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11:10 AM ET, November 27, 2010

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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.
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.
The Portland Tribune:
Corvallis man arrested in Christmas tree ceremony bomb plot  —  FBI says the 19-year-old man wanted to detonate a car bomb at Pioneer Courthouse Square  —  A 19-year-old Corvallis man was arrested Friday afternoon on charges that he planned to set off a car bomb during Portland's Christmas …
Discussion: Sadly, No! and JammieWearingFool
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  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.
Craigjohnsoncnn / This Just In:
Obama gets busted lip, stitches in basketball game
msnbc.com:
Obama needs 12 stitches after being hit on lip during basketball game
Discussion: Reuters and Wonkette
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
Discussion: TorrentFreak and Weasel Zippers
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 …
Discussion: Pirate's Cove and Associated Press
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.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Daily Kos
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.”
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
The Onion:
Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail
John Leland / New York Times:
Iraq's Troubles Drive Out Refugees Who Came Back  —  The mother and daughters of Abu Maream in a cramped Baghdad apartment.  The family fled to Syria in 2005 and returned last year.  But Mr. Maream is unable to find a job and worried about safety, so he is sending some of his relatives back to Syria.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Greg's Opinion
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John / Verum Serum:   It Begins: Medicare Patients See Long Waits for Doctors
 
 
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Alda Sigmundsdottir / Associated Press:
Iceland elects ordinary folk to draft constitution
Discussion: Hot Air
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Mubarak snubs U.S. call for election monitors
Discussion: EA WorldView, Commentary and FrumForum
Waqar Hussain / Agence France Presse:
Pakistan Muslims warn of anarchy over Christian
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
Anti-Four Loko advocates promise they're not after your Irish Coffee.
Discussion: Hot Air and Moe Lane
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Real Threat to America
msnbc.com:
South Korea honors slain marines; commander vows ‘thousand-fold’ retaliation
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Barack Obama to Barbara Walters: ‘Extraordinarily proud’ of health care reform
Discussion: Power Line and Weasel Zippers
Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
Tea Party targets big business
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Eugene Simmons Jr / American Thinker:
Holding Sarah Palin to Her Promise
Francine / re: The Auditors:
Big 4 Bombshell: “We Didn't Fail Banks Because They Were Getting A Bailout”
Arab News:
Grandma prays for Obama to embrace Islam
Discussion: Power Line and The Hill
Javier C. Hernandez / City Room:
Mayor and State Reach Deal to Pave Way for Schools Chief
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Is the Republican Comeback Just a Flash in the Pan?
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Plum Line
Stacy Drake / Conservatives4Palin.com:
Lessons in Reactionary Mockery
Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Liberals resort to conspiracy theories to explain Obama's problems
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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