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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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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.
Marist Poll:
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 Atlantic Online, GOP 12 and CNN
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
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
HarperCollins settles Gawker suit over leaked Palin excerpts
HarperCollins settles Gawker suit over leaked Palin excerpts
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Cubachi, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Daily Caller and Hot Air, more at Mediagazer »
Elizabeth Wurtzel / The Atlantic Online:
Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl
Sarah Palin, Riot Grrrl
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Boston Herald, sisu, JustOneMinute, The Confluence, Althouse, Liberty Pundits Blog, Human Events and Whiskey Fire
Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
Gawker Agrees Not to Repost Palin Excerpts
Gawker Agrees Not to Repost Palin Excerpts
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Gothamist, Ruby Slippers and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Obama doesn't think about Palin
TRENDING: Obama doesn't think about Palin
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The Impolitic and The Political Carnival
Click Orlando l Orlando News …:
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, The Gateway Pundit, HillBuzz.org and The Other McCain
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Hugo Martin / Money & Company:
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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DownWithTyranny!, Zogby, LewRockwell.com Blog, Slate and The Daily Caller
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
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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Raw Story, Questions and Observations, CNN, The Hill and This Just In
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, Wake up America, Shakesville, Pirate's Cove, Outside the Beltway, protein wisdom, Patterico's Pontifications, Fausta's Blog, Michelle Malkin, Vox Popoli, The Note, FrumForum, The Gateway Pundit, LewRockwell.com Blog and Don Surber
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, The Political Carnival and Donklephant
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
REMEMBER THE GOP'S EARMARK BAN?.... It's been about a week since …
REMEMBER THE GOP'S EARMARK BAN?.... It's been about a week since …
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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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CNN, Gothamist, Hot Air, Infowars, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, Focal Point, pandagon.net, Runnin' Scared, newsfeed.time.com, The Daily Caller, News Desk and ABCNEWS
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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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
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama pardons Thanksgiving turkey from ‘shellacking’ — Riffing off his famous election postmortem for Democrats, President Obama pardoned a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys on Wednesday, saying, “It feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this November.”
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The Politico
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Laura Meckler / Washington Wire:
Obama Pardons Turkeys for Thanksgiving
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 …
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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
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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NewsBusters.org blogs, Shakesville, Firedoglake and VatorNews
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, Firedoglake, Hit & Run, Cato @ Liberty, Verum Serum and Weigel
New York Times:
South Koreans and U.S. to Stage a Joint Exercise — 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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ThinkProgress, JustOneMinute, Commentary, New York Magazine, American Prospect, TalkLeft, The Page, The Politico and Sister Toldjah
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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
Oliver Willis:
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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ThinkProgress and Mediaite
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 Economix
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
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 …
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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Washington Post