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12:45 PM ET, December 3, 2010

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Washington Post:
Obama, GOP in quiet talks to extend tax cuts  —  The White House and congressional Republicans have begun working behind the scenes toward a broad deal that would prevent taxes from going up for virtually every U.S. family and authorize billions of dollars in fresh spending to bolster the economy.
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
CBS News Poll: Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  Republicans have argued that the midterm elections have given them a mandate on what they are calling one of the most …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Frank: White House ‘gravely mistaken’ in tax cut strategy
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Republicans attack over new job numbers
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
House Dems Pass Only Middle Class Tax Cut Bill
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Disappointing Job Growth in U.S. as Jobless Rate Hits 9.8%  —  In a significant setback to the recovery and market expectations, the United States economy added just 39,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
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Ezra Klein:
An ugly jobs report  —  The November jobs report is ugly.  Last month, the jobs report showed the economy added 150,000 jobs, sparking hopes that recovery was underway.  And the recent economic data had been good: Black Friday saw a lot of shoppers, and initial unemployment claims had been going down.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AWFUL MONTHLY JOBS REPORT SHOULD WAKE UP WASHINGTON.... I noticed McClatchy ran a story overnight with a headline that read, “Friday's November jobs report expected to be rosy.”  The headline was wrong — the report is genuinely awful.  —  After seeing an encouraging trend through the fall …
Bristol Palin / Facebook:
Mr. Olbermann—Sorry We Can't All Be As Perfect As You  —  Recently, a left wing commentator named Keith Olbermann attacked me for being a spokesperson for abstinence education and for being an Ambassador for the Candies Foundation, which promotes teen pregnancy awareness and prevention education.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Rangel: I don't deal in average American citizens  —  One might have thought, given all of the handwringing from Capitol Hill last night over the horrors of censuring, that Charlie Rangel would have learned a little humility from the process.  For instance, on CNN moments after Nancy Pelosi read aloud …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
14 Dems want deficit action despite failed fiscal commission vote  —  A group of 14 Democrats pressed for a congressional action to address the deficit despite a failure by President Obama's fiscal commission to achieve enough votes to send its austerity plan to Congress for a vote.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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Ezra Klein:
The fiscal commission succeeded — sort of
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Mystery of John McCain  —  I have been on the road, got home late tonight (while my wife is traveling elsewhere), and amused myself with.... the C-SPAN rebroadcast of today's Don't Ask Don't Tell Senate hearings.  Yes, this is exciting life for a member of The Atlantic's team.
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ABCNEWS:
President Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Afghanistan, Sources Tell ABC News  —  Visit Comes Amid Backdrop of Wikileaks Report Highlighting Afghan Corruption  —  President Obama is in Afghanistan on a surprise visit, sources told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.  —  Obama's surprise trip comes …
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Hillary Clinton: State is ‘last’ public post  —  Hillary Clinton says, ‘I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.’  —  Secretary of state will be Hillary Clinton's “last public position,” she said Friday, yet again tamping down speculation that she's plotting …
Discussion: CNN
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Reuters:
Hillary Clinton says she in her last public job
Discussion: The Hill and New York Magazine
Washington Times:
Wave goodbye to Internet freedom  —  FCC crosses the Rubicon into online regulation  —  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries.  The agency's chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
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Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:   Time to Shut Down the FCC  —  More transistors exist today …
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients  —  PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.
Discussion: Gawker
James K. Galbraith / The Huffington Post:
Casting Light on “The Moment of Truth”  —  What's Your Reaction:  —  The report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, issued on December 1, 2010 by Chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, is entitled “The Moment of Truth.”  The words appear in block caps on the second page, weighty and portentous.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Mind in Motion  —  Going through one of Martin Luther King's assessments of Black Power, and I came across this quote: … King doesn't retreat from his ultimate belief that Black Power is a “nihilistic philosophy.”  But what I love here is that there's actual movement in King's writing …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Guardian:
Julian Assange answers your questions  —  The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers' questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables  —  Fwoggie … Julian Assange:  —  I am an Australian citizen and I miss my country a great deal.
Roger Highfield / Telegraph:
Are we freezing because of global warming?  —  Climate change could bring Britain ever more extreme weather, says Roger Highfield.  —  As a blanket of snow settles across the country, train services grind to a halt and roads become impassable, you could be forgiven for thinking that global warming seems more remote than ever.
Discussion: YID With LID and Right Wing News
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Tax Reform Vision  —  I have a vision.  —  Sometime over the next couple of weeks, President Obama issues a statement that reads: “Over the past several months, Republicans and Democrats have been fighting over what to do with the Bush tax cuts.  I have my own views …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real Time  —  Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows.
Julian E. Barnes / Washington Wire:
Military Chiefs Parade Disagreements Over Don't Ask, Don't Tell  —  Military leaders paraded their differences over whether gays should serve openly in the military during a Senate hearing Friday.  —  The chiefs of the military services most directly involved in the Afghanistan war voiced opposition …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
WHITE HOUSE SPEECHWRITER WINS COMEDY PRIZE  —  Sparked by an impeccable impersonation of Arianna Huffington, White House speechwriter Jon Lovett took home the top honors at Washington's annual “Funniest Celebrity” competition Thursday night.  —  “Sarah Palin as the next president of the United States?” asked Lovett.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Lbentzterp / CNN:
An Unscripted Moment on Palin's book tour  —  Spirit Lake, Iowa (CNN) - It was an unscripted moment on Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new book, “America by Heart.”  As hundreds of Palin's fans filed inside a cordoned off area of a northern Iowa Walmart today, this CNN crew popped …
Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
Helen Thomas is At it Again-Says Those Rich Jews Control America  —  Proving once again that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, former White House Correspondent Helen Thomas told an anti-Arab-Bias workshop in Dearborn Michigan that she absolutely stands by her ugly comments about Jews …
Washington Post:
House ethics probe to investigate whether Finance committee withheld records  —  House ethics investigators have begun a probe into why the powerful House Financial Services Committee did not fully comply with its promise to turn over all documents pertinent to an investigation …
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Paul Ryan, Arthur Brooks, and David Brooks Debate Big Government  —  A fascinating exchange at AEI.  —  David Brooks and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin had a great debate at AEI today over the proper size and scope of federal government.  The debate originated with a WSJ op-ed that Ryan and AEI's president …
 
 
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Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Women's bathroom in House: $200K
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For the Record...  I really wonder what's happening, subjectively …
Jessica Taylor / The Politico:
Nikki Haley will make presidential endorsement in 2012
Discussion: GOP 12
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Gingrich PAC raises $314K; second behind Palin's PAC
Discussion: GOP 12
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The culture of conspiracy, the conspiracy of culture
Gordon Lubold / The Politico:
Marines, Air Force don't endorse 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal
Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay and Open Left
The Huffington Post:
Swing And A Miss: McCain's Misguided Attack On 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Survey
 Earlier Items: 
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: A bad jobs report
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Fiscal Time Bomb
Business Week:
Monetary Policy: Fed Critic Ron Paul's Power Play
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Wikileaks' Domain Gets ‘Killed’
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Washington is why the economy is not growing
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Justice Unbound  —  Watching the post-retirement emergence …
Discussion: Althouse