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Media Creates New Palin Scandal! Sarah Accused of Bringing Hairdresser on Haiti Trip — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin traveled to Haiti this weekend as a guest of the Rev. Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse to spotlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the earthquake and cholera-stricken Caribbean (half an) island nation.
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Ready for her close-up... Sarah Palin lands in Haiti (well, she wants to look just right for those poor cholera-stricken residents) — Clad in a simple grey T-shirt and cargo pants - but with her trademark hairstyle firmly in place - this is Sarah Palin touring a Haitian refugee camp.

Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How's My Hair? (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?) — What's Your Reaction: — If I find the fantastically clever Sarah Palin to be one of the shallowest and blatantly self-serving politicians, err, political celebrities I've ever seen …
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Patterico's Pontifications, Verum Serum and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion


In Tax Benefits to the Middle, Political Lift for Obama — WASHINGTON — With the Senate poised to hold a key vote on Monday on the tax cut deal between President Obama and Republicans, the political jousting has focused on what the agreement does for the wealthy by extending all of the Bush-era tax rates …
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Firedoglake, Time, Rortybomb, The Daily Dish, Daily Kos, Washington Post, USA Today, Marbury, The Democratic Daily and The Page
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Tax Deal Set to Pass Senate — Supporters Hope Expected Easy Victory Monday Will Build Momentum in House — Democrats are predicting that a much-debated tax agreement will clear a crucial hurdle comfortably in the Senate on Monday, with a margin that they hope will add momentum to the deal in the House.
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Firedoglake, Comments from Left Field, USA Today, CNN and The Hill

Out of Power Soon, and Out of Sorts Now
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RedState and Betsy's Page

Democrats Signal Tax Deal Will Pass House
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protein wisdom, Prairie Weather and Politics Daily


Government Unions vs. Taxpayers — The moral case for unions—protecting working families from exploitation—does not apply to public employment. — When Americans think of organized labor, they might think of images like I saw growing up in a blue-collar meatpacking town: hard hats, work boots, tough conditions and gritty jobs.
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The Politico, Ben Smith's Blog, The Hill, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air, GOP 12 and The Page


RNC Chairman Steele to Announce He Won't Run for Second Term — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is expected to announce he will drop out of the highly contested race to keep his post, sources told FoxNews.com on Sunday. — Fox News has confirmed Steele sent an e-mail …
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The Moderate Voice, Right Wing News, Weasel Zippers, Commentary, Raw Story and Ace of Spades HQ
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Decision Day for Michael Steele at RNC?
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Politics Daily, Wonkette, The Caucus, Clout St, Washington Post and TPMDC

Block Those Metaphors — Like it or not — and I don't — the Obama-McConnell tax-cut deal, with its mixture of very bad stuff and sort-of-kind-of good stuff, is likely to pass Congress. Then what? — The deal will, without question, give the economy a short-term boost.
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Ezra Klein, TalkLeft, National Review, Democratic Strategist, The Confluence, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog News


FAQ: Compromised Commenting Accounts on Gawker Media — This weekend we discovered that Gawker Media's servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. If you're a commenter on any of our sites, you probably have several questions.
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Mashable!, The Next Web, BlogPost, Making Light, Gothamist, Tea & Tech, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Wonkette, The Awl and Balloon Juice, more at Techmeme »
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Exclusive: ‘Gnosis’ Explains The Method And Reasoning Behind Gawker Media Hack
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ReadWriteWeb, Gawker, Felix Salmon, Runnin' Scared and PC Magazine, more at Mediagazer »


John Boehner: Obama disrespectful to me — John Boehner thinks President Barack Obama is “engaging” and “smart” — but the speaker-elect is also still smarting over the president's claim that he took taxpayers hostage to secure a tax break for the rich. — In an interview with Leslie Stahl of …
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Connecting.the.Dots, Guardian, Sky Dancing, BizzyBlog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Boehner Cries, Claims He Doesn't Go Tanning In 60 Minutes Interview (VIDEO)
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Talking Points Memo, Wonkette and Hullabaloo


Wall Street Sees Record Revenue in Recovery From Bailout — Wall Street's biggest banks, rebounding after a government bailout, are set to complete their best two years in investment banking and trading, buoyed by 2010 results likely to be the second-highest ever.
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Taegan Goddard's …
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Obama should not win reelection in 2012, say 45 percent in new poll
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Banning Big Wall Street Bonus Favored by 70% of Americans in National Poll
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Clusterstock


Rep. Ron Paul, G.O.P. Loner, Comes In From Cold — WASHINGTON — As virtually all of Washington was declaring WikiLeaks's disclosures of secret diplomatic cables an act of treason, Representative Ron Paul was applauding the organization for exposing the United States' “delusional foreign policy.”
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ThinkProgress, The Hill, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Daily Caller, Hair Balls and The Page


Sweden suicide bomber: Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly was living in Britain — An Islamic suicide bomber who attacked Christmas shoppers in Sweden at the weekend is a British university graduate and was living in this country until two weeks ago. — The suicide bomb in Stockholm is thought …
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The Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs, POWIP, Harry's Place, TalkLeft, The Other McCain and Michelle Malkin
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Federal Judge to Rule on Health Law's Constitutionality — A Virginia federal judge is expected to rule Monday on whether the Obama administration's health law violates the Constitution, opening a new stage in the administration's defense of its biggest legislative achievement.
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protein wisdom, Law Blog, The Foundry, RedState and The BLT

Incest — Given the recent news story about father-adult daughter incest, I thought I'd ask a few questions about adult-adult incest (speaking specifically of parent-child, grandparent-grandchild, or brother-sister, and setting aside cousins and the like): — (1) Should it be illegal, and, if so, exactly why?
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The Other McCain, Outside the Beltway and PoliPundit.com


Breyer: Founding Fathers Would Have Allowed Restrictions on Guns — If you look at the values and the historical record, you will see that the Founding Fathers never intended guns to go unregulated, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer contended Sunday. — Appearing on “Fox News Sunday …
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Hot Air, Right Wing News, RedState and Washington Post

Health Care Law — Support for Health Care Repeal Hits Highest Point Since September — Time doesn't seem to be winning the new national health care law any more friends. Most voters have favored repeal of the law every week since it was passed and support for repeal has now inched up to its highest level since mid-September.
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Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit