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Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of secretary of state job — Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
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Guardian: Hillary says yes; Update: Or does she? — The golden age begins, my friends. … The main stumbling block, supposedly, is the risk of governments trying to buy influence by donating to Bill's charity, but (a) the public's already assumed that risk, albeit to a lesser extent …
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Unraveling The Mystery Of Clinton's Secret Chicago Trip — On Wednesday, the call came in from Chicago: President-elect Obama wanted to meet with Sen. Clinton, in private, the next day. — According to Democratic sources, Clinton disclosed the information to only three people and swore them to secrecy.
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Report: Hillary Clinton Will Accept Obama Secretary Of State Job — Will New York Senator Hillary Clinton accept a reported job offer of Secretary of State from her onetime Democratic nomination rival President Elect Barack Obama? The British newspaper The Guardian says she is going to accept it …
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Hail Clinton — There appears to be little angst among conservatives at the prospect of Hillary Clinton joining the Obama administration as Secretary of State. The idea was warmly embraced by Henry Kissinger, who our President-elect seems to hold in high-esteem, Governor Schwarzenegger …
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Sen. Carper: Lieberman should pay consequences — Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a close ally of Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the Connecticut Independent should pay a price for his campaign attacks against President-elect Barack Obama. — “There need to be consequences, and they cannot be insignificant …
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LIEBERMAN TO STAY PUT? — From NBC's Ken Strickland — Tomorrow, Senate Democrats gather to decide if Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-D) should keep his position as chairman of Homeland Security Committee, and it looks like he just may. Several Democrats and Democratic-leaning groups were calling …
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More layoffs at Focus on the Family — Focus on the Family founder and president James Dobson. (Photo/Focus on the Family) — UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — more than 20 percent of its workforce.
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Bill vetting could cost Hillary her Cabinet post — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is President-elect Obama's first choice for secretary of State but his aides are becoming exasperated by the Clinton camp's pokey response to demands for extensive information about former President Bill …
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Associated Press, Comments from Left Field, Fox News, The Hill, The Swamp and Taylor Marsh
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Many Dealings of Bill Clinton Under Review
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The Field on the Narcosphere, Ben Smith's Blogs, TalkLeft, The New Republic and Harper's
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Obama Meets With McCain in Chicago
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Ben Smith's Blogs, The Gun Toting Liberal, The Caucus, Gothamist, The Swamp, CNN and The Reaction
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This kind of activism isn't helping — Joe.My.God: Chaos In San Francisco As Anti-Gay Christianists Are Chased Out Of The Castro. Police had to escort a group of prosyletizers out of the middle of a protest. In turn, claims of threats of verbal and physical abuse have been made by people of faith …
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Gingrich: “[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us” — On the November 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, in reference to actions by individual protesters of Proposition 8, the recently passed California ballot initiative amending …
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Matthew Yglesias, AMERICAblog News, Crooks and Liars, News Hounds, Multi Medium, Box Turtle Bulletin and Wonkette
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SEC Files Insider Trading Charges Against Mark Cuban — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2008-273 — Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of the stock …
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Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step Down, As a Search for New CEO Commences — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO, as soon as the board finds a replacement for him, in what sources close to the situation call a joint decision by him and the company's directors.
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California Fires Rage As Gay Marriage Protesters Defy God — God keeps trying to get their attention. They, for their part, are shouting so loud for the acceptance of homosexuality, that they cannot hear the thunderous warnings of God: “Repent! For the judgment comes soon!”
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FRANKEN SUES AGAIN — Al Franken, trying to litigate his way into the United States Senate, started another lawsuit today. This time, Franken is demanding that all rejected absentee ballots be re-evaluated before Minnesota's canvassing board certifies the final vote tally in the race.
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The racist backlash to Obama's presidency — [From Creative Loafing.] — As we predicted before the election, Barack Obama's victory has loosed a flood of hatefulness from the racist right in America. Digby yesterday had a detailed post laying out some of the cases that have erupted so far.
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Huck unloads on Mitt; Romney camp hits back — Mike Huckabee is using his new book, out this week, to settle a few scores, not the least of which is with his fierce primary rival, Mitt Romney. — Per Michael Scherer, Huckabee picks up where he left off earlier this year …
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Crooks and Liars, Townhall.com, Washington Wire, Wonkette, Time, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air and TIME.com
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Obama interview sets ‘60 Minutes’ viewership record — Barack Obama's first televised post-election interview gave Sunday night's “60 Minutes” its biggest audience in at least nine years. — The CBS News program was seen by 24.5 million viewers and earned a 6.4 preliminary adults 18-49 rating.
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SOUP WITH PRINCE — The thirty-thousand-square-foot Italianate villa, built this century by Vanna White's ex-husband, looks like many of the other houses in Beverly Park, a gated community in L.A., except for the bright-purple carpet that spills down the front steps to announce its new tenant: Prince.
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Time to Consider Palin — U.S. Virgin Islands — I suspect that when Time magazine chooses their Person of the Year for 2008, there will be little internal debate. They've probably long picked The One — Barack Obama. After all, more than half the country went and elected him the next president of the United States.
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