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Alexander Bolton / Healthwatch:
Republican rift widens on Medicare  —  A deep rift is opening wider and wider in the Republican Party over controversial proposals to cut Medicare.  —  Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing the upper chamber in next year's elections and will not echo …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Outlines Demands on Debt Limit Fight  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that Republicans would insist on trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts in exchange for their support of an increase in the federal debt limit sought by the Obama administration to prevent a government default later this year.
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
John Boehner's Debt Demands  —  To really understand the debt ceiling debate, I think you need to know the following things: … Under the circumstances, the solution to the deadlock is for a bipartisan bill to pass the House with the support of both Boehner and Pelosi …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner's hard line on debt ceiling gets cool reception from Wall St.  —  NEW YORK - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday laid down an aggressive new marker in the debt limit fight, calling for spending cuts that exceed any additional borrowing authority that Congress approves.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Boehner's debt-ceiling demands  —  (Kathy Willens - AP) In a speech before a Wall Street crowd on Monday, John Boehner laid out the three legs of the GOP's opening bid on the debt ceiling.  They are:  —  1) “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase.
Los Angeles Times:
Boehner demands trillions in cuts in exchange for debt vote
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Balloon Juice
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John Boehner: Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels should run
Discussion: The Page
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation  —  The former first lady has moved out after 25 years of marriage.  Maria Shriver helped bolster Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign against charges that he groped women during his movie career.  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Schwarzenegger and Shriver Announce Separation
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
New York Times:
U.S. Was Braced for Fight With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.
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John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
The Associated Press's Case for Releasing the Bin Laden Photo  —  President Obama's decision to withhold the visual evidence of Osama bin Laden's death has created a fundamental disagreement between the White House and one of the largest journalism organizations in the world.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Military Draws Up Afghan Exit Plan
Discussion: The Hill and The Foundry
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin  —  From the moment Sarah Palin's acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.”  But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Jezebel
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney plans major healthcare speech in Michigan  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) will deliver a major speech Thursday on healthcare in his native state of Michigan.  —  Romney will make a presentation at the University of Michigan's cardiovascular center laying out his plan …
Discussion: The Politico
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Feifei Sun / The Page:
Taking It On  —  First on The Page: Romney to give major health …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Taegan Goddard's …
Wall Street Journal:
National Health Preview
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Gingrich Set to Run, With Wife in Central Role  —  WASHINGTON — Callista Bisek's friends from rural Wisconsin were stunned when, well over a decade ago, she confided that she was secretly dating an older, married man: Newt Gingrich.  —  Still in her 20s when they met …
Jack Shafer / Slate Magazine:
The Osama Putz Videos  —  The White House is happy to spike the football on its own terms.  —  In the middle of last week, President Obama told 60 Minutes he wasn't releasing the Osama Bin Laden death photos because he saw no “need to spike the football.”  Another reason, he said …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Tailspin: Obama's numbers on economy reach new low in NBC/WSJ poll
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Kris Hundley / St. Petersburg Times:
Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions  —  A conservative billionaire who opposes government meddling in business has bought a rare commodity: the right to interfere in faculty hiring at a publicly funded university.
The Politico:
Whiteboard Archives  —  IN THE RED: President Obama is going to Texas on Tuesday to give an immigration speech in El Paso before raising money for his reelection in Austin.  After he speaks at two Democratic National Committee events in Austin, one of which is open to just a print pool reporter …
Discussion: Right Wing News
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Perry declines Obama's invite
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's illegal alien nation
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Beyond Obama's Bin Laden Bounce  —  A week after the news broke of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, bettors at Intrade, a political futures market, are barely any more likely to think that Barack Obama will win re-election.  —  As of this writing, Mr. Obama's Democrats are given …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate Magazine:
Chomsky's Follies  —  The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are stupid and ignorant.  —  Anybody visiting the Middle East in the last decade has had the experience: meeting the hoarse and aggressive person who first denies that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the destruction …
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Times of India:
Record sale of Osama posters in Pakistan
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  BREAKING: Appeals panel hearing ObamaCare suit comprised of 2 Obama nominees and a Clinton nominee  —  Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @Philipaklein  —  RICHMOND, Va. - A three-judge federal appeals panel comprised of two Obama nominees and a Clinton nominee …
Discussion: Hit & Run
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The Note:
Health Care Reform Appeal to be Heard by Panel Appointed by Democratic Presidents
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire Skype  —  Combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity.  —  Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT") and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype …
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Associated Press:
Suspect in flight disturbance had Calif. ID  —  SAN FRANCISCO - The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco.  He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door.
Philip Christofanelli / Big Government:
‘Introduction to Labor Studies’ - My First-Hand Account  —  My name is Philip Christofanelli.  I was a student in the University of Missouri's “Introduction to Labor Studies” course.  The class was taught simultaneously by Professor Don Giljum of University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) …
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Whatever Happened to the Great Recession?  —  At least, that's what I would ask David Brooks, who managed to write an entire column on unemployment among adult men without mentioning the economic collapse of 2008.  His explanation for the 20 percent of American men (between the ages of 25 and 54) who don't work?
Discussion: Yglesias
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
House defense committee to vote on anti-gay amendments  —  Amendments that could disrupt “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” repeal and mandate that marriages on military bases comply with the Defense of Marriage Act are set to see votes on Wednesday when a House defense panel takes up major Pentagon budget legislation.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Danger: Falling Tyrants  —  The Jordanian monarchy represents the sort of regime the United States finds itself defending.  It is not the most difficult regime in the Middle East to defend—throughout the early stages of the Arab revolt, Bahrain's royal family, engaged in the often violent suppression …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
 
 
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The myth of American exceptionalism
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Jennifer Ablan / Reuters:
PIMCO raises bet against U.S. government debt
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
Leadership lessons from World War Two
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Political Punch:
Senate Republicans Block James Cole, Key Obama Nominee at Justice Dept.
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY and Salon
John Eligon / New York Times:
In Rape Trial, Officer Calls Woman the Aggressor and Says They Only Snuggled
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Bill Gorman / TVbytheNumbers:
TV Ratings Sunday: Finales Of ‘Brothers & Sisters,’ ‘CSI:Miami’ Up; ‘The Amazing Race’ Hits Low
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BBC:
Royal honeymoon begins for duke and duchess
Discussion: Washington Post, PopEater and Gawker
Joe Williams / The Politico:
President Obama, Congressional Black Caucus on solid ground?
Discussion: The Note and The Hill
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
The ‘Education’ Mantra  —  One of the sad and dangerous signs …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Missing Fifth  —  In 1910, Henry Van Dyke wrote a book called …
Discussion: Dean's World
The Politico:
2012 battlefield: The Supreme Court
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ron Paul's land of second-rate values
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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