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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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A Message to Obama's Progressive Critics
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TPM Election Central, Ben Smith's Blogs, MSNBC, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, BuzzFlash.org, VOTE, The Note, Washington Post, Open Left and The Reaction
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Obama Deputy Steve Hildebrand: Liberals Need To STFU
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Ben Smith's Blogs, QandO, The Mahablog, Comments from Left Field, Tennessee Guerilla Women and AMERICAblog News
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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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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.
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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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Hey, conservative billionaires, wanna buy a newspaper? ; Update: Cash-strapped NYT borrows against building — Extra! Extra! Read all about it! — Newspaper companies are in crisis. Layoffs. Possible closures. Some are calling for a newspaper bailout. — Investors have noticed.
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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.
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‘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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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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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) …
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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.
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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.
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Washington Monthly, The Note, Taegan Goddard's … and TIME.com
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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”?
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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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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 …
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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 Hill, The Swamp, Michelle Malkin, DealBook, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, The Caucus, Riehl World View, TIME.com, On Deadline and Marginal Revolution
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