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Shams Momand / Reuters:
Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28 — (Reuters) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis.
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Salman Masood / New York Times:
Tensions High After NATO Air Strikes Kill Pakistani Soldiers
Tensions High After NATO Air Strikes Kill Pakistani Soldiers
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CNN and Outside the Beltway
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
Pakistan official: NATO attack kills 26 Pakistani soldiers
Pakistan official: NATO attack kills 26 Pakistani soldiers
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Zandar Versus The Stupid
Gary Martin / MySanAntonio.com:
Rep. Gonzalez will not run again — Decision opens doors for Castro, Rodriguez. — WASHINGTON — Rep. Charlie Gonzalez said Friday he won't seek re-election, a decision that will end the congressional tenure of a Democratic family whose name has been synonymous with the city of San Antonio for more than half a century.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, Off the Kuff, The Page and Hotline On Call
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Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Texas court refuses to hold GOP-contested redistricting map — A San Antonio-based federal court refused to block a new congressional redistricting map late Friday, setting up a battle between Texas GOP and Democratic interests that will next turn to the Supreme Court.
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CNN
Howard Beck / New York Times:
N.B.A. and Players Reach Tentative Deal to End Lockout — On a frantic Black Friday in Midtown Manhattan, the biggest deal was consummated in a law office tucked between FAO Schwartz and the Apple Store, according to one of the negotiators. — With a few handshakes, and surely a few sighs …
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CBS New York, The Stranger …, Gothamist and Marginal Revolution
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A.Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Obama on NBA tentative agreement: ‘Good deal’
TRENDING: Obama on NBA tentative agreement: ‘Good deal’
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Jammie Wearing Fools
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama gives thumbs up to end of NBA strike
Rob Waugh / Daily Mail:
Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn't fit their apocalyptic global warming — 5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made — Scientist asks, 'What if they find that climate change is a natural fluctuation?
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Don Surber, The Gateway Pundit and Tom Nelson
Stacey Patton / Washington Post:
Why African Americans aren't embracing Occupy Wall Street — Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would speak to black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009 …
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Althouse, Pirate's Cove, Daily Kos and Ricochet Conversations Feed
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Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up — It's fair to say that our discussion about the big lie touched a nerve. — The big lie of the financial crisis, of course, is that troubling technique used to try to change the narrative history and shift blame …
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Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake and Angry Bear
Megan McArdle / Wall Street Journal:
Spend It or Save It? … Shoppers in downtown Chicago on Black Friday, 2010. The day after Thanksgiving remains one of the country's most anticipated shopping days. — A few months ago, I became the proud, and slightly sheepish, owner of what must be the world's most expensive food processor.
Home Santafenewmexican.com:
‘Abandoned’ by GOP, Johnson could seek Libertarian nod — HOME - NEWS - SPORTS - OPINION - PASATIEMPO - MAGAZINES - OBITUARIES - PHOTOS - VIDEO - SUBSCRIBERS - HELP & CONTACTS — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson knows he's not going to win the New Hampshire presidential primary …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Ynetnews:
Cairo rally: One day we'll kill all Jews — Muslim Brotherhood holds venomous anti-Israel rally in Cairo mosque Friday; Islamic activists chant: Tel Aviv, judgment day has come — Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo's most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Israel Matzav, Jihad Watch, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and americanthinker.com
Linda McQuaig / Toronto Star:
Occupy moves us into a new era — When thousands of Egyptian protesters took over Tahrir Square in events widely celebrated as the Arab Spring, I don't recall anyone being concerned that they were violating local bylaws. — Of course, Egypt was a dictatorship and the only way to protest the lack of democracy was by breaking laws.
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The Moderate Voice
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
The Shocking Truth About Naomi Wolf's Factless Assertions — In an article for The Guardian, Naomi Wolf wrote this: … This follows the ongoing meme that DHS has coordinated the Occupy crackdowns on a national level; that they are orchestrating the violence behind the clearing of Zuccotti Park and others.
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The Moderate Voice, American Times, The Mahablog and Portland Mercury
Jon Kyl / Washington Post:
The supercommittee failed because Democrats insisted on $1 trillion in new taxes — We do not choose to add more to the blame game for failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction , but one Democratic talking point needs debunking: that the talks failed because of Republicans' attachment to the Bush tax cuts.
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Washington Monthly and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Gail Collins / New York Times:
O.K., Now Ron Paul — Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas, now seems to have an outside chance of winning the Iowa caucus vote. Not the presidential nomination. It seems highly unlikely that the Republicans are going to give the nod to a guy who disapproves of the Patriot Act and marriage licenses.
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LewRockwell.com Blog and Prairie Weather
Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Obama Plays Golf for the 30th Time This Year — It is an unseasonably warm 65 degrees in the Washington area, and President Obama has bolted out of the White House to go golfing. — It's his 30th time golfing this year and the 88th golf outing of his presidency.
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The Moderate Voice and Weasel Zippers
William Nottingham / L.A. NOW:
Villaraigosa, Beck start countdown to Occupy L.A. closure — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ordered the shutdown of the Occupy L.A. encampment on City Hall grounds at 12:01 a.m. Monday, saying officials can no longer “maintain the public safety of a long-term encampment,” according to a statement issued Friday.
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Los Angeles Times, americanthinker.com, Verum Serum and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Occupy Los Angeles to Be Evicted From City Hall Park
Occupy Los Angeles to Be Evicted From City Hall Park
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