Jonathan Cohn, on new evidence of Big Pharma’s sweetheart deal.

TPM Reader JF:

What would happen if a few female members of the House put in (or merely proposed) an amendment to the health care bill which stated that men would be barred BY LAW from purchasing health insurance which covered Viagra, all hair-growth medications or procedures or transplants, etc.?

Bill O’Reilly: “[W]e can’t kill all the Muslims. So we wanna win as many hearts and minds of good moderate Muslims as we can.” Watch.

The President has another round of meetings with his national security team on Afghanistan. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

Jon Stewart catches Sean Hannity splicing in footage of the 9/12 rally on the Mall to make Michele Bachmann’s Capitol Hill tea party last week look much, much bigger than it actually was. Watch.

Yesterday we brought you this story about how a feud/succession struggle within the Moon family seems to be the underlying reason for the staff shake-up that happened over the weekend — and the possible departure of Executive Editor John Solomon. We’re going to have new reports for you on this story shortly. But one key is that the future operation of the Washington Times — either as a print newspaper or in any form at all — seems to be in real question, whether that’s because the Moon family decides for its own ideological or familial reasons to pull the plug or because the fighting within the family creates a cash shortfall that prevents the paper from staying open.

If you’re a staffer at the Times or anyone else who has tips or insights on what’s happening at the paper, we definitely want to hear from you. Send us an email at the comments address at the upper right of the site.

40 Democrats voted for the Stupak amendment and the Dem health bill. But House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) says it actually netted about 10 votes for the Dems’ health care reform bill. In other words, if push came to shove, 30 of those Dems would have voted for the final bill even if the Stupak amendment weren’t included in the bill.

When you figure that the Dems were certainly holding a few votes in reserve — just in case — on the final vote on the bill. You can see the Stupak amendment probably comes down to a matter of a half a dozen votes when the bill comes back for final passage.

There are many ways in which the political moment (hyper-polarizing) and the technological moment (Twitter, instant news cycles) creates a self-perpetuating arms race of hyperbole. On the other hand, some of these new publishing and communications systems do allow us to get a view into where the head of a big chunk of the country is at.

To that end, we’ve got the story of the Colorado state senator who represents the hyper-conservative Colorado Springs compared Obama to the al Qaeda terrorists who took over Flight 93 on 9/11 and real patriotic Republican Americans to the passengers who had to retake control of the plane.

On the one hand, this is textbook feverish, eliminationist incitement. On the other hand, I think back to how paranoid and in the thrall of their own victimization these folks were a few years ago when they ran the entire country. So I’m not sure we should be surprised that they go totally crazy when they’re largely shut out of power in the country at the national level.

Condi Rice (Secretary of State) and Stephen Hadley (National Security Advisor) team up to create a RiceHadley Group LLC to provide Bush-era foreign policy know-how and “strategic consulting” for a fee.

We’ve got the latest on the epic trainwreck/implosion at the Washington Times. We mentioned in our earlier piece the Moon family and organization appears to be in the midst of a succession crisis. And it seems that the son who controls the Times went rogue and fired top management without getting his father’s blessing.

And if you just can’t avert your gaze, here’s some internal memos on the Times evolving financial situation.