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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Murkowski: DeMint will have to make first move for ‘making up’ — If Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is interested in apologizing to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), he'll have to make the first move, Murkowski said Friday. — The Alaska senator, who appears poised to win reelection as a write …
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Seam Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski confident as write-in tally grows
Murkowski confident as write-in tally grows
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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Obama miffed by questions on U.S. — President Obama faces a barrage of questions at the end of the G-20 summit. — AP Photo — SEOUL — In the homestretch of his nine-day, post-election foreign trip, a prickly President Barack Obama faced a barrage of questions about his domestic agenda …
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Ed Henry / CNN:
Obama says he's not caving on tax cuts — Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — President Barack Obama declared Friday that his “number one priority” is preserving tax cuts for the middle class, and sharply denied that comments by his senior adviser David Axelrod suggest that his administration …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama's Glow Dims on Trip to Asia
Obama's Glow Dims on Trip to Asia
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pelosi won't budge on Bush tax cuts
Pelosi won't budge on Bush tax cuts
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
51 p.m.: Military gay ban intact — UPDATE 1:51 p.m. The Supreme Court, without noting any dissent, agreed on Friday to leave the military's “don't ask/don't tell” policy in full effect while its constitutionality is under review in a lower court. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy referred the issue to the full Court.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Supreme Court lets 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy remain in place
Supreme Court lets 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy remain in place
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Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
Supreme Court declines to end 'don't ask, don't tell'
Supreme Court declines to end 'don't ask, don't tell'
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Politics Daily, Wonk Room, Advocate and Naked Politics
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Hijacked Commission — Count me among those who always believed that President Obama made a big mistake when he created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform — a supposedly bipartisan panel charged with coming up with solutions to the nation's long-run fiscal problems.
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Justin Elliott / Salon:
Top Palin aide is on Soros' payroll — Glenn Beck spent the past week denouncing the liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros as a “puppet master” who is orchestrating a coup “to bring America to her knees.” — Given Soros' alleged role plotting to destroy the United States …
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Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Pelosi: 'We Didn't Lose Because of Me' — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has the “overwhelming support” of fellow Democrats in her bid to become minority leader in the next Congress, and says she's not to blame for the Democrats' mid-term debacle. — “We didn't lose the election because of me …
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NPR:
Pelosi: Economy Key In Democrats' Election Losses
Pelosi: Economy Key In Democrats' Election Losses
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Frank James / NPR:
Nancy Pelosi: 'We Don't Let Republicans Choose Our Leaders'
Nancy Pelosi: 'We Don't Let Republicans Choose Our Leaders'
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
At 52%, Palin's Unfavorable Score Hits a New High — Americans remain split in their reactions to Tea Party movement — PRINCETON, NJ — More than half of Americans, 52%, now view Sarah Palin unfavorably, the highest percentage holding a negative opinion of the former Alaska governor …
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Ted Koppel / Washington Post:
Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news — To witness Keith Olbermann - the most opinionated among MSNBC's left-leaning, Fox-baiting, money-generating hosts - suspended even briefly last week for making financial contributions to Democratic political candidates seemed like a whimsical …
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Elissa Harrington / KTXL FOX40:
School Makes Boy Take American Flag Off Bike — DENAIR - — 13-year-old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his bike. He says he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, like his own grandfather, Robert. He's had the flag on his bike for two months but Monday, was told to take it down.
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Saul Anuzis / That's Saul Folks!:
Why I'm Running for RNC Chairman — FROM: Saul Anuzis, MI-NCM — RE: Announcement for RNC Chairman — DATE: November 12, 2010 — Congratulations on your success, nationwide and state-by-state.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday — Back in February we wrote about Facebook's secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we've heard from sources that this is indeed what's coming …
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Washington Post:
One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012 — President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election. — In recent days, he has offered differing visions of how he might approach the country's problems.
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
In An ‘Unusual’ Meeting, Cantor Tells Netanyahu The GOP Majority ‘Will Serve As A Check’ On Obama's Israel Policy — Earlier this week, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sharply criticized the Israeli government after it announced plans to build more than 1,000 Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
HHS falls short of pre-existing coverage prediction by ... 97.8% — 255 million: The number of Americans with existing health insurance coverage. — 20 million: The number of Americans without any health coverage at all due to economic circumstances. — 375,000: The number of Americans …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
If You Want Liberals to Like a Deal, You Need to Invite Liberals to the Table — I'm not surprised that liberals don't like the Simpson-Bowles proposals and I'm not surprised that people who aren't liberal disagree with liberals about that. But I am surprised that there are people …
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Ezra Klein and Dennis the Peasant
David Weigel / Weigel:
Chris Christie, the Justin Bieber of Political Media — This might be an obvious point about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, but I haven't seen anyone make it yet. The man's political operation is extraordinary. The legend of Christie as blunt-talking master of truth and invective …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IF IT'S SUNDAY.... Mark Halperin called the guest list for Sunday's “Meet the Press” an “all-star lineup.” That's not quite the description I'd use. — We'll first see an interview with Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod. That makes sense. — Then viewers will see an “exclusive!” interview with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rick Perry to lead Republican Governors Association — Texas Gov. Rick Perry will be tapped as the new chairman of the Republican Governors Association when the organization meets next week in San Diego, GOP sources tell POLITICO. — Perry recently released a book taking aim …
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The Huffington Post:
George Bush Book ‘Decision Points’ Lifted From Advisers' Books — When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises “gripping, never-before-heard detail” about the former president's key decisions …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Shuler may officially launch bid against Pelosi on Sunday talk show, ‘Morning Joe’ — Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), who threatened to challenge Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for minority leader after the Nov. 2 election, might launch his leadership bid on two high-profile cable news shows in the coming days.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The 2012 Presidential Line! — The wait is over! — After two years of behind-the-scenes jockeying, the 2012 Republican presidential race has broken out into the open with several candidates openly acknowledging their interest in the job of late. (As Politico's Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith point out …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
National Greatness Agenda — Elections come and go, but the United States is still careening toward bankruptcy. By 2020, the U.S. will be spending $1 trillion a year just to pay the interest on the national debt. Sometime between now and then the catastrophe will come. — It will come with amazing swiftness.
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Amanda Ripley / The Atlantic Online:
Your Child Left Behind — For years, poor performance by students in America relative to those in other countries has been explained away as a consequence of our nationwide diversity. But what if you looked more closely, breaking down our results by state and searching not for an average, but for excellence?
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Results, Not Words — Atrios, yesterday: … I think that where a lot of progressive political junkies go wrong is that they think “blame Republicans for failing to pass plan to fix the economy” is a close substitute for “fix the economy.” In reality, the evidence that fixing the economy …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Sarah Palin E-mail Hacker Sentenced to 1 Year in Custody — David Kernell, the former Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account, was sentenced on Friday to one year in custody. — Kernell, 22, was convicted earlier this year of misdemeanor computer intrusion …
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The Atlantic Online:
How TPM Got Started — Over the years, I've become increasingly convinced that when all is said and done, the significant aspect of my journalism career won't be anything I've written, but the fact that I was present at the creation of Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall's pioneering blog.
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