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The Huffington Post:
Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch Centrist Civility Group — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — TV's Joe Scarborough, who today dismissed Sarah Palin as a symbol of “anti-intellectualism” with a “dopey dream” of being president, will help headline the launch next month …
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Joe Scarborough / The Politico:
GOP should take on Palin — Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private.
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Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Palin Hauls in Nearly $500k In Just Over a Month
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The Official Home of the Department of Defense:
Mullen Endorses Working Group's Report — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today fully endorsed the report of the working group that assessed the impact of a possible repeal of the law that bans gay men and women from serving openly in the military. ...
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pentagon report will leave opponents of DADT repeal little to work with — Okay, I've got some more detail for you on the findings in that forthcoming Pentagon report on the impact repeal of Don't Ask Don't tell will have on the military. The upshot: It will leave GOP moderates with no reasons left to oppose repeal.
Guardian:
WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.
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Howard Chua-Eoan / Time:
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tells TIME: Hillary Clinton ‘Should Resign’ — Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, “should resign.” Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Cantor Urges ‘Open Mind’ On VA Legislature Plan To Blow Up The Constitution — Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is part of a class of Republicans who say they want to change the country fundamentally — and to that end, Cantor isn't dismissing a plan by legislators in his home state …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Judge upholds healthcare reform law — A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to the healthcare reform law, the second time the law's mandate that people buy insurance has been ruled constitutional. — The lawsuit was brought by Liberty University …
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Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Cantor: Popular parts of health law will be tackled in GOP repeal plan — House Republicans are looking to repeal the healthcare reform law and replace it with one of their own early next year without interrupting two popular parts of it that the administration has already begun to be implement.
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Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Another Health Care Court Victory
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
OFA Asks Supporters to Write a “Letter to the Editor” Praising Federal Worker Pay Freeze — We've officially gone around the bend. — OFA, the organizing arm of the DNC, originally began its life as an organization trying to get someone elected on the platform of hope, change, and progressive policies.
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
GOP Reps Blast Smithsonian Exhibit Featuring Ant-Covered Jesus on Cross — An image with Jesus covered in ants from the video “A Fire in My Belly,” part of the ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. — UPDATE: In a statement released on Tuesday, Martin Sullivan …
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Jason Nark / Philly.com:
Family: New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally — EVERYTHING Brian Aitken was or had worked for was wiped away one winter afternoon after his mother called the police on him. — Separated from his wife, the entrepreneur and media consultant, now 27 …
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Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
Hot mic picks up discussion on Senate floor: 'It's all rigged' — A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.” — “It's all rigged.
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Washington Post:
Where we and Democrats can work together — When congressional leaders of both parties meet at the White House today, all of us will have an opportunity to show the American people that we got the message of the elections earlier this month. — Republicans heard the voters loud and clear.
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The Huffington Post:
Senate Dems Plan Dramatic Tax Cut Vote, Followed By ‘Grab Bag’ Negotiations
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Ed Henry / CNN:
Obama may delay Hawaiian vacation over tax fight
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blogs.abcnews.com:
Retiring Congressman Loses Cool on House Floor — ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: — Rep. Steve Buyer, a retiring nine-term lawmaker Republican from Indiana, became a little heated on the House floor today as the chamber prepared to consider a bill out of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:
Patriotic ‘Hacktivist’ Claims He Took Down Wikileaks Site — Hacker-Activist ‘The Jester’ Says He Attacks Jihadist Websites Trying to Recruit Young Muslims — A computer hacker is claiming he temporarily disabled the Wikileaks site Sunday afternoon, right as the latest dump …
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
WikiLeaks Using Amazon Servers After Attack
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Stuff White People Like — The departure of the only black senator prompts a revealingly clueless commentary. — The U.S. Senate now has no black members. Illinois's Roland Burris, appointed to replace Barack Obama when the latter moved on to bigger if not necessarily better things …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Here I am listening — for the first time — to Rush Limbaugh talking about me. — I've got the podcast of today's show, where he's reading from this blog post of mine: — And let me invite Rush to go on Bloggingheads.tv and diavlog with me about the so-called chickification problems that plague our world today.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Going deep on the Republicans — Our monthly look at the 2012 Republican Presidential field for November finds the same thing it it does every month- a very close four way race. This time around it's Sarah Palin at 21%, Newt Gingrich at 19%, Mitt Romney at 18%, and Mike Huckabee at 16%.
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, GOP 12, Ballot Box and Conservatives4Palin.com
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children — Perhaps you have to be familiar with New York politics to understand how truly bizarre this story is: 1199 is dropping its health care coverage for children. 1199 is the extraordinarily powerful local health care workers' union which has pushed …
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Pajamas Media and Daily Pundit
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
Steve King: Black Farmers' Settlement Is ‘Slavery Reparations’ (VIDEO) — The Senate last week finally approved the multi-billion-dollar funding for the Pigford II and Cobell settlements, which will allow the government to pay out claims to African-American farmers and American Indians …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners — Every week, the Tea Party Nation hosts a weekly radio program, calling itself a “home for conservatives.” Two weeks ago, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips hosted the program …
Cooper Levey-Baker / Florida Independent:
Huckabee calls for execution of person who leaked diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks — Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday called for the execution of the person responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
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Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
‘Nicolas Sarkozy is thin-skinned and authoritarian’ — US embassy cables detail how staff and ministers fear ire of French president and warn of impact of personal lifestyle — Nicolas Sarkozy's advisers were so afraid of sparking his anger that they reportedly diverted his plane to avoid …
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DickMorris.com:
THE GOP PRIMARIES OF 12 WILL BE HELD ON FOX NEWS — The Republican nominating process of 2012 will be totally different from that of other years. In fact, it will be the opposite of what we are used to. — Since the procedural reforms initiated by Democrat George McGovern …
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