Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Outside the Beltway, Wonkette, Taylor Marsh, Runnin' Scared and Truthdig
RELATED:
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Ben Smith's Blog, Weigel, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
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 …
Discussion:
Left Coast Rebel
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
DREAM Act cloture fails, 55-41 — Another day, another waste of time by desperate Democrats in the lame-duck session: … Daniel Foster at NRO did the head count: … In an update, Foster notes that Joe Manchin of West Virginia also opposed cloture. Like Lugar, Manchin has to stand for re-election in 2012.
Discussion:
The Hill, National Review and The Anchoress
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SENATE KILLS ‘DREAM ACT’.... It should have been an easy one.
SENATE KILLS ‘DREAM ACT’.... It should have been an easy one.
Discussion:
Bold Faith Type
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Pro-immigration groups decry ‘shameful’ vote; enforcement groups vow new push
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Bill to Grant Legal Status to Immigrant Students Heads to a Vote in the Senate
Bill to Grant Legal Status to Immigrant Students Heads to a Vote in the Senate
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, The Note, The Politico, NewsBusters.org blogs, CNN, America's Voice Blog and White House.gov Blog Feed
Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
Immigration End Game: DREAM Act Defeated in the Senate
msnbc.com:
DREAM Act blocked in Senate
DREAM Act blocked in Senate
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars, Gothamist, Weasel Zippers, USA Today, iOwnTheWorld.com, Wake up America, Associated Press and Moe Lane
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 …
Discussion:
The Politico, The Note, ABCNEWS, The Hill, Hot Air, White House.gov Blog Feed, Weasel Zippers and National Review
RELATED:
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Advances In Senate — Final Vote Likely This Weekend
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Advances In Senate — Final Vote Likely This Weekend
Discussion:
Pam's House Blend, Feministing, Blue Wave News, Wake up America, FrumForum and pandagon.net
CNN:
'Don't ask, don't tell' moves forward in Senate
'Don't ask, don't tell' moves forward in Senate
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway and Runnin' Scared
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Senate advances bill to lift military gay ban
Senate advances bill to lift military gay ban
Discussion:
GayPatriot and The Other McCain
Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Clears Major Senate Hurdle
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Clears Major Senate Hurdle
Discussion:
Balloon Juice
Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Don't ask, don't tell' bill clears Senate procedural vote
'Don't ask, don't tell' bill clears Senate procedural vote
Discussion:
Washington Post, PostPartisan, DownWithTyranny!, The Gateway Pundit, USA Today and CNSNews
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 …
Discussion:
Hot Air, Guardian, Harry's Place and Liberal Values
RELATED:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Manchin's whereabouts — Today's minor mystery was the location of newly-minted West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who missed key votes on the DREAM Act and the repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.” (He says he would have voted “no” on both.) — The Gazette reports:
Discussion:
The Huffington Post
RELATED:
Alison Knezevich / Squawk Box:
Manchin skips votes on DADT, DREAM Act
Manchin skips votes on DADT, DREAM Act
Discussion:
Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Whose Party Is It? — The far left is foaming at the mouth. — The near-apoplectic level of agita within the liberal screeching class over President Obama's tax-cut compromise has exposed a seismic crack in the Democratic monolith — outspoken liberal Democrats on one side and barely audible moderate Democrats on the other.
RELATED:
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Continue to Outnumber Moderates in 2010
Conservatives Continue to Outnumber Moderates in 2010
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys and Wake up America
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.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice and TPMDC
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 …
Discussion:
Clusterstock, Vox Popoli and Mish's Global Economic …
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.
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, neo-neocon, Althouse, Federal Eye and Washington Monthly
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 …
Discussion:
Paul Krugman, JustOneMinute, Grasping Reality … and The Big Picture
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 …
Discussion:
Gawker, Runnin' Scared, AOL News, The Reaction, ECHIDNE of the snakes, The Other McCain, CANNONFIRE, The Confluence, Threat Level and Hot Air
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 …
Discussion:
Don Surber and Brilliant at Breakfast
RELATED:
Conor Williams / PostPartisan:
Child marriage bill UPDATE
Child marriage bill UPDATE
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, ECHIDNE of the snakes and Feministing