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Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming — Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world's leaders are gathering …
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Christopher C. Horner / Big Government:
ClimateGate Just Got Much, Much Bigger — Over at ICECAP.us Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo has posted an item on a “Russian Bombshell” highly relevant to the ClimateGate scandal. The Russian media first posted the story and now some Brits are loving it. — The long and the short …
RIA Novosti:
What the Russian papers say — MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) Russia trading in diplomatic recognition / U.S. uses NATO as a tool to integrate Russia into its project for a new world order - expert / New round of struggle to end Cold War / Russia affected by Climategate /
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO PROOF- The Associated Press Just Lied For Al Gore — The AP lied for Al Gore today, via Sweetness and Light. — The Associated Press reported: … Of course, this is not true. — The Goracle also told an audience in Germany last year that “the entire North Polari(ized) cap will disappear in 5 years.”
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?: Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data - cherrypicked warmest stations
Steve McIntyre / Climate Audit:IEA: Hadley Center “probably tampered with Russian climate data”
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Peter Wallsten / Wall Street Journal:
Democrat Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll — For First Time, Voters Split Over Who They Want in Control After 2010 Elections, and Obama's Approval Rating Falls Below 50% — President Obama makes a statement on health care after meeting with Senators on Tuesday.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:Vote by Christmas in peril
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:Union pulls back on supporting bill
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Igor / Think Progress:
Sen. Sanders: 'As of this point, I'm not voting for the bill.' — Moments ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he is prepared to vote against the Senate health care bill in light of the recent decision to strip the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision from the legislation.
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Andy Stern / SEIU:
Letter from President Andy Stern to SEIU Members: Where do we go from here? — A little over a year ago, you stood up and showed a nation that Yes, We Can. You knocked on doors, picked up phones, wrote your friends and family and neighbors and helped ring in a resounding victory.
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Howard Dean / Washington Post:
Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform — If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform.
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The Huffington Post:Gibbs Lashes Back At Dean, Suggests He's Irrational
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Wall Street Journal:
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones — $26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected — WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Health Care: The Elevator Pitch — I've written several thousand words about health care over the past 48 hours, and tens of thousands of words over the past six months. Some of those words have been a bit, uh, confrontational. So let's try this approach instead.
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:Answering Nate Silver's 20 Questions on Killing the Senate Bill
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:The Left Is Playing With Fire
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TMZ.com:
Sarah Palin's McCain Cover Up — For the first time ever, Sarah Palin used her head to make a searing political comment — a frontal attack on Sen. John McCain. — The failed Vice Presidential nominee took time off from shilling her book to vacation with her son Trig …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Palin supports McCain ‘100 percent’ — Declaring that she “was honored and proud to run with him,” former Alaska governor Sarah Palin pushed back hard Wednesday against a report that she had disrespected Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by blacking out his name on a sun visor she wore on vacation.
Lenore Taylor / TheAustralian:
Penny Wong jeered, Hugo Chavez cheered — THE Copenhagen climate summit was pretty much summed up in the high-level segment yesterday when Penny Wong's speech was interrupted by whistles and chanting and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a standing ovation.
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Keith Olbermann / Daily Kos:
Special Comment: Not Health, Not Care, Not Reform — There could not be a finer line between the words compromise and compromised and tonight, with the greatest possible reluctance, I believe I have to go on the air and state my opinion that the Senate bill in its current form has clearly crossed …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:Gibbs whacks Dean
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New York Times:
Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens — WASHINGTON — In February, a Department of Homeland Security intelligence official wrote a “threat assessment” for the police in Wisconsin about a demonstration involving local pro- and anti-abortion rights groups.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Sorry, Senator Kerry — Let us contemplate the badness of Joe Lieberman. — Who would have thought that this holiday season we'd be obsessed with the senator from Connecticut? Really, I was hoping it would be more about shopping for mittens on the Internet.
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The President Is No B+ — In fact, he's got the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year. — Printer — Friendly — Barack Obama has won a place in history with the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year: 49% approve and 46% disapprove …
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
Michael Moore To Boycott Constitution — On Twitter today, Jake Tapper points to a Michael Moore tweet, screencapped below: — Certainly there is some humor in the idea of a Michael Moore-led boycott of an entire state as being anything the state would notice, but it gets even funnier …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:Michael Moore calls for boycott of Connecticut
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