Need To Read: September 24, 2009

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Today’s must-reads jumped out of the pot:

HIV Vaccine Shows Promise (Bloomberg)
David Paterson Opens Up (NYT)
Bill McKibben: Is Obama Even Trying on Climate? (MoJo)
Glenn Beck: Frog Murderer (MoJo)
Someone In Creigh Deeds’ Campaign Thinks Honesty Is The Best Policy (WaPo)
Clinton Compared Gore to Mussolini? (MoJo)
How Richard Posner Became A Keynesian (The New Republic)
The Spy Who Loved Hamas (MoJo)
Jack Shafer: “Sometimes it takes an outsider like Andrew Breitbart to show the press corps the way.” (Slate)
Things That Make Claire McCaskill’s Head “Pop Off” (MoJo)
Obama Echoes Bush on State Secrets? (MoJo)
Sen. Inhofe’s Climate Sceptic Road Show (MoJo)

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