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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 …
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Salon, Firedoglake, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Ben Smith's Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Truthdig, GOP 12, Indecision Forever, Weigel and Conservatives4Palin
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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.
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Politics Daily, Weigel, LifeNews.com, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, Daily Kos, Gawker and GOP 12
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 …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney sinks in Florida
Romney sinks in Florida
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Outside the Beltway, Left Coast Rebel, GOP 12, Hot Air and Conservatives4Palin
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MAYBE CHRISTIE CAN SEND A POSTCARD.... Following up on an item from yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and his lieutenant governor were told Sunday about the blizzard barreling down on the Garden State. Soon after, they left town at the same time, with Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R) …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
N.J. Gov. Christie, vacationing during snowstorm, pushes back on criticism — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office is pushing back against complaints that both he and the lieutenant governor were vacationing during a blizzard that blanketed the state with snow.
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New Jersey Online, Weekly Standard, Paul Mulshine, Ben Smith's Blog, Fausta's Blog and JammieWearingFool
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 …
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Biggest conservative names bidding goodbye to CPAC — Participation of homosexuals, financial mismanagement cited — Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference …
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Weigel, ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Outside the Beltway, TPMDC, Wonkette and Right Wing Watch
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How WikiLeaks Just Set Back Democracy in Zimbabwe — Last year, early on Christmas Eve morning, representatives from the U.S., United Kingdom, Netherlands, and the European Union arrived for a meeting with Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Appointed prime minister earlier …
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A Blog For All, Little Green Footballs, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Wonkette
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 21% Want FCC to Regulate Internet, Most Fear Regulation Would Promote Political Agenda — American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda.
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The Moderate Voice, Wake up America, The Daily Caller, JammieWearingFool, The Political Carnival and Hit & Run
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Indiana Grandmother, a Muslim Convert, Being Investigated for Possible Terror Link — Kathie Smith brandishes a gun in video starring her and her husband, Salahudin Ibn Jafar, that is being investigated by terrorism task force. — A 46-year-old Indiana grandmother is under investigation …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A PUBLISHING MYSTERY.... I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong. Last year, for example, I predicted that George W. Bush's post-presidency memoir would be a flop. Just the opposite is true — “Decision Points” has sat atop the Times Best Sellers list for the last six weeks, and yesterday …
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Salon and Balloon Juice
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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 …
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The Jawa Report, AmSpecBlog and Althouse
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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 …
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Commentary, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and rubber hose
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Health plans for high-risk patients attracting fewer, costing more than expected — An early feature of the new health-care law that allows people who are already sick to get insurance to cover their medical costs isn't attracting as many customers as expected.
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Power Line, Hot Air, Swampland, The Foundry, Wake up America, NewsBusters.org blogs, Betsy's Page, National Review, Right Turn, Ben Smith's Blog, The Glittering Eye and CNN
The Huffington Post:
Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … This morning's Politico features another piece ("Obama and Wall St.: Still Venus and Mars") in a continuing series that present Wall Street people whining about all those times White House higher-ups …
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The Politico, Bloomberg, Hullabaloo and Paul Krugman
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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 …
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Weasel Zippers, Commentary and TaxProf Blog
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.
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JustOneMinute, AmSpecBlog, Ezra Klein and The Atlantic Online
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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The Caucus, PostPartisan, Ezra Klein, msnbc.com, Booman Tribune, Weigel, Althouse, Reliable Source, TalkLeft and Michelle Malkin
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.
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The Foundry, Hit & Run, AmSpecBlog and Instapundit
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
As gay becomes bourgeois — With 'don't ask, don't tell' repealed and gays seeking marriage equality, the homosexual bourgeoisie is emerging — a concept subversive to both liberals and conservatives. — So now openly gay soldiers get to fight and die in neocon-imperialist wars too?
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The Other McCain, Pajamas Media and American Power
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Social Security reform is the answer to Obama's problems - and the nation's — The main achievements of the lame-duck session of Congress were reminders of what might have been. President Obama gave something to get something. To secure a second stimulus, he accepted Republican economic methods.
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The Huffington Post, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Daily Kos
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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.
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Use Social Media to Escape Snowmageddon — Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has a sore back. He's spent the past two days using Twitter to connect with residents of his city that were trapped by the recent snowstorm. After he finds the ones that are in serious need of help, he goes over and digs them out himself.
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Dial-a-fatwa that bans naps, raffles and tattoos: Muslim scholars issue 350,000 decrees in 2010 — Taking an afternoon nap, the monotonous drone of vuvuzelas that irritated almost all football fans during the World Cup is OK, and it doesn't matter how much noise a donkey makes, it musn't be touched.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Concision and the Public Intellectual — A friend of mine sent me the video below as an expansion on our conversation around cable news. It's a discussion from the 1980s about why Noam Chomsky had never been on Nightline. I dislike many of the sweeping generalizations which Chomsky makes at the end.
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GOP Senator-Elect Calls For Filibuster Reform On Judicial Nominees — In 2005, when President Bush was nominating judges, GOP senators almost universally denounced filibusters of judicial nominees as unconstitutional. Four years later, when a Democratic president moved into the White House …
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Ezra Klein, RedState, The Hugh Hewitt Show and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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.
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