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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.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Photo-Smearing Obama — Glenn Reynolds finds a photo in the White House Flickr basket and publishes it to, er, point out how bad the White House's p.r. is, or how blind they are to perceptions of Obama or some such thing. I tried to puzzle this one out and can just about see how an elusive photo …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:Picture of the Day — Via Glenn Reynolds, the White House …
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Little Green Footballs
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:OBAMA AND BIDEN: Analyze the body language. From the White House Flickr page.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:PARSING NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS IS HARD: “So, weakness …
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Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Intensifies Screening for Travelers From 14 Nations — WASHINGTON — Citizens of 14 nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, who are flying to the United States will be subjected indefinitely to the intense screening at airports worldwide that was imposed after the Christmas …
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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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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
US imposes extra air security checks — Everyone flying into US from or through countries including Nigeria and Yemen to face ‘enhanced screening’ at airports — Foreign passengers flying into the United States from 14 mostly Muslim countries deemed to have links with terrorism …
BBC:
Effigy of Obama hanged in US town — The US Secret Service says it is investigating after an effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging in the home town of former President Jimmy Carter. — TV footage showed the doll hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that reads “Plains, Georgia.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BRIT HUME SAID WHAT?.... As regular readers know, I've made no mention of Tiger Woods on this blog. I don't care about golf; I don't care about golfers' private lives; I don't care about any aspect of this “story” at any level. — But I was taken aback when I saw that Fox News' Brit Hume …
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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.
CNN:
TSA: Newark terminal locked down — (CNN) — Hours after a security breach forced the closure of a terminal at the Newark, New Jersey, airport Sunday, authorities were still searching for a man who went the wrong way through a checkpoint exit. — The incident happened at about 5:20 p.m. at Terminal C …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
White House: No matter what, we're sending Gitmo prisoners back to Yemen — As Susan notes below, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Obama White House not to go forward with plans to send a number of Yemeni terrorists now being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their home country.
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Guardian:
Peru's mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter — For alpaca farmer Ignacio Beneto Huamani and his young family, life in the Peruvian Andes, at almost 4,700m above sea level, has always been a struggle against the elements. His village of Pichccahuasi, in Peru's Huancavelica region …
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 …
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Calculated Risk, The Big Picture, Economist's View, EconLog, The Baseline Scenario and Angry Bear
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:Lax Oversight Caused Crisis, Bernanke Says
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American Buddhist Net
Siun / Firedoglake:
Gaza March Blocked But Message Delivered — This past week 1,400 activists from around the world gathered in Cairo on their way to Gaza. They planned to show their concern and support for the people of Gaza on this anniversary of the devastating Israeli Operation Cast Lead and demand an end of the blockade.
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Israel Matzav
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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Scared Monkeys, Mere Rhetoric, Laura Rozen's Blog, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Gateway Pundit and Fars News Agency
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Alabama Democrat Casts His Lot With G.O.P. — ANDALUSIA, Ala. — Among the men who gather every morning at 6 o'clock at the Church's Chicken here on Three Notch Street, there is general agreement that the Obama administration is doing a very bad job of running the country.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
That 1937 Feeling — Here's what's coming in economic news: The next employment report could show the economy adding jobs for the first time in two years. The next G.D.P. report is likely to show solid growth in late 2009. There will be lots of bullish commentary …
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.
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