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Jillian Rayfield / TPMMuckraker:
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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Balloon Juice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, No More Mister Nice Blog, Liberal Values, WorldNetDaily, Salon and Daily Kos
Phil Gast / CNN:
Decision on possible Billy the Kid pardon expected by end of week — (CNN) — The governor of New Mexico has until Friday to decide whether to pardon outlaw Billy the Kid in the killing of a sheriff. — As of last week, Gov. Bill Richardson had received about 400 responses …
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The Huffington Post:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Longs For ‘Golden Age’ Of The Bush Years — What's Your Reaction: … BUFFALO, N.Y. — Longing for the early years of the Bush administration, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been consumed by anti-U.S. conspiracy theories, convinced American officials …
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The Gateway Pundit, Firedoglake and DownWithTyranny!
Daniel Golden / Bloomberg:
Plunge of For-Profit College Stock Makes Sperling Rail at Obama — As a humanities professor at San Jose State University from 1961 to 1973, John Sperling pioneered remedial reading classes for Mexican Americans and courses in social problems for police officers.
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The Future of Capitalism
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Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs — Editor's note: This is a two-part article, in which Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond separately to criticisms of the site's Wikileaks coverage. — The Case for Privacy
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Balloon Juice, Boing Boing and Firedoglake, more at Mediagazer »
Lisa Demer / Anchorage Daily News:
Judge tosses Miller lawsuit, clears way for Murkowski swearing-in — A federal judge today dismissed Republican Joe Miller's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the Nov. 2 election, clearing the way for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski to be certified as the winner.
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Hot Air, Weigel, USA Today, TPMDC, The BRAD BLOG, msnbc.com, Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway and Alaska Dispatch
Brian Fitzpatrick / WorldNetDaily:
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 …
Jennifer Macey / ABC News:
Floods, freeze not the end of global warming: CSIRO — A CSIRO scientist is warning authorities not to interpret floods in eastern Australia and snowstorms over Europe and North America as signalling the end of global warming. — NASA research shows that 2010 is the hottest year on record.
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The Reference Frame, Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
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, Paul Krugman and Hullabaloo
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Ben White / The Politico:
Obama & Wall St.: Still Venus & Mars
Obama & Wall St.: Still Venus & Mars
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Washington Monthly and Pajamas Media
NY Daily News:
Chastened Bloomberg fights to save reputation after string of snow-removal snafus — A testy Mayor Bloomberg fended off criticism of the city's failure to clear hundreds of snow-choked streets Tuesday as an avalanche of critics attacked his reputation as a supermanager.
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Hot Air, New York Observer, Runnin' Scared and CBS New York
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 and JammieWearingFool
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
In the Rearview, a Year That Fizzled — It was the year that the economy started to recover and then slid back into a slump — only to offer reason for renewed hope in the final weeks. — When 2010 began, hiring and consumer spending were finally picking up.
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The Big Picture, Economix and Calculated Risk
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DADT DEAD-ENDERS LATCH ONTO ‘SHOWER ISSUE’.... With Congress already having passed a repeal of the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, and President Obama gladly putting his signature on the repeal legislation, I'm not sure what more conservatives hope to accomplish. — There was a political fight, and they lost.
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TPMMuckraker, Althouse, The New Republic and Outside the Beltway
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
New GOP House Rules Pave The Way For More Tax Cuts, Deficits — In 2007, just weeks after Republicans lost control of the House and Senate and six years after the first passel of Bush tax cuts were signed into law, Democrats made a key change to the budget rules to prevent that episode from repeating itself.
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Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Firedoglake and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
The Worst Clichés of Politics From ‘Tax-and-Spend’ to ‘Maverick’ … According to my rough calculations, our political tongue — the language of campaigns, elections and, yes, governing — is sustained by an army of maybe 10,000 professional babblers.
Bryan Walsh / Time:
The Northeast Blizzard: One More Sign of Global Warming — People dig out along 72nd Street in New York City on Dec. 27, 2010, in the wake of a powerful East Coast blizzard that shut down major airports and rail lines — It's become as much a winter tradition as eggnog at Christmas …
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NewsBusters.org, PoliPundit.com and The Gateway Pundit
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Senate Approval Ratings — During the second half of 2010 PPP polled on approval ratings for 59 different Senators. Here's some of the information on how they stack up: —The average approval rating for a Senator right now is 43% approving to 40% disapproving.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Ballot Box
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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alicublog, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Other McCain, Pajamas Media and American Power
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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NY Daily News, Associated Press, The Politico, Daily Kos, Ballot Box and Politics Daily
Edward L. Glaeser / Economix:
Behind the Population Shift — Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard and the author of the forthcoming book “Triumph of the City.” — Last week, the Census released population figures that will reshape the House of Representatives, moving political power south and west.
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