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Obama names Clinton to national security team — (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced Sen. Hillary Clinton as his pick for secretary of state, calling her an “American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence.” — “Hillary's appointment is a sign …
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A Handpicked Team for a Sweeping Shift in Foreign Policy
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Matthew Yglesias, The Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Crooks and Liars, ATTACKERMAN, The Atlanticist, The Caucus, At-Largely, The Confluence, Emptywheel, Commentary, Washington Monthly, TPM Election Central, Think Progress, Associated Press, The Jed Report, marbury, Outside The Beltway, Taylor Marsh and Macsmind
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Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet
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Yahoo! News, Bloomberg, The Politico, Los Angeles Times, Donklephant and Jules Crittenden
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Hillary Clinton's test at State: How she'll work with Obama
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The Caucus, Guardian, Taylor Marsh, NY Daily News, The Heretik, Real Clear Politics and Ben Smith's Blogs
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U.S. recession began in December 2007, NBER says — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy entered a recession in December 2007, a committee of economists at the private National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The economy reached a peak in December and has been declining since …
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Wonkette
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It's official: Recession since Dec. '07 — The National Bureau of Economic Research declares what most Americans already knew: the downturn has been going on for some time. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the U.S …
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Cabinet Rank — Some people I know were less-than-thrilled to hear that Susan Rice would be heading to New York as our UN Ambassador since they would have rather seen her take a post in DC where she could help ensure that the Gates/Jones/Clinton “team of rivals” doesn't manage to lock …
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Eschaton
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Rice on Deck — Completely idle speculation here …
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Hot Air
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Top Ten Funniest Political Quotes Of 2008 — At the end of 2006 we brought you the funniest political quotes of 2006. — At the end of 2007 we brought you the funniest political quotes of 2007. — Now that we're nearing the end of 2008 it's time for the top ten funniest political quotes of 2008.
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India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror — At Tourist Haunts and Train Station, Swiftly Launched Assault Overwhelmed Police; Home Affairs Minister Steps Down — MUMBAI — As waiters started setting dinner buffets in Mumbai's luxurious hotels, the killings that would ravage …
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CNN reports. You run for cover. Update: Damage control
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This Is London, Scotland Sunday Herald, Publius' Forum, Scared Monkeys, Daily Mail, Wake up America, Don Surber and Stop The ACLU
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Bush: ‘I Did Not Compromise My Principles’ — President George W. Bush Says He Will Leave Office With ‘Head Held High’ — Looking back on his eight years in the White House, President George W. Bush pinpointed incorrect intelligence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as …
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Memeorandum runs rings around Google News — If you want to know what's happening in the world, then Memorandum will tell you - at least in a couple of areas. It's an automated news clipping service, known in the trade as a “news aggregator”. It provides headlines and short texts updated every few minutes …
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How to Combat a Banking Crisis: First, Round Up the Pessimists — Latvian Agents Detain a Gloomy Economist; ‘It Is a Form of Deterrence’ — RIGA, Latvia — Hammered by economic woe, this former Soviet republic recently took a novel step to contain the crisis.
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America must keep consumer liquidity flowing — As an analyst, it is my job to do fundamental research and call it as I see it, and my bailiwick is financials. My outlook has been negative for over a year and, technically, I have been “right” on my calls.
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Credit card industry may cut $2 trillion of lines: analyst
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Donklephant
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Cheap sex - the credit crunch is biting under the sheets — As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says. — A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping.
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Fausta's Blog
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Deepak Blames America — The media look within to explain the sick delusions of the Mumbai killers. — If the Mumbai terror assault seemed exceptional, and shocking in its targets, it was clear from the Thanksgiving Day reports that we weren't going to be deprived of the familiar, either.
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What Tina Wants — Tina Fey has rules. They've guided the 38-year-old writer-comedian through marriage, motherhood, and a career that went into hyperdrive this fall, when her Sarah Palin impression convulsed the nation, boosting the ratings of both Saturday Night Live and her own NBC show, 30 Rock.
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AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed.
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Try Tough Love, Hillary — Imagine Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, saying this to Barack Obama: — “The United States has been wrong to write Israel a blank check every year; wrong to turn a blind eye to the settlements in the West Bank; wrong not to be more explicit …