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Happy Hour: Obama's Jobs Plan Downgraded?

7:00 PM, Aug 22, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Philo Klein: "Is Obama's 'specific' plan now just an outline?"

The Hill: "Romney: Give US the Lockerbie bomber"

Nate Silver: "There’s Room for More G.O.P. Candidates"

Wall Street Journal: "Before you ask for more tax money from me, raise the $2.2 trillion you already collect each year more fairly and spend it more wisely."

Jonathan Chait: "The Cult Of The Presidency In Action"

Politico: "FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine"

USA Today: "Report: Pataki 'strongly considering' White House bid"

Tim Carney: "Team Obama deals the race card against Perry"

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Time to Stockpile Lucky Charms?

The Obama administration targets food marketed to children.

Aug 8, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 44 • By KATE HAVARD

The Obama administration is after your Lucky Charms, or at least your children’s. The public comment period closed on July 14 for a set of “voluntary” guidelines for the marketing of food to children. If adopted, these rules will transform the advertising of breakfast cereals.

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With Business in Front of F.C.C., AT&T Sends Gift of 1,500 Cupcakes

Who ate the cupcake?

2:42 PM, Mar 31, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Bureaucrats, like all of us, love cupcakes. But is it always appropriate for them to accept cupcakes, especially when the gift-givers clearly want to curry favor? The notion that someone could sway millions – and perhaps billions – of dollars worth of business in their favor simply by delivering a bunch of cupcakes to bureaucrats might seem preposterous, but that’s exactly what happened last December.

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