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7:35 AM ET, January 15, 2010

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Jessica Van Sack / Boston Herald:
Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race  —  + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio  —  Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate …
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Red Mass Group:
Coakley: “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn't work in the emergency room”  —  Last evening, while on Broadside with Jim Braude, I told Jim that Scott Brown was trying to prevent Nuns like the Sisters of Charity that taught me from performing medical procedures contrary to their religious beliefs.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
3rd-Party Candidate Named Kennedy Could Tip Senate Race in Massachusetts  —  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In most elections, a politician calling himself the Tea Party candidate would cheer Democrats, raising hopes that he would siphon votes from Republicans by attracting some of the disaffected anti-Washington, anti-Obama electorate.
Steve Kornacki:
On Massachusetts....  I wrote a column last week in which I dismissed the chances of Republican Scott Brown actually winning next Tuesday's Senate special election in Massachusetts.  The race would be close, I figured — 53-47 for Coakley, or something like that — but the state's blue tint would be just enough to save the Democrats.
Jessica Taylor / The Politico:
Suffolk U. poll: Brown up by 4  —  A Suffolk University poll released Thursday evening shows Republican Scott Brown four points ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley as he continues his improbable surge in the Massachusetts Senate special election.  —  The poll reports Brown is leading Coakley …
Sabutai / Blue Mass. Group:
Yes it sucks.  Yes you have to vote Coakley.  —  Let's get this out of the way.  You might not want to vote for Martha Coakley.  You might think she deserves what's she's getting after an absentee, self-satisfied campaign (why should I bail her out?).  You likely want to send a message …
The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
MA Senate moved to Toss-Up  —  Democratic desperation and other compelling evidence strongly suggest that Democrats may well lose the late Senator Edward Kennedy's Senate seat in Tuesday's special election.  Because of this, we are moving our rating of the race from Narrow Advantage for the Incumbent Party to Toss-Up.
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Coakley's Convictions  —  The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.  —  The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001.
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Ad Wars: Obama Cuts Spot for Coakley, Can Barely Contain Himself
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she's a ‘bigot’ with ‘tampons in her ears.’  —  Yesterday, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh controversially said that President Obama was going to try to use the devastating Haitian earthquake to boost his credibility with the …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
White House budget director blames old computers for ineffective government  —  A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.
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The Hill:   Democrats see healthcare finish line in sight after negotiations
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Obama tells Dems that economy, healthcare will help in midterms
Discussion: The Politico
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
In Power Push, Movement Sees Base in G.O.P.  —  HOLLAND, Pa. — The Tea Party movement ignited a year ago, fueled by anti-establishment anger.  Now, Tea Party activists are trying to take over the establishment, ground up.  —  Across the country, they are signing up to be Republican precinct leaders …
Discussion: The American Scene
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Stephen Grocer / Wall Street Journal:
Banks Set for Record Pay  —  Top Firms on Pace to Award $145 Billion for 2009, Up 18%, WSJ Study Finds  —  Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their people about $145 billion for 2009, a record sum that indicates how compensation is climbing despite fury over Wall Street's pay culture.
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David Axelrod / Washington Post:
What Karl Rove got wrong on the U.S. deficit  —  For its Topic A feature last Sunday, The Post invited a panel of political operatives to offer their advice to the Democratic Party on strategy for 2010 [Sunday Opinion, Jan. 10].  Improbably, one of the operatives asked was Karl Rove …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (979352)  —  Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution  —  Version: 1.0  —  General Information  —  Executive Summary  —  Microsoft is investigating a report of a publicly exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
Bill Quigley / The Huffington Post:
What the Mainstream Media Will Not Tell You About Haiti: Part of the Suffering of Haiti is “Made in the USA”  —  Part of the suffering of Haiti is indeed “Made in the USA.”  While the earthquake would harm any country, actions by the United States have absolutely magnified the harm from the earthquake in Haiti.
Discussion: Dennis the Peasant
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Into the Closet  —  Has anyone noticed that now that lesbians and gay men have left the closet to assert their equal rights as citizens, their adversaries seem to be running for a closet of their own?  —  My observation is, of course, prompted by the success that opponents of same-sex marriage …
Andrew Scott / Pocono Record:
Sex sting in Poconos nets former chief U.N. weapons inspector … A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.
Tim Blair:
PACT WITH GAIA  —  Actor Danny Glover believes that the Haitian earthquake was caused by climate change and global warming:  —  Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I'm sayin'?”
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Media Matters for America:
REPORT: Top Fox News programs devote scant coverage to Haiti earthquake  —  On January 13, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009 — The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck — devoted a combined total of less than 7 minutes of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti …
Jennifer Sullivan / Seattle Times:
Haq apologizes, receives life sentence for Jewish Federation shooting  —  Naveed Haq was sentenced to life in prison this morning for barging into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle 3 ½ years ago, killing one woman and wounding five others amid an anti-Israel tirade.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
 
 
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Russell Adams / Washington Wire:
Obama to Pen Cover Story on Haiti and the Earthquake for Newsweek
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Proving Animus  —  One fascinating aspect of the Prop 8 trial …
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Amie Parnes / The Politico:
EX-ADVISER: ‘WE WERE NEVER READY’
The Huffington Post:
As Wallets Open For Haiti, Credit Card Companies Take A Big Cut