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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Former Republican Sen. Warns GOP May ‘Have Gone So Far Overboard That We Are Beyond Redemption’ — In an age when far-right tea party activists have taken over the Republican Party and demanded lockstep allegiance, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) has been one of the few GOP lawmakers to step out of line.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Rational Nation USA
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senator Lugar Charts His Course Against the Winds — WASHINGTON — Mavericks are not in vogue these days on Capitol Hill, a place where hyper-partisanship and obduracy seem to be their own rewards. — But Senator Richard G. Lugar, an Indiana Republican who played that role long before it had a brand name …
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Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Scowcroft on START: ‘Partisan’ GOP Doesn't Want To Give Obama ‘A Foreign Policy Victory’ — Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) has been the leading Senate Republican urging the upper chamber of Congress to ratify the New START arms control treaty with Russia. However, the Republican obstructionism …
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The Politico, Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice and The Hill
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Charles Krauthammer Rips Liberal Media for Being Obsessed with Sarah Palin — Charles Krauthammer on Friday tore into the liberal media for being obsessed with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. — After Krauthammer scolded the “editorial judgment” of the producers of PBS's “Inside Washington” …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Hot Air and The Right Scoop
William McCall / Associated Press:
Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore. — PORTLAND, Ore. - 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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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
F.B.I. Says Oregon Suspect Planned Attack of ‘Grand Scale’
F.B.I. Says Oregon Suspect Planned Attack of ‘Grand Scale’
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Teddy Partridge's myFDL diary, Mediaite and AmSpecBlog
portland.fbi.gov:
Oregon Resident Arrested in Plot to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting …
Oregon Resident Arrested in Plot to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting …
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Gawker, The Daily Beast and TalkLeft
Teddy Partridge / Teddy Partridge's myFDL diary:
FBI Thwarts “Bomb Plot” at Xmas Tree Ceremony in Portland, Oregon
FBI Thwarts “Bomb Plot” at Xmas Tree Ceremony in Portland, Oregon
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Doug Ross, Patterico's Pontifications and Pajamas Media
Bryan Denson / Oregonian:
FBI thwarts terrorist bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree …
FBI thwarts terrorist bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree …
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The Agonist, Patterico's Pontifications, Infowars, At-Largely, Michelle Malkin, Scared Monkeys, Pajamas Media, Left Coast Rebel, The Last Tradition, Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers, Gothamist, The Other McCain, The Gateway Pundit, Creeping Sharia, The Portland Tribune, LewRockwell.com Blog, Keep America Safe, Daily Kos, NewsBusters.org blogs, JammieWearingFool, Liberty Pundits Blog, Pirate's Cove and HotAirPundit
Scott Simon / NPR:
Simon Says — That Fat Lip Might Give Obama Some Street Cred … Gauze in hand, President Barack Obama walks to his car after the game of basketball Friday at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. — Just three weeks after getting a shellacking in the midterm elections, President Obama got a fat lip.
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The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys and Patterico's Pontifications
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
NPR: Obama's Fat Lip Gives Him “Street Cred,” Scar Will Help Him Stare Down Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il... Oh yeah, instead of staring down a sissy, now they'll be staring down a sissy with a scar... That Fat Lip Might Give Obama Some Street Cred- NPR
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Demonstrators in Ireland Protest Austerity Plan — DUBLIN — After a week that brought Ireland a pledge of an $114 billion international rescue package and the toughest austerity program of any country in Europe, thousands of demonstrators took to Dublin's streets on Saturday to protest wide cuts …
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FrumForum, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Suburban Guerrilla and Guardian
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Phil Aldrick / Telegraph:
First Greece, then Ireland - Europe's debt problem has gone from bad to worse
First Greece, then Ireland - Europe's debt problem has gone from bad to worse
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The Moderate Voice, Dow Jones Newswires and Washington Post
Newsweek:
The Taliban Call a Time-Out — For months, NEWSWEEK has reported emphatic denials by senior Afghan Taliban officials that they were engaged in secret peace talks with the government in Kabul. Those denials received further weight last week when The New York Times exposed …
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The Jawa Report
Ed Barnes / Fox News:
Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions — An aerial view of Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz. — In the 20th century, this would have been a job for James Bond. — The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headquarters …
Mark Whitehouse / Real Time Economics:
Number of the Week: 492 Days From Default to Foreclosure — 492: The number of days since the average borrower in foreclosure last made a mortgage payment. — Banks can't foreclose fast enough to keep up with all the people defaulting on their mortgage loans.
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Pajamas Media
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
A Nuclear Standoff With Libya — In November 2009, six years after the government of Libya first agreed to disarm its nuclear weapons program, Libyan nuclear workers wheeled the last of their country's highly enriched uranium out in front of the Tajoura nuclear facility, just east of Tripoli.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
The Trouble With Asking China to Act Like the U.S. — WASHINGTON — A fundamental tenet of foreign policy says that nations will seldom voluntarily act against what they have determined, for whatever reason, to be their own national interest. — Somebody needs to tell that to the United States …
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Right Wing News
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Obama: I pray every night, read the Bible — Praying and reading the Bible are part of his everyday life, President Obama said in a wide-ranging interview broadcast Friday. — Speaking with Barbara Walters, Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama also described how they involve their daughters in daily prayer.
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Weasel Zippers, Zandar Versus The Stupid, FrumForum and JammieWearingFool
The Politico:
United Nations climate talks in limbo — Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), co-author of several unsuccessful cap-and-trade bills over the past decade, suggested an under-the-radar approach could yield results. — “Perhaps what Copenhagen has contributed to this moment, pre-Cancun, is low expectations,” Lieberman said.
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Power Line
Associated Press:
Willie Nelson Freed After Drug Arrest — SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas. — Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca …
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