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12:20 PM ET, December 17, 2008

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Time:
Person of the Year 2008  —  INSIDE:
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Time opts for the obvious  —  How much suspense awaited Time Magazine's Person of the Year issue?  About as much as we had in the second half of the USC-Notre Dame game: … Racial divide?  Didn't this election prove that our racial divide had moved to the past?
Callie Shell / Time:
Person of the Year 2008  —  INSIDE:  —  Why History Can't Wait
Henry Paulson / Time:
Person of the Year 2008
Discussion: Political Machine
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Great Unraveling  —  The stranger, a Western businessman, slipped into the chair next to me at an Asia Society lunch here in Hong Kong and asked me a question that I can honestly say I've never been asked before: “So, just how corrupt is America?”  —  His question was occasioned …
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USA Today:   Who's to blame for economy?
Washington Post:
SEC Ignored Credible Tips About Madoff, Chief Says
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Mike Madden / Salon:
Dude, where's my $700 billion?
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's Pressers: No Comment — and NoDoz  —  A month from now, the nation will say farewell to its sports-obsessed president who doesn't like tough questions.  And it will replace him with, well, another sports-obsessed president who doesn't like tough questions.
Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:
Nepotism Nation: Dems embrace dynasty politics  —  Barack Obama's path to the presidency included beating what had been one of the nation's most powerful families.  But, in an unusual twist, his election last month is helping accelerate the trend toward dynasty politics.
Chicago Sun Times:
Blago drama for Obama  —  President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was pushing for Obama's successor just days after the Nov. 4 election, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.  —  Emanuel privately urged Gov. Blagojevich's administration to appoint Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
VILSACK TO BE NAMED SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.  —  Contrary to a statement he gave to the Des Moines Register a few weeks ago, Tom Vilsack will indeed be appointed Secretary of Agriculture.  As I've argued before, the pick is not necessarily comforting.  Vilsack is the former governor of Iowa.
Discussion: TPM Election Central
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
George Tenet, Drunk in Bandar's Pool, Screaming about Jews  —  I just picked up Patrick Tyler's forthcoming book, A World of Trouble, about America's tortured relations with the Middle East, and the prologue contains this whopper of a scene, one that is quite devastating, if true …
Fox News:
Scientists Call AP Report on Global Warming ‘Hysteria’  —  Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man's activites are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it “irrational hysteria,” “horrifically bad” and “incredibly biased.”
Discussion: Moonbattery, Hot Air, QandO and Don Surber
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Bush Abortion Rules Face Possible Reversal  —  Obama Team Looks at Regulation Set to Be Finalized This Week Letting Medical Staff Refuse to Take Part in Practices They Oppose  —  WASHINGTON — The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a “right of conscience” …
San Francisco Peninsula / San Francisco Peninsula …:
Rep. Eshoo to push for Fairness Doctrine  —  Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (pictured), D-Palo Alto, said Monday she will work to restore the Fairness Doctrine and have it apply to cable and satellite programming as well as radio and TV.  —  “I'll work on bringing it back.
Eric Konigsberg / New York Times:
In Fraud Case, Middlemen in Spotlight  —  As a go-between who shepherded clients and their money to Bernard L. Madoff, Walter M. Noel became so prosperous that he was only too happy to show off his good fortune to the world.  —  In 2002, Vanity Fair dispatched the photographer Bruce Weber …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
MEDIAN WAGES....So let's assume that we manage to stabilize the economy sometime soon via whatever combination of stimulus spending, tax cuts, and bailouts you think is best.  What's next?  Where will demand come from to get the economy moving normally again?  Paul Krugman comments:
www.dcexaminer.com:
Who Will Bail Out Uncle Sam?  —  By EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE  —  The United States of America is bankrupt.  Don't believe it?  Consider this: Federal obligations now exceed the collective net worth of all Americans, according to the New York-based Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Discussion: TigerHawk
New York Post:
RUDY TO RADIO?  —  EVERYONE knows Bill O'Reilly is quitting his radio show to concentrate on his Fox News TV program.  Now, Page Six has learned the leading candidate to succeed him is Rudy Giuliani (above).  Westwood One, which syndicates the O'Reilly show, is negotiating with the former mayor.
CNN:
Blagojevich talks: ‘Hang loose’  —  CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Wednesday that he “can't wait to begin to tell his side of the story.”  —  In the week since Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges, there have been repeated calls for his resignation.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Chris Fusco / Chicago Sun Times:
Holder omitted Blagojevich link from questionnaire  —  Announced as a ‘special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board’ in 2004  —  Before Eric Holder was President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general, he was Gov. Blagojevich's pick to sort out a mess involving Illinois' long-dormant casino license.
Marc Ambinder:
Understanding Power In Washington: Who's Afraid Of Rahm Right Now?  —  As this blog matures into the next year, it will owe a debt to the great Hedrick Smith, as I'll be writing more and more about power in Washington; what it is; who has it, who pretends to have it; how it is expressed explicity …
Discussion: Commentary and Political Machine
Mary Flood / Houston Chronicle:
Insurer: Victims of Houston office fire died from ‘pollution’  —  Company says smoke that killed 3 was ‘pollution’  —  An insurance company with a potential $25 million liability from a 2007 Houston office fire is claiming smoke that killed three people was “pollution” …
Discussion: Liberty Street
Marc Ambinder:
Card Checkin' Across The Universe  —  That's.... 57 votes in favor of cloture now.  In-cycle Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas formally opposes the Employee Free Choice Act.  She says it's “not necessary” right now.  BTW: Lincoln's potential GOP opponent?  Tim Griffin, the former White …
Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
U.N. Authorizes Land, Air Attacks on Somali Pirates  —  International Effort to Secure Sea Route May Stumble Amid Political Disarray in East African Nation  —  The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize nations to conduct military raids, on land and by air …
Telegraph:
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino gets black eye as ‘shoevenir’ in Baghdad  —  President George W Bush may have survived his close Baghdad encounter with hurled shoes unscathed, but White House Press Secretary Dana Perino suffered a black eye that she calls her “shoe-venir”.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Trips to Caribbean appear to have broken House rules  —  For at least five of the last six years, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and several other members of the Congressional Black Caucus have spent a few days each fall at a different luxurious Caribbean island resort.
Discussion: A Blog For All
 
 
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Raymond Colitt / Reuters:
Latin America summit excludes U.S. and welcomes Cuba
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Obama's List Doesn't Quite Match Emily's
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Callie Shell / Time:
B-Ball with Barack  —  My father Fraser Robinson and my …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Strength of Compassionate Conservatism
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Sarah Palin / Time:
Person of the Year 2008
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Why History Can't Wait
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999.... Last week, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) …
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New York Post:
SHE'S WAY OFF THE MARK ON BLAGO
Callie Shell / Time:
Why History Can't Wait  —  Yes, Obama could talk …
BBC:
Watching romantic comedies ‘can spoil your love life’
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CNN:
Jackson, Jr. an informant to Blago investigations
 

 
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