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Associated Press:
Court won't review 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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The Trail / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obama Nationality Case — The Supreme Court this morning unceremoniously declined to hear an emergency appeal from a man who claimed President-elect Barack Obama is not qualified for the presidency because he is not a “natural-born” citizen.
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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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 …
Michelle Malkin:
Report: 9/11 suspects will confess guilt at Gitmo — Rosie O'Donnell is still convinced George Bush and Dick Cheney did it. — These five jihadists, however, are apparently ready to trade the Troof for the truth:
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Andrew O. Selsky / Associated Press:
9/11 suspects ask to make ‘confessions’ at Gitmo
9/11 suspects ask to make ‘confessions’ at Gitmo
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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.
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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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Are Republicans on the March? — In the wake of an election cycle dominated by bad news for Republicans, the last five days have been a welcome relief. — Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss cruised to a runoff victory last Tuesday, and House Republicans held Louisiana's 4th district and pulled off …
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Susanne Craig / Wall Street Journal:
Thain Spars With Board Over Bonus at Merrill — Merrill Lynch & Co. chief John Thain has suggested to directors that he get a 2008 bonus of as much as $10 million, but the battered securities firm's compensation committee is resisting his request, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Steve Hildebrand / The Huffington Post:
A Message to Obama's Progressive Critics — Five short weeks ago, Barack Obama won a decisive victory against John McCain - winning 365 electoral votes to McCain's 162 and winning the popular vote by 9 million - the largest popular vote margin since.... After a strategy of expanding the electoral map …
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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.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
In Defense Of Sarah Palin — Will, a loyal Dish reader, writes: … I agree. While signing off, Andrew mentioned the months long argument he and I have had with regard to Sarah Palin's fifth child. I am the only other person who has read all the obstetrician interviews …
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.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Malcolm Gladwell Backlash — I've really been taken aback by a lot of the hostile response to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers that I've read. This isn't a book without flaws. But the flaws in the book are flaws that have long been present in Gladwell's writing.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The CIA and its reporter friends: Anatomy of a backlash — The backlash from the “intelligence community” over John Brennan's withdrawal — which pro-Brennan sources are now claiming was actually forced on Brennan by the Obama team — continues to intensify.
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) …
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”?
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
At Last: Pulitzer Prizes Expand to Include Web-Only News Outlets — NEW YORK For the first time, the Pulitzer Prizes will accept submissions from online-only news outlets, but require that they be “text-based” submissions from news organizations that are updated at least weekly and include original reporting.