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11:00 PM ET, November 28, 2008

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Joe Gould / NY Daily News:
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede  —  A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.  —  The unidentified worker …
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death by Customers  —  A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after being trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a frenzy.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
‘Black Friday:’ Three dead so far  —  Some “Black Friday.”  —  First a temporary maintenance worker died opening the doors of a Wal-Mart to a bargaining-hunting crowd of human wolves.  And now two are dead at a Toys “R” Us.  —  Lay a little blame at the feet of the government …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Philly.com
Daily Mail:
Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and ‘came from same area as 7/7 bombers’ … British-born Pakistanis were among the Mumbai terrorists, Indian government sources claimed today, as the death toll rose to at least 150.  —  As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections …
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John Taylor / Times of London:
Jewish hostages killed as British terrorists linked to Bombay attacks
Discussion: New York Times and Telegraph
CNN:
Five hostages killed in Jewish center, chaos at hotel
Chabad Lubavitch:
Mumbai-Based Rabbi and Wife Killed in Terrorist Attacks
Discussion: The Lede and New York Times
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Thanksgiving Cheer From Obama  —  He's assembled a first-rate economic team.  —  When President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition team met this month, everyone was there — inflation fighters, business leaders, union firebrands and leftist economists — creating confusion about where the new administration was headed.
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Rove: We Don't Need A Change In Our Health Care System
Paul Krugman:
Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?  —  Sins of omission?  —  Has anyone else noticed that the current crisis sheds light on one of the great controversies of economic history?  —  A central theme of Keynes's General Theory was the impotence of monetary policy in depression-type conditions.
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Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Mr. Obama, enjoy the media adulation while you can  —  Commentary: President-elect should remember that what goes up must come down  —  This is an update to fix a typographical error.  —  NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — I'm starting to feel a little guilty about the media's treatment …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:   Media Bias Infects The Media's Self-Examination
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Wolff: Murdoch ‘absolutely despises’ O'Reilly  —  In Michael Wolff's forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch, “The Man Who Owns The News,” the author writes that the media mogul has seemed to turn away lately from his cable news network, and isn't fond its top-rated personality, Bill O'Reilly.
Fox News:
Gorbachev Looks Forward to New U.S. Policy Under Obama  —  Former Soviet head of state says world needs ‘strong’ America to face down economic crisis, but hopes for change in Russia policies from new administration.  —  MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday …
Discussion: www.redstate.com and Macsmind
New York Times:
Brooklyn Couple Killed in Attacks  —  Leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn and the worldwide ultra-orthodox Jewish community began on Friday to mourn the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were killed in the terrorist attack of the Nariman House …
Rich Leonard / Washington Post:
A Win-Win Bankruptcy Reform  —  I watched a middle-aged widow lose her home recently.  —  Her story was familiar.  She owned her simple brick residence outright until four years ago, when a mortgage broker stopped by and offered her a loan too good to be true.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David Alexander / Front Row Washington:
Bush contemplates how he'd like to be remembered  —  President George W. Bush, nearing the end of his final term in office, says he most wants to be remembered as someone who came to Washington and didn't lose his values.  —  Someone who didn't sell his soul to the political process.
Discussion: Althouse and www.redstate.com
Luke Salkeld / Daily Mail:
Flipping madness!  Police offer free flip-flops to binge drinkers who keep falling over in heels … Itsh not their fault, you shee.  Itsh the shoesh.  —  Drunk women who stagger about in high heels are to be protected - at public expense - from twisting their ankles.
Discussion: The Corner
Ross Douthat:
The Millman Chart and the GOP  —  Responding to my post on why the Right needs realists, Noah Millman summons up his soon-to-be-famous chart of American foreign-policy types:  —  The comments that originally accompanied it are from last June, in response to an earlier post of mine on right-wing realism …
Discussion: Eunomia and The Other McCain
 
 
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LIEBERMAN IN CONTEXT.... We talked yesterday about new reports …
Discussion: The Heretik
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Cyber-attack on Defense Department computers raises concerns
Discussion: Wake up America and The Swamp