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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
President Obama Brings Bill Clinton In To Talk Tax Plan...And Then Leaves To Go To A Christmas Party! — “I've never seen anything like that,” said MSNBC's Cenk Uygur after cutting back following a press conference on the tax plan. It had begun with a surprise appearance by President Obama …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Bill Clinton Holds Forth on Tax Plan, for Starters — WASHINGTON — They have been foes and they have been, kind of, friends. And on Friday afternoon, President Obama and former President Bill Clinton walked unexpectedly into the White House briefing room for a news conference …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton takes the White House stage, again — If not a transfer of power, the whole show seemed at least a temporary handoff. An embattled president, fresh off an electoral shellacking and struggling to sell a controversial tax deal to members of his own party, turned to a former president who …
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Obama's losing support; Romney would beat him now
Poll: Obama's losing support; Romney would beat him now
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
The Surprise Trip to the Briefing Room
The Surprise Trip to the Briefing Room
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president again
Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president again
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Associated Press:
Add-ons turn tax cut bill into ‘Christmas tree’
Add-ons turn tax cut bill into ‘Christmas tree’
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Will Obama really end tax cuts for rich in 2012?
Will Obama really end tax cuts for rich in 2012?
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks — YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Richard M. Nixon made disparaging remarks about Jews, blacks, Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans in a series of extended conversations with top aides and his personal secretary, recorded in the Oval Office 16 months before he resigned as president.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Henry Kissinger to Soviet Jewry: Drop Dead — Okay, I don't usually blog on the Sabbath day (the Torah says Tweeting is okay, because it's so short), but I can't resist posting what I think might become Henry Kissinger's epitaph. This statement was captured on Richard's Nixon secret White …
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Palin-Hating Columbia Professor, Huffington Post Blogger, Busted for Incest — Let's begin with a flashback, shall we? In July 2009, when Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska, Columbia University professor David Epstein wrote at his Huffington Post blog: … Got that?
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Columbia Daily Spectator:
Professor David Epstein charged with incest with his daughter — Political science professor David Epstein was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with one count of incest in the third degree at an arraignment hearing on Thursday. — Political science professor David Epstein, 46 …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Huffington Post Blogger Charged With Incest
Huffington Post Blogger Charged With Incest
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Appointment Fight Divides Judges — Here is one for the “only in New Jersey” file: A state Supreme Court justice refuses to participate in any rulings because he objects to another jurist's serving temporarily on the court. — The dispute, aired in opinions released on Friday …
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Stymies New Jersey High Court — A mini-revolt broke out on the New Jersey Supreme Court Friday when an associate justice said he would abstain from all future decisions while a temporary justice is serving, leading top Democrats to call for the associate justice's resignation.
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Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:
Invaders from Mars — “Voting doesn't change anything — the politicians always win.” 'Twas not always so, but I'm hearing variations on that theme a lot these days, and not just in the UK. — Why do we feel so politically powerless? Why is the world so obviously going to hell in a handbasket?
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
With Filibuster, C-SPAN Has A Hit On Its Hands — Mr. Sanders has gone to C-SPAN. — Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, started speaking against the Obama administration's tax cut deal on Friday morning, in full view of C-SPAN2's cameras, and by lunchtime his old-fashioned filibuster …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bennett: GOP might pass own version of DREAM Act next year
Bennett: GOP might pass own version of DREAM Act next year
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CNN:
Mr. Sanders goes to Washington
Mr. Sanders goes to Washington
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New York Times:
Madoff's Elder Son Found Dead in Suicide — Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, in an apparent suicide on the second anniversary of the day his father was arrested for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.
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Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:
Bernie Sanders: In 2007, “the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income,” which is “more than the entire bottom 50 percent.” — Bernie Sanders, in viral speech, says top 1 percent earn more than 23 percent of U.S. income
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Arshad Mohammed / Reuters:
Diplomat Holbrooke in critical condition — (Reuters) - Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was in critical condition on Saturday after doctors performed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta, the State Department said.
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John R. Quain / Fox News:
Navy Sets World Record With Incredible, Sci-Fi Weapon — U.S. Navy engineers at the Office of Naval Research prepared and test-fired a slug from their rail gun in a 2008 test firing. On Friday, December 9, the ONR will attempt to break its own record. — A theoretical dream for decades …
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