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Politico:
Hard questions await Obama at news conference — This is not what the White House wanted for President Barack Obama's first news conference of his second term. — He won't be able to dwell much on his stronger-than-expected victory or even press his agenda for the next four years.
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Jammie Wearing Fools, msnbc.com, Pirate's Cove, Instapundit and Reuters
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Krauthammer: White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' For Favorable Testimony On Benghazi — Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday said the White House used David Petraeus's affair to get the CIA director to give testimony about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
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Fox News, Nice Deb, Scared Monkeys, The Lonely Conservative, Atlas Shrugs, Doug Ross, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Israel Matzav and Rightnewz Videos
EndPlay / TheDenverChannel.com:
Photoshopped book title from Paula Broadwell's Gen. David Petraeus' biography goes viral on web
Photoshopped book title from Paula Broadwell's Gen. David Petraeus' biography goes viral on web
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
ABC Affiliate: ‘All Up In My Snatch’ Petraeus Book Graphic A ‘Mistake’
ABC Affiliate: ‘All Up In My Snatch’ Petraeus Book Graphic A ‘Mistake’
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Balloon Juice, AMERICAblog, BuzzFeed and New York Magazine
Max Read / Gawker:
A Flowchart of the Petraeus Affair's Love Pentagon, from the Shirtless FBI Agent to Chuck Klosterman
A Flowchart of the Petraeus Affair's Love Pentagon, from the Shirtless FBI Agent to Chuck Klosterman
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The Daily Beast, Grantland, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, The Reaction, Mashable!, WorldViews, The Week, Texas on the Potomac and BobCesca.com, more at Mediagazer »
Paul D. Shinkman / US News:
Paula Broadwell's License Discovered in D.C. Park
Paula Broadwell's License Discovered in D.C. Park
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DCist, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Gawker, Hot Air, Business Insider and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tampa Bay news, weather forecast …:
Jill Kelley requested “diplomatic protection” in 911 call — The South Tampa woman connected to the Gen. David Petraeus scandal has called police to her home several times in the last few days, and at least once tried to invoke “diplomatic protection.” — Media from around the world …
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Washington Post, American Spectator, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Business Insider, Mediaite, National Review and Daily Mail
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Jill Kelley claims ‘honorary’ diplomatic status — Jill Kelley, the woman at the center of scandals swirling around Gens. David Petraeus and John Allen, tried to invoke what she claimed was honorary diplomatic status in a 911 call complaining about trespassers on her lawn.
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msnbc.com
Josh Rogin / Associated Press:
Jill Kelley is an ‘honorary consul’ of South Korea — Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite connected to ISAF Commander John Allen and former CIA Director David Petraeus, is an “honorary consul” of South Korea, a diplomatic official with direct knowledge of the arrangement told The Cable.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and Balloon Juice
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Who's doing who in the Obama team's sex scandals: A handy guide
Who's doing who in the Obama team's sex scandals: A handy guide
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Chicago Boyz
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
Jill Kelley, Woman Who Sparked Petraeus Scandal, Ran Questionable Charity
Jill Kelley, Woman Who Sparked Petraeus Scandal, Ran Questionable Charity
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The Week, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, Associated Press, Guardian and Telegraph
Jon Swaine / Telegraph:
David Petraeus affair: The Florida twins at the centre of America's miltary scandal
David Petraeus affair: The Florida twins at the centre of America's miltary scandal
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Washington Post, Agence France Presse, Gawker and Business Insider
Tara McKelvey / The Atlantic Online:
The Writer and the General: What the Petraeus Affair Exposed About D.C.
The Writer and the General: What the Petraeus Affair Exposed About D.C.
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Jonathan Last Online and Conservatives4Palin
Investor's Business Daily:
Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff — Budget Talks: If President Obama wants to get a deficit deal done to avoid the fiscal cliff, his biggest challenge won't be Republicans, but his own hard-core left-wing supporters. — Two days after the election …
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The Lonely Conservative
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Appeals To Activist Base For Help With Fiscal Cliff … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Barack Obama , Barack Obama , Elections 2012, Fiscal Policy, Video, Mitch Stewart, Obama Activist Base, Obama Activists, Obama Base, Obama Disappointments, Obama Fiscal Cliff, Obama Mitch Stewart …
Ryan Tracy / Washington Wire:
Gov. O'Malley to GOP: Remove Tea Party ‘Stench’
Gov. O'Malley to GOP: Remove Tea Party ‘Stench’
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The Fix, Weasel Zippers and Eschaton
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan: It ‘Looked Like We Stood A Pretty Good Chance Of Winning’ On Election Day — In an interview with WISN 12 News in Milwaukee on Monday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted that he and Mitt Romney were indeed caught off guard by the results of last week's election, claiming …
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WISN Milwaukees Channel 12 and Political Watch
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John R. Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Paul Ryan Exclusive: Obama Lacks Mandate to Raise Taxes — Despite a devastating loss last week, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan rejected Democratic claims of a mandate to raise tax rates on the wealthy. — Asked whether President Obama has a mandate on taxes …
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Talking Points Memo, CNN, Politico, The Caucus and Connecting.the.Dots
The Irish Times:
Woman ‘denied a termination’ dies in hospital — Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month. — Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st …
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Spectator, Guardian, Gawker, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Crooked Timber and Activism and Agitation
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Relationship between Boehner, McConnell faces tough test — The relationship between House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will be tested in the months ahead as political forces pull them in different directions.
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Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
Hurricane Sandy: Katrina on the Hudson? — Glenn Reynolds notices similarities, in USA Today: … But there is one difference: … It took days for FEMA to hit the ground in hard-hit parts of NYC. More than a week after the storm, FEMA representatives were just getting on the ground and opening temporary offices in New Jersey.
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Questions and Observations, WPIX, New Jersey Online, Staten Island Advance and LoanSafe
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Colbert's super-PAC files termination paperwork with FEC — According to the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow had its termination paperwork scanned onto the commission's website at about 7 p.m. — Among it its final disbursements, the committee reports giving the …
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CNN and Ballot Box
Slavoj iek / Guardian:
Why Obama is more than Bush with a human face | Slavoj iek — Ground-floor thinking can give Obama lift-off. His reforms have already touched a nerve at the core of the US ideological edifice — How did Barack Obama win re-election? The philosopher Jean-Claude Milner recently proposed …
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Obsidian Wings
Michael Cohen / Guardian:
General Petraeus' fatal flaw: not his affair, but the Afghan surge — The CIA director's resignation over a sex scandal has obscured how badly his counterinsurgency strategy failed in Afghanistan — More than three years ago, I sat in an overflow room in Washington, DC's Willard Hotel listening …
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Firedoglake, New Atlanticist, emptywheel and The Daily Dish
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
US deficit was $120 billion in October — The U.S. racked up a $120 billion deficit in October, the first month in fiscal 2013, the Treasury Department reported on Tuesday. — The government spent $304 billion and collected only $184 billion in revenue. — That is a fast start to the new fiscal year.
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Weasel Zippers and americanthinker.com
Media Decoder:
Accuser Recants Allegation Against Elmo Puppeteer — Updated The man who accused Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of the “Sesame Street” character Elmo, of an underage sexual relationship has recanted that claim, his lawyer said on Tuesday, one day after the claim was published by the gossip Web site TMZ.
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BuzzFeed, Guardian, Tucson Weekly and Gawker
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
W.H. Petition Calls for Stripping Citizenship and Exile for Anyone Who Signs Petition to Secede — A White House petition gathering force calls for citizenship to be stripped and exile for anyone who signs a petition in favor of a state's secession. — “Mr. President, please sign …