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New York Times:
Bush Tax-Cut Deal With Jobless Aid Said to Be Near — WASHINGTON — White House officials and Congressional Republicans said Sunday they were closing in on a deal to temporarily continue the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels, while bitterly frustrated Democratic Congressional leaders …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich: Let Rich People Decide How Long Their Tax Cuts Last
Gingrich: Let Rich People Decide How Long Their Tax Cuts Last
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Joseph Berger / New York Times:
G.O.P. Leader Sees Outline of Tax Deal
G.O.P. Leader Sees Outline of Tax Deal
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Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Signals Openness to a Tax-Cut Deal
Obama Signals Openness to a Tax-Cut Deal
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DownWithTyranny!, Taylor Marsh and The Atlantic Online
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Gingrich ‘more inclined’ to run in 2012
Gingrich ‘more inclined’ to run in 2012
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John Bolton / Guardian:
WikiLeaks cables: Barack Obama is a bigger danger — WikiLeaks harms the US. But the president's refusal to acknowledge the threats we face is a bigger danger — WikiLeaks has yet again flooded the internet with thousands of classified American documents, this time state department cables.
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Fox News:
WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant ‘Insurance’ File if Shut Down — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay. — One of the files identified this weekend …
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Nina Mandell / NY Daily News:
Hugo Chavez blames massive flooding on capitalism as 70,000 remain homeless in Venezuela — Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he knows what's been causing the floods that have killed 32 people in his country and left 70,000 homeless: “criminal capitalism.”
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Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
GOP: Doc fix can break health reform — Congressional Republicans are hoping to put Democrats in a no-win new year's jam: defund a big chunk of their health care overhaul or slash Medicare payments instead. — Despite rampant repeal rhetoric, Republicans have so far struggled to dismantle any part of health reform.
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New York Post:
Rangel in deeper with new ethics charge — Tweet — The Federal Election Commission is investigating a complaint that Rep. Charles Rangel improperly used his National Leadership PAC to fund his legal defense on ethics charges for which he was censured Thursday, The Post has learned.
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
RNC General Counsel Quits — Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee's top legal counsel, resigned his position early Sunday morning, The Hotline has learned, a move that will be widely interpreted as a major step toward running for chairman of the organization and a big blow to current chairman Michael Steele.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Senate Republican to push states' rights in response to healthcare law — A Republican senator is planning on introducing legislation this week that would allow state officials to challenge federal regulations before they go into effect. — Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) …
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque — IRVINE, CALIF. - Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys.
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John Pomfret / Washington Post:
U.S. steps up pressure on China to rein in N. Korea — The United States has stepped up diplomatic pressure on China by accusing its leaders of “enabling” North Korea to start a uranium-enrichment program and to launch attacks on South Korea, a senior U.S. administration official said this weekend.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Examiner Sunday Reflections by Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Obama presidency turns government up to 11 — President Obama's term so far has been compared to many fictional and non-fictional characters: Chauncey Gardener of “Being There” is frequently invoked, along with the self-invented charmer Don Draper from …
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Don Surber, Left Coast Rebel, Riehl World View and Classical Values
Claudia / iOwnTheWorld.com:
Lefties Hate Israel — Leading Leftist Website Urges Liberals Not to Donate to Israel's Fire Relief Fund — Maybe someday the Jews in America will wake up to the absolute hatred and hostility the left has for the State of Israel. — Fire in Israel Not Natural ... Terrorism?
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Michael J. Totten / Commentary:
The Myth of Jewish-Only Roads — Helen Thomas is at it again. — “I can call a president of the United States anything in the book,” she said at an anti-Arab-bias workshop in Detroit, “but I can't touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank. No American would tolerate that — white-only roads.”
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