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The Politico:
Liberals voice concerns about Obama — Liberals are growing increasingly nervous - and some just flat-out angry - that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. — Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil.
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Megan McArdle, The Moderate Voice, Townhall.com, Jules Crittenden, NY Daily News, Don Surber, New York Times, JammieWearingFool and The Caucus
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Steve Hildebrand / The Huffington Post:
A Message to Obama's Progressive Critics
A Message to Obama's Progressive Critics
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Ben Smith's Blogs, MSNBC, TPM Election Central, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, BuzzFlash.org, VOTE, The Note, Washington Post, Open Left and The Reaction
Associated Press:
Court: No review of Obama's eligibility to serve — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. views sought on misspent federal funds law — The Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. Solicitor General to provide the government's views on the scope of the federal False Claims Act — the law that allows private individuals to sue to recover federal funds that allegedly were misspent.
William Kristol / New York Times:
Small Isn't Beautiful — President-elect Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress are about to serve up a supersized helping of big-government liberalism. Conservatives will be inclined to oppose much of what Obama and his party cook up. And, I believe, rightly so.
Times of London:
‘Mumbai mastermind’ arrested in Pakistan — Pakistani security forces have raided a suspected training camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the militant group blamed for last month's attack on Mumbai, and arrested several of the group's activists, government officials said today.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Times Co. to Borrow Against Building — The New York Times Company plans to borrow up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building, to ease a potential cash flow squeeze as the company grapples with tighter credit and shrinking profits. — The company has retained Cushman …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Ideological Warfare Rages on Federal Appeals Courts Dominated by Republican Appointees — GOP-Appointed Majorities Winning Ideological Battles at Appellate Level — Seven of the 16 full-time judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, based in Cincinnati, were appointed by President Bush.
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Washington Monthly, Law Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, Patterico's Pontifications and The RBC
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Andrew Breitbart / Washington Times:
I believe Hillary's cardboard cutout — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — At the exact moment Jon Favreau is receiving high praise in pre-inaugural media puff pieces, the 27-year-old chief speechwriter for President-elect Barack Obama (not Jon Favreau, the Hollywood actor/ director) …
Lisa Miller / Newsweek:
Our Mutual Joy — Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side. — From the magazine issue dated Dec 15, 2008 — Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does.
Frank Phillips / Boston Globe:
Romney paves way for possible '12 run — Bulk of PAC fund goes for political ambitions — “It is more essential than ever that conservative candidates and organizations have the resources they need to get their message out to voters.” - Republican Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts.
Paul Krugman:
Me, misreported — Urk. I gather that there's a report on the wires quoting me as saying that the US auto industry would disappear. What I actually said was that the concentration of the industry around Detroit would disappear. — And did I really say “me and my colleagues”?
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
History and Amazement in House Race Outcome — NEW ORLEANS — Soft-spoken, retiring and diminutive, Anh Cao does not appear to fit the role of dragon-slayer. — Yet a day after he defeated Representative William J. Jefferson, the once-untouchable incumbent here, Mr. Cao was being approached …
New York Times:
Detroit Bailout Is Set to Bring on More U.S. Oversight — WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats were drafting legislation Sunday for tight government control of the crippled American auto industry, including the possible creation of an oversight board made up of five cabinet secretaries …
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The Swamp, The Hill, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, The Caucus, Riehl World View, TIME.com, On Deadline and Marginal Revolution
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Maureen O'Donnell / Chicago Sun Times:
Wright: Obama made ‘bad’ choice to distance self, but it's ok — President-elect Barack Obama made a “bad decision” by distancing himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his church, Wright said Sunday — but that's OK. — “He's still my child,” Wright said in a sermon in which he expressed pride …
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Telegraph:
Two million Muslim pilgrims gather outside Mecca for haj — More than two million Muslim pilgrims gathered around a mountain east of Mecca on Sunday at the peak of the haj to beg God's forgiveness, chanting “O God, I am answering your call!”. — At noon, pilgrims were still trickling …
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Atlas Shrugs