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http://bit.ly/xMw9U - The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, has released a new ad that uses the H1N1 vaccine as the crux of its argument against health care overhaul legislation.

http://bit.ly/3s6hz6 - The claim that the House bill would amount to "government-run health care" suffered a blow last week, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the so-called "public plan" in the revised bill wouldn’t offer much in the way of competition to private insurers. ...

http://bit.ly/27doD2 - A: Yes, but claims that this is an effort to instill panic in the American population show a misunderstanding of what such a declaration actually means.

http://bit.ly/4nZIPb - A: No. Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it.

http://bit.ly/fSbYI - Last week House Republican Leader John Boehner’s office issued a "Leader Alert" titled "10 Facts Every American Should Know About Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-Page Gov’t Takeover of Health Care." It’s a partisan document containing misleading characterizations of the bill. And on...

http://bit.ly/34DK00 - In another installment of our occasional Court Watch series, we look at mudslinging in the final days of the contest to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in Pennsylvania.

http://bit.ly/45KjRu - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele takes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to task in an RNC fundraising e-mail for claiming that a tax increase isn’t a tax increase. ...

http://bit.ly/ABdoK - It’s that spooky time of year, and legislation pending in Congress to curb carbon emissions is really giving the American Energy Alliance the willies.

http://bit.ly/1Bj2wy - With their race coming down to the wire, the candidates in New Jersey’s gubernatorial contest are attacking each other as ferociously as ever.

http://bit.ly/3QtnXw - This week, readers sent us comments on health systems performance, polling questions and local political races.

http://bit.ly/EnMzs - Government energy economists predict job growth would likely slow, but how much is uncertain.

http://bit.ly/4ik9jF - A: A Senate bill would allow the president to restrict access to government or "critical infrastructure" networks in case of a "cybersecurity emergency." But it has bipartisan support, and even critics admit it would not allow him to shut down all private Internet traffic.

http://bit.ly/1z42Cb - The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org Political Action has released another health care ad featuring a Hollywood celebrity...

http://bit.ly/3WeFQu - The liberal group Health Care for America Now is airing an ad that argues against a tax on high-cost employer-provided health care plans, a revenue-raising aspect of the Senate Finance Committee bill.