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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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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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Firedoglake, Ben Smith's Blog, Indecision Forever, Weigel, Salon 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
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Optimism for Obama Should Come With Caution
Optimism for Obama Should Come With Caution
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The Plum Line, The Moderate Voice and Althouse
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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Matt Friedman / New Jersey Online:
N.J. senator criticizes Gov. Christie, Lt. Gov. Guadagno for being …
N.J. senator criticizes Gov. Christie, Lt. Gov. Guadagno for being …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
N.J. Gov. Christie, vacationing during snowstorm, pushes back on criticism
N.J. Gov. Christie, vacationing during snowstorm, pushes back on criticism
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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 …
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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, The Atlantic Online, Weigel, Booman Tribune, Althouse, Reliable Source, TalkLeft and Michelle Malkin
Jana Winter / Fox News:
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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Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
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
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 Daily Caller, JammieWearingFool and Hit & Run
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.
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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.
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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 …
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Weasel Zippers, Commentary and TaxProf Blog
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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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
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, Wake up America, NewsBusters.org blogs, National Review, Ben Smith's Blog, Betsy's Page, Right Turn and CNN
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.
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 …
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The Jawa Report and AmSpecBlog
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 …
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Outside the Beltway, The Hill and rubber hose
Christopher R. Albon / The Atlantic Online:
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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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 …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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 …
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Outside the Beltway, Brilliant at Breakfast and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jason Burke / Guardian:
India issues nationwide terror alert — Thousands of security personnel deployed following tip-offs that Lashkar-e-Taiba is planning New Year attack — Indian authorities have deployed thousands of security personnel following warnings that Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group …
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Weasel Zippers
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.
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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.
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Bill Roggio / 1 The Long War Journal:
US Predators strike again in North Waziristan — The Ghulam Khan area in Pakistan. Click to view larger map. — US Predators struck again today in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, launching two airstrikes in an area right along the border with Afghanistan.
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