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New York Times:
Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster — Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House. First, she played politics with the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee to settle an old score and a new debt.
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Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Her Own Worst Enemy — Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi lost big on the Steny Hoyer-Jack Murtha race. — The old mayor would not be pleased. — Years ago I spent Election Day in San Francisco with Rep. Nancy Pelosi as she made her way around town. She was elegant, smart and popular …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Pelosi Rebuffed Over Her Choice for Majority Leader — Nancy Pelosi, the incoming House speaker, with Steny H. Hoyer at a news conference Thursday after Democrats chose him as their new majority leader. Ms. Pelosi had supported John P. Murtha, right. Also at the conference were Rahm Emanuel, left, and John B. Larson.
Los Angeles Times:
Don't snub Harman — Pelosi's rocky start shouldn't include bypassing …
Don't snub Harman — Pelosi's rocky start shouldn't include bypassing …
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Milton Friedman: Entrepreneurial Economist — Great economist by day and crusading public intellectual by night, Milton Friedman was my hero. Friedman's contributions to economics are profound, the permanent income hypothesis, the resurrection of the quantity theory of money …
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Opinion Journal:
Friedman and Freedom — The man who made free markets popular again. — There are some public figures whose obituaries can be written years in advance. Milton Friedman was not one of them. — Arguably the greatest economist of the 20th century, he won his Nobel Prize 30 years ago.
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BBC:
Economist Friedman dies aged 94 — Nobel prize-winning US economist Milton Friedman has died at the age of 94. — Mr Friedman died in San Francisco, a spokesman for his family said. The cause of death is not yet known. — Mr Friedman, who coined the phrase "there's no such thing as a free lunch" …
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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Hullabaloo, Outside The Beltway, ACSBlog, Pam's House Blend, AMERICAblog, Pharyngula, On Deadline and The Moderate Voice
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Michelle Malkin:
Screaming UCLA student tasered — ***scroll for updates...CAIR jumps in...of course*** — Been getting e-mails about this all night. Here's the video. The usual police-bashers are attacking campus security for taking extreme measures when the student repeatedly refused to show ID and physically defied them.
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AMERICAblog, Patterico's Pontifications, The Jawa Report, The Moderate Voice, Majikthise, Stop The ACLU and The Reaction
USA Today:
Military may ask $127B for wars — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II. — The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion …
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The American Street
Marcus Kabel / timesdaily.com:
APF — Edwards acknowledges staff asked Wal-Mart for Playstation 3 — Last Updated:November 16. — Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world's largest retailer …
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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 …
John Edwards: Wal-Mart Is Really, Really Bad Until I'm Jonesin …
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Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard, Outside The Beltway, The American Mind and The Political Pit Bull
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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Riehl World View
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized — The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."
Time:
5 Myths About the Midterm Elections — Did the bloggers matter in the end? Are the Dems more conservative? Did Republicans lose on the war? TIME separates fact from fiction — MYTH: Joe Lieberman's victory proves the netroots don't matter. — REALITY: The netroots had some key victories.
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Firedoglake
Drudge Report:
REGAN: 'I DID NOT PAY OJ' — Full Statement From Publisher Judith Regan: — Why I Did It — I was sitting with Howard Stern, of all people, when the verdict came down. Many of you probably remember where you were at that moment. It was a moment I, like so many others, was dreading.
Arifa Akbar / Independent:
Baron Cohen comes out of character to defend Borat — He is a comedian whose alter ego - a racist, sexist homophobe - has delighted many, appalled some and is selling out cinemas across Britain and America. — Now, after staying resolutely in boorish persona during previous interviews …
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Senate Dems plan overhaul of military tribunals bill — Gearing up for a major clash with the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress, several key Senate Democrats are planning to overhaul the newly minted legislation governing military tribunals of detainees.
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
HamNation: The Dysfunctional Exes of American Politics — In light of the ridiculousness from both sides of the aisle during leadership elections this week, I thought I'd analyze the motivations of a "dumped" political party, and how they respond to rejection. I'm no Dr. Phil, but I do what I can.