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Ezra Klein:
Yes, the Constitution is binding — This morning, I gave a quick interview to MSNBC where I made, I thought, some fairly banal points on the GOP's plan to honor the Constitution by having it read aloud on the House floor. Asked if it was a gimmick, I replied that it was, because, well, it is.
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Outside the Beltway, Doug Ross, Pundit & Pundette and Mediaite
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iowahawk:
The Constitution Is Very Important — Thank you for your interest in the Washington Post's Young Pundit Essay Contest. As the leading newspaper in our nation's capital, we are always looking for budding journalistic talent to bring a fresh point of view our editorial pages …
Stephen Gutowski / The Blast:
Ezra Klein: the Constitution is Impossible to Understand Because …
Ezra Klein: the Constitution is Impossible to Understand Because …
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The Right Scoop, Left Coast Rebel, The Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin and Moe Lane
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Liberal Star Blogger Ezra Klein: Constitution 'Has No Binding Power …
Liberal Star Blogger Ezra Klein: Constitution 'Has No Binding Power …
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Big Government, Mediaite, Big Journalism and AmSpecBlog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The New Voodoo — Hypocrisy never goes out of style, but, even so, 2010 was something special. For it was the year of budget doubletalk — the year of arsonists posing as firemen, of people railing against deficits while doing everything they could to make those deficits bigger.
Discussion:
Zandar Versus The Stupid, Prairie Weather and Economist's View
New York Post:
Topics — Do the residents of NYS and NYC realize what has occurred? — The Public and Private sector Unions control NYS and NYC - they control almost the entire Democrat Party and even a few Republicans! Both NYS and NYC! — Those politicians no longer represent the taxpayer, they represent the Union!
Discussion:
A Blog For All and JammieWearingFool
Jessica Hopper / ABCNEWS:
Gov. Bill Richardson: 'I've Decided Not To Pardon Billy the Kid' — Billy the Kid Was Promised a Pardon in 1879 — It's been a year of pardons from two Mississippi sisters paroled in exchange for one donating a kidney to another to rock singer Jim Morrison to even a presidential turkey.
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AOL News and The Washington Note
Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Climate PR effort heats up — Hey America! Are you ready to get wonky on global warming? — After a year that started with fallout from the “Climategate” e-mail release, saw the cap-and-trade bill die in Congress, and ended with a gang of Republican climate skeptics winning House and Senate seats …
Maxim Lott / Fox News:
Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts — The Statue of Liberty, depicted frozen solid in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” Many weather forecasters and scientists wonder whether a coming period of “global cooling” may be on the way. — A new year is around the corner …
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Right Wing Nut House, YID With LID, Hit & Run, Clayton Cramer's Blog, TigerHawk and AmSpecBlog
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Judith Miller: From the Times to the nuts — Judith Miller used to be a superstar. She was a major reporter at the New York Times for decades — at the DC bureau, in Cairo, in Paris, special correspondent to the Persian Gulf, embedded with a special unit in Iraq. She had the best sources.
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Arkansas Blog and Balloon Juice
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Academic Economists to Consider Ethics Code — WASHINGTON — When the Stanford business professor Darrell Duffie co-wrote a book on how to overhaul Wall Street regulations, he did not mention that he sits on the board of Moody's, the credit rating agency. — As a commentator on the economy …
Discussion:
The Confluence and The Ticker
Valerie Strauss / The Answer Sheet:
University of Virginia reforms speech code — The University of Virginia has eliminated four controversial policies that restricted the free speech of students and faculty, becoming one of a minority of schools across the country to do so. — The recent decision to change the policies …
John / Power Line:
Time to Rethink Public Employee Unions — In New York, sanitation workers have reported that their union ordered them to sabotage the city's blizzard cleanup efforts. If that claim is true, the union may be responsible for at least one death. Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to investigate.
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
No good guys in the fight over for-profit colleges — For a case study in the tawdry and twisted world of Washington policymaking and lobbying, you can't do much better than the current fight over the subsidies and regulations for for-profit colleges. Behind every argument is an ulterior motive …
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The Daily Caller, International Liberty and The Daily Dish
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Abortion Takes Flight — Irish law prohibits all abortions except those necessary to save a woman's life, and as a practical matter it imposes daunting obstacles to terminating life-threatening pregnancies as well. In a secularized Europe, Ireland is noticeably out of step.
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Washington Post
New York Times:
Christians Are Casualties of 10 Baghdad Attacks — BAGHDAD — One week after an Islamic extremist group vowed to kill Christians in Iraq, a cluster of 10 bomb attacks rattled Baghdad on Thursday night and sent additional tremors of fear through the country's already shaken Christian minority.
Discussion:
Daled Amos and Jihad Watch
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
How Harry Reid And Mitch McConnell Could Upend Filibuster Reform — A handful of junior Democrats, including Sens. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), have done an impressive job building momentum for a package of modest, but meaningful, changes to the Senate's filibuster rules.
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Open Left, Daily Kos, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post and Washington Monthly
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Paging Mr. Smith! How The Senate May Return To The Old-School Filibuster
Paging Mr. Smith! How The Senate May Return To The Old-School Filibuster
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Sky Dancing, Firedoglake, The Plum Line, Daily Kos and Yglesias
The Huffington Post:
Last Kodachrome Developer Stops Developing — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Kodachrome film is truly dead. — Dwayne's Photo, a lab in Parsons, Kansas, was the last lab still processing popular film, which was created by Kodak in 1935. Dec. 30 was the last day Dwayne's would still accept rolls …
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Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo and The Moderate Voice
Wall Street Journal:
Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel — TEL AVIV—Two years ago, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, an energy firm here, employed five people and was worth about half a million dollars. — Today it sits at the center of a gas bonanza that has investors, international oil companies …
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A Blog For All, Israel Matzav, Hot Air and EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Dems rip proposed rule giving new power to GOP Budget chairman — A proposed House rule granting new powers to the GOP chairman of the Budget Committee has sparked outrage from Democrats. — The proposed rule would allow the Budget Committee chairman to set spending ceilings for 2011 without a vote by the full House.
Delen Goldberg / Las Vegas Sun:
GOP presidential hopefuls paying attention to Nevada — Nevada was a political afterthought for Republicans in the 2008 presidential election. — Caucus votes were nonbinding, meaning delegates could change their minds about whom to support, so candidates focused on other more influential states rather …
Steve Hughes / Daily Star:
WINTER MAY BE COLDEST IN 1000 YEARS — BRITAIN'S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years. — Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C. — That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Tricky Call for New Governors: Price of Their Inaugurals — MIAMI — To warm up the Florida crowds for his inauguration as governor, Rick Scott has been flying around the state this week on a seven-city “appreciation” tour. For the main event on Tuesday, he will lead a parade featuring 26 marching bands …
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Arkansas Blog, Taegan Goddard's … and Ben Smith's Blog
CNN:
Alaska certifies Sen. Murkowski's re-election — (CNN) — Alaska's top two elected officials on Thursday certified Sen. Lisa Murkowski's re-election in November as a write-in candidate, clearing the way for Murkowski to be sworn in on time for the new congressional session that starts next week.
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The Political Carnival
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Murkowski certified Senate election winner