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Palin: Media goes easy on Kennedy — Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) believes Caroline Kennedy is getting softer press treatment in her pursuit of the New York Senate seat than Palin did as the GOP vice presidential nominee because of Kennedy's social class. — “I've been interested …
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Palin on Olbermann: ‘THAT guy is EVIL!’ — Right-winger John Ziegler — who is waging a one-man crusade to prove that President-elect Obama won the election solely because of “media bias” — recently interviewed Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). In a gushing description published on a new website devoted …
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Video Exclusive: A Revealing Morning With Sarah Palin — If someone told me five months ago that in early January I would pay over $1,400 for an incredibly inconvenient plane ticket and $120 for a 3 a.m. cab fare to get from sunny Los Angeles to Wasilla, Alaska, I would have told …
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An Unnecessary War — I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided. — After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that area, my wife, Rosalynn …
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The Jews Face a Double Standard — Why doesn't Israel have the same right to self-defense as other nations? — The world-wide protests against Israel's ground incursion into Gaza are so full of hatred that they leave me with the terrible feeling that these protests have little …
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Why Democrats recoil from Gaza — Good for Shrum for championing Israel's right to defend itself against the Hamas rocket barrage. He is correct, too, that lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians abandon their hope that Israel can somehow be defeated or destroyed.
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MO-Senate: Bond to Retire — Missouri Sen. Kit Bond (R) will retire in 2010, a decision that hands Democrats a prime pickup opportunity in a state where the party has made strides in recent years. — “In 1972, I became Missouri's youngest Governor,” Bond said this morning in an address to the Missouri General Assembly.
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Bond will not seek another term — Sen. Kit Bond, a senior Republican from Missouri who sits on several powerful Senate committees, announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2010, giving Democrats a shot to pick up a seat in a state that has emerged as a major battleground.
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Obama serves Reid taste of Chicago Way — So the Chicago Way hauled off and slapped the U.S. Senate in the face—one of those backhands with the knuckles to unsuspecting lips—and guess who blinked? — It wasn't Chicago. — It was the Senate. — Get used to it, America.
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Despite His Party's Majority, Senate Leader Harry Reid Gets Off to a Rough Start
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Weekend votes stall Iraq trip for 3 senators
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Obama, Spider-Man on the same comic-book page — In a growing world of Barack Obama collectibles, one item soon may be swinging above the rest. — On Jan. 14, Marvel Comics is releasing a special issue of Amazing Spider-Man #583 with Obama depicted on the cover.
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Barack Obama asks longtime University of Chicago professor Cass Sunstein to join his administration — Law scholar will handle regulation issues, transition official says — WASHINGTON — Cass Sunstein, a longtime University of Chicago legal scholar and prominent author …
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Sunstein to Bring Law & Behavioral Economics to Washington
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Oakland Turns Violent Over Shooting — Protesters angry over a deadly New Year's Day shooting of a young black man by a transit police officer erupted into violence in downtown Oakland on Wednesday night while investigators struggled to determine what prompted the officer to fire his gun into the unarmed man's back.
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Conyers: Obama Should Not Nominate Sanjay Gupta — Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join him in publicly opposing the nomination of Dr. Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General. — Conyers, the veteran Judiciary Committee chairman, writes that Gupta …
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Panel urges impeachment of Blagojevich — The special Illinois House panel investigating Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued a draft report today recommending impeachment, putting lawmakers on a path toward removing the two-term Democrat from office. — “The citizens of this state must have confidence …
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Toll of conflict strikes home as cameraman finds brother dead — (CNN) — At a Gaza hospital, doctors tried to revive a 12-year-old victim of the violence, but their efforts were in vain. Mahmoud died. — Recording the tragedy at the hospital was his brother, freelance cameraman Ashraf Mashharawi.
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Gaza Children Found With Mothers' Corpses — PARIS — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had discovered “shocking” scenes — including small children next to their mothers' corpses — when its representatives gained access for the first time to parts of Gaza battered by Israeli shelling.
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Obama Digs In for His BlackBerry — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has yet to relent, but he conceded that he might be losing the battle to keep his independent lifeline to the outside world. — “I'm still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday. “They're going to pry it out of my hands.”
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What Are the Chances of a Depression? — The answer to the question in the headline, of course, depends on just who you ask. — According to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted last month, 35 percent of Americans think that a “depression” — which the poll defines as “an economic downturn …
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Americans miffed at Howard bumping Obama — John Howard's decision to stay at the luxurious Blair House mansion in Washington DC has sparked a firestorm of protest in the US. — Outraged American taxpayers are demanding the former Australian prime minister book a hotel or stay at the Australian embassy.
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Defense Subcabinet Taking Shape — New Department of Defense posts announced: — For Deputy Secretary of Defense, William J. Lynn III, who was DOD comproller from 1997-2001 and whose canned bio opens with the intriguing pitch that he “brings decades of experience and expertise …
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Obama's ‘first mistakes’ mount — Team Obama has made its first mistake — again. — When Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary earlier this week, NBC's Andrea Mitchell declared it “the Obama team's first misstep.” — But Mitchell had been scooped.
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Paterson On Caroline's ‘Pluses And Minuses,’ Decision Timetable — Now that the date has been set for Hillary Clinton's secretary of state confirmation hearing (next Tuesday), the pressure is on for Gov. David Paterson to finally make a decision on who he will tap to replace her in the US Senate.
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A SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM THAT DOESN'T EXIST.... You've got to be kidding. … These guys aren't pushing a bill to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine, because it's already gone. They're pushing a bill to prevent anyone from trying to bring it back — despite the fact that there is no meaningful effort to do so.
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Hamas executes ‘collaborators’, restricts Fatah movement — Since the aerial attack on Gaza began, Hamas has sought to suppress individuals it believes endanger the group's fight against Israel and its hold on power in the Strip, as well as public morale. Prime targets include Fatah members …
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Why Obama Will ‘Own’ the Recession — For eight decades, Democrats have successfully blamed Republican Herbert Hoover for the decade-long Great Depression. That, even though Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal failed to restore prosperity or dramatically lower unemployment, and his tax increases in 1937 snuffed out a nascent recovery.
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The Stimulus and the Somme — Mark Thoma gives us Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Feldstein being interviewed by Charlie Rose. I listened to it last night, and I found it so chilling that it adversely affected my sleep. Two issues stand out. — 1. Both of them are keen on re-working mortgages.
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Transcript: Obama to boost alt. energy — Here is the prepared text of President-elect Obama's remarks Thursday morning in Fairfax, Va., titled “American Recovery and Reinvestment,” the name of his proposed $750 billion stimulus package: — Throughout America's history …