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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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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 …
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.
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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Brett J. Blackledge / Associated Press:
Source: Treasury nominee failed to pay taxes — WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.
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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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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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 …
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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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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:House Judiciary Issues Scathing Report on Bush/Cheney Imperial Presidency
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:Emanuel to Bolten: 'I'll Miss You'
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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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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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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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dem blasts Obama econ team's ‘mumbo jumbo’ — A Democratic senator on Tuesday accused President-elect Obama's incoming director of the Office of Management and Budget of talking “mumbo jumbo” instead of offering hard details on the economy. — “I would think that in this era of freshness …
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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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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beliefnet:
Nazi? You? — Ever thought about how you would have reacted had you lived in Nazi Germany? Ronald Bailey reflects on a famous experiment that meant to discover whether it could happen here, in America. His conclusion is instructive: … In other words, American culture …
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White House:
President Bush Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon to everybody, and thank you all for coming. We have assembled quite a distinguished crowd to honor three good friends — President Uribe, Prime Minister Howard, and Prime Minister Blair.
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 …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Joe the Plumber plunges deeper: ‘Military should decide what information to give the media.’ — Continuing his reporting from Israel, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher tried to clarify his remarks criticizing media coverage of war, in a new Pajamas TV segment.
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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.
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.
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