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Hoyer tapped for party's No. 2 House spot — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Thursday chose Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer to be House majority leader over Rep. John Murtha, brushing aside the choice of House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi. — Hoyer was elected on a vote of 149-86 not long …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hoyer Beats Pelosi's Pick in Race for No. 2 House Post — House Democrats chose Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland as their majority leader today after a bruising fight that cast a cloud over the party's post-election celebration. — The election of Mr. Hoyer over Representative John P. Murtha …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Murtha Loses... But It's Still a Victory for Pelosi — The votes are in and Steny Hoyer is the new House majority leaders, winning out over Jack Murtha 149-86. — For all the reasons I've made abundantly clear, I would've loved to see Murtha as Majority Leader.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Pelosi Stumbles Out of the Blocks — Political Wire guest contributor Stuart Rothenberg reflects on incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first big loss. — Yes, I know. Leadership fights on Capitol Hill are the ultimate political insider contests. Voters don't care about them, and once they are over, they are quickly forgotten.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hoyer humiliates Pelosi, defeats Murtha, 149-86 — Just in at Fox. Soak it in. Updates coming. — Update: Unless there was some eleventh-hour shift to Hoyer — which is unlikely, considering that 90 Democrats had already publicly committed to him yesterday — then Murtha lied to Matthews's face on Hardball yesterday.
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Holcomb B. Noble / New York Times:
Milton Friedman, a Leading Economist, Dies at 94 — Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of conservative economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward lesser government and greater reliance on free markets and individual responsibility, died today at He was 94 years old.
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CNNMoney.com:
Nobel economist Milton Friedman dead at 94 — Advocate of deregulation whose influence soared after Ronald Reagan became president. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize winning economist who helped shape and define free-market economic theory, died Thursday at the age of 94 in San Francisco.
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[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers — Incident occured around 11:30 p.m. in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab — UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
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Los Angeles Times:
A third incident, a new video — A cellphone camera captures UCLA police using a Taser on a student who allegedly refused to leave the library Tuesday night. — The latest in a recent spate of cellphone videos documenting questionable arrest tactics surfaced Wednesday …
Sara Taylor / Daily Bruin News Headlines:
Community responds to Taser use in Powell — RAW FOOTAGE — of the taser incident. — An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers' use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.
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Putnam Wants To Know: Where Were The Rednecks? — "White rednecks" who "didn't show up to vote for us" partly cost GOPers their cong. majorities, Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) told fellow Republicans today. And Putnam, seeking the post of GOP conference chair, chided ex-Chair J.C. Watts (R-OK) …
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
US plans last big push in Iraq — Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi army and regional summit — President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning …
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Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
John Edwards: Wal-Mart Is Really, Really Bad Until I'm Jonesin' For a New PS3 — John-Boy, you make us proud down in the Tar Heel State. — I just got a hilarious Wal-Mart press release. Looks like the handsomest Senator has fallen victim to the siren song of low, low prices.
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Marcus Kabel / timesdaily.com:APF — Edwards acknowledges staff asked Wal-Mart for Playstation 3
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Man Stopped at Port of Entry With Large Cash Sums and Laptop With Nuclear Information — Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan Report: — A U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent was arrested as he came into the U.S. on a flight from Amsterdam on Tuesday. — Sisayehiticha Dinssa was arrested …
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Jessica / Feministing:
Breaking: Bush appoints abstinence-only nut to oversee repro rights funding — Hold on to your hats. I hear from a little birdie that the Bush administration has hired Dr. Eric Keroack to oversee Title X funding—the only federal program devoted entirely to family planning and reproductive health.
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Newt Gingrich / Opinion Journal:
The Right Coalition — Which bipartisanship will Bush choose? — The election results pose two enormous strategic choices for America. First, the obvious outcome of a Democratic-controlled Congress and a Republican White House is the need for bipartisan cooperation in order to get anything done.
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O'REILLY TRIES TO LOOFAH AWAY FOX STENCH — Bill O'Reilly got his falafels in a bunch last night over news that O.J. Simpson will explain precisely how he didn't-but-might butcher his ex-wife and her friend—on a Fox prime-time special. Said the frequently flabbergasted superpundit: … O' really?
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