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Bloomberg:
Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument — Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Finding Meaning in Kagan's Tie to Justice Marshall — WASHINGTON — In the spring of 1988, Justice Thurgood Marshall assigned a clerk, Elena Kagan, to write a first draft of his opinion in a case considering whether a school district could charge a poor family for busing a child to the nearest school, which was 16 miles away.
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
McCain Attacks Kagan For Harvard's ROTC Policy …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sources: Dems Seek To Protect Lincoln By Delaying Action On Wall Street Reform — One of the most far-reaching pieces of the Senate's Wall Street reform bill has powerful enemies. The White House doesn't like it. FDIC chief Sheila Bair doesn't like it. Obama adviser Paul Volcker …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘PARTY PURGES’.... Every time a major media outlet insists …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Arizona lawmaker laughs at McCain's border fence ad — Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) couldn't contain himself Thursday when he saw footage of Sen. John McCain's latest campaign ad. — Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) couldn't contain himself Thursday when he saw footage of Sen. John McCain's (R) latest campaign ad.
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Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Criminal charges likely from Gulf oil spill, legal experts say — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are likely to file criminal charges against at least one of the companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico spill, raising the prospects of significantly higher penalties than a current $75 million cap …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer — WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Revelations of Multiple Deepwater Horizon Failures; Criminal Charges Coming?
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CNN:
When in Buffalo, Obama orders wings — The president stopped by Duff's Famous Wings on a trip to Buffalo, New York Thursday. — Buffalo, New York (CNN) - President Barack Obama sampled some of Buffalo's finest Thursday when he stopped at a local restaurant for chicken wings on his trip to New York.
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Supporter calls Obama a ‘hottie with a smokin’ little body' — President Obama got more than he expected when he stepped out for a bite to eat today. — Obama is visiting Buffalo, NY, and made a surprise visit to Duff's Wings, a local landmark a few miles outside the city.
City Journal:
A Hidden History of Evil — In the world's collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis' ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz.
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Quinnipiac University:
Sestak Surges Against Toomey In November Matchup, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Corbett Has Small Lead In Governor's Race — U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who has narrowed the gap against Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, also is surging …
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Christianity Today:
Psychologist Resigns from NARTH after Gay Prostitute's Claims — George Rekers has resigned from a reparative therapy group, saying, ‘I am not gay and never have been.’ — Reparative therapy psychologist George Rekers has resigned from his position as a board member of the National Association …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Fact Check: New York's Homeland Security Funding Is Rising — Rep. Peter King: “The fact that the Obama Administration would cut New York's homeland security funding just 11 days after the Times Square car bomb attempt is dangerous and unconscionable. — Rep. Anthony Weiner …
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Associated Press:
Selig ignores pleas to move game — NEW YORK — Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is ignoring calls to move next year's All-Star Game from Phoenix because of Arizona's new immigration law. — Asked about such demands at a news conference Thursday following an owners meeting …
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The Hill:
Anti-porn provision sinks Dem jobs bill — House Democrats had to scrap their only substantive bill of the week Thursday after Republicans won a procedural vote that substantively altered the legislation with an anti-porn clause. — Democrats had labeled their COMPETES Act …
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The Politico
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
I Don't Like Roger Ebert — I love Twitter. I use it all the time. When I say use, hear it the way an addict would say it. I use Twitter. I'm pretty good at it too. Not in the sense of having lots of followers, or being really popular, or anyone knowing who I am.
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The Huffington Post:
Barack Obama, Campaign Manager: How The 2008 Playbook Passed Health Care — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Shortly before 11 a.m. on a Sunday in mid-December, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was driving through Washington D.C. when he received a nervous phone call from one of his trusted deputies, Sen. Chuck Schumer.
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Boston Herald:
Three detained in FBI sweep from Times Square probe — Watertown, Brookline locations connected to Faisal Shahzad — Three men were taken into custody on immigration violations today after raids in Watertown, Brookline and in other parts of the Northeast in connection with the attempted …
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
The New Poor: The Economy Shifts, Leaving Some Behind — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back. — Period. — For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway …
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE RACE: Tea Party power fuels Angle — Ex-Reno assemblywoman moves up in crowded GOP primary field — Fueled by a burst of support from the Tea Party, Sharron Angle has rocketed into a near dead heat with Sue Lowden in the white-hot U.S. Senate Republican primary …
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies — WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipment purchases almost exclusively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military strategists are quietly shifting gears …
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Rogue General in Thailand Is Shot During Protests — BANGKOK — A renegade Thai general was shot in Bangkok on Thursday as the military prepared to encircle the barricaded encampment of antigovernment protesters. — The general, Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 58, was struck in the head by a bullet during …
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