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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States — My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate - from the FBI's 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system.
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BBC:
China works to ease North-South Korea tension — South Koreans have held angry protests against the North's artillery barrage — China's Foreign Ministry has begun working to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, holding a series of talks with Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang.
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin Defends Korea ‘Slip-of-the-Tongue,’ Blasts Media — Possible 2012 Contender Grabbed Headlines for Calling North Korea a U.S. Ally — In a Thanksgiving Day Facebook message addressed mockingly to 57 states — a play on President Obama's slipup in May 2008 …
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Fox News:
China Raises ‘Concern’ Over U.S. Plan to Hold Joint Military Exercises With South Korea — DANDONG, China—China made its first official protest over plans by the U.S. and South Korea to hold joint military exercises involving the aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Yellow Sea on Sunday.
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Biased BBC
Tom A. Peter / Christian Science Monitor:
North Korea says on ‘brink of war’ as US, South Korea prepare for military exercises
North Korea says on ‘brink of war’ as US, South Korea prepare for military exercises
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
North Korea Issues Warning as Artillery Fire Rattles Island
North Korea Issues Warning as Artillery Fire Rattles Island
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Blogcritics, Information Dissemination and Associated Press
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
FoxNation.com Reposts Anti-Obama Article From The Onion, Doesn't Mention It's A Joke — Most people recognize The Onion as the Peabody Award-winning satire machine that it is. Some people, however, don't. Which is why we get a story like this every few months.
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Paul Krugman:
The Instability of Moderation — Brad DeLong writes of how our perception of history has changed in the wake of the Great Recession. We used to pity our grandfathers, who lacked both the knowledge and the compassion to fight the Great Depression effectively; now we see ourselves repeating all the old mistakes.
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Balloon Juice, Grasping Reality … and The Mahablog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Eating the Irish — What we need now is another Jonathan Swift. — Most people know Swift as the author of “Gulliver's Travels.” But recent events have me thinking of his 1729 essay “A Modest Proposal,” in which he observed the dire poverty of the Irish, and offered a solution: sell the children as food.
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Simon Johnson / Economix:
Will Ireland Default? Ask Belgium
Will Ireland Default? Ask Belgium
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naked capitalism and Yglesias
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama's poll numbers point to his defeat in 2012 — We're fast approaching the halfway point in Barack Obama's term. With Nov. 2 behind him, everything the president does will be calculated to boost, or at least not harm, his chances of re-election in 2012.
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Wake up America, FrumForum and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
G.O.P. and Tea Party Gains Are Mixed Blessing for Israel — WASHINGTON — When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to the United States recently for another round of tense talks with the Obama administration, he got a decidedly warmer welcome from one of the rising Republican stars …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Special Assistant for Reality — Obama needs to hear a voice from outside the presidential bubble. — A reporter covering the president's trip to Indiana this week said Mr. Obama was visiting the heartland in part to get out of the presidential bubble. I'm sure this was true.
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Booman Tribune
N.C. Aizenman / Washington Post:
Doctors say Medicare cuts force painful decision about elderly patients — Want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Easton, Md.? If you're a senior covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks. — How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trahos?
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Verum Serum and Prairie Weather
Roland S. Martin / CNN:
Palin's reckless views on obesity — Editor's note: Roland Martin is a syndicated columnist and author of “The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House.” He is a commentator for TV One Cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show, Washington Watch with Roland Martin.
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WSB-TV:
TSA Worker Accused Of Assault Had Prior Record — ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News has learned a TSA security worker accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a woman had previously been convicted of misdemeanor harassment and stalking. — Randall King remains hospitalized following a suicide attempt.
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Raw Story
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Liberals resort to conspiracy theories to explain Obama's problems — Following two years of poor economic performance and electoral repudiation, liberalism is casting around for narratives to explain its failure - narratives that don't involve the admission of inadequacies in liberalism itself.
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Firedoglake, The Plum Line, ABCNEWS and Washington Monthly