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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Barack Obama's ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again — Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft's 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming. There is only so much of this bulls-t I can endure without talking back to my TV:
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Jewel Samad / Investor's Business Daily:
As Americans struggle, the Obamas make do with 37 Christmas trees — The economy may be weak, unemployment strong and the first family soon to vacate the White House for another half-month of vacation in Hawaii. — But the Obamas have gone all out in decorating their house this year …
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CBS News:
President Obama: The economy, the Congress, the future — Steve Kroft interviews the president on a wide range of critical topics, including Obama's performance in office; the U.S. economy and the state of unemployment; congressional gridlock; and the mounting deficit.
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama on CBS: 'I didn't overpromise'
Obama on CBS: 'I didn't overpromise'
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The Moderate Voice, US Politics, Taylor Marsh, Pirate's Cove and Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Depression and Democracy — It's time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it's not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that's cold comfort. Unemployment in both America and Europe remains disastrously high. Leaders and institutions are increasingly discredited.
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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Mitt Romney, ‘human-like’ — HUDSON, N.H. — Meet Mitt Romney, human. — In the past 24 hours, the former Massachusetts governor has talked about his father, experiences while working as a missionary that weren't even in his memoir — and twice in two days, he's brought up the Mormon faith …
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Kidding around: Romney defends bet
Kidding around: Romney defends bet
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CBS News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Patterico's Pontifications
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Under fire for bet, Mitt Romney recalls more austere times
Under fire for bet, Mitt Romney recalls more austere times
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Hot Air, Washington Post, The Caucus, The Last Tradition, ABCNEWS and Shakesville
Associated Press:
High court to look at state immigration laws — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for an election-year decision on an issue that is already shaping presidential politics.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Supreme Court to consider Arizona illegal immigration law
Supreme Court to consider Arizona illegal immigration law
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ThinkProgress, CNN and Hot Air
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to hear challenge of Arizona's restrictive immigration law
Supreme Court to hear challenge of Arizona's restrictive immigration law
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New York Times and National Review
Jason Clayworth / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowa audience members yell at Rick Perry after Ames appearance [includes video] — Ames, Ia. - A packed coffee house where Rick Perry spoke this afternoon turned into a bit of a ruckus that left the candidate heading out the back door and straight to his vehicle after several Iowans screamed questions about his views on gays.
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Perry going for broke in Iowa with 3 weeks to go
Perry going for broke in Iowa with 3 weeks to go
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Boston Herald, Washington Wire and Washington Post
David Fisher / New Zealand Herald:
Sperm-donor kept wife in the dark — A conservative Christian politician has a secret life as a sperm donor for lesbian couples - even though he has campaigned against gay marriage. — American politician Bill Johnson has spent most of this year in Christchurch helping run the earthquake recovery …
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Political winds shift to Democrats — The political winds have shifted to the Democrats' backs over the last month. — President Obama is in better shape at the prospect of a prolonged GOP primary battle between former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Mitt Romney.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Boehner faces toughest leadership test
Boehner faces toughest leadership test
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Associated Press:
Occupy protesters seek to shut down West Coast ports despite rejection by Longshore union — OAKLAND, Calif. — Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation's busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.
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Daniel B. Klein / The Atlantic Online:
I Was Wrong, and So Are You — A libertarian economist retracts a swipe at the left—after discovering that our political leanings leave us more biased than we think. — BACK IN JUNE 2010, I published a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that the American left was unenlightened, by and large, as to economic matters.
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Paul Rincon / BBC:
Higgs boson: Excitement builds over ‘glimpses’ at LHC — The Higgs search is approaching its endgame at Cern — Scientists are widely expected to present evidence on Tuesday that the most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - has been glimpsed.
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americanthinker.com and The PJ Tatler
David Carr / New York Times:
When Truth Survives Free Speech — Last week, a story came across my desk that seemed to suggest that a blogger had been unfairly nailed with a $2.5 million defamation award after a judge refused to give her standing as a journalist. A businessman who was the target of the blogger's inquiries brought the suit.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record 64% Rate Honesty, Ethics of Members of Congress Low — Ratings of nurses, pharmacists, and medical doctors most positive — PRINCETON, NJ — Sixty-four percent of Americans rate the honesty and ethical standards of members of Congress as “low” or “very low,” tying the record “low” …
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
Gingrich's Electromagnetic Pulse Warning Has Skeptics — Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful, wants you to know that as commander in chief he is ready to confront one of the most nightmarish of doomsday scenarios: a nuclear blast high above the United States that would instantly throw the nation into a dark age.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised — The Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer. — A few of their many complaints: there is no external volume control.
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Hans Villarica / The Atlantic Online:
Study of the Day: Drinking Alcohol Fuels the Desire for Unsafe Sex — New research shows that liquor consumption affects a person's intention to have unprotected sex, one of the leading causes of HIV infection — PROBLEM: Alcohol consumption has long been implicated in the incidence of unsafe sex, the leading cause of HIV infection.