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WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.
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Howard Chua-Eoan / Time:
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tells TIME: Hillary Clinton ‘Should Resign’ — Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, “should resign.” Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel …
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
WikiLeaks Using Amazon Servers After Attack
WikiLeaks Using Amazon Servers After Attack
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Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:
Patriotic ‘Hacktivist’ Claims He Took Down Wikileaks Site
Patriotic ‘Hacktivist’ Claims He Took Down Wikileaks Site
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The Huffington Post:
Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch Centrist Civility Group — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — TV's Joe Scarborough, who today dismissed Sarah Palin as a symbol of “anti-intellectualism” with a “dopey dream” of being president, will help headline the launch next month …
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Joe Scarborough / The Politico:
GOP should take on Palin
GOP should take on Palin
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Cubachi:
Palin Derangement at MSNBC, or shall we call it MSPDS?
Palin Derangement at MSNBC, or shall we call it MSPDS?
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Liberty Pundits Blog, The Politico, NewsBusters.org blogs and Right Wing Nut House
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Palin Hauls in Nearly $500k In Just Over a Month
Palin Hauls in Nearly $500k In Just Over a Month
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CNN, The Note, Conservatives4Palin.com and The Page
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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Bruce Kesler / Maggie's Farm:
I'm A Gay Guy And A Veteran — I'm a gay guy, meaning I'm pretty carefree and happy, pretty tolerant, and not a homosexual. At the same time, I'm pretty focused and results-oriented, but not to an excess unfair to others. So, how do I react to the Pentagon's study of the effects of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
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Power Line and The Other McCain
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pentagon report will leave opponents of DADT repeal little to work with
Pentagon report will leave opponents of DADT repeal little to work with
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Judge upholds healthcare reform law — A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to the healthcare reform law, the second time the law's mandate that people buy insurance has been ruled constitutional. — The lawsuit was brought by Liberty University …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children
Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children
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Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Another Health Care Court Victory
Another Health Care Court Victory
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ThinkProgress and Swampland
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Cantor Urges ‘Open Mind’ On VA Legislature Plan To Blow Up The Constitution — Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is part of a class of Republicans who say they want to change the country fundamentally — and to that end, Cantor isn't dismissing a plan by legislators in his home state …
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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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AmSpecBlog, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and protein wisdom
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
GOP Reps Blast Smithsonian Exhibit Featuring Ant-Covered Jesus on Cross — An image with Jesus covered in ants from the video “A Fire in My Belly,” part of the ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. — UPDATE: In a statement released on Tuesday, Martin Sullivan …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
OFA Asks Supporters to Write a “Letter to the Editor” Praising 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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Jason Nark / Philly.com:
Family: New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally — EVERYTHING Brian Aitken was or had worked for was wiped away one winter afternoon after his mother called the police on him. — Separated from his wife, the entrepreneur and media consultant, now 27 …
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Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
Hot mic picks up discussion on Senate floor: 'It's all rigged' — A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.” — “It's all rigged.
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blogs.abcnews.com:
Retiring Congressman Loses Cool on House Floor — ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: — Rep. Steve Buyer, a retiring nine-term lawmaker Republican from Indiana, became a little heated on the House floor today as the chamber prepared to consider a bill out of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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The Note and American Power
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Here I am listening — for the first time — to Rush Limbaugh talking about me. — I've got the podcast of today's show, where he's reading from this blog post of mine: — And let me invite Rush to go on Bloggingheads.tv and diavlog with me about the so-called chickification problems that plague our world today.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Going deep on the Republicans — Our monthly look at the 2012 Republican Presidential field for November finds the same thing it it does every month- a very close four way race. This time around it's Sarah Palin at 21%, Newt Gingrich at 19%, Mitt Romney at 18%, and Mike Huckabee at 16%.
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, GOP 12, Ballot Box and Conservatives4Palin.com
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Stuff White People Like — The departure of the only black senator prompts a revealingly clueless commentary. — The U.S. Senate now has no black members. Illinois's Roland Burris, appointed to replace Barack Obama when the latter moved on to bigger if not necessarily better things …
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Fox Nation, Althouse, Questions and Observations and NBC Chicago
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
Steve King: Black Farmers' Settlement Is ‘Slavery Reparations’ (VIDEO) — The Senate last week finally approved the multi-billion-dollar funding for the Pigford II and Cobell settlements, which will allow the government to pay out claims to African-American farmers and American Indians …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Whack WikiLeaks — And there's a role for Congress. — Yesterday, Secretary of State Clinton called the disclosure of the WikiLeaks documents “an attack on America's foreign policy interests.” She and her colleagues in the Obama administration have proceeded, as they must …
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New York Times:
Senate Passes Sweeping Law on Food Safety — WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food safety system on Tuesday, after tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened thousands of people in the last few years and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.
Cooper Levey-Baker / Florida Independent:
Huckabee calls for execution of person who leaked diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks — Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday called for the execution of the person responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
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Mediaite, Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice and Right Wing Watch
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
‘Nicolas Sarkozy is thin-skinned and authoritarian’ — US embassy cables detail how staff and ministers fear ire of French president and warn of impact of personal lifestyle — Nicolas Sarkozy's advisers were so afraid of sparking his anger that they reportedly diverted his plane to avoid …
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