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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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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
David Catanese / The Politico:
O'Donnell faces federal investigation
O'Donnell faces federal investigation
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The Reaction, The Wire and AmSpecBlog
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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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”.
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'Don't ask, don't tell' has been repealed.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 …
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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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, CBS New York, Gothamist, Balloon Juice, FiveThirtyEight, Sky Dancing and Paul Krugman
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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
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 and ECHIDNE of the snakes
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
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.