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John Stanton / Roll Call:
Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney — Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus' office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana.
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Andrew Ramonas / Main Justice:
Baucus Girlfriend Withdrew as U.S. Attorney Candidate — A Department of Justice official who is in a relationship with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) withdrew as a finalist for Montana U.S. Attorney to live with the senator in Washington, a Baucus spokesperson confirmed to Main Justice today.
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Ben Webster / Times of London:
Met Office to re-examine 160 years of climate data — The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails. — The new analysis of the data will take three years …
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Steven F. Hayward / Weekly Standard:
Scientists Behaving Badly — A corrupt cabal of global warming alarmists are exposed by a massive document leak. — Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners.
Washington Post:
In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate — Stolen files of ‘Climate-gate’ suggest some viewpoints on change are disregarded — It began with an anonymous Internet posting, and a link to a wonky set of e-mails and files. Stolen, apparently, from a research center in Britain …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
No Way, No How, to the Public Option — The Connecticut senator, free of partisan loyalties, has a pivotal role in the health-care debate. — Printer — Friendly — 'About two months ago my wife and I were out with another couple, and they said 'So, how's it going?'—and I knew what they meant.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Beck's ‘Christmas Sweater’ flops in major cities, just 17 tickets sold in New York and Boston. — Last night, Fox News host Glenn Beck premiered his new live show based on his book The Christmas Sweater, which was simulcast to hundreds of movie theaters across the country.
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Reuters:
Palin Gets Another Ethics Complaint (Read Her Staff's Emails) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Yet another ethics complaint has been filed against former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, this time on the grounds that both she and her staff used official state facilities and resources for “partisan political purposes.”
Jeremy Scahill / The Nation:
Is Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Government? — The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels—not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story's author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access …
Alfred de Montesquiou / Associated Press:
Marines launch offensive in Taliban stronghold — Osprey used to disrupt enemy lines — U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft Friday in the first offensive since President Obama announced an American troop surge.
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Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Sarah Palin says US should rededicate itself to God — Sarah Palin has said the United States should rededicate itself to seeking God's will. — The former US vice-presidential candidate argued that a humble spirit could help leaders to get more answers on issues such as health care, energy and national security.
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Political Punch:
Gibbs Tells a Female White House Correspondent to ‘Calm Down’ — ABC News' Jordyn Phelps reports: — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and American Urban Radio's White House Correspondent April Ryan have long had a contentious relationship. An exchange they had yesterday has started …
Bill Schneider / National Journal Online:
The Conformity Movement — IN A RECENT CNN POLL, THE REPUBLICAN RANK AND FILE PREFERRED IDEOLOGICAL PURITY OVER ELECTABILITY. — Republicans may soon get their own version of the Ten Commandments. Led by James Bopp Jr. of Indiana, a group of conservative members of the Republican National Committee plans …
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Politiken.dk News in English:
Parliamentary Speaker: Climate debate derailed? — The Speaker of the Danish Parliament has issued a damning criticism of the climate debate, saying politicians gullibly turn theories into facts. — TEKST — As the world prepares to converge on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Summit …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Similarities to Iraq Surge Plan Mask Risks in Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — President Obama strongly opposed President George W. Bush's surge in Iraq during his presidential campaign, and even now he has never publicly acknowledged that it was largely successful.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The only doctor in town — Health-care reform hits a small-town reality: Even with insurance, you need somewhere to go — POST, TEX. — Another morning at the clinic. Far away in Washington, the debate over health-care reform drags on, while here in barren West Texas, Ben Edwards is moving fast.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Obama Changes Copenhagen Plans, Invites Huge Failure, Again — How many times have we seen this strategy explode in Obama's face only one year into his term? He did the very same thing with the Olympics to disastrous effect. … Obama continues to think this is all about him, somehow.
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