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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called “a war of necessity” in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama to address nation next week — President Obama is expected to announce his Afghanistan policy with an address to the nation next Tuesday, Dec. 1, likely in prime time, officials told POLITICO. — Obama held his ninth formal Afghanistan strategy session in the Situation Room on Monday night.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama makes a Ron Brownstein blog post mandatory reading for the West Wing — Heilemann/Halperin announce title — Fleischer's to defend BCS — Morrell b'day — BULLETIN: President Obama is expected to address the nation next TUESDAY (a week from today) on his new Afghanistan policy, likely in PRIME TIME, Playbook is told.
David Rogers / The Politico:
War surtax: ‘Pay as you fight’ — Call it “pay as you fight.” — After months of listening to conservatives caterwaul over deficits and health care, senior House Democrats want a graduated surtax on individuals and corporations to pay for another big drain on the treasury: the Afghanistan war.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Americans divided over troop buildup in Afghanistan — Washington (CNN) - If President Barack Obama decides to send 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, a new national poll indicates Americans would be split over whether to support such a move.
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Andrew Bolt:
Even Monbiot says the science now needs “reanalyising” — Even George Monbiot, one of the fiercest media propagandists of the warming faith, admits he should have been more sceptical and says the science now needs to be rechecked: … Sure, Monbiot claims the fudging of what he extremely optimistically puts …
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NewsBusters.org, Stop The ACLU, Watts Up With That?, JammieWearingFool, Biased BBC, Classical Values and TBR.cc
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George Monbiot / Guardian:
Global warming rigged? Here's the email I'd need to see — The leaked exchanges are disturbing, but it would take a conspiracy of a very different order to justify sceptics' claims — It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit …
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Climate Progress, QandO, Jules Crittenden, Pajamas Media, Tim Blair and The Corner on National …
George Monbiot / Monbiot.com:
The Knights Carbonic — The conspiracy which proves that manmade global warming is a scam — It's no use pretending that this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging(1).
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
Strip away the figleaf and reveal naysayers — Lord Lawson's foundation claims it wants a ‘balanced’ climate change debate. But really it wants to disprove the science — Yesterday in the late afternoon, after a day of leaving messages on someone's Orange answerphone (an unnamed someone) …
Christopher Monckton / Pajamas Media:Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’ (PJM Exclusive)
Wall Street Journal:
1 in 4 Borrowers Under Water — The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery. — Nearly 10.7 million households had negative equity in their homes in the third quarter …
Wall Street Journal:
Lieberman Digs In on Public Option — Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: “I'm going to be stubborn on this.” — Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a …
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Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:
First Obama State Dinner: Lucky 400 at Tuesday Bash — The most sought-after invitation in Washington — for Tuesday's state dinner for the prime minister of India, the first state dinner hosted by President Obama and First Lady Michelle — arrived in the mail a little over a week ago.
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Washington Times, ABCNEWS, Lynn Sweet, Political Punch, Obama Foodorama, JammieWearingFool and Los Angeles Times
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John Cook / Gawker:
Katie Couric's Forbidden Dance of Gin — When CBS News anchor Katie Couric isn't asking Sarah Palin gotcha questions, she's doin' Da Butt, or the Lambada, or whatever white ladies do when the Black Eyed Peas are on the sound system. More unbelievable images after the jump.
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Political Byline, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, Dennis the Peasant and Joe. My. God.
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Matthew Dowd / Washington Post:
Yes, she can: Palin has a shot at the presidency — How Sarah Palin might win the White House — President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason to leave the country.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Values Question — It's easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform. But, like all great public issues, the health care debate is fundamentally a debate about values. It's a debate about what kind of country we want America to be.
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Firedoglake, Beat the Press, The Future of Capitalism, Greg Mankiw's Blog and Prairie Weather
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Right and Left Join to Take On U.S. Over Criminal Justice — WASHINGTON — In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil liberties groups and associations …
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Dobbs mulls White House bid — Former CNN host Lou Dobbs fueled already rampant speculation about his political future Monday, sending the clearest signals yet that he's mulling a bid for president—and leaving third-party political operatives salivating over the possibility of a celebrity recruit for the 2012 campaign.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Beware the Result of Outrage — The biggest news story of last week? — O.K., maybe it was Oprah Winfrey announcing she was going to call it quits with her daytime show in 2011. — But it's a close call. Though Oprah sucked up a lot of the media oxygen, last Thursday was an important …
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: NEXT WEEK'S DECISION — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg — *** Next week's decision: On “TODAY,” NBC's Savannah Guthrie reported that President Obama is set to announce his decision on Afghanistan-Pakistan next week (likely on Tuesday …
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