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New York Times:
Delaying Vote, Debt Panel Splits on Taxes and Spending — WASHINGTON — The chairmen of President Obama's debt-reduction commission have been unable to win support from any of the panel's elected officials for their proposed spending cuts and tax increases, underscoring the reluctance …
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Politics Daily, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, msnbc.com, Commentary, Taegan Goddard's …, National Review and Daily Kos
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Fiscal Commission Final Report — Get your fresh catfood! — FDL has obtained a copy of the Catfood Commission final report in advance of its official 9:30 release. — It can be downloaded here: PDF — Their reigning spirit of self-importance comes through on the very first page: “The Moment of Truth.”
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Commission's final deficit report preserves controversial spending cuts; panel to vote Friday on whether to endorse plan — The leaders of President Obama's fiscal commission released a final report Wednesday that is full of political dynamite, including sharp cuts in military spending …
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Firedoglake and Taylor Marsh
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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Guardian:
WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world — • Full coverage of the WikiLeaks cables — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world …
New York Times:
WikiLeaks Chief Is Put on Interpol List
WikiLeaks Chief Is Put on Interpol List
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interpol.int, The Reaction, Time, The Volokh Conspiracy, FrumForum and Gawker
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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Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Another Health Care Court Victory
Another Health Care Court Victory
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ThinkProgress and Swampland
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Is GOP Breaking Silence on Sarah Palin for President? — Among Potential GOP Contenders, Politeness Still Rules — When the television host and former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough published a scathing op-ed piece in Politico against Sarah Palin on Tuesday, he was not only trying to put a dent in her presidential ambitions.
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CNN, Ben Smith's Blog and The Politico
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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 …
John Stanton / Roll Call:
House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error — A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate's lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House.
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Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's …, The Volokh Conspiracy and National Review
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Associated Press:
Senate GOP letter calls for blocking most bills — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spending in the current postelection session of Congress, officials said Tuesday …
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Fox News, ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, AMERICAblog Gay, Political Punch, USA Today and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
In Tax Cuts, the Options Run Short — Democrats have left themselves in a tough spot on the Bush tax cuts. After delaying the issue until after the election and then being trounced in that election, they find themselves with little leverage. — If they cannot come up with a plan …
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Talking Points Memo, The Politico, TalkLeft, The Caucus, Unfogged and Prairie Weather
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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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Comments from Left Field, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and FrumForum
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
30 Most Dynamic Cities in the World — What is the most dynamic city in the post-recession world? — The surprising answer is Istanbul, according to a new report that shows the developing world is leading the way out of the Great Recession. — Grading each metropolis by the growth …
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Prairie Weather
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Brookings Institute:
Global MetroMonitor: The Path to Economic Recovery — Cities, Global Economics, Global Financial Crisis — Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Research Director, Metropolitan Policy Program — Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities — The Brookings Institution, London School of Economics and Political Science
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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The Other McCain, Power Line, National Review, PostPartisan and Hot Air
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The Official Home of the Department of Defense:
Mullen Endorses Working Group's Report
Mullen Endorses Working Group's Report
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
State seeks expedited ruling in Miller lawsuit — VOTE SUIT: Alaska risks being deprived of a senator, they say. — The state is asking a judge to decide a case over Alaska's still-disputed U.S. Senate race by next week. — In court papers, attorneys for the state seek a ruling by Dec. 9 due to …
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Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children — Perhaps you have to be familiar with New York politics to understand how truly bizarre this story is: 1199 is dropping its health care coverage for children. 1199 is the extraordinarily powerful local health care workers' union which has pushed …
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Michelle Malkin, RedState, Pundit & Pundette and Pajamas Media
David Catanese / The Politico:
Inaugural scoop: Steelman files for Senate — Former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman is expected to file the official paperwork Wednesday to run for U.S. Senate in 2012, POLITICO has learned. — Before filing as a candidate with the Secretary of the Senate this afternoon …
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Ballot Box
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Co-host spittin' mad over Spitzer — Tweet — Eliot Spitzer's TV sidekick is so fed up with playing second fiddle to the hooker-loving ex-gov that she's threatening to walk, sources told The Post yesterday. — Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker actually stormed off the set of the …
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Gawker and JammieWearingFool
Daniel E. Slotnik / City Room:
Catholics Fire Back in Christmas Billboard Battle — The latest salvo in the Christmas wars has landed, blocks from the New York entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel. — The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has responded to a a Christmas-debunking billboard sponsored by American Atheists …
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Pharyngula, News Hounds and Joe. My. God.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Chairman Outlines Broadband Framework — WASHINGTON — Thwarted by the courts, by lawmakers on Capitol Hill and by some of his fellow commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission chairman will try again on Wednesday to devise a new strategy for regulating broadband Internet service providers.
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The Huffington Post and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
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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RushLimbaugh.com and sisu
Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Crisis Widens — Italy, Spain See Bonds Sink, Portugal Faces Rating Cut as Faith in Rescue Ebbs — In Rome, students protesting spending cuts clashed with police — Investors dismissed European leaders' latest attempt to restore market calm, raising doubts about whether governments …
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New York Times and The Page
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
From WikiChina — While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn't help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect the cable would read like this:
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Betsy's Page, Guardian, National Review and China Digital Times
Jerusalem Post:
Bolton does not believe two-state solution is working — He also said the revealed Arab support also punctures the Obama administration's contention that progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was needed to help rally the Arab world's help on Iran.
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Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav