Losses May Be Even Larger as Labor’s Model Breaks Down – Bloomberg.com
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Updated: New York, Oct 02 14:45
U.S. Job Losses May Be Even Larger as Labor’s Model Breaks Down
By Carlos Torres
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economic slump earlier this year was so severe it short-circuited the government’s model for calculating payrolls, raising the risk that today’s jobs report may be too optimistic.
About 824,000 more jobs may be [...]
Don’t Blame Voters for California’s Budget Woes – WSJ.com
Don’t Blame Voters for California’s Budget Woes
Big spending pols falsely claim citizen ballot initiatives have tied their hands.
By SHIKHA DALMIA, ADRIAN MOORE AND ADAM B. SUMMERS
With the Golden State still struggling to balance its books, politicians from both sides of the aisle have come up with a nifty way to avoid responsibility for the mess: [...]