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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Obama Wants Journalist Gupta for Surgeon General — President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. — Gupta has told administration officials …
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Sanjay Gupta / CNN:
Anchors & Reporters — Dr. Sanjay Gupta is chief medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery, plays an integral role in the network's medical coverage, which includes lead reporting on breaking medical news …
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CNN:
Burris denied entry to Senate — (CNN) — Roland Burris was denied entry to the Senate chambers on Tuesday as he tried to claim the seat once held by President-elect Barack Obama. — Burris said the secretary of the Senate rejected his credentials, and therefore he would not be allowed access to the floor.
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New York Times:
Burris Is Blocked From Taking Senate Seat — WASHINGTON — Roland W. Burris, the would-be junior senator from Illinois, arrived at the Capitol on Tuesday morning for the start of the 111th Congress and was greeted like a celebrity, even though he remains a private citizen, at least for the moment.
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USA Today:
Poll: Half say Burris should be blocked from Sen. seat — WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans say Roland Burris should be blocked from taking a U.S. Senate seat and Illinois should hold a special election to fill the vacancy he was appointed to fill, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
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Haaretz:
40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN school — Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. — The attack brought the Palestinian death toll to nearly 600 in Israel's 11 …
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Explosion in UN school kills at least 30 — At least thirty people were killed in an explosion in a UN-run school in the village of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports. There were reportedly also scores of wounded on the scene. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blogs:
Biden: Not consulting Senate on Panetta “a mistake” — Vice President-elect Joe Biden — offering one last defense of the institution he's inhabited for three decades — conceded the Obama transition team made a “mistake” in not consulting the Senate before tapping Leon Panetta to head the CIA.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
FL-Senate: Jeb Bush Will Not Run — Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is expected to make a decision soon about whether he will run for the open Senate seat in Florida in 2010. — UPDATED, 3:48 p.m. ET: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will not run for the open Senate seat of Sen. Mel Martinez …
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Paul Krugman:
Stimulus arithmetic (wonkish but important) — Bit by bit we're getting information on the Obama stimulus plan, enough to start making back-of-the-envelope estimates of impact. The bottom line is this: we're probably looking at a plan that will shave less than 2 percentage points off …
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
The World's Pornographic Interest in Jewish Moral Failure — Okay, yesterday I was depressed. Today, I'm just pissed off. It's absolutely astonishing to me how interested the world is in Israel's failings. This is the source of a bitter but hilarious observation I once heard a Kurdish leader make …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Imagine the Jews Were the Real Terrorists! — Stephen Walt, coauthor with John Mearsheimer of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, has started a new blog at the website of Foreign Policy. He is one of a number of new bloggers the magazine has brought on board ahead of Obama's inauguration.
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Wesley Loy / Anchorage Daily News:
Levi Johnston quits oil field job — PUBLIC SCRUTINY: Rules say he needs diploma for apprenticeship. — wloy@adn.com — Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to work …
David Shepardson / Detroit News:
Obama to ride in style in GM limo — Armored '09 Cadillac to carry new president in inaugural parade. — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is getting a new ride to go with his new address on Jan. 20. — General Motors Corp. recently delivered to the U.S. Secret Service a brand …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Think Tank Industrial Complex — Steven Walt says: … It seems unlike a realist to cite domestic political dynamics as the cause of national security policy, but clearly this is correct. And I would note the last point about the think tanks has implications that go beyond the budget.
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Eliot Spitzer / Slate:
The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and buildings. — The incoming Obama administration and Congress are planning a huge fiscal stimulus package. They hope that such a stimulus will catalyze an economic turnaround and be a cornerstone of a “New New Deal.”
Agence France Presse:
240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt — NEW YORK (AFP) - An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. — Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday …
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blogs:
Coulter booked for ‘Today’ show — Conservative author Ann Coulter will appear on Wednesday's “Today” show, according to an NBC spokesperson. — Coulter has been talking up being bumped by NBC for the past two days, both on other networks and the radio. A controversy erupted …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Reid calls on Coleman to concede — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that while Democrats will not seek to seat Democrat Al Franken today, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) should concede the election. — In his inaugural address to the 111th Congress, Reid referred …
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Man in the Middle — Buzzzzzz. THE CELL PHONE rings again and Chuck Schumer flips it open. “I figured it out,” he says without preamble. “George Washington. If George Washington got indicted, you wouldn't pounce on the guy—you'd say he served honorably and now it's time for Alaskans to move on.”
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Wall Street Journal:
An Endgame for Israel — Maybe this column would get a better reception if it were titled, “No Endgame for Israel.” Because the quantity of commentary claiming that Israel cannot possibly achieve any kind of successful outcome in Gaza is already approaching presurge levels of Iraq defeatism.
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
THE FIRST TEN SENATE BILLS. — A Democratic aide on the hill passes along the first ten bills that Majority Leader Harry Reid will put in the hopper this evening to kick off the new session of Congress, as sent by leadership to various Senate Legislative Directors.
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