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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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Glenn Beck:
America by Heart - Sarah Palin — Audio Available: — GLENN: We have Sarah Palin on the phone with us. Where are you, Sarah? — SARAH PALIN: I am in Phoenix, Arizona. — GLENN: Phoenix? That's kind of the anti‑Alaska. — SARAH PALIN: We're thawing out.
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Scared Monkeys, The Right Scoop and The Page
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin's North Korea Gaffe — Liberals Seize on Palin's Gaffe on Glenn Beck Show — Was it a simple blunder or did a possible 2012 presidential contender really get her geography wrong? — That's the question being debated after Sarah Palin said in an interview with Glenn Beck Wednesday that North Korea was a U.S. ally.
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The Politico, theblogprof, The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway and Hullabaloo
Jeremy Laurence / Reuters:
North Korean leader and son visited artillery site: reports
North Korean leader and son visited artillery site: reports
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The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
U.S. envoy concerned over WikiLeaks plan to release more documents — (CNN) — Officials are concerned that whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks could release more documents, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq told a group of journalists Friday. — “We are worried about additional documents coming out,” Ambassador James Jeffrey said.
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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Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself — The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. — Chancellor Angela Merkel would risk popular fury if she had to raise fresh funds …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
For Obama's 2012 campaign, aides debate a Chicago headquarters — When President Obama kicks off his reelection campaign sometime in the next few months, senior advisers say, it is virtually certain that his headquarters will be located in Chicago. — But should it be?
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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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Vox Popoli and Daily Kos
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Karzai aide blames British for bringing Taliban impostor to talks — KABUL - President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff on Thursday said that British authorities were responsible for bringing a Taliban impostor into the presidential palace and that foreigners should stay out of delicate negotiations with the Afghan insurgent group.
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The Last Tradition and Guardian
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Reality Check — Something I find incredibly puzzling is the strange determination many progressive have to diagnose what the “problem” is with Democrats that makes them so “bad” at electoral politics. They actually seem to me to be fine. Look at the 30 year span from 1980 to 2010.
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The Confluence, Mother Jones and Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Tea party hopes to plant local roots in Virginia for next year's statewide elections — With the November elections behind them, tea party activists are working to solidify their movement by pivoting quickly to state and local issues they think will allow them to show that theirs …
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The Page
Wall Street Journal:
Europeans Clash on Bailout — EU Officials Propose Doubling $588 Billion Fund, But Germany Spurns Idea — BERLIN—European leaders sparred over whether to commit more funds to rescue struggling euro-zone countries, as financial-market pressure on the region's weakest economies intensified.
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European Tribune, The Big Picture and New York Times