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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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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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The Politico:
Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
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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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Watts Up With That?, 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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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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Jamie Dupree / Jamie Dupree Washington Insider:
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
Those Pesky GOP Earmarks
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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
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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
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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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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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 …
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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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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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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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Ethics panel extending probe of three lawmakers into the next Congress — The ethics committee has extended an investigation into the fundraising of three members in connection to their votes on the financial regulation law. — Ethics committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) …
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Obama down but not out — NBC/WSJ survey shows president leading in 2012 match-ups — Below: — Deputy Political Director — After his party's midterm losses and with the unemployment rate still hovering around 10 percent, President Barack Obama might be down.
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Jamie Dupree / Jamie Dupree Washington Insider:
The Omnibus Arrives — I have been talking about it for weeks, and yesterday it was finally released. A 1,924 page behemoth known in the lexicon of Capitol Hill as the “Omnibus” budget bill, chock full of thousands of home state budget earmarks. — Even though it was championed by Democrats …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
START Passage Looks Dead for 2010 — In what looks like a decisive blow, at least eight Republican senators - including some the White House was counting on - will announce this afternoon they cannot vote to ratify President Barack Obama's New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia this year.
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