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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Drudge wins — The weekend collapse of the Administration's airline screening policy is hard to understand as a matter of messaging, with Clinton undermining the TSA's screening regime and the relevant official sending a hazy mixed message on the subject, even as the screening policy remains in place.
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Gawker, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post and Venice For Change
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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash — The administration is quietly and aggressively defending airport security policies against what they see as a media frenzy of distorted information. — The White House and the Department of Homeland Security indicated today that they won't yield …
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FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic Online and Emptywheel
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
TSA chief admits he withheld information on pat-downs — WASHINGTON — Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said on Monday that he disregarded internal advice to the contrary and decided not tell the public in advance about aggressive new screening and pat-down procedures …
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The Gateway Pundit and Emptywheel
ABCNEWS:
WH: Intel Spurred Pat-Down Policy
WH: Intel Spurred Pat-Down Policy
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Associated Press, msnbc.com, The Note, The Hill, Hot Air, Hit & Run, The Daily Beast, Gothamist, Guardian, New York Magazine, Sense of Events and Business Week
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Scientists say they have solution to TSA scanner objections
Scientists say they have solution to TSA scanner objections
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Commentary, Sunlight Foundation, Outside the Beltway, Don Surber and JustOneMinute
Paul Bedard / US News:
TSA Promise: No Cavity Searches
TSA Promise: No Cavity Searches
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Paul Mulshine, I Will Opt Out Of TSA Scan and Raw Story
Feifei Sun / The Page:
Palin Won't “Waste Time” With Couric — Alaskan tells Hannity she wouldn't do another interview with CBS anchor should she run in 2012. — Full interview to air tonight at 9 p.m. — Sarah Palin on whether she would do an interview with Katie Couric if she ran for President:
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Hannity / Fox News Insider:
VIDEO - Palin: I Will Not Waste My Time With Katie Couric
VIDEO - Palin: I Will Not Waste My Time With Katie Couric
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Huffington Post, NewsBusters.org and Commentary
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: No time for Katie Couric
Sarah Palin: No time for Katie Couric
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Outside the Beltway
Fhardingj / CNN:
TRENDING: Palin won't ‘waste time’ on Couric
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Left's pressure moves Pelosi toward clashes with Obama — When President Obama meets with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi next year, he may face a lot more resistance than he's used to from his longtime ally. — The shift from Speaker to opposition leader will undoubtedly change Pelosi's …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
BREAKING: Sources: Plouffe to join White House staff, Axelrod may exit sooner than expected — Washington (CNN) - President Obama is planning to bring former campaign manager David Plouffe onto the White House staff at the beginning of January to work alongside senior adviser David Axelrod …
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The Politico
Whoashep / The 1600 Report:
Plouffe to White House, Axelrod may exit sooner
Plouffe to White House, Axelrod may exit sooner
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The Political Carnival
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
There Will Be Blood — Former Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person. He must be — after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special commission on deficit reduction. — So here's what the very serious Mr. Simpson said on Friday: “I can't wait for the blood bath in April. ...
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Commentary, Firedoglake, Wall Street Journal, AMERICAblog News, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Political Carnival, Maggie's Farm, The Mahablog, FT Alphaville, Comments from Left Field, The Confluence, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Prairie Weather, Booman Tribune, Open Left, Dennis the Peasant, skippy the bush kangaroo and Daily Kos
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Left accuses GOP of economic “sabotage” — It looks like some folks on the right are purporting to be really, really surprised by the suggestion being made by some liberals that Republicans will actively try to sabotage the economy in order to increase their odds of taking the White House in 2012.
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Hullabaloo, Washington Monthly and Eschaton
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
The Answer Is No — New Jersey governor Chris Christie is denying money to teachers and tunnels, oxygen to Democrats, and intentions to run for president in 2012. Which is only making him more popular. — C — hris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, was trolling for clicks.
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Gawker, GayPatriot, Salon, Democracy in America and Weasel Zippers
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Christie: All Sen. Lautenberg does is ‘blow hot air’
Christie: All Sen. Lautenberg does is ‘blow hot air’
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Ben Smith's Blog
Clint Hill / New York Times:
On Mrs. Kennedy's Detail — IT was with great trepidation that I approached 3704 N Street in Washington on Nov. 10, 1960. I had just been given the assignment of providing protection for the wife of the newly elected president of the United States, and I was about to meet her for the first time.
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ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, neo-neocon, American Power and The Confluence
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Jefferson Morley / The Atlantic Online:
The Kennedy Assassination: 47 Years Later, What Do We Really Know?
The Kennedy Assassination: 47 Years Later, What Do We Really Know?
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Taylor Marsh
Gerard Wynn / Reuters:
U.S. corn ethanol “was not a good policy"-Gore — * U.S. ethanol consumes about 40 pct corn crop — Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.
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Fox News, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The Powers That Be, Sister Toldjah, OpenMarket.org, Moe Lane, The Jawa Report, Sweetness & Light, Hit & Run and Gawker
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John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Mosque Money Shocker — The so-called Ground Zero mosque recently applied for a $5 million federal grant from a fund designed to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11, reports The Daily Beast's John Avlon. — Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located …
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Expansion of Bike Lanes Brings Backlash — Over the last four years, the streets of New York City have undergone a transformation: More than 250 miles of traffic lanes dedicated for bicycles have been created, and several laws aimed at promoting cycling have been passed.
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Runnin' Scared and City Room
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Tom Perrotta / Wall Street Journal:
Cycling's New Rules of the Road
Cycling's New Rules of the Road
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Gothamist and New York Magazine
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bombshell evidence may make Waters an ethics nightmare for Dems — Apparently, the Charlie Rangel ethics trial was just the warm-up act. The New York Times reported over the weekend that the House Ethics Committee suddenly postponed the trial of Maxine Waters on ethics violation because it found …
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YID With LID, Doug Ross, TPMMuckraker, Moe Lane, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America, The Other McCain, Commentary and Power Line
David Frum / CNN:
The right way to honor Ronald Reagan — President Ronald Reagan speaks at a rally February 8, 1982. He was born on February 6, 1911. … Washington (CNN) — We're approaching the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Ronald Reagan: February 6, 2011. It's time to begin thinking seriously …
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GayPatriot and sisu
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Editorial Boards to the Little People Complaining About the TSA: Bend Over and Take it Like a Man! — More evidence for Radley Balko's thesis that the media is more statist than liberal (and for my contention that the unsigned newspaper editorial should go the way of the dodo bird): — Los Angeles Times:
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The Agitator
BBC:
Saudi school lessons in UK concern government — Panorama went undercover to obtain the books — The government says it will not tolerate anti-Semitic and homophobic lessons being taught to Muslim children in the UK. — BBC Panorama found that more than 40 Saudi Students' Schools …
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Atlas Shrugs, Advocate and Harry's Place
Evan Hurst / Truth Wins Out:
SPLC Designates American Family Association, Family Research Council, Illinois Family Institute As Hate Groups — The Southern Poverty Law Center today updated its list of designated hate groups, and this year is significant in that some of the larger anti-gay outfits have made the cut.
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Holy Bullies …, AMERICAblog Gay, Right Wing Watch, Little Green Footballs and The Other McCain
Ben Smith / The Politico:
View from Middle East: President Obama is a problem — JERUSALEM — Vowing to change a region that has resisted the best efforts of presidents and prime ministers past, Barack Obama dove head first into the Middle East peace process on his second day in office. — He was supposed to be different.
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
WHAT GOOD IS WALL STREET? — Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless. — A few months ago, I came across an announcement that Citigroup, the parent company of Citibank, was to be honored, along with its chief executive, Vikram Pandit, for “Advancing the Field of Asset Building in America.”
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National Review, The Future of Capitalism, Felix Salmon, DealBook and Money & Company
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Suck on This — Thomas Friedman, July 1, 2005, “Follow the Leapin' Leprechaun”: … As I've said before, the problem with this kind of punditry is that regulating your financial sector poorly so as to generate lots of bum real estate lending really does seem to be a can't lose path to growth in the short term.
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Marginal Revolution and Eschaton
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Raids Three Hedge Funds Amid Insider-Trading Case — Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided the offices of three hedge funds as part of a high-profile insider-trading investigation, and more could be on the way, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Politics Daily, Law Blog, Reuters, Money & Company, Gothamist, Crooks and Liars, The Consumerist and New York Magazine
Wall Street Journal:
Some States Weigh Unthinkable Option: Ending Medicaid — Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once-unthinkable scenario: dropping out of the Medicaid insurance program for the poor. — Elected and appointed officials in nearly a half-dozen states …
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The Moderate Voice, Colorlines, Hit & Run, Shakesville and ThinkProgress