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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
OBAMA AND BIDEN: Analyze the body language. From the White House Flickr page. — UPDATE: No, I don't think Obama's facial expression is just a fluke of when the shutter went off. His eyes aren't closed, as some with poor displays seem to think. Here's a detail from the frame:
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QUOTOMATIC SELECTOR SAY: “There are some occupations that are stereotypically gay, but mechanical engineering isn't one of them.” — I MEAN, DID YOU EVER LOOK AT A DOLLAR BILL, MAN? THERE'S SOME SPOOKY STUFF GOING ON IN A DOLLAR BILL, MAN. Holy moley, they're still doing heavy photo analysis on Obama.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Picture of the Day — Via Glenn Reynolds, the White House actually published this on their Flickr page: — A close-up of Barack Obama's face suggests that the stern body language of the President towards his VP isn't a fluke: — I'm sure that all is well between the two, and that this is just a fluke of photography.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Damn, Obama looks like James Bond in this picture.” — Says a commenter at the White House Flickr site. Is that what you see? Keep in mind that this is a picture the WH selected and had to have thought flattered the President and furthered his interests: — People who like Obama are blinded to the way other people see him.
CNN:
Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen — Washington (CNN) - The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama's terrorism czar said Sunday.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico Live's Blog:
Brennan: Deal ‘on the table’ for terror suspect — The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.
Bruce Drake / Politics Daily:Top Obama Aide Defends Use of Criminal Trial for Would-Be Plane Bomber
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Political Punch:The August Attempt on Saudi Prince Mohammed - and the Link to Flight 253
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Israel Matzav
Raw Story:
Brit Hume: Tiger Woods must become Christian to be forgiven — Buddhism is inferior to Christianity when it comes to forgiveness of sins, according to Fox News pundit Brit Hume. Tiger Woods should turn his back on Buddhism and become a Christian to be forgiven for cheating on his wife, Hume told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
U.S. tightens international air security — All travelers flying into the U.S. from foreign countries will receive tightened random screening, and 100 percent of passengers from 14 terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched, the Obama administration was notifying airlines on Sunday.
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry — Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media. — “Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee …
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Mere Rhetoric, Wolf Howling, Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Laura Rozen's Blog, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Fars News Agency
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Rex Murphy / Globe and Mail:
Why Time passed Obama by — The magazine's choice for Person of the Year says it all — Time magazine picked Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, as its Person of the Year. He gets the accolade for presiding over a “weak economy” that could have been “much, much weaker.”
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble — The financial crisis that began in August 2007 has been the most severe of the post-World War II era and, very possibly—once one takes into account the global scope of the crisis, its broad effects on a range of markets and institutions …
Rasmussen Reports:
Partisan Trends — Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008 — In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports.
Dick Cheney / New York Post:
Unwelcome truths — It speaks eloquently to the Obama administration's priorities that it took the White House four days to acknowledge the “catastrophic breach of security” that led to the failed bombing of a US-bound jet on Christmas Day — but a scant four hours to accuse Dick Cheney of coddling terrorists.
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Cold Fury
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:Brennan responds to Cheney: He's either 'willfully mischaracterized …
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Politico Live's Blog
Joe Coscarelli / Mediaite:
Retired Air Force General Suggests Strip Searching All Young Muslim Men — “We have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling,” said retired Lt. General Tom McInerney of the U.S. Air Force, suggesting that the United States adopt the profiling guidelines …
Agence France Presse:
Danish attack suspect also allegedly targeted Clinton: report — COPENHAGEN — A man charged with attempting to kill a Danish cartoonist over his Muslim prophet Mohammed caricatures was also involved in an alleged plot against US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Danish newspaper reported Sunday.
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