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ABCNEWS:
Michele Bachmann Becomes Fifth GOP Candidate To Reject Donald Trump Debate — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — DES MOINES — Another one bites the dust. — Michele Bachmann has officially said “no” to the Donald Trump-moderated Newsmax debate scheduled for later this month.
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A.Killough / CNN:
Santorum on Trump debate no-shows: They're hypocrites
Santorum on Trump debate no-shows: They're hypocrites
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Michelle Malkin and The Politico
Richard A. Oppel Jr / The Caucus:
Perry and Bachmann Also Pass on Trump Debate
Perry and Bachmann Also Pass on Trump Debate
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New York Times, The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS, Indecision Forever and GOP 12
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Bachmann opts out of Trump debate
Andrew Grossman / Metropolis:
N.Y.U. to Offer Classes on Occupy Wall Street … Occupy Wall Street is becoming a teachable moment for New York City college students. — New York University plans to offer two classes next semester on the protest movement, whose participants frequently marched and rallied around the school's Greenwich Village campus this fall.
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ThinkProgress, NBC New York and ABCNEWS
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Rita Solomon / Washington Square News:
NYU to add course on OWS next semester — Occupy Wall Street will be taking over the classroom next semester. The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis has announced that it will be offering a course on the movement this spring. — The course will explore the history and politics …
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Business Insider, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Winning the argument
Winning the argument
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Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, Paul Krugman, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Obama: More jobs in jobless benefits than Keystone — President Obama said that he will delay his vacation and keep Congress in session until the passage of his desired payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits extension — two proposals that Obama said would create more jobs …
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Dems' payroll tax cut extension goes down again in Senate
Dems' payroll tax cut extension goes down again in Senate
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Connecting.the.Dots, The Politico, Hot Air, Firedoglake and The Page
Matt Ortega / 2012 US Elections:
Perry's jacket in anti-gay ad? Heath Ledger wore it in “Brokeback Mountain” — Rick Perry launched an anti-gay ad called, “Strong.” In the ad, he attacks gays openly serving in the armed forces. — As it turns out, the gays get their revenge... the jacket Rick Perry wore in the ad?
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Mediaite and Taylor Marsh
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Iowa Ad Divides His Top Staff … 2012 Election , Log Cabin Republicans , Elections 2012 , Rick Perry , Video , Iowa Caucuses , Fabrizio Perry , Iowa Caucus 2012 , Perry Ad , Perry Dadt , Rick Perry 2012 , Rick Perry Ad Campaign , Rick Perry Don't Ask Don't Tell …
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
BIG BARNSTORM: Rick Perry to hit 44 Iowa cities on two-week bus tour
BIG BARNSTORM: Rick Perry to hit 44 Iowa cities on two-week bus tour
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Los Angeles Times and GOP 12
BBC:
Iran shows film of captured US drone — The BBC's James Reynolds says the video appears to support Iran's claims — Iranian TV has shown the first video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed near the Afghan border. — Images show Iranian military officials inspecting …
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Wall Street Journal, Conservative Daily News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Belmont Club, Truthdig and New York Times
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Jennifer Griffin / Fox News:
Officials Confirm Authenticity of Iranian TV Images Showing Lost U.S. Drone
Officials Confirm Authenticity of Iranian TV Images Showing Lost U.S. Drone
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Atlas Shrugs and Vodkapundit
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Iran Shows Video It Says Is of U.S. Drone
Iran Shows Video It Says Is of U.S. Drone
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Weasel Zippers, Firedoglake, americanthinker.com, Danger Room, Mediaite and Washington Post
Eric Segall / Slate:
A Liberal's Lament on Kagan and Health Care — Should Elena Kagan recuse herself in the ACA case? — Elena Kagan was appointed by Obama from within his administration shortly after health care reform passed. Should she hear the case before the Supreme Court?
NW Daily Marker:
Tweets from Congressional Staffers Describe On-Job Drinking in Office of Congressman Larsen — For young men and women with ambitions toward a career in politics, working in a Congressional office can be a heady, almost dreamlike experience. Left unsupervised, the combination of youth indiscretion …
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The Moderate Voice, Seattle Times, The Hill, FishbowlDC, CBS News, Wonkette, Hotline On Call and The PJ Tatler
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
GOP seeks to cut unemployment benefits — GOP leaders hope to build momentum for an end-of-year tax package with sweeping reforms to federal unemployment benefits. — The Republican proposal is expected to reduce the total number of weeks unemployed workers are eligible for aid …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Next step in our Randian dystopia: stimgatize the unemployed — So now they're going to “reform” unemployment. The first thing they say they'll do do is stop the millionaires from collecting it. I don't know how many millionaires are collecting it now or how this will be administered, but fine.
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Daily Kos
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Arthur Delaney / The Huffington Post:
Jack Kingston: Drug Test The Jobless
Jack Kingston: Drug Test The Jobless
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ThinkProgress and Firedoglake
Google Mobile Blog:
Google Currents is hot off the press — We strive to give you beautiful and simple ways to experience all the content the web has to offer, such as sharing photos on Google+, watching YouTube videos and discovering books, movies and music from Android Market.
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iWatch News, Epicenter, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Poynter, GigaOM, VentureBeat and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Record High Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Toward Congress — But voters are more inclined to say their own representative deserves re-election — PRINCETON, NJ — About three-quarters of registered voters (76%) say most members of Congress do not deserve re-election, the highest such percentage Gallup …
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Hotline On Call and The Politico
Associated Press:
Obama celebrates Hanukkah at White House — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is marking Hanukkah as a story of “faith over doubt.” — Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden convened a Hanukkah celebration at the White House Thursday in an early celebration of the Jewish Festival of Lights.
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The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, The Lonely Conservative and Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
All the G.O.P.'s Gekkos — Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the release of the movie “Wall Street,” and the film seems more relevant than ever. The self-righteous screeds of financial tycoons denouncing President Obama all read like variations on Gordon Gekko's famous …
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Prairie Weather
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Hayley Peterson / Campaign 2012:
Christie heckles ‘Occupy’ protesters in Iowa
Christie heckles ‘Occupy’ protesters in Iowa
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Scared Monkeys, Don Surber, The Gateway Pundit, The Impolitic and The Lonely Conservative
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Lines Redrawn, Longtime Allies Fight for a Seat — LOS ANGELES — Democrat-on-Democrat warfare has returned to the San Fernando Valley. — After a tiff over the redrawing of their adjacent Congressional districts a decade ago, Representative Brad Sherman and his fellow California Democrat …
ThinkProgress:
Meet Josh Block: Lobbyist For Foreign Human Rights Abuser — A Politico article yesterday on CAP's Middle East posture cited Josh Block, who described CAP's bloggers as writing “borderline anti-Semitic stuff.” In a leaked email to a right-wing listserv, Block, now senior fellow …
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Salon, TBogg, Religion Dispatches and Brad DeLong