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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Palin Network — On the night of the midterm elections earlier this month, Sarah Palin stayed up until 3 in the morning. From her hotel bedroom in Manhattan, she and her husband, Todd, followed the returns while she wrote e-mails on her iPad — congratulating winners, consoling losers …
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TMZ.com:
Sarah Palin's Daughter Uses Homophobic Slurs — Sarah Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow Palin used multiple homophobic slurs — including the word f**got — to attack a Facebook user who criticized her mom's new reality show .... TMZ has learned. — During the premiere of “Sarah Palin's Alaska” …
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Ed Treleven / host.madison.com:
Bristol Palin's dancing on TV set off man in standoff, complaint says — Allegedly set off by Bristol Palin's appearance on “Dancing with the Stars,” a rural Black Earth man kept police at bay outside his home for 15 hours Monday and Tuesday before he surrendered to police.
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Show Tracker and Instapundit
Jezebel:
How Palin Conservatives Are Cheating The DWTS Voting System — It's been alleged that the Tea Party's “Operation Bristol” is keeping the teen mom in the competition. However, the real conspiracy is that her conservative supporters have figured out a way to exploit ABC.com's email-voting feature, allowing infinite votes.
The Smoking Gun:
Man Shoots TV Over Bristol Palin Dancing
Man Shoots TV Over Bristol Palin Dancing
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Cubachi, Mediaite, Indecision Forever, Big Hollywood, Liberty Pundits Blog and Hot Air
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Palin: ‘I am’ thinking about 2012 bid
Palin: ‘I am’ thinking about 2012 bid
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Guardian, Indecision Forever and New York Times
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Behind delayed summit: Republican distrust of President Obama — The roots of the partisan standoff that led to the postponement of the bipartisan White House summit scheduled for Thursday date back to January, when President Barack Obama crashed a GOP meeting in Baltimore to deliver a humiliating rebuke of House Republicans.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE FALLOUT OF KYL'S BETRAYAL.... The optimism hadn't been expressed publicly, but the White House really did think it finally had a deal in place for Senate ratification of the new arms control treaty with Russia, New START. — Republicans had made Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) their point man on the issue …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
That's the Story? (#GalacticFail Edition) — The Politico has a story up tonight about how and why the bipartisan, everybody-get-along summit between President Obama and congressional Republicans ended up getting postponed. And a key part of it, according to Hill Republicans …
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Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
Nuclear Treaty Blow Has Political Fallout, Too
Nuclear Treaty Blow Has Political Fallout, Too
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Booman Tribune
Noah Shachtman / Wall Street Journal:
Has Airport Security Gone Too Far? — Pilots and travelers are rebelling against scanners that douse them with X-rays and reveal their private parts. There must be a better way. — In May, Transportation Security Administration screener Rolando Negrin pummeled a co-worker with his government-issued baton.
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Joshua Norman / CBS News:
Senators and TSA Defend “Love Pats” at Airports
Senators and TSA Defend “Love Pats” at Airports
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, LewRockwell.com Blog and Raw Story
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: Full-body scanners violate Fourth Amendment
GOP lawmaker: Full-body scanners violate Fourth Amendment
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AMERICAblog News, Pajamas Media and The Gateway Pundit
Drew Armstrong / Bloomberg:
Insurers Gave U.S. Chamber $86 Million Used to Oppose Obama's Health Law — Health insurers last year gave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $86.2 million that was used to oppose the health-care overhaul law, according to tax records and people familiar with the donation.
Washington Post:
Payroll tax holiday and other measures to reduce the debt — This morning, a bipartisan task force that we co-chair unveils a bold, comprehensive plan to dramatically reduce America's deficits and debt and strengthen our economy, enabling the nation to reclaim its future.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
One Way to Trim Deficit: Cultivate Growth — We look back on the late 1990s as a rare time when the federal government ran budget surpluses. We tend to forget that those surpluses came as a surprise to almost everybody. — As late as 1998, the Congressional Budget Office was predicting a deficit for 1999.
The Hill:
House Dems elect Pelosi as leader — Despite the party's drubbing in the midterm elections, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will remain the Democratic leader in the next Congress. — Members of the caucus voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to make Pelosi minority leader, brushing aside a challenge by Rep. Heath Shuler …
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Roger Ailes Lets Rip — In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, the Fox News chief says Obama thinks differently from most Americans, defends Murdoch's GOP donations, and admits Beck sometimes goes too far. — In the media world, as in politics, having a high-profile target can be a very good thing.
Aaron Wiener / The Washington Independent:
The Washington Independent, signing off — Nearly three years ago, The Washington Independent was launched as a bold experiment in online journalism. The idea was to combine hard-nosed investigative reporting with all the web had to offer: the nimbleness of real-time coverage …
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski's lead more than 10,000 votes — Today's review of write-in ballots ended with Sen. Lisa Murkowski enjoying an apparently insurmountable 10,420-vote lead over Joe Miller. — Murkowski also now has collected more votes that went unchallenged by Miller ballot observers than Miller's total vote count.
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William Yardley / New York Times:
Murkowski Heads Home as Count Ends
Murkowski Heads Home as Count Ends
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TPMDC and Talking Points Memo
Warren E. Buffett / New York Times:
Pretty Good for Government Work — My mother told me to send thank-you notes promptly. I've been remiss. — Let me remind you why I'm writing. Just over two years ago, in September 2008, our country faced an economic meltdown. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the pillars that supported …
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Albert Bozzo / CNBC:
Members of US Congress Get Richer Despite Sour Economy — Despite a long and deep recession, the collective personal wealth of congressional members increased by more than 16 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to a study released Wednesday by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
Congressional Members' Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy
Congressional Members' Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy
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YID With LID
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
State representatives file birth certificate bill filed for presidential candidates — AUSTIN — A state representative on Tuesday filed a bill that would require any candidate for president or vice president of the United States to show his or her birth certificate to the Texas secretary of state …
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Texas State Rep. Introduces Birther Bill Because 'People Don't …
Texas State Rep. Introduces Birther Bill Because 'People Don't …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN Poll: Only one-third favor tax cut extension for wealthy — Washington (CNN) - Only a third of all Americans think Bush-era tax cuts should be extended for families regardless of how much money they make, according to a new national poll. — A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday …
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Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and AMERICAblog Gay
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Sources: Sen. Baucus may introduce compromise package on Bush tax cuts
Sources: Sen. Baucus may introduce compromise package on Bush tax cuts
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The Hill, Reuters, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, ThinkProgress and ChattahBox News Blog
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
GOP to jobless: Drop dead — More than a century ago, a former congressman from Nebraska electrified delegates gathered in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention with a stirring denunciation of Wall Street and the monied interests that would put an over-indebted country through …
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, National Review and Daily Kos
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Fighting the Fed — Sarah Palin is leading conservatives' most sinister campaign to date.
Fighting the Fed — Sarah Palin is leading conservatives' most sinister campaign to date.
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TPMDC, National Review, Oliver Willis, Weigel, Swampland, naked capitalism and Washington Post
Kris Kitto / The Hill:
The speaker who speaks softly — John Boehner doesn't yell. — Unlike other powerful Washington insiders, the soon-to-be-Speaker of the House doesn't berate his staff or colleagues. The Ohio Republican has a management style that is unique, one that will be tested repeatedly in the next Congress.
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The Politico
The Huffington Post:
Michael Bloomberg & Joe Scarborough: The Independent Odd Couple — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — There's no campaign yet, and there may never be, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and MSNBC's morning talk-show host Joe Scarborough have begun trying to figure out whether …
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