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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
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 …
New York Post:
‘HARDBALL’ GUY DERAILS HILLARY — “HARDBALL” host Chris Matthews and the other “castratos” at MSNBC shouldn't hold their breath waiting for a Hillary Clinton interview. — Matthews, who once opined that men who supported Clinton were “castratos in the eunuch chorus,” …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
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 …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Hail Clinton — There appears to be little angst among conservatives …
Hail Clinton — There appears to be little angst among conservatives …
New York Times:
Many Dealings of Bill Clinton Under Review — Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton enthusiastically endorsed the prospect that his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, might join the Obama administration as secretary of state. “If he decided to ask her and they did it together …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Cabinet post for Clinton roils Obamaland — Barack Obama's serious flirtation with his one-time rival, Hillary Clinton, over the post of secretary of State has been welcomed by everyone from Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton as an effective, grand gesture by the president-elect.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Yang to Step Down as Yahoo CEO — Co-Founder's Rebuff of Microsoft Haunted Tenure; Will Stay Until Successor Is Found — Yahoo Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang will step down after the company finds a replacement, closing a tumultuous and short tenure during which Yahoo rejected …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
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.
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Al Franken's vote-tally appeal rebuffed — He wanted erroneously rejected absentee ballots to be counted in the state's official tally, which will be certified today. Those disputed votes will be argued in court - later. — DFLer Al Franken asked Monday to have rejected absentee ballots …
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CNN:
Sources: Lieberman likely to keep chairmanship — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senate Democrats appear willing to let Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, keep his powerful Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, even though he campaigned vigorously for Sen. John McCain's White House bid, two sources told CNN Monday.
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Not acceptable … Um, what idiot would think that taking away …
Not acceptable … Um, what idiot would think that taking away …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
LIEBERMAN TO STAY PUT?
LIEBERMAN TO STAY PUT?
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Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Paulson Will Keep Reserve to Stay Flexible for Future — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is unlikely to use what remains of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund to launch substantial new programs, preferring to keep money in reserve for unforeseen emergencies and to preserve flexibility for the Obama administration.
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Cara Degette / Colorado Independent:
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 — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Stevens Shows No Signs of Leaving Supreme Court — As Obama Term Nears, Court Watchers' Eyes Are on Oldest Member — For all the speculation about how President-elect Barack Obama's nominees may change the Supreme Court, there is one irrefutable fact: He can't make an appointment until there is a vacancy.
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Brian Rogers / Houston Chronicle:
Real-life experience — With the ‘four horsemen of addiction’ behind him, newly elected judge says he's ready — The devil tattooed on Kevin Fine's upper arm holds a razor blade, a mirror and an eight ball symbolizing cocaine. His forearm sports a tattoo of Jesus holding up a man …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
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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Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Top judge: US and UK acted as ‘vigilantes’ in Iraq invasion — One of Britain's most authoritative judicial figures last night delivered a blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq, describing it as a serious violation of international law, and accusing Britain and the US of acting like a “world vigilante”.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs — SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city's darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.
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