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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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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


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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Jim DeMint backs down on demand to read START
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Wonk Room, The Hill, Washington Wire, The Reaction, CNN and Wall Street Journal

The Christmas Session — Jon Kyl, rather preposterously …
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NationalJournal.com, The New Republic, Indecision Forever, A plain blog about politics, TPMDC and The Caucus

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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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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House Approves DADT Repeal, Gohmert Warns Of ‘End Of Existence’
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House passes 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal
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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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Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage
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Fox editor urged climate skepticism
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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 …
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U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks
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Michael Moore's Comments on Julian Assange Rape Allegations Spark Outrage — Filmmaker Michael Moore is in hot water over comments he made during Tuesday night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In discussing rape allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Moore appeared to dismiss …
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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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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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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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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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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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Video: Obama Slams Earmarks in 2009 Omnibus Bill, Demands Change
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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

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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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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This is What a School-Board-Meeting-Shooter's Facebook Page Looks Like
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Redistribution on steroids — Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark — When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics. — In the midst of a colossal global concern for the economic stability of our great nation, Emanuel Cleaver …
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Tea Party leader slams John Boehner for Michele Bachmann snub — A leader of the Tea Party Patriots questioned the judgment of House GOP leadership Wednesday for passing over Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for a spot on the Ways and Means Committee. — The conflict is evidence …
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Updating Hotline's RNC Chairman's Race Whip Count — Republican National Committee members now have a total of six candidates from which to choose as they contemplate their next chairman. And, slowly, the 168 members of the committee are making their decisions public.

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 …

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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Broad Support for Military Service by Gays — Seventy-seven percent of Americans support allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military, the most in polling back 17 years, capping a dramatic long-term shift in public attitudes on the issue.
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BP suffered blowout on Azerbaijan gas platform, WikiLeaks cables reveal — Embassy cables reveal energy firm ‘fortunate’ to have evacuated workers safely after blast similar to Deepwater Horizon disaster — Striking resemblances between BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster and a little-reported giant gas leak …
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Raw Story and Hullabaloo