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New York Post:
Topics — When PUBLIC UNION workers decide to “screw” those that are actually paying their salaries it's time for a change. — BOMBASTIC — People died. The union officials should all be charged with manslaughter. — Either that. Or the citizenry needs to take their own retaliation against the “workers”.
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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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NY Daily News, Gothamist, Gawker, CBS New York, City Room, Room Eight blogs, A Blog For All, Sky Dancing, FiveThirtyEight, Balloon Juice, Paul Krugman and pandagon.net
New York Post:
Sanitation Department's slow snow cleanup was a budget protest — These garbage men really stink. — Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets …
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The Atlantic Online and The Sundries Shack
J.P. Freire / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — New York City streets unplowed …
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — New York City streets unplowed …
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Betsy's Page and Gothamist
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Outrage at Unplowed Streets? It's a New York Tradition
Outrage at Unplowed Streets? It's a New York Tradition
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Flopping Aces and Runnin' Scared
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
So much for bipartisanship — a slew of recess appointments — On Wednesday, Obama shed any pretense of bipartisanship in making six recess appointments. As were his previous recess appointments, this batch included two individuals whose records are so controversial that they could not obtain confirmation …
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Washington Monthly, PostPartisan, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Rep. King: Obama recess appointment at Justice Dept. ‘absolutely shocking’ — Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, has angrily denounced President Obama's recess appointment of James Cole as deputy attorney general.
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Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers and The Hill
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 …
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JustOneMinute, protein wisdom, Moe Lane, Weasel Zippers, BLACKFIVE and Pajamas Media
Ezra Klein:
What the tea party wants from the Constitution — I'm very curious to know what the GOP — or the tea partyers they're presumably pandering to — think will happen when every piece of legislation requires “a statement from its sponsor outlining where in the Constitution Congress is empowered to enact such legislation.”
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, NewsBusters.org blogs, Sister Toldjah and Confederate Yankee
David Browne / PARADE Magazine:
Joe Scarborough: ‘I May Feel the Need to Run for Office Again’ … Sign up for our free online newsletter!
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The Hill, USA Today, Mediaite and Riehl World View
Malia Zimmerman / Hawaii Reporter:
Obama's Million Dollar Hawaiian Vacation: Costs to Taxpayers Detailed — BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Nestled in three luxury beachfront homes just outside a local favorite surf spot on the pristine turquoise waters of Kailua Bay, President Barack Obama and his family and friends are enjoying a seemingly quiet Christmas vacation.
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judicialwatch.org
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — President and family on multi-million …
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — President and family on multi-million …
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Scared Monkeys
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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Israpundit and Israel Matzav
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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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The Confluence, AOL News, Althouse, This Just In, ECHIDNE of the snakes and Shakesville
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Is Palin-mania A Liberal Plot? — A Gallup poll finds that the only contemporary Republican political leader who makes the Republicans' list of “most admired people” is Sarah Palin (who is cited as “most admired woman” by 26% of Republicans — no other current politician cracks 3% among Republicans.)
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Oliver Willis, A plain blog about politics, Right Turn and Conservatives4Palin
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thepeninsulaqatar.com:
World's largest listing of newspapers on the web — If we reach an agreement tomorrow, praise be to God. But if there is no agreement, we will withdraw our negotiating team and the talks will then be held in Darfur. — Omar Hassan Al Bashir Sudan President — MOST READ ARTICLES
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FP Passport and The Wire
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ABCNEWS:
O'Donnell Claims Political Witch Hunt — 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 her for misuse of campaign funds …
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TPMMuckraker, The Other McCain, American Power, PostPartisan, The Reaction and Slate
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
O'Donnell scoffs at reports of investigation
O'Donnell scoffs at reports of investigation
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Little Green Footballs, Washington Post and The Politico
The Local:
Man's penis amputated following misdiagnosis — Double click on a word to get a translation — A Swedish man was forced to have his penis amputated after waiting more than a year to learn he had cancer. — The man, who is in his sixties, first visited a local clinic in Blekinge …
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Scared Monkeys, Left Coast Rebel, International Liberty and The Good Men Project Magazine
Secular Coalition for America:
Atheists Excluded from Mayoral Prayer Service (Press Release) — Atheists Excluded from Mayor-Elect Gray's Inauguration — Washington, D.C.) - Atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheistic Washington, D.C. residents will have no representation at Mayor-Elect Vincent Gray's …
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Politics Daily, Questions and Observations, Motley Fool and Friendly Atheist
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
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Liberals should accept defeat and get back to their goals — Was 2010 American liberalism's Waterloo? How are we to square the achievement of so many goals that have long been on progressive wish lists with the resounding defeat suffered by supporters of these measures in November?
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Booman Tribune, Ezra Klein, TalkLeft, NewsBusters.org blogs, Taylor Marsh, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos
PewResearch.org:
PewResearchCenter Interactive — Pew Research News IQ Quiz — What's Your Political News IQ? — To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short 12-question quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with 1,001 randomly sampled adults asked …
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Corrente and The Political Commentator
Cal Thomas / Townhall.com:
Cal Thomas She Told Us So — Sarah Palin deserves an apology. When she said that the new health-care law would lead to “death panels” deciding who gets life-saving treatment and who does not, she was roundly denounced and ridiculed. — Now we learn, courtesy of one of the ridiculers — The New York Times — that she was right.
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Right Wing Watch