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12:00 PM ET, December 28, 2010

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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Palin takes hit from the right for picking food fight with Michelle Obama  —  Sarah Palin has come under fire from the right for her attacks on the first lady's anti-obesity campaign.  —  The conservative opinion page of The Wall Street Journal, which frequently criticizes the White House …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
For Palin there's no place like home...in a bad way  —  It's a well known fact that Sarah Palin is the most unpopular major political figure in the country...one thing that may be less well known is that one of the states where voters have the dimmest view of her is her own home state of Alaska.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: CNN 2012 Poll: Obama and Palin going in different directions?  —  Washington (CNN) - As the start of the next presidential campaign nears, a new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama's tax-cut compromise with congressional Republicans did not hurt his standing among Democrats …
Discussion: GOP 12
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney sinks in Florida  —  When PPP first polled Florida Republicans in March about who they wanted as their 2012 nominee 52% of them picked Mitt Romney when given the choices of him, Mike Huckabee (who got 21%), and Sarah Palin (who received 18%).  —  When PPP next asked Florida Republicans …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Optimism for Obama Should Come With Caution  —  For as poorly as President Obama's Democrats performed on Nov. 2, you can find several assessments of his re-election chances that seem doggone optimistic.  —  The Washington Examiner's Michael Barone, in a careful analysis, suggests that Mr. Obama won't be easy to defeat.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Obama weighs in on Michael Vick, and other cultural issues  —  HONOLULU - President Obama doesn't seem to shy away from the divisive social and cultural topics that Americans are debating in their living rooms, gyms and workplaces.  —  He has spoken out about the responsibility of fathers …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The merger of journalists and government officials  —  The video of the CNN debate I did last night about WikiLeaks with former Bush Homeland Security Adviser (and CNN contributor) Fran Townsend and CNN anchor Jessica Yellin is posted below.  The way it proceeded was quite instructive …
Newsweek:
Obama and Income Inequality: No New Brazils!  —  We're going to be hearing a lot about income inequality over the next few years.  It may be an abstract concept, but it gets hits like Sarah Palin and attracts grant money like Cory Booker.  Tim Noah's series on the subject was (rightly) so popular he got a book contract out of it.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
GOP Turns To K Street Veterans To Help Unravel Health Care Law  —  House Republicans are turning to old friends on K Street to lead their legislative attempts to repeal the new health care law.  —  Three recently hired Republican aides — two set to work in senior positions on the powerful Energy …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Median Voter Supports The Affordable Care Act
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Lawmakers Finance Pet Projects Without Earmarks  —  WASHINGTON — No one was more critical than Representative Mark Steven Kirk when President Obama and the Democratic majority in the Congress sought passage last year of a $787 billion spending bill intended to stimulate the economy.
John Tierney / New York Times:
Economic Optimism?  Yes, I'll Take That Bet  —  Five years ago, Matthew R. Simmons and I bet $5,000.  It was a wager about the future of energy supplies — a Malthusian pessimist versus a Cornucopian optimist — and now the day of reckoning is nigh: Jan. 1, 2011.
Discussion: Hit & Run, AmSpecBlog and Instapundit
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Tests of ‘Roe’ more frequent since justices upheld late-term abortion ban in '07  —  LINCOLN, NEB. - Mike Flood, the 35-year-old speaker of Nebraska's legislature, had a problem: He wanted to stop the state's well-known abortion provider from offering late-term abortions.
Discussion: Althouse and Prairie Weather
Mark Mellinger / WANE-TV:
Daniels says debt could wreck America  —  Also explains “truce” comment … Mark Mellinger: “Many have said you [would] have a lot going against you if you were running for president.  And some obstacles you just can't help.  One is that you're short.”  —  Mitch Daniels: “I don't dispute it.
Daily Mail:
Top Gear stars cause religious row after dressing up in burkas on Boxing Day special  —  Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear co-stars have sparked religious outrage after dressing up in burkas on the Boxing Day special.  —  Clarkson and Richard Hammond decided to dress in niqabs …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Accounting Today:
GAO Sees Problems in Government's Financial Management  —  Like what you see?  Click here to sign up for Accounting Today's daily newsletter to get the latest news and behind the scenes commentary you won't find anywhere else.  —  “Even though significant progress has been made since …
Discussion: Commentary
Agence France Presse:
London is home to Hamas hub, says Israel  —  JERUSALEM — Israel's defence ministry has accused a London-based Palestinian centre of “terror-affiliated activities” and being the organisational arm of the militant Islamic Hamas movement in Europe.  —  Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Matt Friedman / NorthJersey.com:
N.J. lawmaker questions absence of Christie, lt. gov. during blizzard  —  Christie in on vacation with his family at Disney World in Florida, while Guadagno is with her family in Mexico, Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said.  —  “We clearly made a mistake if we created the office lieutenant governor …
Lee Ferran / ABCNEWS:
National Film Registry Adds 25 Films  —  National Film Registry Chooses 25 Films for 2010 Additions  —  It's official.  When, in hundreds of years, the future of humanity scours the U.S. Library of Congress for clues as to how primitively we lived back in the early 21st century …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and AmSpecBlog
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Data and the Reality  —  I keep hearing from the data zealots that holiday sales were impressive and the outlook for the economy in 2011 is not bad.  —  Maybe they've stumbled onto something in their windowless rooms.  Maybe the economy really is gathering steam.
Discussion: Shakesville
John O'Connor / The State:
Greene returns to politics  —  Surprise U.S. Senate primary winner enters S.C. House race  —  Former Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene is running for office again, this time an open S.C. House seat in Clarendon County.  —  Greene, an unemployed U.S. Army veteran …
Discussion: Wonkette and Outside the Beltway
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Tea Party Organizer Jumps Into Va. Senate Race  —  The 2012 Senate campaign has its first tea party candidate.  —  Jamie Radtke, head of the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots, has filed federal papers to run for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat now held by Virginia Democrat James Webb.
Discussion: Ballot Box
Sam Dagher / Wall Street Journal:
Iraq Wants the U.S. Out  —  Prime Minister, in Interview, Says Troops Must Leave Next Year as Planned  —  BAGHDAD—Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country's security forces were capable …
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Group Opposed To DADT Repeal To Fight On Against Shower Policy  —  Since 1993, the Center for Military Readiness has been fighting to keep gay men and lesbians from infiltrating the United States military.  So now that “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” has been repealed, what's next for the group …
ESPN:
Penn.  Governor Ed Rendell sounds off … The city of Philadelphia is set to host the NFL's first Tuesday night game in 64 years, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) couldn't be more upset about it.  —  “It goes against everything that football is all about,” Rendell said Monday on radio station 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia.
 
 
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Social Security reform is the answer to Obama's problems - and the nation's
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Daily Kos
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Retail Sales Rebound, Beating Forecasts
The Politico:
Obama eyes Chicago campaign HQ
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Gitmo Is Not Al Qaeda's ‘Number One Recruitment Tool’
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Budget Delayed a Week
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The 2010 Daily Dish Awards: An Update
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Mark Hemingway / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  The power of unions: Average stagehand …
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Debbie Schlussel:
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Natalie Portman / Associated Press:
Poll: Obama and Hillary Clinton are ‘most admired’
Discussion: Tammy Bruce, TalkLeft and Gallup
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Sotomayor Guides Court's Liberal Wing
Discussion: TPMDC and FIRST ONE
Caroline Gammell / Telegraph:
Christmas bomb plot: nine men remanded over plan to 'blow up Big Ben …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
GOP Sen.-elect Paul: Attach spending cuts to every ‘major’ piece of legislation
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Michigan Town Is Left Pleading for Bankruptcy
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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