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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
DeMint will force readings of START Treaty and omnibus bill — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will force readings of both a nuclear arms treaty and $1.1 trillion spending bill that could eat up hours of the remaining lame-duck Congress. — DeMint will invoke a senatorial privilege to ask …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
DeMint calls votes before Christmas ‘sacrilegious’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) called Democrats' push to force through an arms control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas “sacrilegious,” and warned he'd draw the process out to wage his objections.
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Wall Street Journal:
Harry Reid's Holiday Jam — What the Senate wants to pass while you're not paying attention. — In the famous formulation often attributed to George Washington, the U.S. Senate is the saucer designed to cool the drink before it becomes law. In Majority Leader Harry Reid's rush to beat …
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Rachel Slajda / TPMDC:
Reid Responds To Kyl: 'I Don't Need To Hear Sanctimonious Lectures' About Meaning Of X-Mas (VIDEO) — After Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) accused Majority Leader Harry Reid of grinchery for suggesting that the Senate work the week after Christmas, Reid blamed Kyl's party for the delay that may push votes past the holiday.
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Crooks and Liars and The Atlantic Online
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP leaders take heat over earmarks
Senate GOP leaders take heat over earmarks
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The Note, ABCNEWS and The Gateway Pundit
The Politico:
Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
START Passage Looks Dead for 2010
START Passage Looks Dead for 2010
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Weigel, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Eunomia and National Review
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Jim DeMint's office: Reading full START treaty is a delaying “tool”
Jim DeMint's office: Reading full START treaty is a delaying “tool”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Politico, Raw Story and TPMDC
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
McCain cools to ratifying New START this year
McCain cools to ratifying New START this year
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Washington Post, The Foundry and TPMDC
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science — In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an email questioning the “veracity of climate change data” and ordering the network's journalists to “refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed …
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Fox editor urged climate skepticism
Fox editor urged climate skepticism
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Al Gore / Al's Journal:
Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage
Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage
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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and Raw Story
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval Rating Worst in Gallup History — Thirteen percent approve of the way Congress is handling its job — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job.
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CNN:
House passes 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal — Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to overturn the ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers serving in the U.S. military, passing legislation repealing the controversial “don't ask, don't tell” policy.
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Reuters:
Tax-cut plan clears Senate easily — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to advance President Barack Obama's tax package to the House, where the $858 billion bill is expected to receive a final vote Thursday. — The Senate vote was 81-19, with 13 Democrats, five Republicans …
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The Politico and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Reuters:
Financial Crisis Panel In Turmoil As Republicans Defect; Plan To Blame Government For Crisis — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … The four Republicans appointed to the commission investigating the root causes of the financial crisis plan to bypass the bipartisan panel and release their own report Wednesday …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention — (updated below) — Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained …
Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze:
FL SCHOOL BOARD SHOOTER POSTED SUICIDE NOTE RAILING AGAINST THE RICH, LINKING TO MEDIA MATTERS — Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a “last testament” on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
This is What a School-Board-Meeting-Shooter's Facebook Page Looks Like
This is What a School-Board-Meeting-Shooter's Facebook Page Looks Like
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AOL News, The Other McCain, Hot Air and AmSpecBlog
Melissa Bell / BlogPost:
School board shooting: Ginger Littleton talks about the gunman (Video)
School board shooting: Ginger Littleton talks about the gunman (Video)
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Attention GOP Porkers: Hatch Had His Earmark Requests Stripped From Spending Bill — Republican Senators whose earmark requests pepper the much-maligned omnibus spending bill are having a really hard time explaining how they went from requesting earmarks earlier this year to decrying the legislation... because of all the earmarks.
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The Hill, National Review, Hot Air and Mediaite
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Video: Obama Slams Earmarks in 2009 Omnibus Bill, Demands Change
Video: Obama Slams Earmarks in 2009 Omnibus Bill, Demands Change
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Jamie Dupree / Jamie Dupree Washington Insider:
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
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TPMDC, Weigel, Open Congress and Washington Monthly
Lev Grossman / Time:
Mark Zuckerberg — On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Twitter Raises $200 Million at $3.7 Billion Valuation; Adds McCue and Rosenblatt to Board — Twitter has completed its latest round of funding-$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation-with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Bloomberg:
Goldman Execs to Get $111 Million in 2007, 2009 Bonuses — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein and his top deputies will collect about $111.3 million in stock next month in a delayed payoff from last year and their record-setting 2007 bonuses.
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Richard Florida / The Atlantic Online:
America's Most Walkable Cities — The great economic reset we are in the midst of extends even to Americans' choices of places to live. The popularity of sprawling auto-dependent suburbs is waning. A majority of Americans—six in 10—say they would prefer to live in walkable neighborhoods, in both cities and suburbs, if they could.
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Gothamist
Stacyx / secretaryclinton.wordpress.com:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's QDDR Town Hall *updated* — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's QDDR Town ..., posted with vodpod — The transcript: — UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Good morning, everyone. Before beginning this Secretary of State town hall meeting on the QDDR …
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The Huffington Post
Associated Press:
Iraq: Al Qaeda Planning Holiday Attacks in West — Iraqi Authorities Say Two Captured Insurgents Admit to Planned Suicide Attacks in U.S., Europe during Christmas Season — (AP) Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks …
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Mark Potok / Hatewatch:
SPLC Responds to Attack by FRC, Conservative Republicans — This morning, 22 members of Congress and a large number of other conservatives signed on to a public statement attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for listing several anti-gay religious right organizations as hate groups.
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Little Green Footballs, Weigel, TPMDC, Good As You and Right Wing Watch
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama in Lead for 2012 — President Barack Obama, should he choose to run for re-election, enters the 2012 presidential cycle in relatively good shape, especially considering the string of bad news that has buffeted his presidency. — According to the WSJ/NBC News poll out later today …