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Obama Is Set to Shuffle His Staff — WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning the first major reorganization of his administration, preparing to shuffle several positions in the West Wing as he tries to fortify his political team for the realities of divided government and his own re-election.
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, DownWithTyranny! and New York Magazine
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's new start — Riding the lamest of ducks, President Obama just won the Triple Crown. He fulfilled (1) his most important economic priority, passage of Stimulus II, a.k.a. the tax cut deal (the perfect pre-re-election fiscal sugar high - the piper gets paid in 2013 and beyond); (2) …
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Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Christmas Eve Roundup — * It's good to see that Obama is so uninterested in the “triangulation” game that he's banned the word in the White House: … Triangulation just isn't Obama's style, and his scolding of liberals seems to be rooted in genuine frustration with them for disagreeing …
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George's Bottom Line and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Obama library fight pits Chicago vs. Honolulu — HONOLULU - As President Barack Obama prepares to battle with Republicans for a second term, another fight is already brewing: where to enshrine his legacy once he leaves office. — The effort to play host city to Obama's presidential library …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Humbug Express — Hey, has anyone noticed that “A Christmas Carol” is a dangerous leftist tract? — I mean, consider the scene, early in the book, where Ebenezer Scrooge rightly refuses to contribute to a poverty relief fund. “I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing,” he declares.
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NewsBusters.org blogs, EconLog, The Mahablog and Newshoggers.com
Jo Becker / New York Times:
U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations — Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found.
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The Hill, Reuters, Politics Daily, Commentary, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, FrumForum, Firedoglake and Fausta's Blog
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Biden sees ‘inevitability’ for gay marriage — Vice President Joseph Biden said in a television interview Friday that “there's an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage.” — The vice president, who backs civil unions but not same-sex marriage, weighed in on the issue …
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We misunderestimated him: Bush's memoir sells 2m copies in a month - nearly as many as Bill Clinton's sold in six years — For someone who mangled words on a regular basis, it's an impressive feat. — Former U.S. President George W Bush's memoir has sold an astonishing two million copies since …
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The Gateway Pundit and theblogprof
yosemite.epa.gov:
News Releases By Date — EPA Home - Newsroom - News Releases By Date - EPA to Set Modest Pace for Greenhouse Gas Standards / .... EPA to Set Modest Pace for Greenhouse Gas Standards / Agency stresses flexibility and public input in developing cost-effective and protective GHG standards for largest emitters
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Politics Daily and New York Times
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA vows to enforce curbs on emissions
EPA vows to enforce curbs on emissions
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AmSpecBlog, The Foundry and Post Carbon
Bryan Fischer / afa.net:
Whoops: homosexuals lose “get out of jail free” card — According to National Review Online, there may be a whole lot of homosexuals who just got an unpleasant surprise. With the repeal of the law prohibiting homosexual service in the United States military, they just lost their “get out of jail free” card.
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Never Yet Melted, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Truth Wins Out and Right Wing Watch
Jim Bergamo / KVUE-TV:
Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat down — Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights.
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Raw Story and Weasel Zippers
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God often surprises us, says Pope in BBC broadcast — The recording followed months of negotiations between the BBC and the Vatican — God is faithful to his promises but often surprises us by how he fulfils them, the Pope has said in his first BBC radio broadcast.
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Guardian, sisu and LewRockwell.com Blog
Luke Harding / Guardian:
It's all politics, claims Julian Assange — WikiLeaks founder says it would be ‘politically impossible’ for Britain to extradite him to the US — Julian Assange said today that it would be “politically impossible” for Britain to extradite him to the United States, and that the final word …
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Raw Story, Harry's Place and Mediaite
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Pryor, four other Ohio State football players receive five-game suspensions in 2011 — Terrelle Pryor and four of his Ohio State teammates will be suspended from the first five games of the 2011 season because of NCAA violations, the school and NCAA announced today.
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Cuba puts ‘imperialist’ US Wikileaks online — President Raul Castro says the cables show the US still acts as the “world's policeman” — Cuba says it will publish on the internet more than 2,000 US diplomatic cables released by the website Wikileaks. — The aim is to highlight US …
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The Nation and Outside the Beltway
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Would global warming be so bad? — Guest blogger Stefan Karlsson presents his take on global warming, more often called ‘global climate change.’ — What has always troubled me the most with the view that we needs to stop “climate change” in the form of “global warming” is the idea that it would be bad if the Earth became warmer.
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Althouse
The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin Uses Info Gleaned From ‘Treasonous’ WikiLeaks To Pen Op-Ed On Dangers Of Iran — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Sarah Palin sought to build her foreign policy credentials on Tuesday, with a new op-ed arguing that the Obama administration needs to “toughen up” on Iran based on information …
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Napolitano Scolds Reporter for Airing Complaints of Dead Border Agent's Family — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, leaving the funeral of a murdered Border Patrol agent Wednesday, scolded a reporter for asking her to address the victim's family's concerns that not enough is being done to secure the southern border.
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Experts Citing Rising Hopes for Recovery in Coming Year — WASHINGTON — Eighteen months after the recession officially ended, the government's latest measures to bolster the economy have led many forecasters and policy makers to express new optimism that the recovery will gain substantial momentum in 2011.
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Washington Monthly and JustOneMinute
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Why Republicans Gave In — One X-factor in the Dems' run of lame duck wins was the GOP. They didn't exactly make it easy for Dems to do stuff...but they could've made it harder. Much harder. They ceded back hours of time; they handed Dems the food-safety bill after Dems basically botched it …
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Hullabaloo and The BRAD BLOG