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7:30 PM ET, November 15, 2009

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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Really?  Still Making Things Up?  —  The book tour starts this week, and I look forward to it!  I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you,"Thanks for loving America."  I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page …
Liz Nunez / WPTV:
Al Gore greeted by protesters in Boca Raton  —  BOCA RATON, FL — Hundreds of people sat inside the Mizner Amphitheater, paying close attention to the presentation, but outside, it was a different story.  —  A large group of protesters gathered just steps away from where former Vice President Al Gore was speaking.
Discussion: MyDD and Don Surber
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Sofia Santana / Sun-Sentinel:
Gore heckled at climate speech  —  Al Gore (Frazer Harrison, Getty Images / November 12, 2009)  —  BOCA RATON - Former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming speech Saturday night at Mizner Park drew about a thousand attendees, as well as more than 200 loud protesters.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:   Hundreds of Protesters Greet Al Gore at Florida Junk Science Speech (Video)
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Report: Bill would reduce senior care  —  Medicare cuts approved by House may affect access to providers  —  A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system …
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
CMS: House bill increases health care costs  —  Democrats have promised that health reform would reduce health care costs, but legislation the House passed last week would increase costs over the next decade by $289 billion.  By 2019, health costs would rise to 21.1 percent of GDP compared …
FITSNews:
Two New Polls Show Graham Tanking  —  U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's public support is collapsing in South Carolina - driven by a wholesale revolt among the GOP electorate and a steady erosion of his support amongst independents.  —  Already consistently loathed by a solid third of GOP voters …
Discussion: Commentary and The Sundries Shack
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BRODER ON SPEED OVER ACCURACY.... I checked the byline a couple of times this morning, to make sure the column that was ostensibly written by David Broder wasn't, in fact, written by Charles Krauthammer.  Regrettably, the so-called Dean of the D.C. Media Establishment actually wrote this.
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Liz Cheney: Whoever Leads GOP in 2012 Will Have to Undo the Damage From Obama's Disastrous Policies (Video)  —  Liz Cheney spoke out on Obama's disastrous policies this morning on FOX News Sunday.  —  Cheney said that no matter who led the party in 2012, they would have to undo …
Discussion: Moe Lane and Jules Crittenden
Christopher Hitchens / Newsweek:
Palin's Base Appeal … From the magazine issue dated Nov 23, 2009  —  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ernest Gruening: war veteran, former editor of The Nation magazine, and Franklin Roosevelt's nominee for governorship of the then-territory of Alaska in 1939.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Commentary
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Robertson's remarks put McDonnell in a bind  —  Muslims seek repudiation Gov.-elect received donations from religious broadcaster  —  Fresh off his landslide victory in the race for Virginia governor, Robert F. McDonnell is already being forced to confront how he plans to handle his friendship …
Yossi Sarid / Haaretz:
Abbas must unilaterally declare Palestinian state  —  It is precisely now that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas must not give up hope, and not because of the sweet nothings that Shimon Peres uttered at the rally in the square last Saturday night about people giving up hope in Ramallah.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan  —  His strategy deliberations are starting to look like dangerous indecision.  —  Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name.  —  The decision about whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan was never going to be easy …
Discussion: GayPatriot, Harry's Place and Telegraph
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
World Leaders Agree to Delay a Deal on Climate Change  —  SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission …
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Financial Times:
Obama rules out Copenhagen treaty
Discussion: Guardian and Prairie Weather
HotAirPundit:
President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan (Photos)  —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  —  King of Morocco  —  Dick Cheney  —  Prime Minister Slovenia  —  President South Korea  —  President Kazakhstan  —  Prime Minister India  —  Vladimir Putin  —  President Obama...
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama bowed to emperor as ‘protocol’
 
 
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Obama urges Myanmar to free Suu Kyi
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Congress Mandating That People Buy Health Insurance Like States …
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TSA is secretly watching you
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Few Dems in big races jump headlong into backing House healthcare bill
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The Fed Is Responsible for 10.2 Percent Unemployment in the Same …
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CNN:
Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops
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Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Low rating for Culver reveals vulnerability
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Nicola Smith / Times of London:
Irishman wants to kill for Islam
Jim VandeHei / The Politico:
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Richard H. Thaler / New York Times:
Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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