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12:55 PM ET, November 30, 2010

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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads all Republicans  —  Americans are pretty evenly divided on whether they'd rather have four more years of Barack Obama or replace him with a Republican in 2012, with 48% going for Obama and 47% with a generic Republican.  But with the exception of Mitt Romney none …
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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Ezra Klein:
Wonkbook: Dem compromise would extend 90% of Bush tax cuts; food-safety bill comes to vote; federal-pay freeze  —  President Obama is meeting with the Republican congressional leadership today, but it's hard to imagine much progress being made at the powwow: Obama has already embraced …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tax fight pits Bush vs. Obama
The Politico:
GOP leaders finally meet Obama
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Everyone Hates Obama's Pay Freeze Plan... Except Republicans
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
In slideshow, Rep. Joe Barton declares war on the Obama administration  —  If the Obama administration was hoping to see hints of bipartisanship from the Hill, it might want to skip over the House Energy and Commerce Committee.  —  The committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Joe L. Barton …
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New York Times:
WikiLeaks and the Diplomats  —  The business of diplomacy is often messy and when private communications become public, it can also be highly embarrassing.  —  But what struck us, and reassured us, about the latest trove of classified documents released by WikiLeaks was the absence of any real skullduggery.
Jerusalem Post:
The WikiLeaks effect  —  Prominent pundits of Mideast affairs …
Discussion: The Nation
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Goldblog's Straw Man, Ctd
Heather Hurlburt / The New Republic:
Why Wikileaks Is Bad for Progressive Foreign Policy
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Say, About That Old ‘Bush Lied’ …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Senate votes down ban on earmarks  —  The Senate on Tuesday morning defeated a proposal from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to ban congressional earmarks.  —  In a 39-56 vote, members defeated a temporary ban on the appropriations procedure.  The moratorium was offered as an amendment …
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Strong showing in anti-earmark vote  —  Thirty-nine senators voted Tuesday in support of a three year moratorium on appropriations earmarks, the strongest showing ever by opponents of the current process and a potential game changer in the year-end budget debate.
Discussion: The Note and National Review
Washington Post:
WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act  —  Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday.
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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 …
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Tea Party Nationalism:
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blogs.forbes.com:
Andy Greenberg  —  When will WikiLeaks return to its older model of more frequent leaks of smaller amounts of material?  —  If you look at the average number of documents we're releasing, we're vastly exceeding what we did last year.  These are huge datasets.  So it's actually very efficient for us to do that.
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Patty Murray to be DSCC Chair  —  Washington State Sen. Patty Murray will be the next chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.  AP Photo/Ted S. Warren  —  Washington State Sen. Patty Murray is expected to accept the chairmanship of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee today …
Federal Eye:
'Don't ask, don't tell' report: Little risk to enlisting gays  —  The Pentagon's long-awaited report on gays in the military concludes that repealing the 17-year-old “don't ask, don't tell” law would present only a low risk to the armed forces' ability to carry out their mission …
Discussion: National Review
Steve Kornacki / Capital New York:
Steve Solarz (1940-2010) and the making of Senator Schumer  —  Photo by LIFE magazine.  —  The initial obituaries for Stephen Solarz, the former nine-term congressman from Brooklyn who died of esophageal cancer at the age of 70 on Monday, do not even mention the name Chuck Schumer.
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Solarz, Ex-Congressman, Dies at 70
Discussion: Tablet Magazine and Mondoweiss
Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Suspect in sex assault case won pardon in 2008  —  Cleared by a panel that included Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Jeremy Giefer is now accused of assaulting a second girl hundreds of times before and after he received his pardon.  —  Two years ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and two other officials pardoned Jeremy Giefer …
Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Has NASA discovered extraterrestrial life?  —  Here's a curious press release from NASA: … I did a little research on the news conference participants and found:  —  1. Pamela Conrad (a geobiologist) was the primary author of a 2009 paper on geology and life on Mars
Discussion: Gawker, Engadget and Suburban Guerrilla
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Chris Lawrence / CNN:
Source: 'Don't ask' repeal OK for most  —  Washington (CNN) — A majority of U.S. service members surveyed do not care if the law banning openly gay and lesbian troops from serving is repealed, according to a source knowledgeable with the results of the Pentagon study.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Celebrating Secession Without the Slaves  —  ATLANTA — The Civil War, the most wrenching and bloody episode in American history, may not seem like much of a cause for celebration, especially in the South.  —  And yet, as the 150th anniversary of the four-year conflict gets under way …
Julie Zhuo / New York Times:
Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt  —  THERE you are, peacefully reading an article or watching a video on the Internet.  You finish, find it thought-provoking, and scroll down to the comments section to see what other people thought.  And there, lurking among dozens of well-intentioned opinions, is a troll.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Arkansas Blog
Yglesias:
Triangles Are Two Dimensional  —  Something that I think should be understood about the idea of “triangulating” via a proposal to freeze federal salary is that triangles are two dimensional objects.  To triangulate properly you can't simply occupy a point between where the left and right poles are, you need to also move off the line.
Discussion: TalkLeft
 
 
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With Kirk's swearing-in, GOP formally claims Obama's old seat
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