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Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse — In virtually all the debates about the eurozone I have been engaged in, someone usually makes the point that it is only when things get bad enough, the politicians finally act - eurobond, debt monetisation, quantitative easing, whatever.
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Business Insider, EconLog, Marginal Revolution, The Daily Dish and Calculated Risk
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Associated Press:
Teen tweeter won't apologize to Sam Brownback — KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback said Sunday that she is rejecting her high school principal's demand for a written apology. — Emma Sullivan, 18, of the Kansas City suburb of Fairway …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
Jonathan Wynne-Jones / Telegraph:
Christian worker loses her job after being ‘targeted’ by Islamic extremists — A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action after she lost her job when she blew the whistle on what she says was a campaign of “race hate” by fundmentalist Muslims. — Nohad Halaoui is claiming …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
David Frum / National Post:
In the Republican race, it's Romney, Huntsman or bust — Yesterday, 11 National Post contributors named their preferred Republican nominee in less than 250 words. — Being more indecisive and longer-winded, I needed 24 extra hours and 500 more words. — I'm looking for two chief things in a candidate for 2012:
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Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, The Daily Dish and Moe Lane
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Craven Political Crudités — BARACK OBAMA hates Thanksgiving and all that it represents. — Don't believe me? Then consider his own words. On Wednesday, previewing our annual overconsumption of fowl, the president said, “Tomorrow is one of the worst days of the year to be American.”
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driftglass, Prairie Weather, Connecting.the.Dots and Hullabaloo
Joseph W. McQuaid / unionleader.com:
For President, Newt Gingrich
For President, Newt Gingrich
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
TV Attack Ads Aim at Obama Early and Often
Serafin Gomez / Fox News:
Newt Gingrich Gets Big New Hampshire Endorsement
Newt Gingrich Gets Big New Hampshire Endorsement
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Iowa Caucuses, americanthinker.com, Pirate's Cove and The Politico
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Kimberly Webb Joyner, 1970 to 2011 — My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41. — She leaves behind two little girls she loved more than anything, Katie, who turns 3 on New Year's Eve, and Ellie, who was born June 21.
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Hot Air, The Glittering Eye, Sense of Events, The Moderate Voice, Campaign 2012, PoliBlog, The Impolitic, Moe Lane, American Power, Vodkapundit and The Agonist
Ben Casselman / Wall Street Journal:
Help Wanted: In Unexpected Twist, Some Skilled Jobs Go Begging — DENVER—Ferrie Bailey's job should be easy: hiring workers amid the worst stretch of unemployment since the Depression. — A recruiter for Union Pacific Corp., she has openings to fill, the kind that sometimes seem to have all but vanished …
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Moe Lane, Don Surber, Bob Owens and Instapundit
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama's toughest critic: Obama — President Barack Obama has plenty of critics — Republicans, liberals, the media — but the person hardest on the president, his administration and the Democratic Party is, at times, Barack Obama. — Obama has admitted that he's “screwed up,” is “frustrated” …
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Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Newt Gingrich Mocks President Barack Obama in Naples
Newt Gingrich Mocks President Barack Obama in Naples
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Mediaite, Doug Ross, nation.foxnews.com and The Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg:
Secret Fed Loans Gave U.S. Banks Undisclosed $13B — The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. — The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks …
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Felix Salmon and Business Insider
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Romney calls on Obama to block $600B in defense cuts — Mitt Romney on Sunday called for President Obama to halt the $600 billion in automatic cuts aimed at the Defense department as a consequence of the failed debt supercommittee. — “I'm calling on the president to say no way for those cuts …
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
But Nobody Pays That: Estée Lauder Heir's Tax Strategies Typify Advantages for Wealthy — As he stood in the opulent marble foyer of a Fifth Avenue mansion late last month, greeting the coterie of prominent guests arriving at his private art gallery, Ronald S. Lauder was doing more than just being a gracious host.
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Felix Salmon, Runnin' Scared, Discourse.net and Gothamist
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Powell: Tea Party presidential candidate can't win in 2012 — Former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday dismissed chances for a Tea Party candidate to win the presidential election, criticizing the hard-line stance taken by the majority of the grassroots movement …
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The Other McCain and Alan Colmes' Liberaland