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Elie Mystal / Above the Law:
Elena Kagan and Me: One Semester of Civ Pro With the New SCOTUS Nominee — I can count myself as one of the thousands of students that had Elena Kagan as a professor. She's taught at the University of Chicago School of Law and Harvard Law School. I had her in 2000 …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Initial Reaction: 40% Positive Toward Kagan Nomination — Excellent/Good ratings below average for recent court nominees — PRINCETON, NJ — A Gallup immediate-reaction poll to President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court finds 40% of Americans rating the choice as …
David Brooks / New York Times:
What It Takes — About a decade ago, one began to notice a profusion of Organization Kids at elite college campuses. These were bright students who had been formed by the meritocratic system placed in front of them. They had great grades, perfect teacher recommendations …
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Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Is Kennedy Easily Manipulated?
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissents Of The Day, Ctd — They keep rolling in, you ornery Dishies.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Kagan Nomination Leaves Longing on the Left
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BBC:
David Cameron is new UK prime minister — Conservative leader David Cameron has become the new prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown. — Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will be his deputy prime minister in the UK's first coalition government in 70 years.
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Andrew Sparrow / Guardian:
David Cameron is new prime minister — • David Cameron is the new prime minister — 12.13am: The Lib Dems have just come out of their meeting. The coalition agreement has been approved. — Asked for a comment, Lord Ashdown said: “Hooray.” — 12.04am: There don't seem …
Fox News:
Cameron Accepts Queen's Invitation to Be British Prime Minister — Conservative Party leader David Cameron accepted Queen Elizabeth's invitation to become Britain's prime minister Tuesday night after Gordon Brown resigned following his failure to form a coalition government with another liberal party after national elections last week.
This Is London:
Gordon Brown quits as PM as Lib-Dem deal falls apart — Gordon Brown is set to resign tonight and allow David Cameron to be Britain's new Prime Minister. — The Labour leader's final desperate attempt to cling on to power with a Lib-Lab deal crumbled amid a rebellion on his own side …
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950 — Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found. — Some conservative political movements such as the …
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Lawrence Lessig / The Huffington Post:
Ok, so now I'm a liar — I had the opportunity — first time, and very cool — to appear on Rachel Maddow's show last night to discuss the nomination of Elena Kagan. I was in segment B. Glenn Greenwald was in segment A. I had spent the afternoon reading up on Glenn's views about the nomination.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
How people spew total falsehoods on TV
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
CBO ups health care cost projections — Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost projections. — The additional spending …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Alabama candidate denounces ‘lie’ that he believes in evolution — Evolution has obviously been a political issue for a while, but I'm not sure I've ever seen an attack ad like this one before: It mocks a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Alabama for believing in the theory.
Washington Post:
Oil executives shift blame at Senate hearing — Three big oil and oil service companies all pointed fingers at one another for blame in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in testimony Tuesday at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. — While saying that it was too early …
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Matthew L. Wald / Green:
Live-Blogging the Senate Hearing on Offshore Drilling
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
U.S. may be passing up chances to stop terrorist plots — Did a captured Taliban leader know about the Times Square plot and withhold this information from his interrogators? — On Sunday, Obama administration officials, including counterterrorism chief John Brennan …
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Fox News:
Thieves Steal Mojave Desert Memorial Cross in Nighttime Heist — The 7-foot-tall metal cross in a 75-year-old war memorial that withstood the heat of the Mojave Desert and a blazing battle in the Supreme Court over its legality was ripped down and stolen Sunday night, according to federal officials.
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Sarah Palin's book, ‘America By Heart,’ out Nov. 23 — NEW YORK — Sarah Palin's new book has a title, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag, and a release date, Nov. 23, publisher HarperCollins announced Tuesday. — The Alaska ex-governor and former Republican vice …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Why Sestak might really pull it off — Tomorrow, a third poll will come out finding Joe Sestak is leading Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Dem primary. The poll, from Franklin & Marshall College, will mirror others showing Sestak ahead by around five points, the poll's director confirms to me.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama's numbers hit high mark — For the first time since October a majority of Americans express approval of Barack Obama's job performance on PPP's monthly national poll. 50% give him good marks to 46% who disapprove. — Obama's numbers with Democrats are basically steady and he remains …
The Huffington Post:
96-0: Fed Audit Passes Senate — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — UPDATE - 12:10 p.m. - The amendment to open the Fed to a one-time audit of its lending between December 1, 2007 and the present passed 96-0. — Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), the Federal Reserve's most outspoken defender …
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Video captures Seattle cop kicking Latino suspect in the face, using ethnic slur — and then releasing him — A Seattle freelance videographer recently captured a local cop kicking a man in the head while prone on the ground and using ethnic slurs: … One of the most disturbing aspects of the incident …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Kagan Rope-A-Dope? — There are three possibilities, it seems to me, behind the kerfuffle over Elena Kagan's emotional orientation. The first is that her orientation is heterosexual and she is merely a dedicated career person who never had time for a date.
Malin Rising / Associated Press:
Muhammad cartoonist ‘head-butted’ during lecture — STOCKHOLM - A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was assaulted Tuesday as furious protesters interrupted his university lecture about the limits of artistic freedom.
Niraj Sheth / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless, Google Work on Tablet — Verizon Wireless is working with Google Inc. on a tablet computer, Verizon Wireless Chief Executive Lowell McAdam said Tuesday, as the company works to catch up with iPad host AT&T Inc. in the area of devices that connect to wireless networks.
Steve Rothaus / MiamiHerald.com:
State doubled fee paid to anti-gay psychologist in Rentboy scandal — Anti-gay psychologist George Rekers charged Florida $300 an hour to testify as an expert witness in a trial defending Florida's ban on gay people adopting. The state planned to cap Rekers' fee at $60,900 …
Hilary Andersson / BBC:
‘Secret prison’ at US air base — The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC. — Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in a separate building, and subjected to abuse.
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Ezra Klein:
The problem of human lobbying — I put this in the lead to Wonkbook today, but I want to make a few further points: … I've often thought that lobbying is, in part, a con, and this just confirms the impression. These shops are extracting a tremendous amount of money from the major banks.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
BP makes enough profit in four days to cover the costs of the spill cleanup thus far. — “As hopes dim for containing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico anytime soon” after a giant containment dome failed, the cost of cleaning up the spill will continue to rise.
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