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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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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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neo-neocon, Truthdig, GayPatriot, The Reality-Based Community and 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
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Pro-immigration groups decry ‘shameful’ vote; enforcement groups vow new push — An anti-illegal immigration group said after Saturday's defeat of the DREAM Act in the Senate that “we look forward to moving aggressively to offense.” — “Now, the next Congress can start to put unemployed Americans …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SENATE KILLS ‘DREAM ACT’.... It should have been an easy one. — Every year, tens of thousands of young illegal immigrants graduate from American high schools, but are quickly stuck — they can't qualify for college aid, and they can't work legally. America is the only home they've ever known …
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Bill to Grant Legal Status to Immigrant Students Heads to a Vote in the Senate
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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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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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ABCNEWS, The Politico, The Note, The Hill, Hot Air, White House.gov Blog Feed, Weasel Zippers and National Review
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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The Moderate Voice and TPMDC
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Advances In Senate — Final Vote Likely This Weekend — The Senate took a big step toward ending the military's ban on openly gay servicemembers today. By a vote of 63 to 33, the Senate voted to end debate on a bill repealing the military's Don't Ask …
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Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Clears Major Senate Hurdle
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CNN:
Senate to hold final vote on 'don't ask, don't tell,' DREAM Act fails
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Senate advances bill to lift military gay ban
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GayPatriot and The Other McCain
Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Don't ask, don't tell' bill clears Senate procedural vote
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Washington Post, PostPartisan, DownWithTyranny!, The Gateway Pundit, USA Today and CNSNews
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, Harry's Place, Guardian and Liberal Values
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
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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Outside the Beltway, neo-neocon, Althouse, Federal Eye and Washington Monthly
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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Gawker, Main page collection, The Reaction, ECHIDNE of the snakes, CANNONFIRE, Runnin' Scared, The Confluence, Threat Level and Hot Air
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
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 …
CNN:
‘Good meeting’ in North Korea — 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 — part of a series of meetings on a four-day trip aimed at easing tensions in the region.
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