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Marc Sheppard / American Thinker:
Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline — Close followers of the Climategate controversy know that much of the mêlée surrounds an email in which Climate Research Unit (CRU) chief Phil Jones wrote about using “Mike's Nature Trick” (MNT) to “hide the decline.”
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Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Climategate reveals ‘the most influential tree in the world’ — Leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit show how the world's weightiest climate data has been distorted, says Christopher Booker — Coming to light in recent days has been one of the most extraordinary scientific detective stories …
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Jacob S. Hacker / The New Republic:
You Call This a Compromise? — As the Senate debates the health care bill put together by Majority Leader Reid, the scramble is on to come up with a new compromise regarding the public option—the public health insurance plan modeled after Medicare that will be offered within …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama visits Hill to push health plan — Ahead of a make-or-break week for health care reform, President Barack Obama put his personal prestige on the line Sunday with an unusual weekend visit to the Senate along with Vice President Joe Biden, imploring Democrats to set aside differences and pass legislation by the end of the year.
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Daily Mail:
Were Russian security services behind the leak of ‘Climategate’ emails? — Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to undermine tomorrow's Copenhagen global warming summit.
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Stolen E-Mail, Stoking the Climate Debate — AS world leaders prepare to meet tomorrow in Copenhagen to address global warming, skeptics are pointing to e-mail hacked from a computer server at a British university as evidence that the conference may be much ado about nothing.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Lady and the Tiger — They were both elegant and entitled swans, insulated in guarded enclaves, obsessed with protecting and promoting the Brand. Then trouble trespassed into their privileged worlds and both responded the same foolish way. — They presumptuously put themselves beyond authority and …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
May It All Come True — President Obama certainly showed leadership mettle in going against his own party's base and ordering a troop surge into Afghanistan. He is going to have to be even more tough-minded, though, to make sure his policy is properly executed. — I've already explained why I oppose this escalation.
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Associated Press:
Gates Expects 2-4 Years of Big Afghan Role for U.S.
Gates Expects 2-4 Years of Big Afghan Role for U.S.
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Tony Romm / The Hill:
Jones: Afghan war 2011 deadline a ‘slope,’ not a ‘cliff’
Jones: Afghan war 2011 deadline a ‘slope,’ not a ‘cliff’
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Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:
Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges — Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough. — On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director …
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The Politico:
Palin cracks wise at Gridiron dinner — In an 11-minute speech before Washington's Gridiron Club at its Winter Dinner, Sarah Palin tossed a few barbs at the gathering of journalists, comparing them to “death panels.” — “Sometimes you got to trust your instincts, and if you don't …
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Mark Preston / CNN:
Democrats consider new presidential nominating process — Washington (CNN) - National Democrats are considering changing the presidential nominating process, by establishing a new primary calendar and deemphasizing the influence lawmakers and political insiders have on choosing the party nominee.
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
U.S. relations with Honduras appear to be stabilizing after coup — Coup's supporters persisted out of fear of Zelaya's policies — TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Just weeks ago, wealthy businessman Adolfo Facussé was shocked to be turned away at Miami's airport.
Amotz Asa-El / Jerusalem Post:
Middle Israel: Obama's naivete will result in isolationism — Had there been a type of Moody's rating for world leaders, and had those ratings not been delivered in sterile characters like “BBB+” but in unambiguous terms like “go for it” or “you don't want to go there,” …