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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Issa says Obama administration is ‘one of most corrupt’ — The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning …
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American Perspective, Scared Monkeys, The BLT and The Politico
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Austerity is first order for Boehner's installation as House speaker — Nancy Pelosi brought camera crews and dignitaries into her childhood Baltimore neighborhood where a street was being renamed in her honor, while John Boehner is bringing his 11 siblings from working-class Ohio to Washington for a private reunion.
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USA Today, Taegan Goddard's … and The Page
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Wall Street Journal:
Congress Targets Spending — Republicans, Poised to Take Control of the House, Put Budget in Cross Hairs — The Republican majority that takes over the House this week plans an ambitious drive to slash government spending by tens of billions of dollars in the next few months …
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Open Congress
presstv.ir:
Mossad behind Egypt church blast — The explosion at a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which left 21 people killed and another 80 Muslims and Christians wounded, raises one question: Who was behind the blast? — Although, at first glance, the finger is pointed at extremist Wahabi …
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YID With LID, Jihad Watch and Elder of Ziyon
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The Politico:
Majority of RNC against Michael Steele — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele faces an all-but-impossible path to reelection this month, as a majority of the RNC's 168 members indicate that they will not support the controversial chairman for another term.
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RedState, USA Today, Riehl World View, Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's … and The Page
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Gentry Collins drops RNC bid — Former Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins dropped his bid to become chairman of the RNC Sunday night, explaining in an interview that members of the committee preferred to have one of their own lead the party.
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CNN, The Page, Ben Smith's Blog, TPMDC, Conservatives4Palin and National Review
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Is Charlie Crist a potential VP Pick...for Obama? — In spite of assertions made to the contrary by Vice President Joe Biden, speculation continues to swirl around the possibility that President Obama will replace Biden on the 2012 Presidential ticket for someone with less of a propensity …
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Outside the Beltway, Babalú Blog and National Review
Christian Science Monitor:
European nations begin seizing private pensions — Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens' pension money to make up government budget shortfalls. — People's retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that don't want to reduce spending or make privatizations.
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Betsy's Page
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Deep Hole Economics — If there's one piece of economic wisdom I hope people will grasp this year, it's this: Even though we may finally have stopped digging, we're still near the bottom of a very deep hole. — Why do I need to point this out? Because I've noticed many people overreacting to recent good economic news.
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Prairie Weather
New York Times:
Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons — ATLANTA — A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital “friends.” Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.
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Gawker and Outside the Beltway
DealBook:
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation — Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.
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Post Tech, Prairie Weather, msnbc.com, TechCrunch, Felix Salmon, Mediaite and Gawker, more at Techmeme »
Dave Barry / Washington Post:
Dave Barry's Year in Review: Why 2010 Made Us Sick — Let's put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet.
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Facing Threat From WikiLeaks, Bank Plays Defense — By the time the conference call ended, it was nearly midnight at Bank of America's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., but the bank's counterespionage work was only just beginning. — A day earlier, on Nov. 29, the director of WikiLeaks …
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Raw Story and The Nation, more at Techmeme »
NY Daily News:
Garbage pile saves Vangelis (Angelo) Kapatos, 26, who tried to commit suicide in midtown — A suicidal man plummeted nine stories and survived in midtown Sunday when he landed on a mountain of trash that had piled up since last week's blizzard, officials said.
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New York Times and AOL News
Vanity Fair:
The Febraury 2011 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll — Americans are numerically at a loss after a trillion. To balance the budget, most of them would choose to tax the rich. And as far as memories go, they'd prefer to keep them. (All of them.) — Numbers games this month: What comes after a trillion?
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The Hill and JammieWearingFool
New York Post:
Topics — Ahhh more hard taxpayer money at work. — bloombergwantsavictorymosque — Q: Why was Obama so disappointed when he went to a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats? — A: Being a Muslim, he thought there would be more romance. — Uncommon Sense — Business as usual in the rotten Big Apple.
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Scared Monkeys, Patterico's Pontifications, Gothamist and Outside the Beltway
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WorldNetDaily:
Ground Zero imam kicks off tour at Hamas conspirator banquet — Appeals to ‘one of the chief conduits’ for bringing Saudi-style Islam into U.S. — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric behind a plan to build an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks …
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Weasel Zippers