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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, Ed Driscoll.com, Gawker, Jules Crittenden, Hot Air, Don Surber, Sister Toldjah, Macsmind and Spin Cycle
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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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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, Moonbattery, Hot Air, Right Wing News and Gateway Pundit
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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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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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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
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Atlanta Progressive News, Good As You, Think Progress, Towleroad, Pam's House Blend, Pensito Review and The Other McCain
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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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Regarding ThinkProgress's Editorial Independence — Many throughout the blogosphere have been weighing in on the decision by our acting CEO, Jennifer Palmieri, to write a guest post on Matt Yglesias' ThinkProgress blog in defense of the group Third Way. — Palmieri's post was meant …
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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, PoliBlog, Liberal Values, Salon, The Other McCain and RADAMISTO
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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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PALIN WANTED MORE MEDIA TIME.... Opinions may vary …
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The Jed Report
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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, Emptywheel, Hot Air, The Raw Story, Michelle Malkin, This ain't Hell … and Atlas Shrugs
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President Bush has an MRI on shoulder — Exam done while president visited wounded soldiers at Walter Reed — WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush had an MRI of his left shoulder on Monday in an attempt to understand why he has experienced pain recently.
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Washington Times
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Bush at Walter Reed: Between Chicken and Egg, I'll go with Chicken
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QandO
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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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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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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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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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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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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 …