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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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Reuters:
WikiLeaks plans to release a U.S. bank's documents — (Reuters) - The founder of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, Forbes Magazine reported on Monday. — Julian Assange declined in an interview …
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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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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Sarah Palin blasts Obama administration for WikiLeaks ‘fiasco’ — Sarah Palin says the U.S. government's inability to stop the latest WikiLeaks release is all President Barack Obama's fault. — Sunday's document dump of classified State Department cables is the result of the …
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The Note, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonkette
DEBKAFile:
Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran's top Stuxnet expert — World Exclusive from DEBKAfile's intelligence sources: — Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks.
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Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Iran a focal point of documents — Sensitive diplomatic discussions on how to deal with Iran's nuclear program are among the more-than-250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables news organizations obtained from WikiLeaks and reported on Sunday. — But while there are some surprises …
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The New Republic, Guardian and Foreign Policy
Raymond Bonner / The Atlantic Online:
‘By Whatever Means Necessary’: Arab Leaders Want Iran Stopped
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Daily Mail:
Iranian nuclear scientist killed and another wounded in separate bomb attacks
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Hot Air and Daled Amos
Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post:
Iranian nuclear scientist killed, another injured in Tehran bombings
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PostPartisan, Threat Level, Gawker and New York Times
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Starr Report Of American Foreign Policy?
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Daily Beast
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Amid Deficit Fears, Obama Freezes Pay — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday announced a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers as he sought to address concerns over high annual deficits and appealed to Republicans to find a common approach to restoring the nation's economic and fiscal health.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Everyone Hates Obama's Pay Freeze Plan... Except Republicans — The early reviews of President Obama's plan to freeze federal worker pay are in — and it gets a resounding “F” from just about everybody outside of GOP leadership. — Michael Linden, a budget expert at the liberal Center …
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Scarecrow / Scarecrow's myFDL diary:
Obama Flunks Economics with Pointless Federal Wage Freeze
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Daily Kos, TalkLeft, New York Times and Economist's View
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Obama's Federal Worker Pay Freeze Was Blasted By Democrats Months Ago
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama to freeze federal worker pay, save $5 billion over two years
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Associated Press and Hit & Run
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Netflix Partner Says Comcast ‘Toll’ Threatens Online Video Delivery — Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
In Which I Become a Conservative — Ross Douthat, an Atlantic alumnus, contends in the NY Times that the recent controversy over “enhanced” TSA procedures illustrates the dominance of partisan reflex in today's politics. Liberals complained about excessive state power when Bush and Cheney were in charge …
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats warm to tax-cut compromise
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Witness Lies, the Court Shrugs and Veterans Are Outraged — Elven J. Swisher wore a replica of a Purple Heart on the witness stand when he testified that the defendant had tried to hire him to kill three federal officials. — Asked about the medal, Mr. Swisher pulled a document …
Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts — WARNING: This story contains graphic photographs of items on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans not impressed with Bloomberg — Massive amounts of attention have been given over the last few years to a possible Michael Bloomberg Presidential run in 2012. And a new PPP poll finds that he is indeed a unifier- Democrats, Republicans, and independents all don't like him.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Palin not seen as electable
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Outside the Beltway
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
China ‘ready to abandon North Korea’ — Leaked dispatches show Beijing is frustrated with military actions of ‘spoiled child’ and increasingly favours reunified Korea — China has signalled its readiness to accept Korean reunification and is privately distancing itself from the North Korean regime …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Times, Washington Post, Daniel W. Drezner, YID With LID, Hot Air, This Just In and CNN
Bloomberg:
U.S., EU Expect Limited Progress at Climate Talks, No Treaty — U.S. and European Union envoys said they expect progress on forming a $100 billion fund to fight global warming and on protecting forests at climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, though no treaty will be agreed.
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The Huffington Post and The Gateway Pundit
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CNN:
Justices turn aside another challenge over Obama's citizenship — Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.
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Crooks and Liars, FrumForum, Change of Subject, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Juanita Jean's
Debra J. Saunders / Townhall.com:
You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore's Mistake — In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: “First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake.” Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for ethanol subsidies. In 1994, then-Vice President Gore ended a 50-50 tie …
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Oklahoma's Ban on Using Shariah Law in Court — HOUSTON — An Oklahoma constitutional amendment aimed at stopping the use of Islamic law in its courts was dealt a serious blow on Monday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from putting it into effect.
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Atlas Shrugs
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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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Why Nothing Gets Done? Sen. Harry Reid Tells A 5-Minute College Football Story On Senate Floor — This weekend, the University of Nevada won a big upset against Boise State. It was an exciting upset and a great game between conference rivals. Why am I discussing this here and not over at SportsGrid?
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