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Kevin Cullum / The Hill:
West says racism allegations against Tea Party by liberals didn't work — Florida's first black Republican congressman credited the Tea Party with standing up against allegations of racism from the left in supporting his successful candidacy. — “So I think that the …
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Weasel Zippers
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Black and Republican and Back in Congress
Black and Republican and Back in Congress
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JammieWearingFool, The Hill, American Power and Althouse
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Allen West, Tim Scott split on joining CBC
Allen West, Tim Scott split on joining CBC
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Gateway Pundit and Breitbart.tv
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Lawrence O'Donnell vehemently denies his own words — On Friday morning, I had a somewhat contentious discussion on Morning Joe with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell regarding the criticism I wrote of his election-night comments. Salon posted the video last night — it's here for those who haven't seen it …
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The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, INSTAPUTZ, American Power, Corrente and Outside the Beltway
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Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze:
MSNBC'S LAWRENCE O'DONNELL ADMITS ON-AIR: ‘I AM A SOCIALIST’
MSNBC'S LAWRENCE O'DONNELL ADMITS ON-AIR: ‘I AM A SOCIALIST’
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Moonbattery, Nice Deb, Gateway Pundit, Big Journalism and Scared Monkeys
Barack Obama / New York Times:
Exporting Our Way to Stability — AS the United States recovers from this recession, the biggest mistake we could make would be to rebuild our economy on the same pile of debt or the paper profits of financial speculation. We need to rebuild on a new, stronger foundation for economic growth.
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Runnin' Scared, The Hill, New York Magazine and The Glittering Eye
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Anne Bayefsky / Fox News:
U.N. Gives Obama a New ‘Shellacking’ — Over Human Rights! — The Obama administration got a new “shellacking” this morning, this one entirely voluntary. In the name of improving America's image abroad, it sent three top officials from the State Department to Geneva's U.N. Human Rights Council …
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Israel Matzav, Weasel Zippers and Washington Post
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Centrist Dems rip ‘tone-deaf’ White House — In the wake of the party's worst election drubbing since 1994, the deep frustration felt by many centrist Democrats toward the White House and the national party is now out in the open. And it's being aired in the battleground state that's the biggest prize in presidential politics.
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Power Line, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Wake up America, Florida Times Union and CNN
Hindustan Times:
Obama to use teleprompter for Hindi speech — Namaste India! In all likelihood that will be silver-tongued Barack Obama's opening line when he addresses the Indian parliament next week. But to help him pronounce Hindi words correctly will be a teleprompter which the US president uses ever so often for his hypnotising speeches.
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Weasel Zippers, The Powers That Be, JammieWearingFool and Riehl World View
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
President begins trip marking Mumbai attacks, meeting CEOs
President begins trip marking Mumbai attacks, meeting CEOs
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CNN and The Politico
Jaya Saxena / Gothamist:
Bloomberg: Stop Blaming The Chinese, America — Mayor Bloomberg attends courtesy visit with Hong Kong Special Administration Region Chief Executive Donald Tsang. And he's tall! (Photo Credit: Kristen Artz) — At the C40 conference in Hong Kong yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg urged the heads …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Mark Shields: Palin Quitting As Governor Is Like Kennedy's Chappaquiddick — PBS's Mark Shields on Friday said Sarah Palin's decision to resign as the governor of Alaska is “like Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick.” — This astonishingly came moments after he called Nancy Pelosi …
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The Powers That Be
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why Pelosi is running for House minority leader
Why Pelosi is running for House minority leader
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Don Surber, The Hill, National Review and The Hill
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Grizzly Manifesto — I think it is time to take back the mama grizzly. — “In real life, they are famous for their reproductive freedom,” said Gloria Steinem over the phone. — This is one of the many things I love about Steinem. When things are darkest, she will come …
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protein wisdom and Daily Kos
Michael Moss / New York Times:
While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Sales of Cheese — Domino's Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. — Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management.
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Modeled Behavior, The Volokh Conspiracy and Gawker
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Would we be better off under a President Hillary Clinton? — As I sat in the East Room last week watching a forlorn President Obama account for his shellacking, I listened with concern as he described the presidency as a “growth process” and suggested that the midterm setback was somehow inevitable.
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Balloon Juice and Prairie Weather
Paul Krugman:
Bernanke And The Shibboleths — Everyone hates quantitative easing. The inflationistas believe that it's the end of Western civilization (but as a correspondent points out, we want them to believe that; similar beliefs about the end of the gold standard helped recovery in the 1930s); …
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Zandar Versus The Stupid, Economist's View, Grasping Reality … and Eschaton