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Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
Sen. Corker Threatens Reid: If You Bring DADT Repeal For A Vote, We'll Walk Away From START — This afternoon, as momentum began to build for repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) threatened that if Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) brings up a vote to repeal the ban …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP Senator to Dems: If you try to pass DADT, Republicans won't pass START — UPDATE, 4:11 p.m.: In an interview with me just now, Senator Bob Corker doubled down on his contention that if Dems move on DADT, Republicans will be less likely to support START.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama aims for second lame-duck victory with START treaty push
Obama aims for second lame-duck victory with START treaty push
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Lieberman: Votes are There to Repeal “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”
Lieberman: Votes are There to Repeal “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Republicans threaten to derail START
Republicans threaten to derail START
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell uncertain GOP can block New START, 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal
McConnell uncertain GOP can block New START, 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal
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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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Guardian:
US embassy cables: US castigates much-vaunted Cuban health system — C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 06 HAVANA 000103 — TAGS PGOV, PINR, PREL, ECON, AMED, SOCI, AMGT, CU — SUBJECT: CUBAN HEALTHCARE: “AQUI NADA ES FACIL” — Classified By: COM: Michael E. Parmly: For reasons 1.4 b/d
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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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Simon Vozick-Levinson / EW.com:
Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69 — Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, passed away today at age 69. A representative of New York City's Michael Werner Gallery, which showed his paintings, confirms the sad news to EW.
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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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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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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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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” …
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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Declan Walsh / Guardian:
CIA chief identified in drone trial — Jonathan Banks, station chief In Islamabad, back in US after calls for him to be charged with murder over drone attack — The CIA has pulled its station chief from Islamabad, one of America's most important spy posts, after his cover was blown …
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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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Ezra Klein:
Republicans embrace ObamaCare, call it Ryan-Rivlin — If you're looking for a description of the Ryan/Rivlin Medicare reforms that have gained so many admirers on the right, Matt Yglesias has a good write-up of the idea. But I'd add another way of explaining the proposal: The Ryan-Rivlin plan basically turns Medicare into Obamacare.
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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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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
How Mitch McConnell Convinced Republicans To Derail Dems' Spending Plan — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell approached the microphones for his weekly press conference on Tuesday with more sense of purpose than he's had since he tried — but failed — to derail the health care law in March.
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BBC:
US envoy Bill Richardson warns of Korea tinderbox — An unofficial US envoy visiting North Korea has warned that the situation on the peninsula is a “tinderbox”. — The envoy, Bill Richardson, made the comments after talks with officials in Pyongyang, whom he asked to exercise “extreme restraint”.
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Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
House GOP: Bills will have to cite Constitution — Fulfilling one of their most prominent campaign promises, House Republican leaders have unveiled a new rule to require that each bill filed in the House “cite its specific constitutional authority.” — And for those who may have skipped …
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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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Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary:
Palin's Got Bigger Problems Than Charles Krauthammer — Last night on Bill O'Reilly's show, the FOX News host asked Sarah Palin what she thought about columnist Charles Krauthammer's observation that the former Alaska governor's reality TV show, in which she hangs out with fellow TLC network …
The Politico:
Obama signs tax-cut bill in White House ceremony — President Barack Obama celebrated the spirit of compromise Friday as he signed a controversial $858 billion tax-cut and unemployment insurance extension into law — but warned that bipartisan comity could be fleeting.
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