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CNN:
Palin slams ‘bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie’ — (CNN) — Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.” — The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream …
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Kate Beckinsale / Esquire:
The Governor Strikes Back: Five New Quotes from Sarah Palin — Last week, the former vice-presidential candidate lashed out at the media's coverage of her campaign. In a brand-new “What I've Learned” interview with Esquire, excerpted here in advance of the March issue, Palin goes even further.
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Anchorage Daily News:
Full text of the Palin-ADN email exchange — Gov. Palin's press office claims that she has pointed out errors in Daily News coverage that we have refused to correct. The only such complaints of which I'm aware are below, in an email from Gov. Palin to the publisher and me.
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
AP: Clinton acted on concerns of husband's donors — WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State appointee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband's foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Olmert Says He Made Rice Change Vote — WASHINGTON — In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Senators Raise Questions About Geithner's Nomination at Treasury — Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions about a housekeeper who worked briefly for Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner without proper immigration papers …
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Ed Rollins / CNN:
Rollins: Bush still doesn't get it — Editor's Note: Ed Rollins, who served as political director for President Ronald Reagan, is a Republican strategist who was national chairman of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign. — NEW YORK (CNN) — One week from today …
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Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
Bush's Mistakes — President Bush infamously couldn't or …
Bush's Mistakes — President Bush infamously couldn't or …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Where Some See Mistakes, He Sees Disappointments
Where Some See Mistakes, He Sees Disappointments
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Live from the Clinton Confirmation Hearing — Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, a Republican who is retiring, just now love-bombed Clinton and Obama. He notes that a couple of years ago he got to know retired Marine Gen. James Jones and wondered, “Why can't we get this guy in the administration?”
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C. Brian Smith / Vanity Fair:
My Dinners with Dubya — When a college drinking buddy invited C. Brian Smith to hang out with her parents, he tried not to sweat the fact that they lived in the White House. He even had fun—until 9/11 made watching bad movies with the president feel like a guilty pleasure America couldn't afford.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Cheney: NYT Pulitzers for Spying Stories ‘Aggravating’ — Vice President Dick Cheney said that the prizes won by the New York Times for uncovering the Bush administration were “aggravating” to him, and cautioned the incoming administration on the lessons he's learned in office.
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Emanuel to Bolten: 'I'll Miss You'
Emanuel to Bolten: 'I'll Miss You'
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
White House and Transition Officials Conduct Joint Disaster Exercise
White House and Transition Officials Conduct Joint Disaster Exercise
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Monday / Monday Morning Clacker:
Meghan McCain Sits Down With MMC To Talk Blogs, Bikers, Politics & Why She Only Takes Off Her High Heels To Swim — Meghan McCain is an American blogger and daughter of the 2008 Republican nominee for President, John McCain. — Most recently, Ms. McCain spent almost two years …
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The Politico:
44 to reverse 43's executive orders — President-elect Barack Obama is expected to move swiftly to reverse executive orders regarding torture of terror suspects, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial security policies, sources close to his transition said …
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Sam Dillon / The Caucus:
Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever — Arne Duncan, the Chicago schools chief, told the Senate on Tuesday that he would work for “real and meaningful change” in the nation's schools if confirmed as education secretary, and he said he hoped president-elect Barack Obama's own example as a model student …
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Obama's Solid Choice For FCC Chair — For one of the final appointments of the Obama transition, Julius Genachowski has been named FCC chair: … There are several things to like about this pick. First, as an advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Genachowski helped to develop …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Report Cites Politics at Justice Dept. — WASHINGTON — A former senior official at the Justice Department routinely hired conservatives, Republicans and so-called RTA's — “Right-Thinking Americans — for what were supposed to be apolitical posts and gave them plum assignments …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
The Crisis and the Policy Response — For almost a year and a half the global financial system has been under extraordinary stress—stress that has now decisively spilled over to the global economy more broadly. The proximate cause of the crisis was the turn of the housing cycle …
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Does “Black Hawk Down” Portray an American War Crime? — At least nine hundred people, maybe half of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza so far, the overwhelming majority presumably killed by Israel (some people, more than we probably know right now, have been killed by Hamas, mainly Fatah activists in revenge killings).
The New Republic:
The Truthiest New Show on Television — The strongest case against the Department of Homeland Security is that it's not really about homeland security at all. Rather than catch terrorists, DHS officers at the border spend most of their time arresting people for drug and immigration offenses instead.
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Paul J. Gough / Hollywood Reporter:
Obama inauguration to air in theaters — MSNBC pact puts coverage in 27 U.S. locations — NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama is on his way to the big screen, thanks to a deal between MSNBC and Screenvision that will put the news channel's inaugural coverage in 27 theaters around the country.
Matthew L. Wald / The Caucus:
Steven Chu Eases Up on the Gas Price Pedal — Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate scientist who is President-elect Obama's choice to be energy secretary, said in testimony prepared for his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that high oil prices were a threat to the economy …
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
UK: BLOOD LIBEL HORROR: JEWS EATING DEAD BABIES — This is horrible. I ask men of reason, civilized men to see what is happening. Look at what is happening. We are on a terrible course, a collision course of the worst order. This is beyond the pale. And the media is ignoring it.
A.J. Jacobs / Esquire:
Mike Huckabee: The Laughing Man — It's funny, the nicest guy in a political party of not-very-nice guys is also its most unbending cultural samurai. — Early on in the 2008 presidential race, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee received the endorsement of conservative pundit Stephen Baldwin.