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Two hot buttons: Senate and House bills limit coverage for illegal immigrants and abortion. But critics aren’t satisfied. [LA Times]

The Republican Health Plan: The Republican House bill is not reform: it does little to reduce the number of uninsured, and much of the savings on premiums comes from reduced coverage. [New York Times]

As medical costs take over government, Dems duck … [USA Today]

Italy got it right: CIA renditions are wrong – The conviction of 23 Americans in the abduction of Muslim cleric Abu Omar may be largely symbolic, but it sends an important message to the Obama administration. [LA Times]

A Bad Way to Spend Money: Extending the home buyer’s tax credit is wasteful; instead, Congress should help people avoid foreclosure. [New York Times]

A Honduras hijacked by ideology: How Senate Republicans could throw the country into chaos. [Washington Post]

Afghanistan’s forgotten class: After the fall of the Taliban, many Afghan women shed their burqas, opened schools, entered Parliament. [Boston Globe]

Beyond the Spin: Hope didn’t heal the divide: A year after Obama’s election, America’s racial rifts are deep and persistent. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

The vaccine screw-up [Chicago Tribune]

Corzine can blame himself: By Gabriel Gardner There seems to be a consensus developing in the media that this week’s election results suggest a national GOP resurgence. This fails to recognize that the result in New Jersey was actually due to Gov. Corzine’s shortcomings in office. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

GOP at war with itself: Re-education camps with Sarah Palin and Glen Beck? [Washington Post]

What Reagan was really trying to do at the Berlin Wall [LA Times]

Mistrial by Google: Increasingly, courts have had to warn jurors that blogging or searching the Web during trial jeopardizes the very foundations of the judicial system. [Boston Globe]

Tribal Chiefs and the President: President Obama has taken important steps to address the economic and social problems facing American Indians. [New York Times]

Here’s what’s wrong with World Series: It’s still our greatest sports spectacular. But the World Series needs some fixing. So do the American and National League playoffs that lead up to it. [USA Today]

Our heroes, this day and the year-round [USA Today]

Excesses of private equity put mattress firm on death bed: The government should adjust the federal dividend tax rate to give buyout firms an incentive to stay invested in companies longer, rather than quickly ducking out after paying their investors. [Boston Globe]

How many soldiers? Political opponents of President Obama are trying to convince the public that he is retreating from his stated goal to stop Afghanistan from again becoming a base for terrorists who target the United States. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Making the case for a ‘public option’ [Chicago Tribune]

The Baucus Conundrum: The Baucus health care bill has weaknesses, but a version of it is likely to pass, so members of Congress should get engaged and fight to make it better. [New York Times]

Taxing ‘Cadillac’ plans [Chicago Tribune]

Waste Not, Want Not: The Key to Reducing Costs [Washington Post]

Another Kind of Foreclosure Crisis: The foreclosure crisis is exacerbated by a shortage of lawyers for at-risk homeowners. Lawmakers need to provide money and legislation to make legal options more accessible. [New York Times]

Same old, same old for women on the verge: Any day now, women are expected to overtake men in the American workforce. Sadly, the wage gap hasn’t closed. Women working full time now make 77 cents for every dollar men earn, which is just about where the ratio was in 1993. [Boston Globe]

The price of overdraft protection: Consumers may not realize they’re using the short-term loans, which can run up substantial fees. [LA Times]

The Texas two-step on gay divorce: One of the strange side effects of the patchwork of gay-straight laws governing marriage is their impact on ending marriage. And there is something charming about watching conservative politicians in Texas trying so ardently to preserve one same-sex marriage. [Boston Globe]

Why We March: Let’s no longer pretend that civil rights do not include rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. [Washington Post]

The Uneducated American: Education in America, suffering for years, is about to get much worse thanks to cuts caused by the financial crisis. [New York Times]

Distinguishing bad pictures from bad acts: By Craig Green This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could be a landmark free-speech case, United States v. Stevens. Like most free-speech cases, Stevens involves expression that is easy to dislike. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Protect the Atlantic bluefin tuna: Commercial overfishing has slashed the population of this ocean giant. [LA Times]

Benefits of swine flu vaccine greatly exceed the risks [USA Today]

The Law and Silvio Berlusconi: By overturning a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution, Italy’s high court made a decision that is good for Italian democracy. [New York Times]

End the Honduras standoff: Prolonging the crisis does nothing but push the country closer to instability and economic problems. [LA Times]