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• Just who are these health care protesters? (AP)
• Obama honors activists, actors, athletes, others (AP)
• MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Social Security crisis looms (AP)
• Major problems cited in Iraq interpreter contract (AP)
• Rep.: Angry town halls are not new (Politico)
• AP source: Obama officials to tour Michigan prison (AP)
• Jam-packed crowds press Grassley on health care (AP)
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor celebrated at White House (AP)
• Plan for Guard troops on border stalls over money (AP)
• Postal Service planning discounts for big mailers (AP)
• Rove testimony contradicts Wilson's (Politico)
• State official chides Venezuelan on golf comments (AP)
• Crow Chief receives Medal of Freedom (AP)
• Montana protesters plan rallies around Obama event (AP)
• Pelosi, Frank warn on pay at bailed-out firms (Reuters)
• Right-wing militias on the rise in US: report (AFP)
• White House comments on Medal of Freedom winners (AP)
• Town hall anger rages on (Politico)
• CA gay rights group: Wait for 2012 to attack ban (AP)
• White House criticizes swastika outside Ga. office (AP)

Just who are these health care protesters? (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:07 PM PDT AP - Nancy Snyder says she kept quiet when abortion was legalized and prayer in schools was eliminated. Not this time.

Obama honors activists, actors, athletes, others (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:49 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to 16 "agents of change" on Wednesday, highlighting their accomplishments as examples of the heights a person can reach and the difference they can make in the lives of others.

MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Social Security crisis looms (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:09 AM PDT AP - As Congress agonizes over health care, an even more daunting and dangerous challenge is bearing down: how to shore up Social Security to keep it from burying the nation ever deeper in debt.

Major problems cited in Iraq interpreter contract (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - A company with a $4.6 billion contract to supply U.S. forces in Iraq with Arabic-speaking translators received a scathing review on Wednesday from government officials who described tens of millions of dollars in questionable costs and poor management.

Rep.: Angry town halls are not new (Politico) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:22 PM PDT Politico - A veteran of the Clinton-era health care wars reminded reporters Wednesday that angry town hall meetings aren't a recent phenomenon.

AP source: Obama officials to tour Michigan prison (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - Obama administration officials plan on Thursday to tour a soon-to-be-shuttered Michigan state prison considered an option to hold terrorism suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Jam-packed crowds press Grassley on health care (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT AP - Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican who is a key bargainer on health care reform, played to packed crowds across the state who left little doubt that they are not happy with what's on the table.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor celebrated at White House (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:04 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama threw a big White House party Wednesday to celebrate Sonia Sotomayor as the Supreme Court's first Latino justice — and to publicly savor the victory sure to earn him points with politically potent Hispanics.

Plan for Guard troops on border stalls over money (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:22 AM PDT AP - A government plan to use National Guard troops to help stem Mexican drug violence along the southern border is stymied by disagreements over who will pay for the soldiers and how they would be used.

Postal Service planning discounts for big mailers (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 08:49 AM PDT AP - Looking for ways to boost business, the Postal Service is planning to offer discounts to some of its best customers.

Rove testimony contradicts Wilson's (Politico) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:21 PM PDT Politico - A document dump this week from the House Judiciary Committee’s long-running probe into the 2006 firing of nine U.S. attorneys has exposed a stark disagreement in the stories told by former White House aide Karl Rove and former Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.).

State official chides Venezuelan on golf comments (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:38 PM PDT AP - The State Department spokesman, a once-a-week golfer, teed off Wednesday on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela for criticizing the gentleman's game as a "bourgeois sport."

Crow Chief receives Medal of Freedom (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:37 PM PDT AP - A 95-year-old Crow Indian who went into battle wearing war paint under his World War II uniform has been awarded the nation's highest civilian honor.

Montana protesters plan rallies around Obama event (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:25 PM PDT AP - Protesters plan to turn out in force when President Barack Obama brings his health care town hall tour to Montana on Friday and puts a conservative suburb of Bozeman at the center of the issue for a day.

Pelosi, Frank warn on pay at bailed-out firms (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 01:20 PM PDT Reuters - Two leading U.S. lawmakers warned on Wednesday of signs that companies bailed out by taxpayers were resuming risky pay practices and urged the Obama administration to act on limiting bonuses.

Right-wing militias on the rise in US: report (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT AFP - Incensed by the election of the first black US president, right-wing militia groups in the United States are rising again after a decade of decline, according to new research on extremist groups released on Wednesday.

White House comments on Medal of Freedom winners (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:33 PM PDT AP - Statements from the White House on the 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which President Barack Obama awarded on Wednesday:

Town hall anger rages on (Politico) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:43 AM PDT Politico - Out on the health care firing line, senators and members of Congress continued to get battered by constituents angry over President Barack Obama’s reform plan Wednesday — with voters raising questions about everything from assisted suicide to coverage for illegal immigrants.

CA gay rights group: Wait for 2012 to attack ban (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - SAN FRANCISCO — California gay rights activists are at odds over when to ask voters to repeal the state's same-sex marriage ban, with one of the largest groups saying it needs until 2012 to put together a winning campaign and two others saying they plan go to the polls next year.

White House criticizes swastika outside Ga. office (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:51 AM PDT AP - The White House says anyone who painted a swastika on a sign outside the office of a congressman recently involved in a heated argument over health care should be ashamed.

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