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11:50 AM ET, January 24, 2010

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CNN:
Report: New bin Laden tape emerges  —  (CNN) — A new audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claims responsibility for an attempt to blow up a plane en route to Michigan on Christmas Day and warns the United States of more attacks.  —  The tape, which aired on Al Jazeera on Sunday …
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Paul Schemm / Associated Press:
Bin Laden claims airline bomb attempt on Christmas  —  Buzz up!  —  CAIRO - Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday threatening more attacks on the United States.
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org:
Leftwing Professor Writes Hilarious Essay About ‘Conan Obama’  —  It is no suprise that conservatives have been highly critical of Barack Obama.  However, a new development has set in recently: leftwing disgust with The One especially since it now appears that ObamaCare is DOA.
Discussion: Moe Lane and American Power
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David Michael Green / Common Dreams:
How to Squander the Presidency in One Year  —  Hey, Conan Obama: How About Now?  Can You Hear Us Now?  —  There's only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed …
Discussion: The Confluence and EconoPundit
Patrick / Now! Hampshire:
Shea-Porter: Send the men home and Congress could pass health care reform  —  In some of her most incendiary comments to date, Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) claimed on Saturday that female Republican members of Congress have confided in her, in the ladies room, no less …
Discussion: Moe Lane
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
White House adviser Plouffe fails to mention most of Obama's pre-existing conditions promise right after NYT & CBS report it may be dropped  —  Joe and I saw this coming two days ago.  And unfortunately it's looking increasingly like we were right.  —  A day after former Obama campaign …
Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal  —  Dr Pachauri has rapidly distanced himself from the IPCC's baseless claim about vanishing glaciers.  But the scientist who made the claim now works for Pachauri, writes Christopher Booker  —  I can report a further dramatic twist …
Larisa Alexandrovna / At-Largely:
70-year gag on Kelly death evidence (Dr. David Kelly)  —  Well this latest news won't fuel any conspiracy theories (cough) or bring even more serious questions about the alleged murder (not suicide) of former UN weapons' inspector Dr. David Kelly (cough).  —  Before we get into the latest …
Discussion: This Is London and Emptywheel
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
White House Is Confident Bernanke Will Be Confirmed  —  WASHINGTON — After a full-scale mobilization, White House officials expressed confidence on Saturday that they had contained a populist uprising among Democratic senators that had threatened President Obama's nomination of Ben S. Bernanke …
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Richard Kerbaj / Times of London:
UK students recruited for Somali jihad  —  Young British Muslims are joining a terror group linked to Al-Qaeda that is blamed for hundreds of deaths in the African country  —  STUDENTS from some of Britain's top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
New York Post:
End of O's cowardly lyin'  —  We the people of the United States owe Scott Brown's sup porters a huge debt of gratitude.  They didn't merely elect a senator.  They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency.  —  Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and POWIP
Danny Shea First / The Huffington Post:
Phil Griffin's Memo To MSNBC Talent: Stop Fighting With Each Other  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  On the heels of yet another public incident between his anchors, MSNBC president Phil Griffin reined in his talent in a staff memo Friday afternoon.  —  Griffin sent a memo …
Patterico's Pontifications:
Ellie Light: Obama Astroturfer?  Or Very, Very, Very Energetic But Independent Letter Writer?  With Houses All Over the Nation?  —  A woman has written the same letter defending Obama to dozens of publications across the country, getting them published in at least 42 newspapers in 18 states …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Turns Up Heat Over Ruling on Campaign Spending  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices had “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” with last week's 5-to-4 decision to lift restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Daily Kos
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Nathaniel Cary / TheSunNews.com:
Bauer: Needy ‘owe something back’ for aid  —  GREENVILLE - Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving people government assistance to “feeding stray animals.”  —  Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, made his remarks during a town hall meeting in Fountain Inn …
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Greenville News:   (2 of 2)  —  “We don't make you take a drug test.  We ought to.
BBC:
Biden pledges Blackwater appeal  —  US Vice-President Joe Biden says the US government will appeal against a court ruling dismissing manslaughter charges in the Blackwater shootings case.  —  Mr Biden was speaking after meeting Iraqi politicians in Baghdad.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Biden Says U.S. Will Appeal Blackwater Case Dismissal
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 
 
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Justice Kennedy was key to conservatives' win in campaign finance decision
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