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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
Obama leads all Republicans
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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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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, National Review and Marathon Pundit
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, Sunlight Foundation, National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Eight GOP senators vote to keep earmarks — Eight Republican senators on Tuesday voted to preserve earmark spending despite pressure from the Tea Party movement. — Sens. Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), James Inhofe (Okla.), Dick Lugar (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) …
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The Politico:
GOP leaders finally meet Obama
GOP leaders finally meet Obama
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The Note, ABCNEWS, The Atlantic Online, The Hill, Guardian, Federal Eye and New York Times
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 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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Talking Points Memo, Wonk Room, ATTACKERMAN, AMERICAblog Gay and Shakesville
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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.
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The Daily Dish, Federal Eye and National Review
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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Raw Story, Politics Daily, The Impolitic 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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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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Steve / CBS New York:
WikiLeaks ‘Cablegate’ Site Hit By Powerful Cyber-Attack
WikiLeaks ‘Cablegate’ Site Hit By Powerful Cyber-Attack
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Gothamist and The Politico
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Fragile Community — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks …
The Fragile Community — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks …
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The Moderate Voice, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Firewall, Democracy in America, Commentary and The Nation
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Palin: Latest WikiLeak Is Obama's Fault
Palin: Latest WikiLeak Is Obama's Fault
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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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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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Newshoggers.com, FrumForum, The Politico and The Impolitic
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 …
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 …
David Dayen / news.firedoglake.com:
OFA Tries to Get Supporters to Write Letters to the Editor Praising a 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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Hot Air, The Politico and Swampland
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Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Senate passes sweeping food safety bill — The Senate on Tuesday approved the biggest overhaul to the nation's food safety laws since the 1930s. The 73-to-25 vote gives vast new authorities to the Food and Drug Administration, places new responsibilities on farmers and food companies …
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Politics Daily, Wonk Room and Overlawyered
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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, Outside the Beltway, 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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AmSpecBlog, Ben Smith's Blog, Weigel and Oliver Willis
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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Austrian Times:
Yodelling offends praying Muslims, say judges — An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report. — The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodelling offended his next-door Muslim neighbours.
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Moonbattery, iOwnTheWorld.com and Weasel Zippers
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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Timothy Karr / The Huffington Post:
Comcast Busted: New Tolls for Netflix Aren't All You Should Worry About — What's Your Reaction: — In the past 24 hours Comcast has been exposed committing blatant abuses of its power over all things media. — The New York Times reported last night that the cable giant has threatened …
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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 …
The Politico:
House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson asks staff for resignations — House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson has asked for the resignation of his entire staff, anticipating deep budget cuts as his party goes into the minority. — Larson, a Connecticut Democrat …
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
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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Power Line, The Volokh Conspiracy and Patterico's Pontifications
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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Paul Krugman, The Big Picture and naked capitalism