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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
GERRY: SHE'S NOT READY — Geraldine Ferraro gave a thumbs down to Caroline Kennedy's bid for the Senate yesterday - even as the Camelot daughter won her biggest endorsement for the job, The Post has learned. — Ferraro, the first woman nominee for vice president, sent a letter …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Q. and A.: Caroline Kennedy's Platform — ALBANY— In just a few days, Caroline Kennedy's bid to take Hillary Rodham Clinton's place in the Senate has acquired nearly all the trappings of a traditional New York statewide campaign: A bevy of consultants, a tour of struggling upstate cities and television cameras tracking her every move.
The Politico:
Kennedy comes out for gay marriage — Caroline Kennedy is finally sharing some of her political opinions with the people she's campaigning to represent — casting herself in the liberal tradition of uncle Ted Kennedy, bucking Barack Obama by supporting same-sex marriage and disavowing Hillary Clinton's 2002 vote for the Iraq invasion.
Al Giordano / The Field on the Narcosphere:
President of the Planet of the Stupid People Opposes Caroline Kennedy — She's baaaaaaack! — Add Geraldine Ferraro to the list of those having public tantrums over the possibility that Caroline Kennedy may become the next US Senator from Nueva York. — Today she told The New York Post:
Washington Post:
EPA Eases Emissions Regulations for New Power Plants — The Environmental Protection Agency ruled yesterday that new power plants are not required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejecting an argument from environmental groups. — The ruling, in a memorandum signed …
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Los Angeles Times:
Jerry Brown asks California Supreme Court to void gay-marriage ban — The state attorney general, who had earlier vowed to defend Prop. 8, offers a novel legal theory for why it should be overturned. The action surprises some legal experts. — Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
If criminal penalties are removed, what will deter lawbreaking by political officials? — (updated below) — The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus today perfectly expresses the consensus view of establishment Washington regarding the exemption which political elites should and do enjoy from the rule of law …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Deep Throat on Trial — Mark Felt's Dilemma on Rights vs. Security — He wasn't just Deep Throat. It was inevitable and understandable that the reaction to Mark Felt's death this week focused on his long-hidden identity as a source for Bob Woodward's Watergate reporting.
Michelle Malkin:
Document drop: The story behind Change.gov — I've obtained documents sent to a reader in response to his FOIA request regarding the creation of Barack Obama's Change.gov website. It gives you the rest of the story. You'll recall last month that I blogged several questions about the propriety …
Dave Rochelson / Change.gov:
“The search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us” — In the latest weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama took a bold stand for making decisions based on science and facts rather than ideology as he introduced leading members of his science and technology team.
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Zaz Hollander / Anchorage Daily News:
Johnston's arrest was oxycontin-related — WASILLA — Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston, mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend, faces a Jan. 6 court date for an oxycontin-related arrest at her home by Alaska State Troopers. — Little additional information was available Friday on the case …
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Martina M. Stewart / CNN:Palin's boyfriend's mom arrested on drug charges
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JONATHAN TURLEY
Washington Post:
A Chance for Consensus on Iraq — After our visit to Iraq this month, it is clear that what was once unthinkable there is now taking place: A stable, safe and free Iraq is emerging. Violence has fallen to the lowest level since the first months of the war.
Christopher Willcox / Weekly Standard:
Veep-Hunting — Looking for the party line on Cheney? Here it is. — Angler — The Cheney Vice Presidency — by Barton Gellman — Penguin, 384 pp., $27.95 — Anyone still interested in the sorry state of mainstream journalism should have a good, long look at Barton Gellman's blistering portrait of Dick Cheney.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan — Recommend — “See the USA in your Chevrolet!” trilled Dinah Shore week after week on TV. — Can you still see the USA in your Chevrolet? Through a windscreen darkly. — General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed …
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James Fallows:
Tech followups on NYTimes.com blockage in China (updated) — On December 19, the NYTimes.com site was apparently blocked all across China. For the sake of completeness, these followups. — 1) Could the problem be related to a recent physical break in three of the four main internet cables connecting Asia to North America?
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