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Larry O'Connor / Big Journalism:
James O'Keefe vs. Max Blumenthal: How the Left Distorts, Invents and Lies — It started with a blog post at something called One People's Project, in which someone named Daryle Jenkins claimed: … The photograph that One People's Project shows as its proof (above) is cropped and just shows O'Keefe from the shoulders up.
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Max Blumenthal / Salon:
James O'Keefe's race problem
James O'Keefe's race problem
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The Washington Independent, Firedoglake, Pam's House Blend, Sadly, No! and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
The Hill:
Scott Brown will be sworn in as Massachusetts senator Thursday — Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R), the successor to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), will be sworn in to office Thursday afternoon, giving Republicans 41 seats in the upper chamber. — “Once we get his certificate …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHY THE SWEARING-IN DATE MATTERS.... When Sen.-elect Scott Brown …
WHY THE SWEARING-IN DATE MATTERS.... When Sen.-elect Scott Brown …
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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Comedian Jon Stewart takes the hot seat with Bill O'Reilly — In a vigorous, policy-laden debate, ‘The Daily Show’ host blasts Fox's ‘panic attack’ coverage of Obama and the economy. O'Reilly says ‘the narrative of a couple of guys’ doesn't represent the whole network.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tough talk comes after Obama exits — Senate Democrats held back from asking President Barack Obama about healthcare reform during a carefully scripted question-and-answer session in front of television cameras. — With the cameras rolling, a group of senators selected in advance …
Kristi Keck / CNN:
Fractures emerge as Tea Party convenes — (CNN) — As the Tea Party's first national convention gets under way, members are united in their anger but divided over the future of the movement. — The convention is marketed as an opportunity to bring Tea Party leaders from across …
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Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Grifters' Tale — Judson Phillips is a Tennessee lawyer, specializing in personal injury lawsuits, drunk-driving cases and men who get into trouble beating their wives. It was his idea to incorporate Tea Party Nation as a money-making venture and charge $349 to hear Sarah Palin talk …
Los Angeles Times:
Congressional Democrats are nay-saying Obama's budget — Lawmakers are railing against certain items as a campaign strategy, establishing their distance from controversial aspects of the administration. — Reporting from Washington - As Congress begins picking through President Obama's …
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Ben Webster / Times of London:
IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to go over glacier error — The head of the UN's climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.
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Walter Russell Mead / Walter Russell Mead's Blog: UK Greenpeace Chief Calls on Pachauri to Resign: Al Gore Still Silent
Jim Newell / Wonkette:
Official Carly Fiorina Video Wins Current Hour Of Internet — OH MY GOD “Carlyfornia” Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has struck again on the Internet and the results are monstrous. It's best at the beginning and end, especially the end, picking up steam at exactly 2:26.
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Runnin' Scared, TPMDC, Carly for California, AmSpecBlog, PolitiCal, New York Magazine and The Awl
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Carly Fiorina Releases Rare Psychedelic Attack Ad
Carly Fiorina Releases Rare Psychedelic Attack Ad
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National Review Online, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, American Power, Indecision Forever and Washington Post
Mark Landler / New York Times:
China Shows Little Patience for U.S. Currency Pressure — BEIJING — A senior Chinese official said on Thursday that China would not bow to pressure from the United States to revalue its currency, which President Obama says is kept at an artificially low level to give China an unfair advantage in selling its exports.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House Privately Signaling Support For House Passing Senate Bill With Fix, Aides Say — White House aides have privately told Dem Congressional aides that the White House supports the House passing the Senate health reform bill with a reconciliation fix, something that could give a bit …
Agence France Presse:
US debt to hit proposed ceiling by end-February: Treasury — WASHINGTON — The US debt is on track to hit a congressionally proposed debt ceiling of 14.3 trillion dollars by the end of February, the Treasury said Wednesday, a day ahead of a key vote to raise it to that level.
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Aunt Seeks Asylum to Avoid Deportation — Zeituni Onyango Claims No Contact With White House, Obamas — When President Obama's Kenyan aunt appears before a U.S. immigration judge in Boston today, she says she will literally be making the case for her life.
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Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
Edwards hit wife during heated fight: report — Disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards reportedly beat his cancer-stricken wife during a horrific marriage-ending fight. — “John lost his temper big time,” a close friend of Elizabeth's revealed to the National Enquirer.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Florida, We Have a Problem — The Obama administration's proposed budget holds many surprises. — O.K., you have to be kind of dorky to make that statement. — Still, how can you not be fascinated when the White House announces it wants to cancel plans to put an American on the moon by 2020?
Corey Pein / Santa Fe Reporter:
BORN POOR? — SANTA FE ECONOMIST SAMUEL BOWLES SAYS YOU BETTER GET USED TO IT — Consider these two numbers. Don't worry, there won't be a quiz. — The first number is 3,500. — The second is 32. — The first is how many jobs Santa Fe County lost in 2009, according to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.
Christopher Weber / Politics Daily:
CIA Accused of Cover Up in Deaths of U.S. Civilians in Peru — The CIA was accused Wednesday of lying to Congress and covering up its role in the downing of a plane carrying Christian missionaries nine years ago over Peru, killing an American mother and her infant daughter, ABC News reported.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Defends Ruling on Finance — WASHINGTON — In expansive remarks at a law school in Florida, Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday vigorously defended the Supreme Court's recent campaign finance decision. — And Justice Thomas explained that he did not attend State of the Union addresses …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
GOP cash provides 2012 clues — The battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination quietly began last year — maybe not for the candidates, but for their political groups. — Sarah Palin's committee paid more than $50,000 for policy advice in the second half of 2009 …
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Newsdesk / Clout St:
New questions in 2005 arrest of Democratic lieutenant governor nominee — UPDATED at 8:24 p.m. with additional Quinn comment; originally posted by David Heinzmann and Ray Long at 7:55 p.m. — The newly minted Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor said Wednesday he doesn't think a …
The Huffington Post:
White House Shoots Down Regular Question Time Forums — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Despite the widespread popularity of President Obama's question-and-answer forums and the apparent boost they've given to his agenda, the White House shot down a proposal on Wednesday to make such open forums a regular feature.
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Hot Air, Mother Jones, BuzzFlash.org, Mother Jones, race42008.com, The Note, New York Magazine, Mediaite and JoeTrippi.com
Felicia Fonseca / Associated Press:
Motivational speaker charged in sweat lodge deaths — FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three counts of manslaughter for deaths that happened after a sweat lodge ceremony he led in northern Arizona last year.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Off-message, Biden recasts the Obama agenda — Vice President Biden is tired of seeing the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan demeaned, derided and dismissed, and he wanted to talk about it. — But a funny thing happened in the course of an interview at Biden's White House office on Tuesday afternoon.
New York Post:
Muslim chaplain ‘smuggled’ box cutters into jail — A Muslim chaplain for the city Department of Correction was arrested this morning for allegedly trying to smuggle in three box-cutters to a lower Manhattan jail. — The imam, Imam Zul-Qarnain Shahid, has worked as a DOC jail chaplain for three years …
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Gothamist, Creeping Sharia, The Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs, JammieWearingFool and Jihad Watch