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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.
Discussion: Law Blog and Althouse
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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Michelle Malkin:
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.
Discussion: SH and Babalu Blog
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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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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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
The Politics of the Federal Bench
Discussion: TPM Election Central and TIME.com
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”?
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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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 …
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats Call for Federal Oversight of Automakers
 
 
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Lena H. / Washington Post:
New Ridership Record Shows U.S. Still Lured to Mass Transit
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David R. Henderson / Cato Institute:
Are We Ailing from Too Much Deregulation?  —  David R. Henderson …
Discussion: EconLog
New York Times:
Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up
Discussion: Dot Earth and Green Inc.
New York Times:
Tortured Justice  —  The nation's courts continue to grapple …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
43 days to Inauguration …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Terror, recession, oh, workout fiend Obama's still a smoker
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

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