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Seattle Times:
Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has troubling criminal history — Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
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Michelle Malkin:
Violent felon granted clemency by Huckabee now sought in Lakewood, WA police ambush; Update: Huck PAC posts statement; Update: SWAT team surrounds Clemmons home — Scroll for updates... Huckabee's Willie Horton II? — Faces of the fallen: Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; Officers Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; Gregory Richards, 42.
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New York Times:
Swiss Ban Building of Minarets on Mosques — GENEVA — In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country's reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques …
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BBC:Swiss voters back ban on minarets
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Tiger Woods:
Statement from Tiger Woods — As you all know, I had a single-car accident earlier this week, and sustained some injuries. I have some cuts, bruising and right now I'm pretty sore. — This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me. I'm human and I'm not perfect.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Theocon On “Going Rogue” — Here's an interesting and intellectually honest book review from a Sarah Palin fan, writing in the theocon journal. First Things: … Indeed we are. But this is a more salient question for Adam Bellow at Harper Collins, the person who allegedly edited this book:
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John Mark Reynolds / Evangel:
Done at Last: Ten Final Thoughts on Palin and “Going Rogue” — This was a bad and unhelpful book. — It was not bad because it was simple. Goldwater (or his ghost) used fewer pages in Conscience of a Conservative and said more. It was not bad because it was autobiographical.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Why Do You Believe What You Do? — Do our beliefs form the basis of our partisan and ideological affiliations? Or is it vice versa? — There's been a lot of recent evidence not only that Republicans disproportionately disbelieve the evidence for man-made global warming but that their skepticism is growing.
Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad vows dramatic expansion of Iran's nuclear program — 10 uranium-enrichment sites announced after international rebuke — TEHRAN — Iran's government will build 10 new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday, a dramatic expansion of the country's nuclear program …
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Rod Liddle / Times of London:Iran defies world with plan for ten new nuclear sites
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Kenneth Harney / San Francisco Chronicle:
Break chains of mortgage morality, lawyer says — (11-29) 04:00 PST WASHINGTON — Go ahead. Break the chains. Stop paying on your mortgage if you owe more than the house is worth. And most important: Don't feel guilty about it. Don't think you're doing something morally wrong.
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Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
Harvard ignored warnings about investments — Advisers told Summers, others not to put so much cash in market; losses hit $1.8b — It happened at least once a year, every year. In a roomful of a dozen Harvard University financial officials, Jack Meyer, the hugely successful head of Harvard's endowment …
Jim Treacher / Jim Treacher's Blog …:
A friendly chat with the global warming evangelist who lives in my head — Hello, hyperventilating zealot. Greetings, denialist scum. Now that we've dispensed with the formalities, please allow me to point and laugh at you. Ahem. Ha ha ha! Point point point! Shut up. That's what you'd like me to do.
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Coakley opposes troop increase — The frontrunner to take Ted Kennedy's Senate seat said today she opposes sending more troops to Afghanistan. — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is facing an increasingly tight race with Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
A Last-Minute Meeting On Afghanistan — President Obama convened a last-minute meeting of his national security team tonight to discuss the language that his administration will use to describe its new strategy for Afghanistan. Two administration sources confirmed that the meeting …
Paul / Power Line:
The Obama-Holder Justice Department turns a blind eye to ACORN — As I noted yesterday, ACORN caught a break from the Department of Justice when DOJ decided, based on a strained reading of the applicable statute, that the Obama administration can lawfully pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed …
New York Times:
Crisis Puts Focus on Dubai's Complex Relationship With Abu Dhabi — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It was the most subtle of gestures, but looking back, many in Dubai now see it as a sign of their salvation. — At the grand opening of the Dubai Air Show this month, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi …
New York Times:
Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades — A GROWING NEED FOR A PROGRAM ONCE SCORNED Greg Dawson and his wife, Sheila, of Martinsville, Ohio, help feed their family of seven with a $300 monthly food stamp benefit. Center and right, the food pantry in Lebanon, Ohio, where residents can also enroll …
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