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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”.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Rep. King: Obama recess appointment ‘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. — King called Cole's appointment …
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Weasel Zippers
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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 …
The White House:
President Obama Announces Recess Appointments to Key Administration Posts
President Obama Announces Recess Appointments to Key Administration Posts
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama uses recess appointment to seat Justice Dept. official
Obama uses recess appointment to seat Justice Dept. official
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Firedoglake, Michelle Malkin and Political Punch
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 and The Other McCain
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: O'Donnell scoffs at reports of investigation
TRENDING: O'Donnell scoffs at reports of investigation
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Washington Post, Slate, The Politico and Associated Press
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
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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Pajamas Media, BLACKFIVE and Moe Lane
Matt Bai / New York Times:
For G.O.P., End of the Preordained Candidate — WASHINGTON — A year ago, Republicans here were shut out of governing but could console themselves with having retained their hold on the party apparatus. This week, they will celebrate the new year having come roaring back to regain the House …
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The Confluence
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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
David S. Bernstein / thephoenix.com:
The Road to 2012: The New New Hampshire
The Road to 2012: The New New Hampshire
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Hot Air, Talking Politics, The Page and Booman Tribune
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, A Blog For All, Room Eight blogs, Gothamist, Balloon Juice, CBS New York, FiveThirtyEight, Sky Dancing, Paul Krugman and pandagon.net
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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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City Room, The Talking Dog, The Daily Beast, DownWithTyranny!, Outside the Beltway and Gawker
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
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
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
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
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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Althouse, This Just In, Shakesville and ECHIDNE of the snakes
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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Open Left, Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
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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The Good Men Project Magazine and International Liberty
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
Christian Gysin / Daily Mail:
Muslim fanatic jailed for preaching race hate now accused of swindling benefits — A notorious Muslim fanatic has been accused of fiddling the benefits system by working while claiming jobseekers' allowance. — Abdul Rehman Saleem, known as Abu Yahya, is working on a market stall at the same …
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Weasel Zippers
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, Motley Fool and Friendly Atheist
Wall Street Journal:
‘Death Panels’ Come Back to Life — The FDA's restrictions on the drug Avastin are the beginning of a long slide toward health-care rationing. — Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration banned doctors from prescribing Avastin, a potent but costly drug, to patients with advanced-stage breast cancer.
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protein wisdom
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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TalkLeft, Booman Tribune, NewsBusters.org, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to free sisters sentenced to life in prison for robbery — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) announced late Wednesday that he will grant an early release from prison to two sisters serving unusually long sentences for armed robbery. — Gladys and Jamie Scott have each served 16 years of a life sentence.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A MISGUIDED SENSE OF VICTIMHOOD, CONT'D.... Maybe it's the season that brings out the worst in far-right Christians feeling sorry for themselves. — A couple of weeks ago, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson whined that in American society, it's Christianity that “always seems” to “take the boot.”
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Liberal Values and Firedoglake