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Obama: 'I Don't Think About Sarah Palin' — “Obviously Sarah Palin has a strong base of support in the Republican Party and I respect those skills,” Obama said. “But I spend most of my time right now on how I can be the best possible president. And my attitude has always been …
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11/24: Looking to 2012: 48% Plan to Vote Against Obama — If the 2012 presidential election were held today, President Barack Obama would have his work cut out for him. 48% of registered voters nationwide report they plan to definitely vote against Mr. Obama while 36% say they will definitely vote for him. 16% are undecided.
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The Moderate Voice, The Atlantic Online, GOP 12 and CNN

Sarah Palin Responds to Bristol's Loss On ‘Dancing With The Stars’ — ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: — Sarah Palin responded to her daughter Bristol's third place finish on “Dancing With The Stars” tonight as she exited the first stop on her book tour. — “I haven't talked to her yet.


New Palin Book Offers a Road Map for a Run Against Obama
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HarperCollins settles Gawker suit over leaked Palin excerpts
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Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl
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TRENDING: Obama doesn't think about Palin
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Woman: TSA Agents Singled Me Out For My Breasts — Travelers Plan To Boycott TSA's Latest Security Measure Aiming To Clog Security Lines — ORLANDO, Fla. — The head of the Transportation Security Administration said the agency will look further into allegations that two male TSA workers picked …
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Most U.S. Air Travelers OK Sacrificing Privacy for Security — Frequent travelers largely OK with body scans, more negative on pat-downs — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite a reported uproar about full-body screening procedures now in broader use at U.S. airports and calls for a boycott …
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Poll finds 61% oppose new airport security measures — On the eve of one of the nation's busiest travel days, a poll has found that 61% of likely voters oppose the newly enhanced security measures at the country's airports. — The poll by Zogby International of 2,032 likely voters also found …
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Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro
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AUDIO: Sarah Palin: “We Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies” — Genius. Absolute genius. When Glenn Beck is correcting you on foreign policy, well... genius.
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Palin: 'Obviously, We've Got To Stand With Our North Korean Allies' — In recent days, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has hinted in her clearest language yet that she is seriously considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Many observers have argued that Palin could never win …
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PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP leader reaps $200 million — WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks - money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest - was short-lived. — Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks …
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REMEMBER THE GOP'S EARMARK BAN?.... It's been about a week since …
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NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY! — It's the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government's desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an “enhanced pat down” that touches people's breasts and genitals in an aggressive manner.
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Fines and “Resolving this Mess” — Yves does a thorough smackdown on the departing Michael Barr's description of all the things the government is going to get to the bottom of the foreclosure fraud problem, noting that the foreclosure task force simply isn't investigating the problem …
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Foreclosure Task Force: Worse Than Stress Tests?
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Fed lowers economic expectations for 2011 — Unemployment is set to remain higher for longer than previously thought, according to new projections from the Federal Reserve that would mean more than 10 million Americans remain jobless through the 2012 elections - even as a separate report …
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Obama Pardons Turkeys for Thanksgiving — President Barack Obama carried out the “awesome responsibility,” as he put it, of pardoning a pair of turkeys Wednesday, as he took a break from politics to wish Americans a happy Thanksgiving. — “For the record, let me say that it feels pretty …
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Obama pardons Thanksgiving turkey from ‘shellacking’
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Pat-Down Dispute Shows Mistrust of Government — The latest controversy to envelop the Obama administration is only partly about the specific rules governing body scanners and pat-downs. It has to do, too, with the federal agency Congress created to deal with airline security and the tension …
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TSAstroturf: The Washington Lobbyists and Koch-Funded Libertarians Behind the TSA Scandal — Does anyone else sense something strange is going on with the apparently spontaneous revolt against the TSA? This past week, the media turned an “ordinary guy,” 31-year-old Californian John Tyner …
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Don't touch my junk? Grow up, America. — My family, as it happens, is taking the bus to Grandma's this Thanksgiving. But our choice of transportation has nothing to do with anxiety about leering security screeners or fear of pat-downs. — The uproar over the new procedures is overblown and immature.
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Bobby Jindal: Make Congress part-time — Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wants members of Congress to stay home more often. — “We used to pay farmers not to grow crops, let's pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.,” Jindal said in an interview with Human Events.
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Human Events, GOP 12, Nice Deb and FrumForum


The Real Story Behind Those “Record” Corporate Profits — Corporate profits hit a new record in the U.S. in the third quarter of this year. At least, that was the headline after the data were released Tuesday. It was kind of a meaningless distinction: In a growing economy …
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Ezra Klein, Balloon Juice, ThinkProgress, Firedoglake and Economix

Palin dismisses ‘blue-blood’ Bush criticism — Sarah Palin dismissed Barbara Bush's recent criticism as a matter of class privilege in an interview with Laura Ingraham today: — “I don't want to concede that we have to get used to this kind of thing, because i don't think the majority …

Closing statements — This has been a really good debate, I think—a lot racier and spikier than many of our offerings, but none the worse for that. It almost puts me in mind of PMQs. Now the guest interventions from John Samples and Andrew Sullivan are in, as are the closing statements …
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and The Daily Dish


The TSA, the Law and Democracy: The People's Security — Are intrusive airport scanners legal? Probably—but that's the wrong question. — With all the anger and confusion regarding the TSA's use of enhanced search techniques—backscatter x-rays and millimeter-wave imaging devices …
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Washington Post Continues Media Whitewash Of Radical GOP Rep.-Elect Allen West — Over the weekend, NBC's Meet the Press featured Rep.-elect Allen West (R-FL) without mentioning the offensive Islamophobia that West made central to his congressional campaign, nor the long history …
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