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The Politico:
DREAM Act dies in Senate — The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn't pay off for immigration activists. — The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Weigel, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Blocks Bill for Illegal Immigrant Students — The Senate on Saturday blocked a bill that would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrant students who came to the United States as children, completed two years of college or military service and met other requirements including passing a criminal background check.
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Outside the Beltway
Andrea Nill / ThinkProgress:
As DREAM Act Fails, Graham Tells Undocumented Youth They Wasted Their Time — Today, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Fourty-one mostly Republican senators voted against a bill which would have provided young undocumented immigrants …
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The Hill and Left Coast Rebel
msnbc.com:
DREAM Act blocked in Senate — Carrie Dann writes: A measure that would have offered provisional legal status to some adults who came to America illegally as children failed to advance in a Senate vote Saturday. — Democratic backers of the legislation fell short of the 60 votes to move the DREAM Act legislation forward.
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, USA Today, Wake up America and Moe Lane
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Immigration Bill Fails in Senate Vote
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ABCNEWS, The Politico, CNN, NewsBusters.org blogs, America's Voice Blog and White House.gov Blog Feed
Amelia Hill / Guardian:
WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting ‘mythical’ healthcare system — Authorities feared footage of gleaming hospital in Michael Moore's Oscar-nominated film would provoke a popular backlash — Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” …
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Michael Moore / The Huffington Post:
¡Viva WikiLeaks! Sicko Was Not Banned in Cuba — What's Your Reaction: — Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with me and my film, Sicko. — It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats …
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Hot Air, Guardian and Harry's Place
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Advances — WASHINGTON — After a 17-year struggle, the Senate on Saturday cleared the way for repealing the Pentagon's ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military. — By a bipartisan vote of 63 to 33, the Senate acted to cut off debate …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Runnin' Scared and Outside the Beltway
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The Hill:
Senate breaks GOP filibuster, advances 'Don't ask' repeal — A proposal to repeal the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy cleared a major hurdle in Congress on Saturday when the Senate voted to end a GOP-led filibuster. — The Senate voted 63 to 33 to advance a stand-alone bill …
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The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Lieberman: Votes are There to Repeal “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”
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Examiner and Indecision Forever
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DADT Breaks Filibuster — The Senate just voted 63-33 to break the filibuster on the DADT repeal bill. — Late Update: Just so we're clear. This is not the passage of the actual DADT repeal bill. This is the vote that allows a straight majority vote, which will likely come tomorrow.
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TPMDC, The Moderate Voice, Wake up America and FrumForum
New York Times:
Newly Built Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain — YEBES, Spain — It is a measure of Spain's giddy construction excesses that 250 row houses carpet a hill near this tiny rural village about an hour by car outside of Madrid. — Most of these units have never sold, and though they were finished …
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Clusterstock, Mish's Global Economic … and Vox Popoli
Nick Davies / Guardian:
10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange — Unseen police documents provide the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder — Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault …
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AOL News, The Reaction, CANNONFIRE, The Confluence, Threat Level, Runnin' Scared and Hot Air
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — DREAM Act causes ugly breakup on left — Markos Moulitsas, the influential founder of the lefty website DailyKos, used to love Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Starting back in December 2004, when Moulitsas first praised Tester, then a farmer-turned-state-legislator …
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Explaining the Crisis With Dogma — What was that about? — I'm talking about that odd 13-page “report” issued on Wednesday by the four Republican members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The F.C.I.C., of course, is the 10-member, supposedly bipartisan panel that was created …
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Paul Krugman, JustOneMinute, Grasping Reality … and The Big Picture
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘MCWEASEL’ BLASTS 9/11 HEALTH BILL.... It's not enough for Senate Republicans to block a vote on the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Now, members like John McCain (R-Ariz.) are condemning Democratic efforts to even try to pass the bill. … Let's unpack this a bit, because I think it's important.
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NY Daily News, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Caucus
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Lame-duck sessions supposed to be a thing of the past, historians say — Here's the funny thing about this month's lame-duck session of Congress, in which frantic lawmakers have pinballed from tax cuts to “don't ask, don't tell” to a nuclear weapons treaty: — It's not supposed to exist.
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Althouse, Federal Eye and Washington Monthly
The Huffington Post:
House Republicans Block Child Marriage Prevention Act — What's Your Reaction: … WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the House took up the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010. The bill would ensure that child marriage is recognized as a human rights violation …
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Don Surber, ECHIDNE of the snakes, Brilliant at Breakfast, PostPartisan and Feministing
CNN:
Richardson presents proposals to North Korea aimed at easing crisis — Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN) — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson provided North Korea with a series of proposals Saturday in what he described as a “good meeting” with the country's chief nuclear negotiator …
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The Hill
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Molly Ball / The Politico:
John Bolton eyes 2012 presidential run — No, it's not just an attention-getting stunt. John Bolton is seriously considering running for president. — Bolton, the fiery, archconservative former United Nations ambassador, sees an opening in the 2012 Republican field.
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Gawker, FrumForum and Balloon Juice
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Make Julian Assange irrelevant — Julian Assange was insufferable as he left a London courthouse Thursday. — “During my time in solitary confinement in the bottom of a Victorian prison, I had time to reflect on the conditions of those people around the world also in solitary confinement …
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Salon, Prairie Weather and Firedoglake
Pwinn / CNSNews:
Napolitano Says DHS to Begin Battling Climate Change as Homeland Security Issue — (CNSNews.com) — At an all-day White House conference on “environmental justice,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects …
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Pajamas Media, Don Surber, Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Continue to Outnumber Moderates in 2010 — Long term, Republicans growing more conservative, Democrats more liberal — PRINCETON, NJ — The political composition of U.S. adults held fairly steady in 2010 compared with 2009. Conservatives remained the largest group, followed by moderates and then liberals.
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The Moderate Voice, New York Times, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News — News organizations can educate voters about public policy and economic conditions, but they can also misinform voters. As if to prove the point, a study released Friday found that “substantial levels of misinformation” …
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