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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dem: House GOP is “80 percent male, 100 percent white” — The National Republican Congressional Committee is urging Gen. Stanley McChrystal to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in her place” for weighing in on Afghanistan — prompting one female Pelosi ally to blast the House GOP as …
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The Gun Toting Liberal, Ruby Slippers, Balloon Juice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Weasel Zippers
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Congressional GOP Fundraising Committee On Pelosi: It's Time To 'Put …
Congressional GOP Fundraising Committee On Pelosi: It's Time To 'Put …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi says new tax is ‘on the table’
Pelosi says new tax is ‘on the table’
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Wizbang, Wellsy's World, Fausta's Blog, Hot Air, Adrienne's Catholic Corner, The Jawa Report, Sweetness & Light and Wake up America
New York Times:
Obama Rules Out Large Reduction in Afghan Force — WASHINGTON — President Obama told Congressional leaders on Tuesday that he would not substantially reduce American forces in Afghanistan or shift the mission to just hunting terrorists there, but he indicated that he remained undecided …
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
The Cup of Coffee: White House's David Axelrod Meets With Fox News' Roger Ailes — On a recent visit to New York, White House adviser David Axelrod met over coffee with Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News network, which President Obama has described as a “television station …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Axelrod meets with Ailes — At a time of tension between their organizations, White House senior adviser David Axelrod met with Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes two weeks ago, sources tell POLITICO. — The two met privately in Manhattan during the president's visit to the United Nations.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Cantor: Obama Still Deliberating Whether We Need to Defeat Taliban
Cantor: Obama Still Deliberating Whether We Need to Defeat Taliban
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Jihad Watch
Anne / BackyardConservative:
Bill Ayers No Dream — There I was, sitting in Reagan National Monday morning, sipping a Starbucks by the United counter before going through security. I had a little time, so I was browsing through the news. Some military guys had borrowed a chair from my table.
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People.com:
Tom DeLay to Quit Dancing with the Stars — It's the end of the road for Tom DeLay. — Sources tell PEOPLE that the former Republican House Majority Leader will withdraw from Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday's live results show due to stress fractures in both of his feet.
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Top of the Ticket, EW.com, Washington Wire, Newsweek Blogs, The Moderate Voice, The Political Carnival and PEOPLE TV Watch
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Should Gen. McChrystal stop speaking publicly about Afghan war strategy? — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, set off the rumbles of a political storm last week by saying publicly, during a speech in London, that a more limited strategy than the one he's proposing …
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Bob Gough / QuincyNews.org:
Durbin's office blacklists STARadio stations — A spokesman for U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) says the senator's office will no longer send media information to Quincy's oldest radio station because the station decided to let the public know he was coming to town.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see! — Last month, Xeni blogged about the photoshop disaster that is this Ralph Lauren advertisement, in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body ("Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis").
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New York Times:
Feingold's Statement on ‘Czars’ — Following are the prepared remarks by Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, on the use of “czars” in the executive branch, as released by the senator's office on Tuesday. — “I think it is fair to acknowledge that there has been a lot of discussion …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court Hears Free-Speech Case on Dogfight Videos — WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wanted to know if Congress could ban a “Human Sacrifice Channel” on cable television. — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked about videos of cockfighting. — “What about hunting with a bow and arrow out of season?”
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Wall Street Journal:
Fed Frets Over Commercial Real Estate — With Banks Slow to Take Losses, Fears of a Residential-Bust Repeat; ‘More Pain Likely Lies Ahead’ — Banks in the U.S. “are slow” to take losses on their commercial real-estate loans being battered by slumping property values and rental payments …
Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
In defense of Glenn Beck — The left detests him, and some conservatives say he's undermining the cause. The truth is, he must be doing something right. — For a self-described rodeo clown who frequently admits he isn't that bright, Glenn Beck must be doing something right.
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Two Fish, One Barrel: Deconstructing Andrew Sullivan's ‘The Breitbart Standard,’ Demolishing Conor Friedersdorf's 'The Right's Lesser Media' — To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf's Daily Beast criticism of your's truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan's two-thumbs-up to it:
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The Daily Dish, The Other McCain, Pajamas Media, Confederate Yankee and Riehl World View
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Senate moderates echo GOP call for 72-hour disclosure — As the health care reform bill moves to the Senate floor, a key bloc of moderate Senate Democrats and an independent called on Senate Majority Leader Reid to increase the process' transparency. — Specifically, the senators called …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
How Health Care Reform Won — The biggest story in health care reform this year has not been the town hall meetings, or President Obama's big speech on health care. It's that the Senate Democrats have decided they're going to pass a bill. You just haven't heard much about this story …
Matt Taibbi / Taibblog:
Michael Moore's Problems Are Our Fault — Michael Moore arrives at an LA premiere of his latest film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ in September 2009 (Kevin Winters/Getty Images for Overture) … The reaction to Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, reinforces a suspicion …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Support Builds for Tax Credit to Encourage Hiring — The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among economists and Washington officials grappling with the highest unemployment in a generation.
The Huffington Post:
Fox News's Shepard Smith Goes After Sen. John Barrasso On Public Option — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Earlier this afternoon, Fox News's Shepard Smith demonstrated some of that trademarked independent thinking that so often gets him in dutch with the cable network's most dedicated viewers …
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Working hard or hardly working? — Like most Americans, members of the House are expected to report promptly — no excuses — when summoned by their bosses for the start of another workweek. One difference: For lawmakers, starting time doesn't come until about 6:30 Tuesday evening.
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Felix Dennis / THE WEEK News & Opinion:
Is the Bible too liberal? — Conservapedia's attempt to weed out “liberal bias” from modern Bible translations — BEST OPINION: TIME, NEWSBUSTERS, BELIEFNET, SOUTHERN APPEAL ... “And you thought liberal bias was limited to the evil mainstream media,” said Amy Sullivan in Time.
Jenny Anderson / New York Times:
Paralysis in the Debt Markets Is Deepening the Credit Drought — A year after Washington rescued the big names of American finance, it's still hard to get a loan. But the problem isn't just tight-fisted banks. — The continued disarray in debt-securitization markets …