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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Joe the Plumber: ‘I think media should be abolished’ from reporting on war.» — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” is currently in Israel covering the war for the conservative site PJTV.com. When asked what he has learned from his new experiences as a journalist …
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Shelly Paz / Jerusalem Post:
Joe the Plumber is here, and he ain't happy — Samuel Wurzelbacher of Ohio, aka Joe the Plumber, arrived in Sderot at noon Sunday to show local and foreign reporters how to do it right. — “You should be ashamed of yourself,” he told foreign reporters. — “You should be patriotic …
Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
Joe the Plumber Reports from War: “Media shouldn't report on war” — Please, God, let Joe keep representing the voice of conservative American media in war zones around the world. Here's a direct quote from Joe—who's currently reporting from just outside Gaza: … The AP has the video:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's allegedly “new” centrism and his ABC interview today — (updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) — The central tenets of the Beltway religion — particularly when a Democrat is in the White House — have long been “centrism” and “bipartisanship.”
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Newsweek:
Obama's Cheney Dilemma — Cheney pushed for expanded presidential powers. Now that he's leaving, what will come of his efforts? The new president won't have to wait long to tip his hand. — From the magazine issue dated Jan 19, 2009 — Dick Cheney, who will step down as vice president on Jan. 20 …
Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in His First 100 Days
Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in His First 100 Days
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Bush: I Personally Authorized Torture Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — In an interview with Brit Hume that aired today on Fox News Sunday, President Bush admitted that he personally authorized the torture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He said he personally asked “what tools” …
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CNN:
Sources: Voinovich to retire from Senate — From CNN's Dana Bash, Ed Henry and Mark Preston — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, tell CNN he will announce Monday he is retiring from the Senate. — The 72-year-old senator and former Ohio governor …
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english.pravda.ru:
Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age — The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm …
Jewish Odysseus:
GERMAN “POLICE” JOIN JEW-HATING MUSLIM MOB — Only one word comes to mind as I read and watch this: UNBELIEVABLE. — Wow. In Germany. Wow. — I read this story at the excellent Gaza war-posting blog, “Muqata,” and I was just able to dig up the vid on YouTube...It is obviously the same episode.
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TigerHawk:
New Yorkers for Hamas — I was in New York this afternoon with the TigerHawk Teenager for a college interview. Walking down 7th Avenue toward Penn Station, we happened across a large pro-Hamas demonstration that stretched for four blocks or so along the east side of the avenue.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Big changes to Obama stimulus plan — President-elect Barack Obama tried Sunday to shore up support in Congress for his ambitious economic policies, with his top advisers offering concessions on his economic-stimulus proposal and preparing to detail conditions for how the incoming administration …
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Washington Post:
Bush Lead During Weakest Economy in Decades — Eight-Year Period Is Weakest in Decades — President Bush has presided over the weakest eight-year span for the U.S. economy in decades, according to an analysis of key data, and economists across the ideological spectrum increasingly view …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Embrace — Jim Henley offers a provocative thought: … There's something to that. According to the perverse rules of our post-9/11 discourse, willingness to verbally endorse the idea of having other people torture strangers counts as a form of courageous “toughness” akin to, you know, actually doing something brave.
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Dahlia Lithwick / New York Times:
Forgive Not — INSTEAD of looking closely at what high-level officeholders in the Bush administration have done over the past eight years, and recognizing what we have tacitly permitted, we would rather turn our faces forward toward a better future, promising that 2009 and the inauguration …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Hail to the Faux Chief We Have Chosen as Rehearsal Stand-In — WASHINGTON — Politics and governance in Washington can sometimes seem like one big cast of characters play-acting prescribed roles and going through the paces. Sunday morning was such a time.
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NY Daily News:
Coulter addresses voting issue — Conservative scold Ann Coulter knows how this country should be run. She may not be quite as clear about where she's supposed to vote. — The brassy pundit is facing new questions about whether she violated election laws.
Paul / Power Line:
A WAKE-UP CALL IN LIBERAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND — The leaders of Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live, have for years pledged not to enforce the nation's immigration laws. Any jurisdiction that elects such leaders deserves the consequences. — According to the Washington Post …
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