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...There hasn't been this much hoopla over an entertainment deal since the Sirius XM Satellite Radio merger in 2007 during the Bush Administration, Schildkraut said. Although the Sirius-XM deal ultimately got approved (and the combined company has muddled along), President Barack Obama vowed to put some spine back in antitrust enforcement. He named Christine Varney, a strong antitrust advocate, to head the Justice Department's antitrust investigations. "Obama was very vocal during the campaign about reinvigorating the antitrust laws," concurred Olivier Antoine, an attorney in Crowell & Moring's antitrust group, who represented Sirius in the Sirius XM merger...
...Public Plan. Yes, the House version has a government-run option, which Democrats say would be crucial to holding down costs and to provide competition that would, in President Barack Obama's words, "keep insurance companies honest," but which Republicans say would be a deal-breaker. Still, the House model appears to be far weaker than one described in early drafts of the HELP Committee's legislation. If those early drafts are any indication, the HELP version would look a lot like Medicare, with the rates that it reimburses hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers linked to those paid...
...When Barack Obama sought the presidency, he pledged to reverse the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy preventing gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military. Yet on Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a gay Ohio soldier's challenge to the law - with the legal backing of none other than the Obama Administration...
Just a few months after Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate since L.B.J. to win the state of Virginia, the party is about to find out if the record turnout of that historic election can be replicated to achieve another milestone. Traditionally, Old Dominion Democrats have tended to nominate statewide candidates from the more conservative, southern part of Virginia - those who can appeal to enough moderate voters near Richmond while still holding on to the more Democratic-leaning north - politicians like Senator Jim Webb, retiring Governor Tim Kaine and current gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds. But when Virginia Democrats...
...Strike funniest. Other adjectives are more fitting. The families of the two young journalists headed now into the grips of what is quite possibly the world's worst penal system aren't laughing today. And neither, most assuredly, is anyone in Barack Obama's White House. - With reporting by Emily Rauhala / Hong Kong...