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ABCNEWS:
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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Politics Daily, Ben Smith's Blog, Fox Nation, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, Right Wing News, Raw Story, The Page, Mediaite, TPMDC, msnbc.com and FrumForum
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The Note:
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.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / The Atlantic Online:
Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl — To paraphrase Lillian Hellman, I don't agree with a word that Sarah Palin says, including “and” and “the.” And as a liberal feminist, it drives me absolutely bonkers that Palin is the most visible working mother and female politician in America …
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Boston Herald, sisu, JustOneMinute, The Confluence, Human Events, Althouse, Liberty Pundits Blog and Whiskey Fire
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
New Palin Book Offers a Road Map for a Run Against Obama
New Palin Book Offers a Road Map for a Run Against Obama
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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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Proof Positive, YID With LID, Infowars, HillBuzz.org, The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
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Hugo Martin / Money & Company:
Poll finds 61% oppose new airport security measures
Poll finds 61% oppose new airport security measures
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DownWithTyranny!, Zogby, LewRockwell.com Blog and Slate
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro
Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro
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NationalJournal.com, Associated Press, iOwnTheWorld.com, Say Anything, Shakesville, Pirate's Cove, Wake up America, Michelle Malkin, Outside the Beltway, Patterico's Pontifications, protein wisdom, Fausta's Blog, Vox Popoli, The Note, FrumForum, The Gateway Pundit, LewRockwell.com Blog and Don Surber
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
Most U.S. Air Travelers OK Sacrificing Privacy for Security
Most U.S. Air Travelers OK Sacrificing Privacy for Security
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CNN, The Hill and This Just In
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
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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Taegan Goddard's …, Suburban Guerrilla and The Political Carnival
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
REMEMBER THE GOP'S EARMARK BAN?.... It's been about a week since Senate Republicans agreed to impose an earmark moratorium on themselves. How's it going to so far? Not well. … Kyl's office insists the senator's earmark isn't an earmark. It's just a specific spending provision Kyl quietly inserted …
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msnbc.com, Dennis the Peasant and Daily Kos
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Passage of earmark ban in doubt
Passage of earmark ban in doubt
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Booman Tribune and FrumForum
National Opt-Out Day:
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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Gothamist, CNN, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Infowars, Focal Point, News Desk, Runnin' Scared, newsfeed.time.com and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
U.S. to Send Carrier for Joint Exercises Off Korea — WASHINGTON — President Obama and South Korea's president agreed Tuesday night to hold joint military exercises as a first response to North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean military installation, as both countries struggled …
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Mark McDonald / New York Times:
Anxiety in Seoul as Civilian Deaths Are Reported
Anxiety in Seoul as Civilian Deaths Are Reported
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Firedoglake, Infowars, American Spectator, Barcepundit, Pajamas Media and Macsmind
Emptywheel:
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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TalkLeft, Felix Salmon and Bloomberg
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Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
Foreclosure Task Force: Worse Than Stress Tests?
Foreclosure Task Force: Worse Than Stress Tests?
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Rortybomb, Corrente and Emptywheel
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Trust in Government — Matt Bai muses: … That broad-based skepticism of government is, of course, why the Obama Era has also witnessed a broad-based public backlash against unrestrained government surveillance powers, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, public demands that Obama cut Medicare benefits more sharply.
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Matt Bai / New York Times:
Pat-Down Dispute Shows Mistrust of Government
Pat-Down Dispute Shows Mistrust of Government
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Hit & Run, Prairie Weather and Althouse
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers under pressure to decline government health plan — Congressional Republicans who assailed the Democrats' healthcare law in the run-up to the midterm elections are facing pressure to decline government-provided coverage when they take office. — GOP Reps.-elect Bobby Schilling …
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Washington Monthly, Raw Story, Wonkette, Prairie Weather, FrumForum and Public Policy Polling
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
HarperCollins settles Gawker suit over leaked Palin excerpts — HarperCollins settled a lawsuit Tuesday night with Gawker Media over the site's publication of leaked images from Sarah Palin's new book, “America by Heart.” — Gawker posted the Palin excerpts on Friday and even mocked …
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Cubachi, Ben Smith's Blog, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Daily Caller and Hot Air, more at Mediagazer »
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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
Gawker Agrees Not to Repost Palin Excerpts
Gawker Agrees Not to Repost Palin Excerpts
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Ruby Slippers, Gothamist and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
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 …
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Why is the Obama administration linking Israel and New START? — While the White House continues to negotiate with Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) in an attempt to convince him to allow a vote on the New START treaty this year, it is also undertaking a massive effort behind the scenes to rally foreign governments …
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Washington Monthly, Commentary and The Caucus
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
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
Justin Fox:
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 Gawker
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
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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Shakesville, Firedoglake, The Plum Line, VatorNews and msnbc.com
Economist:
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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The Daily Dish and The Plum Line
George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
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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The Nation:
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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Salon, Verum Serum and Weigel
CHINAdaily:
China, Russia quit dollar — Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on a visit to St. Petersburg on Tuesday.ALEXEY DRUZHININ / AFP — St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies …
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Israpundit and The Gateway Pundit