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Michael Catalini / NationalJournal.com:
Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Run for Second Term — President Obama should abandon his run for a second term and turn over the reins of the Democratic Party to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two one-time Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal, which appeared online Sunday.
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The Hillary Moment — President Obama can't win by running a constructive campaign, and he won't be able to govern if he does win a second term. — When Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson accepted the reality that they could not effectively govern the nation if they sought re-election to the White House …
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Wizbang, Pat Dollard and Jammie Wearing Fools
Alan Diaz / ABCNEWS:
Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden Draw Boos at NASCAR Event — First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden were grand marshals at today's NASCAR season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, appearing as part of their charitable campaign to support military veterans and their families.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
First Lady Michelle Obama Booed At NASCAR Race — First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden were on hand this afternoon at the Homestead-Miami Speedway to Grand Marshall NASCAR's Sprint Cup finale, and to support Joining Forces, an initiative to hire and train veterans.
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Don Surber, Gawker and Jezebel
Joseph Goldstein / City Room:
Man Arrested and Charged in Bomb Plot — The authorities have arrested a man who law enforcement officials believe was planning to build and detonate a bomb in New York with government workers, returning military personnel and elected officials as the target, a person briefed on the case said on Sunday.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Lawmakers Trade Blame As Deficit Talks Crumble — WASHINGTON — With the hours ticking away toward a self-imposed deadline, Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure and braced for recriminations over their inability to reach a deal.
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The Politico:
Supercommittee blame everywhere
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Debt supercommittee members brace for failure
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The Heritage Foundation and The Democratic Daily
Candice M. Giove / New York Post:
Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel — Hell no, we won't go — unless we get goose down pillows. — A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel …
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New York Post:
Occupy protester busted with handgun and ammo, in more arrests at Zuccotti — The Occupy Wall Street protest could have been one bad temper away from turning lethal. — Cops busted a man from Youngstown, Ohio this weekend for driving around the OWS protest and Lower Manhattan with an unregistered gun.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Lawmaker accused of sexually abusing family member — Family members of Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.) are accusing the congressman of sexually abusing an underage male relative over 50 years ago according to a report from The Washington Times. — The paper identified the victim as Patrick Kildee …
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Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
Michigan lawmaker's family accuses congressman of past sexual abuse of family member
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A frightening forum in Iowa — Just looking at the co-hosts of the event in Iowa yesterday for the Republican presidential field offered a hint of what was to come. — The “Thanksgiving Family Forum” was organized and sponsored by three groups: the James Dobson-founded Focus on the Family …
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Alyssa Newcomb / Yahoo! News:
Parents of ‘Adolf Hitler’ Lose Custody of Newborn — Heath and Deborah Campbell, the New Jersey parents of three children with Nazi-inspired names, lost custody of their fourth child 17 hours after he was born, the Express-Times of Lehigh Valley, Pa., reported.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
James Hansen and the Corruption of Science — It recently came out that James Hansen, one of the two or three most prominent global warming alarmists on whose work the IPCC reports rest, “forgot” to report $1.6 million in outside income, as required by his government contracts. Is that significant?
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:
Yet Another New York Times Fail: Ross Douthat Department — Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? — Ross Douthat: … (1) The democratically-elected representatives of the Greek and the Italian people voted to change the prime minister. They can do that. That is part of their democratic process.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Conspiracies, Coups and Currencies
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Connecting.the.Dots, Political Mojo and Eschaton
William Yardley / New York Times:
Oscar Ortega Struggled With Mental Illness, Family Says — IDAHO FALLS — A referee lifted Oscar Ortega's hand high into the clear Rocky Mountain night last summer. Mr. Ortega had not yet been accused of trying to kill the president. He had not yet told the world he was Jesus Christ.
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Little Green Footballs
UC Newsroom:
President Yudof responds to campus protest issues — University of California President Mark G. Yudof today (Nov. 20) announced the actions he is taking in response to recent campus protest issues: — I am appalled by images of University of California students being doused with pepper spray …
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