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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 …
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The New Republic, Taegan Goddard's …, FrumForum, Hot Air and Saint Petersblog
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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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.
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The Note and National Review
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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Cato @ Liberty and Marathon Pundit
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Eight GOP senators vote to keep earmarks
Eight GOP senators vote to keep earmarks
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Washington Monthly, Commentary, The Foundry and Balloon Juice
Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation:
Senate rejects earmark ban 39-56
Senate rejects earmark ban 39-56
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USA Today, Weasel Zippers, AmSpecBlog and FrumForum
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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Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Palin: Latest WikiLeak Is Obama's Fault
Palin: Latest WikiLeak Is Obama's Fault
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The Gateway Pundit, FrumForum and The Daily Caller
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence …
Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence …
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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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Politics Daily, Raw Story and Juanita Jean's
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Whack WikiLeaks — And there's a role for Congress.
Whack WikiLeaks — And there's a role for Congress.
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Jerusalem Post:
The WikiLeaks effect — Prominent pundits of Mideast affairs have argued Israel alone was pushing for military attack on Iran, WikiLeaks debunked these theories. — Talkbacks (5) — In recent years, prominent pundits of Middle East affairs such as Foreign Policy's Marc Lynch …
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The Nation
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Say, About That Old ‘Bush Lied’ …
Say, About That Old ‘Bush Lied’ …
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Foreign Policy and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Goldblog's Straw Man, Ctd
Goldblog's Straw Man, Ctd
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Salon and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Heather Hurlburt / The New Republic:
Why Wikileaks Is Bad for Progressive Foreign Policy
Why Wikileaks Is Bad for Progressive Foreign Policy
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The Impolitic, The Politico and FrumForum
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 …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tax fight pits Bush vs. Obama
Tax fight pits Bush vs. Obama
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The Politico, CNN, USA Today, Comments from Left Field and Prairie Weather
The Politico:
GOP leaders finally meet Obama
GOP leaders finally meet Obama
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The Atlantic Online, The Note, The Hill, Guardian, Federal Eye and New York Times
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Infoplease.com and The New Republic
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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 …
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The Plum Line, ATTACKERMAN, The Daily Dish and National Review
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 …
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NBC Chicago, Outside the Beltway, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Unfogged, Oliver Willis, The Atlantic Online, nancynall.com and First Draft
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Judge Reinhardt Is Obligated To Disqualify Himself from Prop 8 Appeal — Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the arch-activist selected to be one of the three members of the Ninth Circuit panel hearing the appeal in the Prop 8 case, is obligated to disqualify himself from participation in the case. — Why?
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Ed Whelan / National Review:
Bad Ninth Circuit Panel for Prop 8 Appeal
Bad Ninth Circuit Panel for Prop 8 Appeal
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Power Line, Box Turtle Bulletin, Good As You, Patterico's Pontifications and Joe. My. God.
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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Mother Jones, Democracy in America, Firedoglake, Gawker and Hullabaloo
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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.
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TalkLeft, The Awl and Arkansas Blog
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 …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Weigel and Oliver Willis
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
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Gawker, Engadget and Suburban Guerrilla
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 …
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Ben Smith's Blog and National Review
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Shadegg Scoffs At The Fact That Jobless Benefits Are A Benefit To The Economy: 'No, They're Not!' — Unless Congress acts today, unemployment benefits will expire for 2.5 million Americans, with unemployment above nine percent and five unemployed workers competing for every available job opening.
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Baltimore Sun, marketplace.publicradio.org, Booman Tribune and Wonk Room
Mark Whitehouse / Wall Street Journal:
Economists' Grail: A Post-Crash Model — Physicist Doyne Farmer thinks we should analyze the economy the way we do epidemics and traffic. — Psychoanalyst David Tuckett believes the key to markets' gyrations can be found in the works of Sigmund Freud. — Economist Roman Frydman thinks …
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The Big Picture, Paul Krugman and naked capitalism
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.
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TalkLeft
Digby / Hullabaloo:
With friends like these — When the only people who defend you are the Villagers, you know you're on the wong track — With Friends Like These ... I'm watching an exasperated John King on CNN right now visibly stunned that the liberals don't see the savvy genius of Obama's move to freeze Federal Workers' pay.
NewsMax.com:
Jeb Bush: Obama Should Take ‘A Three-Month Vacation’ — How can America cure its economic recession? — One solution, according to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is for President Barack Obama to “just chill” and take “a three-month vacation.” — In a wide-ranging interview …
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CNN and Ben Smith's Blog