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4:25 PM ET, November 26, 2010

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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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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
North Korea Warning After Artillery Fire  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Tension mounted Friday near a South Korean island bombarded this week by North Korea, as the North's military again fired artillery, this time in what appeared to be a drill on its own territory.
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin Defends Korea ‘Slip-of-the-Tongue,’ Blasts Media
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Why America Won't Buy Palinism
Fox News:
China Raises ‘Concern’ …
Discussion: Hot Air and Biased BBC
Tom A. Peter / Christian Science Monitor:
North Korea says on ‘brink of war’ as US, South Korea prepare for military exercises
Discussion: CNN, Guardian, FrumForum and New York Times
BBC:   China works to ease North-South Korea tension
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Children Ease Alzheimer's in Land of Aging
Discussion: Yglesias
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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Romalley / Fox Nation:
The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail  —  Having admittedly “reached the end of [his] rope,” President Barack Obama sent a rambling 75,000-word e-mail to the entire nation Wednesday, revealing deep frustrations with America's political culture, his presidency, U.S. citizens, and himself.
The Onion:
Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail
Discussion: Raw Story
Fhardingj / CNN:
President Obama injured  —  Washington (CNN) - Apparently no good deed goes unpunished for President Obama, who was trying to make sure he didn't get a flabby belly after Thanksgiving but wound up with a fat lower lip instead.  —  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the President received …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Roland S. Martin / CNN:
Palin's reckless views on obesity
Lauren Sher / ABCNEWS:
Obamas Reflect on Life in White House
Discussion: Washington Wire
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.
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Vox Popoli and Daily Kos
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?
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.
Sheila C. Bair / Washington Post:
Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?  —  Two years ago the United States experienced its worst financial crisis since the 1930s.  The crisis began on Wall Street, where misguided bets on risky mortgage loans resulted in enormous losses that few anticipated.
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.
New York Times:
G.O.P. and Tea Party 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 on Capitol Hill …
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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City Journal:
Why I'm Like GM  —  Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my debt
Stacy Drake / Conservatives4Palin.com:
Lessons in Reactionary Mockery
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Associated Press:
Steele on thin ice at helm of Republican Party
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Front-Line City in Virginia Tackles Rise in Sea
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The Special Assistant for Reality
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Helen Thomas to be Honored by Arab Group Raided by FBI
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Administration: Health law can survive without individual mandate
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself
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CNN:
U.S. envoy concerned over WikiLeaks plan to release more documents
Wall Street Journal:
Europeans Clash on Bailout
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
For Obama's 2012 campaign, aides debate a Chicago headquarters
Discussion: The Page
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Karzai aide blames British for bringing Taliban impostor to talks
Discussion: Firedoglake and New York Times
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on Apple TV's history and future; sources: Apple postponed a larger-than-usual number of iOS 19 features to spring 2026, when iOS 19.4 is set to debut

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in the past year, Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for about a 5% stake; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets

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