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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 …
Reid Responds To Kyl: 'I Don't Need To Hear Sanctimonious Lectures …
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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
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 Politico, 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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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
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Fox editor urged climate skepticism
Fox editor urged climate skepticism
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The Daily Caller, NewsBusters.org blogs, Media Matters for America and The Other McCain
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 — 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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Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
House votes again to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' — House lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday to end the “don't ask, don't tell” law, giving new momentum to an effort backed by President Obama, Pentagon leaders and gay rights activists to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military this year.
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Fox News, Poliglot, Hot Air and Blue Virginia
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, Open Left and The Huffington Post
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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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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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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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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gopleader.gov and Right Turn
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 …
The Huffington Post:
Tom Harkin: ‘Fireworks’ And Shot At Filibuster Reform Coming Jan. 5 — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats will make a dramatic effort to reform the rules of the chamber when the next Congress begins, one of the body's primary filibuster-reform advocates said Wednesday morning.
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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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Clusterstock, Fortune, DealBook and Dealbreaker
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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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 and Vox Popoli
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 …
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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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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The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers