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8:05 PM ET, December 17, 2008

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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation  —  (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony will feature big names like minister Rick Warren and legendary singer Aretha Franklin, the Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Aretha Franklin to Participate in Inaugural Ceremony  —  Aretha Franklin and Dr. Rick Warren, an author and leader of the Saddleback Church, are among the select group of people who will participate in Barack Obama's inaugural swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20.
Aretha Franklin / CBN.com:
Pro-Life Rick Warren to Give Invocation at Obama Inauguration  —  Pro-life pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration.  It makes a whole lot of sense.  Even though Warren and Obama disagree on the life issue, they do see eye to eye on many social justice issues.
Discussion: Salon, Don Surber, Hot Air and The Note
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Ugh  —  Rick Warren will give the invocation at Obama's inauguration.  Warren is a man who believes my marriage removes his freedom of speech and cannot say that authorizing torture is a moral failing.  Shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality …
Discussion: The New Republic
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WARREN TO GIVE INVOCATION.... Barack Obama is, for the time being …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Spin Cycle
Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Warren To Deliver Invocation at Inaguration
Discussion: Calitics
Marc Ambinder:   Rick Warren To Give Invocation At The Inauguration; John Williams …
Matt Duss / Think Progress:   Anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-assassination pastor to give inaugural invocation.»
Mike Dorning / The Swamp:
LaHood to be Transportation Sec  —  Peoria Republican congressman Ray LaHood will be nominated Transportation Secretary for the Obama Administration, Republican and Democratic sources said today.  —  A spokesman for the Obama transition team declined to comment and LaHood's office did not immediately return phone calls.
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Washington Post:
LaHood Accepts Transportation Secretary Job
Discussion: The Seminal
New York Times:
Kennedy Goes on Tour Upstate  —  ROCHESTER — She talked about her book, about the Bill of Rights.  She talked about raising her family.  And, echoing her friend President-elect Barack Obama, she said she could bring change to Washington.  —  Caroline Kennedy, on her first day touring upstate …
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Elizabeth Benjamin / The Daily Politics:
Kennedy - An Author, A Mother - Starts Making Her Case
Time:
Person of the Year 2008: Barack Obama  —  For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year.
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: Obama appeared on half of TIME's covers
Discussion: Time and Fausta's Blog
Gateway Pundit:
IRAQI AMBASSADOR TELLS OFF CODE PINK WHACKOS (Video)  —  CODE PINK AMBUSHES IRAQI AMBASSADOR- AMBASSADOR FIRES BACK  —  “He's lucky he didn't try something like this under Saddam Hussein.”  —  Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie: … The anti-American Marxist front group Code Pink ambushed Iraq Ambassador …
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New York Times:
Tumult in Iraqi Parliament Over Shoe Hurling
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Philly.com
The Australian:
Bush shoe thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi ‘too injured’ for court
Discussion: Firedoglake
Washington Post:
Blagojevich's Attorney Indicates He Plans to Fight Impeachment  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich's defense attorney attacked Illinois impeachment proceedings as “unfair and quite frankly illegal” in a clear signal that the Illinois governor, charged by federal prosecutors with public corruption …
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Susan Saulny / New York Times:   Request to Remove Blagojevich Denied
Wall Street Journal:
Blagojevich Won't Fill Senate Seat
Discussion: Fox News and Gawker
Associated Press:
Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied  —  EASTON, Pa. - The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance.  Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah …
Patrick / FishBowlDC:
WaPo: Only Positive Obama Ads, Please  —  Hoping to make a little cash off of Barack Obama's inauguration (that's certainly nothing new...), Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive and the Washington Post's classifieds departments have launched “Welcome to the White House”, a classfieds …
Chuck Goudie / WLS-TV:
Blagojevich was bookie, says federal informant  —  The ABC7 I-Team has learned that an attorney who went undercover for the FBI in the late 1980's says he told federal authorities years ago about wrongdoing by Blagojevich.  —  His name is Robert Cooley.  —  Cooley was a criminal defense lawyer …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's Pressers: No Comment — and NoDoz  —  A month from now, the nation will say farewell to its sports-obsessed president who doesn't like tough questions.  And it will replace him with, well, another sports-obsessed president who doesn't like tough questions.
Mark Preston / CNN:
Second GOP senator to announce retirement  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Sam Brownback will announce Thursday he is retiring from the Senate when his term ends in 2010, allowing the Kansas Republican to explore a run for governor.  —  He will be the second GOP senator this year to publicly state …
Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity: Media Matters ' 2008 Misinformer of the Year  —  As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News' Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation.  But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents …
Associated Press:
Justice Kennedy rejects 2 more challenges to Obama  —  Featured Topics:  —  AP - President-elect Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008, where ...  - Slideshow: President-elect Barack Obama  — Play Video U.S. Courts Video: N.C. Supreme Court hears year-round school case WRAL Raleigh
Discussion: Hot Air
Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
For senate, Caroline or Carolyn?  —  Caroline Kennedy strikes me as a very impressive woman with all the right priorities, such as education.  But I also find it unseemly and undemocratic that she seems to have vaulted to the top of the Senate list by virtue of who her dad was.
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New York Post:
HILL TELLS PALS: LAY OFF CAROLINE
Wall Street Journal:
Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer  —  Stop the decline in home prices, stop the crisis.  —  Recent news articles suggest that the Treasury Department is considering a plan to offer a 4.5% mortgage for home buyers for a period of time.  Let's hope it does.
 
 
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Christine Ollivier / Associated Press:
Sarkozy acts for ethnic diversity
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Making It To America  —  A video that shows immigration to the US from 1820 to 2007.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and FP Passport
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Environmentalists Wary of Obama's Interior Pick
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
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