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Bryan Denson / Oregonian:
FBI thwarts terrorist bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree lighting, authorities say — The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city's annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Oregon.
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Associated Press:
Feds Arrest Somali-Born Teen in Car Bomb Plot — PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting, federal prosecutors said.
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Associated Press:
Somali-Born Teenager Held in Oregon Bomb Sting — PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.
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Washington Monthly, neo-neocon, Wizbang, Weasel Zippers and Althouse
CNN:
Somali-American accused of plotting to bomb Oregon tree-lighting event — (CNN) — A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, on Friday evening, the Justice Department announced.
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The Confluence, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Jawa Report and The Powers That Be
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The obligatory “Obama elbowed in the face during pick-up game” post; Update: Elbower identified — First he gets pounded in the midterms, then Kim Jong-il starts shelling South Korea, now he's getting flagrantly fouled while shooting hoops with friends and family. What's next?
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Associated Press:
Obama Needs Stitches After Being Hurt During Basketball Game
Obama Needs Stitches After Being Hurt During Basketball Game
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Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com and iOwnTheWorld.com
Fhardingj / CNN:
President Obama injured
President Obama injured
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Scared Monkeys, theblogprof, The Last Tradition, No More Mister Nice Blog and Macsmind
Craigjohnsoncnn / This Just In:
Obama gets busted lip, stitches in basketball game
Obama gets busted lip, stitches in basketball game
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Left Coast Rebel and The Gateway Pundit
Peter King / New York Post:
Qaeda the enemy - not TSA screeners — Tweet — The debate over security scanning and pat-downs has reached such a fever pitch, it seems that people are forgetting that the enemy isn't the Transportation Security Administration — it's al Qaeda. — I don't want my children …
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Pirate's Cove and Associated Press
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Report: ‘Issues of Culture, Ethnicity and Identity’ Raised in U.K. Rape-Gang Case — A report on the sexual exploitation of British girls as young as 12 by a gang led by two 28-year-old Muslim men found that cultural issues were “a critical factor in making [the victims] easy targets for abusers.”
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Winning the Class War — The class war that no one wants to talk about continues unabated. — Even as millions of out-of-work and otherwise struggling Americans are tightening their belts for the holidays, the nation's elite are lacing up their dancing shoes and partying like royalty as the millions and billions keep rolling in.
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LewRockwell.com Blog and Daily Kos
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More — Following on the heels of this week's domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it's clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain …
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Sara Jerome / The Hill:
Homeland Security seizes domain names
Homeland Security seizes domain names
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Bill King / Houston Chronicle:
It's time for Democrats to give in on voter ID bill — Let me say at the outset that I would be willing to bet a lot of money that voter fraud (however you might define that term) has not affected the outcome of an election in Harris County in 100 years. I mean seriously …
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New York Times:
Health Law Faces Threat of Undercut From Courts — WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration presses ahead with the health care law, officials are bracing for the possibility that a federal judge in Virginia will soon reject its central provision as unconstitutional and …
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Greg's Opinion, Taegan Goddard's …, Althouse, theblogprof and The Hill
Myrna Domit / New York Times:
Brazil Military Says It Cornered Rio Drug Gangs — RIO DE JANEIRO — Police and Brazilian Army soldiers, struggling to take control of a second huge slum complex here, were fired on by drug gangs on Friday, but by nightfall they had managed to trap the traffickers inside, a military spokesman said.
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