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EXCLUSIVE Interview With Sarah Palin — “Thank you, sir. It is an honor to be named your “Conservative of the Year.'” — That's how Sarah Palin began her third interview this year with HUMAN EVENTS Political Editor John Gizzi. She spoke to Gizzi last April as the first of 16 Republicans …
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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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Hullabaloo, Hot Air, The Reaction, Salon, AmSpecBlog, Balloon Juice, Liberal Values and PoliBlog
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‘Watermelon Roll’: More Racism from ‘Team Sarah’ — There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days—a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama as he and his family get ready to move into the White House.
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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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A Special Note Re: Third Way — This is Jennifer Palmieri, acting CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. — Most readers know that the views expressed on Matt's blog are his own and don't always reflect the views of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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Washington Monthly, Jeffrey Goldberg, danieldrezner.com, Talking Points Memo, Ben Smith's Blogs, Firedoglake, Newshoggers.com, Outside The Beltway, Weekly Standard, Comments from Left Field, bastard.logic, techPresident, Julian Sanchez, The Politico, D-Day, Althouse, John & Belle Have A Blog, Open Left, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brendan Nyhan, Donkeylicious, American Power, Obsidian Wings and The Jed Report
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Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in spying — (updated below - Update II - Update III) — Dick Cheney's interview yesterday with Fox's Chris Wallace was filled with significant claims, but certainly among the most significant was his detailed narration of how the administration …
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Regarding ThinkProgress's Editorial Independence
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Matthew Yglesias
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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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Gawker
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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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5 Muslims convicted in NJ of plotting to kill GIs — 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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Michelle Malkin, The Raw Story, Gateway Pundit, BBC, Atlas Shrugs, Emptywheel, Hot Air and This ain't Hell …
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5 Men Are Convicted in Plot on Fort Dix — A federal jury on Monday convicted five men of conspiracy to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder, according to the Associated Press. — The jury deliberated for six days …
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For Conservative Radio, It's a New Dawn, Too — Amid all the pressures on the radio industry, news-talk stations see an opportunity — and his name is Barack Obama. — After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives who dominate talk radio are back on offense.
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Think Progress, PR Newswire, Matthew Yglesias, Hot Air, The American Mind, JammieWearingFool, Don Surber and TVNewser
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Sweet Bailout — Looks to me like the $700 billion rescue package may have been $1.6 billion too large: … A lot of people are going to read this as a confirmation of the Sirota/Pence view that government intervention was unnecessary. I don't see it that way.
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Open Left
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Life Without Bubbles — Whatever the new administration does, we're in for months, perhaps even a year, of economic hell. After that, things should get better, as President Obama's stimulus plan — O.K., I'm told that the politically correct term is now “economic recovery plan” — begins to gain traction.
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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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Newspaper Shuns Web, and Thrives — With 2008 drawing to a brutal close on the media beat — bankruptcies, daily newspapers that are no longer daily, magazines that are downsizing into brochures — a little ray of light appeared in my e-mail inbox. It was from a newspaper owner, of all people.
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Developers Ask U.S. for Bailout — With a record amount of commercial real-estate debt coming due, some of the country's biggest property developers have become the latest to go hat-in-hand to the government for assistance. — They're warning policymakers that thousands of office complexes …
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Poll finds public split on Obama aides' contacts with Blagojevich — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll indicates Americans are split on whether aides to President-elect Barack Obama did something inappropriate in their contacts with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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The Campaign Spot
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Biden: I'll be different vice president — (CNN) — In an interview with CNN's Larry King that will air at 9 p.m. ET Monday, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden discussed what role he will play in decision-making at the White House. Biden also said the U.S. will remove combat troops from Iraq within two years.
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Krugman in contact with the Obama team? — Yes. — When master economist, columnist, and plain ole intellectual (so few left these days) Paul Krugman was asked this morning* about whether or not he was “in communications” with the Obama administration regarding the economy, he declared …
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Toyota Expects Its First Loss in 70 Years — TOKYO — Toyota Motor, the Japanese auto giant, announced Monday that it expected the first loss in 70 years in its core vehicle-making business, underscoring how the economic crisis is spreading across the global auto industry.
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The New Republic, DealBook, The Reaction, theheretik.us, Liberty Street, Emptywheel, Pam's House Blend, Bloomberg and Daimnation!
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Obama's Cabinet To The Right Of Democrats in Congress — In the 110th Congress, there were 236 Democrats in the U.S. House, 49 in the Senate, and two “Independents” who caucused with Democrats. Of those 287 congresscritters, 74 were members of the New Democratic Coalition, which is affiliated with the DLC.
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Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going? — But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers …
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Little Green Footballs, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, Reuters, theheretik.us, Wonk Room, AMERICAblog News and Donklephant
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The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep — Detroit is dying. But, it is not dead yet. — This is the place where bad times get sent to make them belong to somebody else, thus, it seems easy to agree about Detroit because the city embodies everything the rest of the country wants to get over.
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Betsy's Page
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Howard Dean, a Victim of His Own Success? — As Democratic National Committee chairman, Howard Dean helped put a Democrat in the White House — but made his share of enemies in the party along the way. As his DNC tenure ends, he's a free agent. (By Mark Wilson — Getty Images)
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Headless Bodies Found in Mexico — 9 of the 12 Corpses Left on Busy Street As Drug War Rages — The decapitated bodies of 12 men were discovered early Sunday scattered in and around a state capital in southern Mexico. Nine of the headless corpses were strewn along a busy street …
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The New Republic
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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.