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White House Confirms Obama's Michael Vick Phone Call, But Says He Condemns The Crime — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … NEW YORK CITY — The Obama administration confirmed on Monday afternoon that the president, in a call with the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, expressed gratitude …
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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 …
CNN:
TRENDING: President Obama supportive of second chance for Michael Vick — Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN) - President Obama believes in second chances. The president recently called Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie and, during the conversation, the two discussed Michael Vick and the fresh start …
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
White House confirms Barack Obama's call to Michael Vick
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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.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Are 2010's Most Admired — Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey are closely matched behind Clinton — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama is Americans' Most Admired Man of 2010, substantially ahead of the former presidents, iconic religious leaders, and others who fill out the top 10 list.
Wall Street Journal:
Palin's Food Fight — Michelle Obama and childhood obesity. — President Obama's indiscriminate expansion of federal power has inspired a healthy populist rebellion, but his opponents sometimes seem to lose their sense of proportion. Take Sarah Palin's mockery of Michelle Obama's childhood antiobesity campaign.
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Natalie Portman / Associated Press:
Poll: Obama and Hillary Clinton are ‘most admired’
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
DeMint challenger Alvin Greene to run for S.C. state house — Alvin Greene, the unemployed military veteran who won the Democratic nomination to face Sen. Jim DeMint (R) this fall, has filed to run for South Carolina's state house. — Greene, who lost to Demint by over 30 percentage points …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Alvin Greene tries again in South Carolina
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
GOP Sen.-elect Paul: Attach spending cuts to every ‘major’ bill — GOP Sen.-elect Rand Paul said Monday that he wants to attach spending cuts to every piece of major legislation that comes before the Senate next year. — Paul (Ky.) — who won his race with strong support from the Tea Party movement …
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Christopher Beam / New York Magazine:
The Trouble With Liberty — Libertarians, of both left and right …
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Caroline Gammell / Telegraph:
Christmas bomb plot: nine men remanded over plan to ‘blow up Big Ben and Westminster Abbey’ — Nine alleged terrorists plotted a Christmas bombing campaign targeting sites that included the London Stock Exchange and Big Ben, a court heard. — They are alleged to have carried …
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Budget Delayed a Week — WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal 2012 will be released in mid-February, a little more than a week after its planned release date. The administration is scrambling to assemble what could be a pivotal document following …
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Charles Riley / CNNMoney.com:
Slashing $100 billion: What's first to go?
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Marilyn Serafini / Washington Post:
Does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act need title reform? — Puh-pack-uh? Is that some kind of llama? — In fact, it's the ungainly acronym of the new health-care law - PPACA, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Many people who support the law, or are neutral toward it …
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The Median Voter Supports The Affordable Care Act
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Sotomayor Guides Court's Liberal Wing — At her confirmation hearings last year, Sonia Sotomayor spent a lot of time assuring senators that empathy would play no part in her work on the Supreme Court. — That was a sort of rebuke to President Obama, who had said that empathy was precisely …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Inside The GOP's Plan To Stifle Obama's Executive Branch Power — In the nearly two months since the November midterms, the conventional wisdom has centered on the idea that President Obama's agenda will be largely protected from an influx of Republicans by the Senate's arcane rules and his own veto pen.
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ABCNEWS:
Division Wrought by New Tea Partiers — Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., who was taken out in his primary by Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, expresed alarm at the division the movement had caused within his own party. — “The Tea Party movement really is quite a bit different …
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Karin Tanabe / The Politico:
SARAH PALIN KNOCKS CONSERVATIONISTS — It was time to pick up the chainsaw and yell “timber” on Sunday night's episode of “Sarah Palin's Alaska.” — While last week's installment had Sarah doing a little of everything, from dog sledding to waitressing —this week, the show focused …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired — (updated below) — For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Earmarks Ban May Loom, but Lawmakers Find Ways to Finance Pet Projects — 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.
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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Matt Friedman / New Jersey Online:
N.J. senator criticizes Gov. Christie, Lt. Gov. Guadagno for being out of state during blizzard — TRENTON — A Democratic lawmaker is questioning why both Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno are out of state at the same time, leaving Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) …
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