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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco — We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications …
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The Gateway Pundit, Riehl World View, The Page, Salon, Spiegel Online, Guardian, Liberty Pundits Blog and News: News blog
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Starr Report Of American Foreign Policy? — Beinart yawns while reading Wikileaks' latest. A surprising number of writers have been taking this position: … I have not yet plumbed the depths of all these documents, but I agree with Peter that we have learned nothing new in terms …
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Answers to Readers' Questions About State's Secrets — The New York Times is publishing State's Secrets, a series of articles about a trove of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables that were originally obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to exposing official secrets.
Pvictorwins / CBS New York:
King: WikiLeaks Release ‘Worse Than Military Attack’ — WASHINGTON (AP/1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional …
Raymond Bonner / The Atlantic Online:
‘By Whatever Means Necessary’: Arab Leaders Want Iran Stopped
‘By Whatever Means Necessary’: Arab Leaders Want Iran Stopped
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The Daily Dish, Solomonia, Wonk Room, Israellycool, RubinReports and Yourish.com
Wall Street Journal:
To Publish Leaks Or Not to Publish? — An organization has obtained secret documents.
To Publish Leaks Or Not to Publish? — An organization has obtained secret documents.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Sarah Palin blasts Obama administration for WikiLeaks ‘fiasco’
Sarah Palin blasts Obama administration for WikiLeaks ‘fiasco’
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The Note
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Palin not seen as electable
Palin not seen as electable
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Outside the Beltway
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WIKILEAKS HAMPERS U.S. DIPLOMACY.... American officials were bracing …
WIKILEAKS HAMPERS U.S. DIPLOMACY.... American officials were bracing …
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The Atlantic Online, The Foundry, NewsReal Blog, Hot Air, Raw Story, msnbc.com and TBogg
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who is scheduled …
Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who is scheduled …
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Hot Air and Erick's blog
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Freezes Pay for Federal Workers — WASHINGTON — President Obama announced a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers on Monday as he sought to address concerns over sky-high deficit spending and appeal to Republican leaders to find a common approach to restoring the nation's economic and fiscal health.
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The White House:
Fact Sheet: Cutting the Deficit by Freezing Federal Employee Pay — Because of the irresponsibility of the past decade, the President inherited a $1.3 trillion projected deficit upon taking office and an economic crisis that threatened to put the nation into a second Great Depression.
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Obama Flunks Economics with Pointless Federal Wage Freeze — (photo: amboo who?) — The Obama White House just announced details of a two-year federal wage freeze as a means to reduce federal spending and deficits. [David Dayen has more.] The move is obviously political and only symbolic …
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Daily Kos and Economist's View
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Obama's Federal Worker Pay Freeze Was Blasted By Democrats Months Ago
Obama's Federal Worker Pay Freeze Was Blasted By Democrats Months Ago
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The White House, The Atlantic Online and Daily Kos
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Liberal groups blast Obama pay-freeze proposal, release alternative plan — Representatives of three liberal advocacy groups on Monday blasted President Obama's proposed two-year freeze on federal civilian worker pay. — John Irons of the Economic Policy Institute, Tamara Draut of Demos …
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DownWithTyranny!, iOwnTheWorld.com and protein wisdom
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Left and the Budget
The Left and the Budget
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Grasping Reality … and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
PRECEDENT AND PROLOGUE — Momentous Supreme Court cases tend to move quickly into the slipstream of the Court's history. In the first ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that ended the doctrine of separate but equal in public education, the Justices cited the case more than twenty-five times.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Prairie Weather
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Spanish Prisoner — The best thing about the Irish right now is that there are so few of them. By itself, Ireland can't do all that much damage to Europe's prospects. The same can be said of Greece and of Portugal, which is widely regarded as the next potential domino. — But then there's Spain.
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AMERICAblog News, A Fistful Of Euros, Yglesias, TalkLeft, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats warm to tax-cut compromise — A faction of congressional Democrats is making a push to persuade President Obama to consider a compromise on tax policy that would leave only the nation's 315,000 richest households facing higher taxes in January. — Over the past few days …
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The Atlantic Online, National Review, About.com US Liberal Politics, RedState, Washington Monthly, The Hill and ABCNEWS
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
WikiLeaked: John Kerry calls for Israel to cede Golan Heights and East Jerusalem — On a February trip to the Middle East, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA) told Qatari leaders that the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria, that a Palestinian capital …
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Crooks and Liars, Commentary, Weasel Zippers, National Review and Guardian
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Blasts target Iranian nuclear scientists — One professor dies, another is injured on their morning commutes. The attacks prompt a stern warning by the head of IranÂ's atomic energy agency. — Reporting from Beirut — Two separate explosions killed a nuclear scientist and injured another …
Megan Carpentier / TPMMuckraker:
Bomb, Bomb Iran: The Top 5 Most Shocking Things About The Wikileaks — Yesterday, Wikileaks released a selection of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables dating from the mid-sixties to the present day — widely presumed to have been provided to them by the currently-incarcerated Private Bradley Manning …
Washington Post:
‘The criminalization of politics’ — THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT that former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) schemed to get around a Texas law prohibiting corporate contributions to political campaigns. Mr. DeLay's state political action committee accepted $190,000 in (legal) corporate contributions.
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National Review
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: NJ must pay $271M for killing tunnel — TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey owes the federal government more than $271 million after canceling a rail tunnel connecting the state with New York, according to a debt notice obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
People-Press.org:
Most Continue to Favor Gays Serving Openly in Military — As the Pentagon prepares to release its highly anticipated survey of military personnel about the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, most Americans (58%) say they favor allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces.
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Ezra Klein:
What happens when Medicare controls costs too well — There's one school of thought that says Congress is incapable of controlling costs in Medicare, and then there's, well, this: … One of the dirty little secrets of the health-care system is that Medicare has done a much better job controlling costs …
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Yglesias, Grasping Reality … and Overcoming Bias
BBC:
Picasso's electrician reveals artist's ‘treasure trove’ — The works include a portrait of the late artist's first wife, Olga — A retired electrician in southern France who worked for Pablo Picasso says he has hundreds of previously unknown works by the artist.
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This Just In, Top World Stories, Runnin' Scared, Marginal Revolution and Gawker
The Independent:
John Kampfner: Wikileaks shows up our media for their docility at the feet of authority — Mr Assange is an unconventional figure, a man who lives in the shadows and enjoys doing so — You should never shout “fire” in a crowded theatre. Once you have accepted this old adage, you accept that there are limits to free expression.
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Spiegel Online, Guardian, Firedoglake, Salon and EU Referendum
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
American exceptionalism: an old idea and a new political battle — Is this a great country or what? — “American exceptionalism” is a phrase that, until recently, was rarely heard outside the confines of think tanks, opinion journals and university history departments.
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The Plum Line, Washington Monthly, Pirate's Cove, Achenblog and The New Republic
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
House Vote On Middle-Income Tax Cuts Likely This Week — House Democrats are likely to hold a vote later this week on a tax plan that would allow the Bush tax cuts for high-income earners to expire at the end of the year, according to multiple aides. — Nothing's final, and the timing could change, as it often does.
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Louise Gray / Telegraph:
Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world — Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.
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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, NewsBusters.org, AmSpecBlog, EU Referendum and Guardian
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Killing the omnibus would deal blow to Republican senators' earmarks — Republican senators stand to lose nearly $2 billion in project money they requested for their home states if they stick with their leadership and block a year-end omnibus spending bill.
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Hot Air