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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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Weasel Zippers, The Politico, American Perspective and American Power
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: GOPer calls Obama administration ‘corrupt’ — (CNN) - The incoming House Oversight and Government Reform chairman on Sunday tried to clarify his recent remarks to Rush Limbaugh where he called President Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.”
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The Moderate Voice, Stop The ACLU, Maggie's Notebook, Cubachi and skippy the bush kangaroo
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Incoming Oversight Chair Calls Obama Administration “One Of The Most Corrupt”
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Issa says he won't investigate White House job offer to Sestak
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Politico
Cubachi:
NYC sanitation workers caught boozing instead of working during blizzard — Forget New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. — For those of us following the disastrous clean-up, or lack of it, in New York City, the public sector workers of sanitation are having the worst week.
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Liberty Pundits Blog
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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, Gothamist, Patterico's Pontifications, Outside the Beltway and JammieWearingFool
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
New GOP lawmaker gets first taste of clash with House Dems — An incoming Republican freshman got a taste of his Democratic opposition in the House before the 112th Congress even convened. — Rep.-elect Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) appeared on “Face the Nation” Sunday with Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann …
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The Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS:
Goolsbee to Tea Party: ‘Playing Chicken’ With Debt Ceiling Vote is ‘Insanity’
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Capital Gains and Games blogs, USA Today, Outside the Beltway and CBS News
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama adviser: Critics of raising debt ceiling ruled by ‘insanity’
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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
ABCNEWS:
Transcript: White House Adviser Austan Goolsbee
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Hullabaloo, Swampland and Pajamas Media
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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Dave Barry / MiamiHerald.com:
Dave Barry's 2010 Year in Review — Let's face it — 2010 was a disaster. A month-by-month reminder of just how awful it was. — 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 …
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JammieWearingFool
Washington Post:
With Air Force's new drone, ‘we can see everything’ — In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them. In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military's most valuable new tools. — This winter, the Air Force is set …
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NO QUARTER, Firedoglake, Yglesias, Raw Story and Attackerman
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.
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.
Discussion:
TechCrunch and Felix Salmon, more at Techmeme »
Emptywheel:
Peter “Material Support for Terrorism” King — The NYT has an editorial rightly condemning ascending Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Peter King's upcoming hearing to attack Muslims. … But the interesting bit of the editorial is the last paragraph.
Discussion:
New York Times and TalkLeft
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.
Discussion:
The Page, Ben Smith's Blog, TPMDC and National Review
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 …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos — Washington (CNN) — The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos, full of sexual innuendo and anti-gay remarks, were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
‘Nostradamus’ of Middle East predicts unprecedented crisis for Obama in 2011 — The Middle East's answer to Nostradamus said that President Obama will be confronted with situations “never faced by previous presidents” in 2011. — Michel Hayek, who delivered his predictions live on New Year's Eve …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS ON REPEAL.... At least we know what one of the first bills to receive a vote will be in the new House. … Maybe so. But there's almost certainly a realization on everyone's part that House Republicans are doing this for show. If passed, their repeal measure …
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Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
House Will Take Up Repeal Of ObamaCare Before State Of The Union
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