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12:05 PM ET, January 17, 2010

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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Kirk Can't Vote After Tuesday  —  GOP lawyers say Paul Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day.  —  Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday's election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote for Democratic health care legislation, according to Republican attorneys.
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Joe Lieberman Endorsement Scott Brown Latest Polls Show Widening Lead  —  Hartford, CT- Joe Lieberman may be close to announcing his suppport for Massachusetts Senate Candidate Scott Brown.  Citing the historical Healthcare Reform Bill as the main issue attracting Lieberman to endorse Brown's Campaign.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap in Massachusetts  —  HYANNIS, Mass. - As the two candidates running in the special Senate election here barnstormed across the state Saturday, the enthusiasm gap between the two parties was on vivid display.  —  Democrat Martha Coakley, Massachusetts' attorney general …
Jules Crittenden:
Political Prescience Hurtfully Poo-Poo'd  —  Conservative Lesbian's Cynthia Yockey rains on my parade!  Poo-poos Neo-neocon's inspired, dare I say brilliant recognition of my future-reading political genius!  —  Oh, the hurtfulness!  —  OK, here's Neo-neocon: … Damn, that Neo-neocon's good.
David / Blue Mass. Group:
BMG Exclusive: Scott Brown thought maybe Obama was born out of wedlock  —  Born out of wedlock?  Really??  —  Well, yes.  During (or maybe shortly after) the 2008 Republican convention, Brown was on a panel discussion (aired on the now-defunct CN8 cable news channel) about Sarah Palin.
Dan Roem / Hotline On Call:   MA SEN Shows Similarities To '09 VA GOV
Robert Cruickshank / Firedoglake:   MA-Sen: We've Seen This Movie Before
Times of London:
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown  —  A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.  —  Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Great Tea Party Rip-Off  —  Even given the low bar set by America's bogus conversations about race, the short-lived Harry Reid fracas was a most peculiar nonevent.  For all the hyperventilation in cable news land, this supposed racial brawl didn't seem to generate any controversy whatsoever in what is known as the real world.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers  —  New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations.  After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper …
Barack Obama / Newsweek:
Why Haiti Matters  —  In the tragic aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, images of the disaster break our hearts and remind us of the fragility of life.  What America must do now—and why.  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010  —  In the last week, we have been deeply moved …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Clinton, Bush: Haitian aid well-spent  —  by Mark Silva, updated with the full run of Sunday shows  —  The bipartisan team of former presidents recruited by President Barack Obama to spearhead private fundraising for the relief of Haitian earthquake victims promised today to ensure …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Counterprogramming Obama: Curt Schilling … “Get a sense of the demographic they're going for here?”  Normal Americans?  —  The only people who will be at the Obama-Coakley curling iron rally will be welfare queen union thug members who are getting a special exemption on taxes …
 
 
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