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Nick Summers / New York Observer:
Observer Exclusive: Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge — Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce tomorrow morning that the two publications will merge, a source close to the deal tells The Observer. — It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies. The editorial staffs will combine under …
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Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed! — Some weddings take longer to plan than others. The union of The Daily Beast and Newsweek magazine finally took place with a coffee-mug toast between all parties Tuesday evening, in a conference room atop Beast headquarters, the IAC building on Manhattan's West 18th Street.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Deficit Reduction Plan Draws Scorn From Left and Right — WASHINGTON — By putting deep spending cuts and substantial tax increases on the table, President Obama's bipartisan debt-reduction commission has exposed fissures in both parties, underscoring the volatile nature and long odds …
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Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Bark Bark Woof Woof and The Hill
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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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Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Opinionator
Charles Blahous / Economics Policies …:
Fairly Understanding the Simpson-Bowles Social Security Proposal
Fairly Understanding the Simpson-Bowles Social Security Proposal
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The Atlantic Online, National Review, Hit & Run and Ezra Klein
Matt Miller / PostPartisan:
Sorry, Alan and Erskine — it's not nearly enough
Sorry, Alan and Erskine — it's not nearly enough
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Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, Swampland, Balloon Juice and Hit & Run
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Worst Things About Simpson-Bowles
Worst Things About Simpson-Bowles
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TalkLeft and James Pethokoukis
Mike Lux / Open Left:
The details are worse — I wrote my initial post in such a hot rage …
The details are worse — I wrote my initial post in such a hot rage …
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Crooks and Liars, Balloon Juice and The Huffington Post
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
How strong is Joe Miller's argument against the Leeza Markovsky vote? … Like This Story … - Shafer: Why Do We Give Away So Much of Our Privacy on the Web? - Oklahoma Tried To Invalidate Islamic Wills. What Is an Islamic Will? - Steve Jobs Reinvented Technology …
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Anchorage Daily News, Election Law and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Should this ballot count? — Floyd Brown, the man responsible for the “Willie Horton” television ad that helped derail the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign in 1998, has signed up for the Joe Miller campaign. — Brown is here in Juneau today for the write-in ballot review and he has called …
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TPMDC, Ace of Spades HQ, Hot Air and The Maddow Blog
Seam Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski confident as write-in tally grows — WRITE-INS: Miller camp steps up challenges, threatens new lawsuit. — scockerham@adn.com — The Division of Elections has reviewed write-in ballots for almost half the precincts in Alaska and is counting nearly 98 percent of them for Lisa Murkowski.
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and USA Today
Casey Grove / Anchorage Daily News:
KTVA-TV cancels 2 newscasts so staff can discuss ethics
KTVA-TV cancels 2 newscasts so staff can discuss ethics
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Big Government and Left Coast Rebel
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Miller's Chances of Victory Dim as Alaska Senate Write-In Count Begins
Miller's Chances of Victory Dim as Alaska Senate Write-In Count Begins
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The Note, Patterico's Pontifications, Weigel, TPMDC, FrumForum and The Caucus
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.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Michael Steele draws first challenger in RNC Chair race — Former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis announced this morning that he will run to be chairman of the Republican National Committee, becoming the first — though almost certainly not the last — candidate in the race against Michael Steele.
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Erick's blog
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 …
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Firedoglake, Politics Daily, Washington Post, Gateway Pundit, The New Republic, TalkLeft and The Huffington Post
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog Gay:
Cindy McCain does video opposing DADT, accuses ‘our government’ of sending signal that bullying is okay - her hubbie is the lead defender of DADT — John McCain is leading the filibuster against the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” “repeal” legislation in the Senate (it's not an actual repeal, but we'll leave that for another time).
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Raw Story and The Washington Note
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The Huffington Post:
Cindy McCain Speaks Out Against DADT While John McCain Defends It (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Sen. John McCain's wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy, and government officials and religious leaders generally …
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Washington Monthly and SpeakEasy
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Sources: Pelosi Says Obama Must Be ‘Perfect’ to Win Again — Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic leaders Wednesday afternoon that President Barack Obama has to be “perfect” to win a second term, several senior Democratic aides told Roll Call. — Pelosi told leaders on a conference call …
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Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Gateway Pundit and HotAirPundit
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Voice of America:
Clinton Offers Netanyahu Security Pledge — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel's security requirements will be fully taken into account in any future peace deal with the Palestinians. — Clinton and the visiting Israeli …
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The Huffington Post and Israel Matzav
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Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Before Clinton meeting, Cantor's one-on-one with Bibi
Before Clinton meeting, Cantor's one-on-one with Bibi
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Capital J | JTA, Israel Matzav and Ben Smith's Blog
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
I Owe Bruce Bartlett an Apology — Back when Bush 43 was President, I was a huge fan of Bruce Bartlett. I especially loved his book Impostor. But when Bartlett broke with the Republicans back in 2008, it seemed to me that he had gone “from being inside the tent pissing out to being outside the tent pissing in.”
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The Other McCain, Instapundit, The Reality-Based Community, Riehl World View and FrumForum
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Bobby Jindal hammers Barack Obama in new book — NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal uses a new book to portray President Obama as disconnected from the Gulf oil spill, charging that he was more focused on the political aftermath than the actual impact of the crisis.
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MyFox Philadelphia, HotAirPundit and The Page
Jill Lawrence / Politics Daily:
Chris Christie's Star Turn Raises National Prospects, Nearly $9 Million for GOP … The unlikely emergence of Chris Christie proves once again that you can never tell who is going to take off in the public imagination. The New Jersey governor not only rocked on the 2010 campaign trail …
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GOP 12
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Mitchell Blumenthal / Capital New York:
Inside the Christie bubble: Jersey peers take the denials with a pound of salt
Inside the Christie bubble: Jersey peers take the denials with a pound of salt
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Quinnipiac University and Weigel
Jana Winter / Fox News:
Some Muslims Attending Capitol Hill Prayer Group Have Terror Ties, Probe Reveals — An Al Qaeda leader, the head of a designated terror organization and a confessed jihadist-in-training are among a “Who's Who” of controversial figures who have participated in weekly prayer sessions …
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theblogprof, Commentary, Atlas Shrugs and The Jawa Report
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Sarah Palin plans heartland tour — Sarah Palin — accompanied at times by family members — later this month will launch a nine-day, 16-stop signing tour for her new book, “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag.” — Among the destinations sure to get buzz: Des Moines and Spirit Lake, Iowa.
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
Will Stealth Spending Decide the 2012 GOP Presidential Primaries? — After a GOP wave election that put the “tsu” in tsunami, Republicans have reason to feel smug as they look toward 2012. High on the GOP's gloating list is the way that wealthy conservatives and right-wing business groups exploited …
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The Politico