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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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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, Gawker and The Atlantic Online
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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Washington Monthly, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Fox Nation, TPMDC and The Reality-Based Community
The Politico:
Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
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Wonk Room, CNN, democracyarsenal.org and iOwnTheWorld.com
Wall Street Journal:
Harry Reid's Holiday Jam
Harry Reid's Holiday Jam
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Right Turn, The Politico, National Review, protein wisdom and Betsy's Page
Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Christmas Session — Jon Kyl, rather preposterously …
The Christmas Session — Jon Kyl, rather preposterously …
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NationalJournal.com, The Caucus, TPMDC, The New Republic, Indecision Forever and A plain blog about politics
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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NewsBusters.org blogs, The Daily Caller and Media Matters for America
Al Gore / Al's Journal:
Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage
Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage
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Watts Up With That?, Don Surber and Weasel Zippers
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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National Review, Mediaite, The Hill and Hot Air
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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
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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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
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
House approves 'Don't ask' repeal, 250-175 — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military. — Lawmakers approved a standalone repeal bill by a vote of 250-175. Openly gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) gaveled the vote closed.
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CNN:
House passes 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal
House passes 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal
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Reuters, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Balloon Juice, Runnin' Scared and Michelle Malkin
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
House Approves DADT Repeal, Gohmert Warns Of ‘End Of Existence’
House Approves DADT Repeal, Gohmert Warns Of ‘End Of Existence’
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AMERICAblog Gay, Federal Eye and Open Left
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama tells lawmakers not passing tax deal could end presidency, Dem says — In urging lawmakers to vote for his tax deal, President Obama is using one of his go-to lines from the healthcare debate, according to a Democratic lawmaker. — Obama is telling members of Congress that failure …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Hullabaloo and Mish's Global Economic …
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 …
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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Fausta's Blog and Gothamist
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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Rortybomb, American Prospect, Firedoglake, Grasping Reality …, New York Times, Hullabaloo, The Informer, Wall Street Journal, TPMDC, ThinkProgress, Calculated Risk, Open Left, The Huffington Post, PERRspectives, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Sky Dancing, Washington Monthly, Economist's View, Guardian, Yglesias, Paul Krugman, The Politico and Ezra Klein
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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Fortune, The Atlantic Online, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Bits and L.A. Times Tech Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Napolitano to Arizona in wake of Border Patrol agent's killing — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is headed to Arizona on Thursday following a gun battle that killed a Border Patrol agent near the U.S.-Mexico border. — Agent Brian Terry was shot late Tuesday night on the U.S. side …
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Cubachi, JammieWearingFool and Liberty Pundits Blog
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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 Blaze and Sister Toldjah
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The 40 Best Conservative Blogs For 2010 (Version 4.0) — It's time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 4th quarter of 2010. — Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them …
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Conservatives4Palin.com
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.
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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Clusterstock, Fortune, DealBook and Dealbreaker
Dylan Ratigan / The Huffington Post:
Get America Working: We Need a Movement to Solve a Crisis — What's Your Reaction: — It's time, America. Americans need work. Americans need jobs. And right now, our government's main job must be to help create these jobs. The unemployment rate has lingered 9 percent for 19 straight months …
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Firedoglake and naked capitalism
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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Pajamas Media, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
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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Weigel, Little Green Footballs, Good As You, Right Wing Watch and TPMDC
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 …
Barton Gellman / Time:
Julian Assange — On Dec. 9, 2006, an unsolicited e-mail arrived for Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower of Vietnam War renown. The return address said only “WikiLeaks,” and the signature at bottom, “WL.” In the orotund prose of a manifesto, the message invited Ellsberg to become …
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Sady / Tiger Beatdown:
MooreandMe: On Progressives, Rape Apologism, and the Little Guy — So, here are some cheerful statistics for you: According to RAINN, about 60% of rapes aren't reported. In those cases, there's about a 51% chance that the 40% of reported rapes will have an arrest made. There's an 80% chance of prosecution.
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Mediaite, Feministe, Pat Dollard, Shakesville, The League of Ordinary … and Guardian
Vikram Dodd / Guardian:
Julian Assange bail decision made by UK authorities, not Sweden — Swedish prosecutor's office says it has ‘not got a view at all on bail’ and that Britain made decision to oppose it — The decision to have Julian Assange sent to a London jail and kept there was taken by the British authorities …