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9:30 AM ET, December 3, 2008

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sos.georgia.gov:
Georgia Election Results Unofficial And Incomplete Results of the Tuesday, December 02, 2008 General Election Runoff  —  The results displayed are UNOFFICIAL AND INCOMPLETE until certified by both county election superintendents and the Secretary of State, a process that will not be completed until the week of December 8.
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Jim Tharpe / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Chambliss wins second term in U.S. Senate  —  Defeats Jim Martin after arduous runoff campaign  —  Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss beat back a prolonged challenge from Democrat Jim Martin on Tuesday to win a second term in office after a bruising four-week runoff between the one-time University of Georgia fraternity brothers.
New York Times:
Republican Wins Runoff for Senator in Georgia
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   Chambliss gets the last word: ‘Georgia values matter’
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Saxby Chambliss wins Georgia runoff
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Chambliss wins, denies Democrats 60 seats
Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
Chambliss wins Georgia Senate runoff over Martin
Discussion: Hotline On Call and Hot Air
The Politico:
Jeb: I am considering Senate run  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - the younger brother of the president - is weighing a run for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Mel Martinez.  —  Martinez announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2010.
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Marc Ambinder:
Jeb Bush Ponders Florida Senate Run  —  Two sources close to Jeb Bush, including one who has spoken to the former Florida governor within the past few hours, say he is seriously considering a run for Senate now that incumbent Republican Mel Martinez has retired.
Wall Street Journal:
India Names Mumbai Mastermind  —  MUMBAI — India has accused a senior leader of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of orchestrating last week's terror attacks that killed at least 172 people here, and demanded the Pakistani government turn him over and take action against the group.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and FP Passport
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Mirror.co.uk:
Mumbai bombers ‘took cocaine and LSD’ before carrying out attacks  —  Terrorist Azam Ameer Qasab lies dazed after his capture (Pic:Getty)  —  The Mumbai terrorists may have pumped themselves full of drugs to keep going during their murderous three-day rampage.
Reuters:
Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall: aide  —  CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because prices have dropped below $80 a barrel, an aide said on Tuesday.  —  “President-elect Obama announced …
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Daily Mail:
Jewish mother killed in Mumbai attacks ‘was pregnant’... and her son, 2, may have been beaten by militants … The Jewish mother murdered in the brutal Mumbai terror attacks last week was six month pregnant, her father revealed today at her funeral.  —  And Rivkah Holtzberg's two-year-old son …
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
OH... THE HUMANITY  —  UPDATE: Rabbi's wife was 6 months pregnant …
Discussion: American Power and The Jawa Report
Bill Gross / PIMCO:
Investment Outlook  —  Dow 5,000 Redux  —  Here I go again!  Gosh it was only six years ago that I cemented my place in stock market history by predicting that the Dow would fall from 8,500 to 5,000, instead of going up to 14,000 where it peaked in October of 2007.
Discussion: naked capitalism
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Felix Salmon / Portfolio:
Q  —  The most striking thing about Bill Gross's column this month …
Discussion: EconLog
Tom Gross / Wall Street Journal:
If this Isn't Terrorism, What Is?  —  Last week in Mumbai we witnessed as clear a case of carefully planned mass terrorism as we are ever likely to see.  —  The seven-venue atrocity was coordinated in a highly sophisticated way.  The terrorists used BlackBerrys to stay in touch with each …
Discussion: FP Passport and Atlas Shrugs
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New York Post:
MUMBAI: DEADLY MEDIA EUPHEMISMS
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77  —  Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.  She was 77.  —  The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager.
Discussion: Shakesville and DownWithTyranny!
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.  —  The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the annual report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Rise of the Twitterati  —  “I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.”  —  We are sitting in a restaurant, sipping wine and chatting, when my friend begins twittering.  —  Not in the usual way.  Two women twittering turn no heads.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite  —  With in excess of 90 percent of Minnesota's votes now having been recounted, our statistical models now show Norm Coleman as the favorite to retain his senate seat, although with a high degree of uncertainty and without accounting …
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Curt Brown / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
171 uncounted ballots turn up in Ramsey County; Franken nets gain
New York Times:
After Sharp Words on C.I.A., Obama Faces a Delicate Task  —  WASHINGTON — For two years on the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama rallied crowds with strongly worded critiques of the Bush administration's most controversial counterterrorism programs, from hiding terrorism suspects …
 
 
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Federal-Employee Unions Angered as Bush Bars National Security Workers
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John / Power Line:
PULLING SOME EXTRA WEIGHT
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Associated Press:
AP: Gregory to replace Russert, NBC exec says
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Anxiety among Democrats as Pelosi tightens her grip
Discussion: Don Surber and Flopping Aces
CBC News:
Carleton student council reinstates cystic fibrosis fundraiser
Discussion: Hot Air and Yourish.com
iowahawk:
Apologetic Mumbai Killers: “We Didn't Get the Memo About Obama”
Discussion: Jihad Watch and TigerHawk
The Trail / Washington Post:
Holbrooke Under Consideration for South Asia Diplomatic Role
Discussion: FP Passport and ATTACKERMAN
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
MISTAKES WERE MADE.  —  I've spent part of the day reading …
 

 
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