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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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Fox News:
Pakistan Tells U.S. to ‘Vacate’ Air Base as Border Strike Inflames Tensions — Pakistan's government has ordered the U.S. to “vacate” an air base used for suspected drone attacks, in retaliation for a NATO strike that allegedly killed two-dozen Pakistani soldiers, Fox News has confirmed.
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Bob Owens and HotAirPundit
Salman Masood / New York Times:
Tensions High After NATO Air Strikes Kill Pakistani Soldiers — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials said Saturday that NATO aircraft had killed at least 25 soldiers in strikes against two military posts at the northwestern border with Afghanistan, and the country's supreme army commander called …
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Hot Air, CNN, Outside the Beltway and The Agonist
Associated Press:
Pakistan: 24 troops dead in NATO helicopter attack
Pakistan: 24 troops dead in NATO helicopter attack
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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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Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Texas court refuses to hold GOP-contested redistricting map
A.Killough / CNN:
House Democrat to pass on seeking re-election
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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AlterNet, The Moderate Voice, American Times and The Mahablog
Erik Lacitis / Seattle Times:
Occupy Seattle visits Walmart's 99% — Mostly, what happens when about 80 Occupy Seattle demonstrators carpool Friday afternoon from Westlake Park to picket in front of the Walmart in Renton is that customers glance at them briefly, and then ignore them. — “It's not your purpose in life …
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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.
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Shocked / WSAZ-TV:
Man Dies on Black Friday; Shoppers Unfazed … SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — A man collapsed while doing some Black Friday shopping in a crowded store, and people nearby continued to shop. — Witnesses tell WSAZ.com some shoppers walked around and even over the man's body.
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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, YID With LID, 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 …
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama and family take in basketball game, chat with Bill Murray — President Obama and the First Family continued their post-Thanksgiving tradition by attending the Oregon State versus Towson game in Maryland on Saturday afternoon. Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson coaches …
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Weasel Zippers
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, Gothamist, The Stranger … and Marginal Revolution
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
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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A.Killough / CNN:
TRENDING: Obama on NBA tentative agreement: ‘Good deal’ — (CNN) - After playing basketball at Washington's Fort McNair Army Base on Saturday, President Barack Obama seemed to approve the tentative deal reached earlier in the day to end the NBA lockout. — When asked about the potential agreement …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama gives thumbs up to end of NBA strike
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
North Dakota Oil Boom Creates Camps of Men — TIOGA, N.D. — As much as the drilling rigs that tower over this once placid corner of the prairie, the two communities springing up just outside of town testify to the galloping pace of growth here in oil country.
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