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Editors' Note — Earlier this morning, we posted a letter that was signed by Bertrand Delanoe, the mayor of Paris, sharply criticizing Caroline Kennedy. — This letter was a fake. It should not have been published. — Doing so violated both our standards and our procedures in publishing signed letters from our readers.
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Michelle Malkin, Gawker, Ed Driscoll.com, Don Surber, Jules Crittenden, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Spin Cycle, Viking Pundit and Macsmind
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Kennedy, Seen From Paris — To the Editor: — As mayor of Paris, I find Caroline Kennedy's bid for the seat of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton both surprising and not very democratic, to say the least. What title has Ms. Kennedy to pretend to Hillary Clinton's seat?
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The top ten media blunders of 2008 — The media took its share of lumps this year, with persistent claims of bias and complaints about often wrong-headed speculation from a seemingly endless parade of talking heads. Of course, there was great reporting, with journalists breaking news …
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Bloomberg: Fight For Clinton's Seat ‘Getting Out Of Control’
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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With most ballot challenges settled, Franken leads by 48 — With most ballot challenges settled, Democrat Al Franken holds a 48-vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in the U.S. Senate recount, according to a Star Tribune analysis of a draft report from the Secretary of State's office.
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Power Line, Scorecard's Blogs, FiveThirtyEight.com, The Washington Independent and Real Clear Politics
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Coleman camp projects win, if court helps — Sen. Norm Coleman's (R) campaign said Monday it expected to defeat Democrat Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race — but only if the Minnesota Supreme Court grants them a key victory in a lawsuit. — Coleman campaign officials told reporters …
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TPM Election Central
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Ballot Madness: Tipping the Scales in Minnesota's Senate Recount — The Canvassing Board overseeing the vote recount for Minnesota's tightly contested U.S. Senate race isn't quite done examining disputed ballots, but using their numbers the Minnesota Star Tribune issued a projection Saturday night …
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FiveThirtyEight.com, Alas, a blog, Hot Air, Right Wing News, Moonbattery and Gateway Pundit
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The Choice Is Ours Now — This is a message for my brothers and sisters who have fought so long and so hard for gay rights and liberty. We have spent a long time climbing up this mountain, looking at the impossible, changing a thousand year-old paradigm. We have asked for the right to love …
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Rick Warren pulls anti-gay language from his Web site — Deny me three times, Rick? — So Rick Warren pulled the anti-gay language from his church Web site. The site used to explicitly ban gays from membership in the church. — Now the offending language is gone, but you can still find the anti-gay language via Google's cache.
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Atlanta Progressive News, Good As You, Scripting News, Towleroad, Pam's House Blend, Pensito Review and The Other McCain
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Paparazzi Photog Gets a ‘Pec-tacular’ Obama Shot — HONOLULU — More than a dozen photographs of a bathing suit-clad President-elect Barack Obama surfaced online Monday showing the shirtless Chicagoan accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters on the white-sand beach in front of their vacation home.
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Obama Shirtless In Hawaii (PHOTOS) — BAUER GRIFFIN'S SITE IS HAVING SOME TEMPORARY SERVER ISSUES, BUT KEEP TRYING FOR MORE PHOTOS — From Bauer Griffin: … Today's pool report (below) confirmed that the President-elect went to the gym despite being on vacation.
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Boston Globe, Political Machine, This Week With Barack Obama, Sister Toldjah and Media Blog
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Putting a CAP on Yglesias — It's been awhile since there's been a good, old fashioned “you can't do that in the blogosphere” controversy, but this morning Memeorandum brings us one in the form of a public rebuke to nomadic Center for American Progress (CAP) blogger Matthew Yglesias by CAP interim chief executive Jennifer Palmieri.
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Sarah Palin: Conservative of the Year — Sarah Palin wins HUMAN EVENTS' prestigious “Conservative of the Year” Award for 2008 for her genius at annoying all the right people. The last woman to get liberals this hot under the collar would have been ... let's see now ... oh, yeah: Me!
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Hot Air, Political Machine, Hullabaloo, The Reaction, Balloon Juice, Liberal Values, PoliBlog, Salon, RADAMISTO and The Other McCain
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5 men convicted of conspiracy in Fort Dix plot — CAMDEN, N.J. - Five Muslim immigrants accused of scheming to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix were convicted of conspiracy Monday in a case that tested the FBI's post-Sept. 11 strategy of infiltrating and breaking up terrorist plots in their earliest stages.
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BBC, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Jules Crittenden, Michelle Malkin, Emptywheel, The Raw Story, This ain't Hell … and Atlas Shrugs
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A Special Note Re: Hummus — This is James Bennet, editor of The Atlantic. — Most readers know that the views expressed on Jeffrey's blog are his own and don't always reflect the views of The Atlantic. Such is the case with regard to Jeffrey's comments on the relative merits of hummus and baba ghanoush.
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Bush v. Gore Still Influencing Court Decisions — The Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, issued eight years ago this month, was widely understood to work like that tape recorder in “Mission: Impossible.” It was meant to produce a president and then self-destruct.
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Whiskey Fire
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Bush at Walter Reed: Between Chicken and Egg, I'll go with Chicken — Today's headline news, in all its various establishment media permutations, was full of stories about Still-President George W. Bush paying a visit to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center this morning.
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QandO
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Saudi court tells girl aged EIGHT she cannot divorce husband who is 50 years her senior … A Saudi court has rejected a plea to divorce an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man who is 58, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Pope likens “saving” gays to saving the rainforest — VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. — “(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself.
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The Other McCain
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Arabs lavish jewels on Secretary of State Rice — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush's foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year.
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Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley — Entrepreneurship was taken for granted. Now we're seeing a lot less of it. — Even as economic losses and unemployment levels mount, America's most effective engine for wealth and job creation is being dangerously — perhaps fatally — compromised.
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Why Not Get the Saudis to Send Troops to Afghanistan? — Defense Secretary Gates has spent much of his term wheedling, cajoling and begging our NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan. — I've got an idea: Why not get the Saudis to pony up, say, 20-30,000 troops for Afghanistan …