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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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Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Palin: Latest WikiLeak Is Obama's Fault
Palin: Latest WikiLeak Is Obama's Fault
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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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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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Tax fight pits Bush vs. Obama
Tax fight pits Bush vs. Obama
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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 …
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The Politico:
GOP pushed pay freeze months ago
GOP pushed pay freeze months ago
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Everyone Hates Obama's Pay Freeze Plan... Except Republicans
Everyone Hates Obama's Pay Freeze Plan... Except Republicans
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Philip Klein / AmSpecBlog:
The Federal Pay Freeze, In Context
The Federal Pay Freeze, In Context
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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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Jack Shafer / Slate:
The leaked cables make it impossible for Hillary Clinton to continue as secretary of state. … Like This Story Follow Slate's Press Box … - How Post-9/11 Information Sharing Has Made Leaking Government Secrets Easier- What Happened to All That Republican In-Fighting the Tea Party Was Supposed To Cause?
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.
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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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Mother Jones, Democracy in America, Firedoglake, Gawker and Hullabaloo
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Reuters:
WikiLeaks plans to release a U.S. bank's documents
WikiLeaks plans to release a U.S. bank's documents
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No More Mister Nice Blog, nancynall.com and Newshoggers.com
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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Jsimoncnn / CNN:
Source: Most service members surveyed don't care about DADT repeal — By: CNN Pentagon Correspondent Chris Lawrence — 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 …
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Pentagon study: Gays could serve with no harm
Pentagon study: Gays could serve with no harm
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Heather Hurlburt / The New Republic:
Why Wikileaks Is Bad for Progressive Foreign Policy — Will the latest Wikileaks dump really matter that much? — It's true, as both Laura Rozen and Kevin Drum have observed, that many of the secret messages don't seem to reveal big secrets. As Rozen wrote yesterday:
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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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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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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.
Penny Nance / Concerned Women Blog:
SPLC “Logic” Turns Majority of African-Americans into Haters — Concerned Women for America, among several other pro-family, pro-life national groups, has been named a “hate group” by The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) because of our opposition to same-sex “marriage.”
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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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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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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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Agence France Presse:
China ‘scared to death’ of Pelosi: leaked cable — WASHINGTON (AFP) - China was “scared to death” over a visit by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is outspoken on human rights, and rejected her request to visit to Tibet, according to files leaked Monday. — A top diplomat at the US embassy …
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Ben Smith's Blog and AMERICAblog News
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Say, About That Old ‘Bush Lied’ Trope, Looks Like Wikileaks Proved Obama Repeatedly Lied About Middle East Policy — Runner-up headline: Obama lied, diplomacy died — Anyone remember that exactly one year ago President Obama's original deadline for Iran expired?
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aina.org:
Egyptian Security Used Live Ammunition on Christian Coptic Protesters, 4 Killed — (AINA) — Christian Copts worldwide were shocked and enraged at the use of live ammunition by Egyptian state security forces against unarmed Coptic protesters, causing the death of three Coptic young men.
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Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs