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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC — NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. — The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …
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CNN, The Hill, PolitickerNY, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, Lynn Sweet, Towleroad News #gay, Hotline On Call and Inside TV, more at Mediagazer »
The Politico:
Some Democrats refuse to back President Obama — Sen. Joe Lieberman was treated like an outcast back in 2008 when he broke from the Senate Democratic Caucus and openly opposed Barack Obama's bid for the White House. — Asked last week if he'd back Obama in 2012, the Connecticut independent said, “I don't know what I'm going to do.”
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ABCNEWS, The Caucus, Pat Dollard, The Moderate Voice and Weasel Zippers
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Capitol Gains — Are members of Congress guilty of insider trading—and does it matter? — IN 1995, WHEN Alan Ziobrowski was an associate professor of finance at Lander University, in South Carolina, he found himself at home one night watching “one of those 60 Minutes-type shows.”
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes — WASHINGTON — With a little over a week left to reach a deal, members of the Congressional deficit reduction panel are looking for an escape hatch that would let them strike an accord on revenue levels but delay until next year tough decisions about exactly how to raise taxes.
Karl Vick / Time:
Intel Source: Israel Behind Deadly Explosion at Iran Missile Base — Smoke rises from an explosion at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot outside Tehran, which, according to Iranian officials, killed at least 15 people on Nov. 12, 2011 — Israeli newspapers on Sunday were thick with innuendo …
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Guardian, americanthinker.com and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Wynton Hall / Big Government:
REVEALED: Nancy Pelosi Blocked Credit Card Reform While Investing Millions in Exclusive Visa Stock Offering — Former Speaker of the House-and current Minority Leader-Nancy Pelosi apparently bought $1 million to $5 million of Visa stock in one of the most sought-after and profitable initial public offerings …
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The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, DownWithTyranny! and Hot Air
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Bachmann Says CBS News E-Mail Shows Bias — It is not exactly a state secret that the news media tend to lavish more coverage on perceived front-runners in presidential campaigns. — But CBS News's political director, John Dickerson, made the mistake of saying basically that in an e-mail …
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The Other McCain, Outside the Beltway, American Spectator, The Lonely Conservative and The Caucus
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Republicans return to the torture ‘debate’
Republicans return to the torture ‘debate’
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Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online, Brad DeLong and Political Mojo
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“It gets a little lonely over here in Siberia from time to time” …
“It gets a little lonely over here in Siberia from time to time” …
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The Other McCain, Hot Air and Little Green Footballs
Mark Schultz / Raleigh News & Observer:
Police arrest Chapel Hill ‘Occupy’ protesters — KATELYN FERRAL - KATELYN.FERRAL@NEWSOBSERVER.COM — Police brandishing guns and assault rifles entered a vacant Franklin Street car dealership and arrested a group of demonstrators who had taken over the building Saturday night.
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Right Wing News, Boing Boing and Prairie Weather
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Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
Foes: Elizabeth Warren bombs on Iran — GOP blasts candidate's ‘troubling’ stance on nukes — Hawkish Republicans opened fire on Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren yesterday, after the Harvard Law professor called for a “nuanced” response to Iran's purported nuclear weapons program.
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Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Hossein Jaseb / Reuters:
Iran says has detected Duqu computer virus
Molly Hottle / Oregonian:
3 men claiming to be Occupy Portland protesters arrested in Marion County for possession of explosives — Marion County authorities arrested three men, who claimed to be Occupy Portland protesters, during a traffic stop after officers found fireworks and marijuana inside.
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Verum Serum, The Daily Weekly, The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
New York Post:
Ex-cop boots OWS heckler from congressman's swearing-in — Meet New York's newest hero. — Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he'd been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman's swearing-in ceremony.
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PolitickerNY and The Gateway Pundit
Wall Street Journal:
The EPA's Reliability Cover-Up — Why did the agency erase its own doubts about the U.S. electrical grid? — Some 830,000 Connecticut customers are only now having their power restored after a snowstorm knocked out the state's grid last month—but the Environmental Protection Agency continues …
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The Lonely Conservative
Dominic Holden / The Stranger …:
Occupy Seattle Disrupts Pro-Occupy Wall Street Forum, Drives Away Supporters — Occupy Seattle: How to lose friends and alienate people. — No sooner had the panel finished opening remarks last night than a woman scampered up onto stage and yelled, “Mic check!”
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Rod Dreher
Reuters:
Insight: U.S. readies defenses against Europe spillover — (Reuters) - The United States is ramping up attempts to safeguard its financial system from a worsening of Europe's debt crisis, joining nations in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere in trying to build firewalls.
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ThinkProgress and americanthinker.com
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Gloria Cain speaks out about sexual harassment allegations — In her first televised interview ever, Gloria Cain, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, sat down with her husband and said that the allegations of sexual harassment against him don't square with the man she knows.
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Banks Quietly Ramping Up Costs to Consumers — Even as Bank of America and other major lenders back away from charging customers to use their debit cards, many banks have been quietly imposing other new fees. — Need to replace a lost debit card? Bank of America now charges $5 — or $20 for rush delivery.
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ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Jeffrey D. Sachs / New York Times:
The New Progressive Movement — OCCUPY WALL STREET and its allied movements around the country are more than a walk in the park. They are most likely the start of a new era in America. Historians have noted that American politics moves in long swings. We are at the end of the 30-year Reagan era …
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Greg's Opinion, Weasel Zippers, Balloon Juice, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos