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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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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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Weekly Standard, Hot Air, New Jersey Online, Paul Mulshine, The Greenroom, Fausta's Blog and JammieWearingFool
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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Bloomberg, Hullabaloo and Paul Krugman
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Ben White / The Politico:
Obama and Wall St.: Still Venus and Mars — NEW YORK - On the mental list of slights and outrages that just about every major figure on Wall Street is believed to keep on President Barack Obama, add this one: When he met recently with a group of CEOs at Blair House, there was no representative …
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Washington Monthly, Pajamas Media and Washington Examiner
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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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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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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
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
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
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, The Daily Caller, Wake up America, JammieWearingFool, Hit & Run and The Political Carnival
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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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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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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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Democracy in America, JustOneMinute, AmSpecBlog, Ezra Klein and The Atlantic Online
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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
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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
Bill Dedman / msnbc.com:
Quest for Palin e-mails may exceed her time in office — You can do the math. — Alaska state regulations require public officials to make public records available to the public within 10 days in most cases. — On Monday evening, Sarah Palin's former staff in the Alaska governor's …
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The Politico, NY Daily News, Politics Daily and Ballot Box
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama: No shirtless pictures — The White House is taking extra steps to prevent photos of a shirtless President Obama on vacation in Hawaii. — The president and his family are on a snorkeling trip in Hamauma Bay Nature Reserve, and traveling press are under “explicit instructions …
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Weasel Zippers
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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, The Hugh Hewitt Show, RedState and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
RNC Chairman Michael Steele will debate rivals on Jan. 3 — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has confirmed his attendance at a Jan. 3 debate co-hosted by The Daily Caller and Americans for Tax Reform, setting the stage for a showdown between the embattled incumbent and his vocal rivals.
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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
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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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.
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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Latest Right-Wing Freak-Out: Obama Wants To Give Manhattan Back To Native Americans — The good news is that the right-wing isn't talking about President Obama being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they're now concerned that he's going to use his honorary status …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo, WorldNetDaily and PointOfLaw Forum