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Associated Press:
Feds investigate Christine O'Donnell spending — BALTIMORE — A person with knowledge of the investigation says federal authorities have opened a criminal probe of Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses.
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ABCNEWS:
O'Donnell Denies Money Misuse: ‘I Expect More Things to Come’ — Former Tea Party Senate Candidate Denies She Used Campaign Funds for Personal Use — Former Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell defended herself today against a report that the federal government was investigating …
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Associated Press:
Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending
Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending
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USA Today, Swampland, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Washington Wire and Truthdig
David Catanese / The Politico:
O'Donnell faces federal investigation
O'Donnell faces federal investigation
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The Wire and AmSpecBlog
Suzi Parker / Politics Daily:
Christine O'Donnell Denies Misusing Campaign Funds, Cites …
Christine O'Donnell Denies Misusing Campaign Funds, Cites …
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NY Daily News and Guardian
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
AP: Feds Investigating Christine O'Donnell
AP: Feds Investigating Christine O'Donnell
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Slate, The Reaction, Daily Kos, The Hill, Outside the Beltway and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick ‘should have been executed’ — Tucker Carlson, filling in for Sean Hannity on Fox News last night, picked up the issue of President Barack Obama's call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, during which the president thanked Lurie for giving Michael Vick a second chance.
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American Power, Right Turn, Booman Tribune and PostPartisan
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Fox Utterly Destroys Cable News Ratings Competition in 2010 — The Nielsen numbers are in for 2010, and in the battle for cable news ratings supremacy, Fox News took the title for the ninth year in a row — bludgeoning the competition for another year. — The blowout comes on the heels …
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Left Coast Rebel, Commentary and Doug Ross
New York Times:
Inaction and Delays by New York as Storm Bore Down — At 3:58 a.m. on Christmas Day, the National Weather Service upgraded its alert about the snow headed to New York City, issuing a winter storm watch. By 3:55 p.m., it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm.
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City Room, FiveThirtyEight, Sky Dancing, Paul Krugman and Balloon Juice
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Patrick McGeehan / New York Times:
Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm
Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm
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The Daily Beast, DownWithTyranny!, Outside the Beltway and Gawker
The Huffington Post:
The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … An employee of Associated Charities, a private organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in the District of Columbia, met an old black woman carrying a basket of cinders near the dump …
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Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
David S. Bernstein / thephoenix.com:
The Road to 2012: The New New Hampshire — Mitt Romney and the rest of the GOP field are about to find a whole new set of players standing between them and first-in-the-nation primary victory — For Mitt Romney and other likely presidential contenders, 2011 will be a busy year of campaigning …
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Hot Air, Talking Politics and Booman Tribune
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Palin's Donation Strategy and Romney's: The Tea Party Surge versus the 2012 Surge
Palin's Donation Strategy and Romney's: The Tea Party Surge versus the 2012 Surge
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Right Wing News
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Geraldine Doyle, 86, dies; one-time factory worker inspired Rosie the Riveter and ‘We Can Do It!’ poster — Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan …
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This Just In and ECHIDNE of the snakes
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
GOP pals could be 2012 rivals — Should both Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels seek the White House in 2012, Americans would glimpse a rare sight in the annals of presidential campaigns: actual friends competing against one another for the nomination. — Not “friends” in the political sense …
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The Page
Colman McCarthy / Washington Post:
'Don't ask, don't tell' has been repealed. ROTC still shouldn't be on campus. — Now that asking and telling has ceased to be problematic in military circles, ROTC has resurfaced as a national issue: Will universities such as Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools be opened …
The Business Insider:
GARY SHILLING: And Now House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20% — In October, Gary Shilling of A. Gary Shilling & Co., predicted that house prices would fall another 20%. — In the two months since, house prices have resumed their decline. Below, Gary outlines why he thinks the recent drops are just the beginning.
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Mother Jones, The Atlantic Online, Felix Salmon, Ezra Klein and Los Angeles Times
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Kucinich worries his district will be eliminated — (CNN) - The state of Ohio will lose two congressional seats thanks to the latest U.S. Census figures, and liberal stalwart Dennis Kucinich is worried his seat is on the chopping block. — In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday …
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Scared Monkeys, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Weasel Zippers, Doug Ross and TPMDC
Washington Post:
Two new rules will give Constitution a starring role in GOP-controlled House — When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber's 221-year history: — They will read the Constitution aloud.
Sheera Frenkel / NPR:
In Israel, No Welcome Mat For African Migrants … Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt last week. Construction has begun on a $270 million, 87-mile fence along the porous border. It's one of four measures proposed to try to stem the flow of African migrants into Israel.
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Elder of Ziyon, Biased BBC and Israel Matzav
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas — PARSONS, Kan. — An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne's Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful and still the most beloved color film.
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Power Line and Crooked Timber
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Megyn Kelly: Calling Aliens ‘Undocumented’ Like Calling Rape ‘Non-Consensual Sex’ (VIDEO) — Plenty of conservatives are pretty upset over a campaign by the Society of Professional Journalists to convince reporters to stop using the terms “illegal aliens” and “illegal immigrants” in favor of “undocumented immigrant.”
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The Confluence, Left Coast Rebel, Big Journalism and Washington Monthly
Dave Cohen / Decline of the Empire:
The Afghan War, Terrorism And Media Propaganda — As 2010 winds down, I am reminded that there is no Imperial policy more reprehensible and shameful than the war in Afghanistan. This war is constantly presented to Americans as an integral part of the War On Terrorism, but it is no such thing.
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The Moderate Voice
Judy Battista / New York Times:
Favre Is Fined $50,000 but Not Suspended — Brett Favre, the Minnesota Vikings quarterback whose 20-year career is likely to end after this weekend, was fined $50,000 by the National Football League Wednesday for failing to cooperate with the league's investigation into graphic photos …
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Gothamist and Bleacher Report
Jamila Trindle / Wall Street Journal:
Bank Failures at Highest Level Since 1992 — WASHINGTON—More banks failed in 2010 than any year since the savings-and-loan crisis ended in 1992, but regulators said Wednesday that they believe failures have passed their peak. — So far this year, the 157 banks that failed had total assets …