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11:05 AM ET, December 20, 2008

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Washington Post:
EPA Eases Emissions Regulations for New Power Plants  —  The Environmental Protection Agency ruled yesterday that new power plants are not required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejecting an argument from environmental groups.  —  The ruling, in a memorandum signed …
CNN:
Prop 8 proponents seek to nullify same-sex marriages  —  (CNN) — Sponsors of the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage are seeking to nullify thousands of marriages between gay and lesbian couples performed after the state Supreme Court ruled them constitutional.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Eschaton
Los Angeles Times:
Jerry Brown asks California Supreme Court to void gay-marriage ban  —  The state attorney general, who had earlier vowed to defend Prop. 8, offers a novel legal theory for why it should be overturned.  The action surprises some legal experts.  —  Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles …
Discussion: Wilshire & Washington
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Brown asks state high court to overturn Prop. 8
Lisa Leff / Associated Press:   Prop. 8 sponsors seek to nullify 18K gay marriages
Linda Hirshman / The Huffington Post:
We Call on You Lord: Leaked Rick Warren Invocation  —  (NOTE: Copies of what seemed to be a draft of an inaugural invocation by Pastor Rick Warren arrived in the fax machines of several prominent journalists this morning.  This site does not vouch for the authenticity of the draft …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Heather Mac Donald / Secular Right:
Rick Warren and the Presidency
Byron York / National Review:   Obama and the Rick Warren Flap
Christopher Willcox / Weekly Standard:
Veep-Hunting  —  Looking for the party line on Cheney?  Here it is.  —  Angler  —  The Cheney Vice Presidency  —  by Barton Gellman  —  Penguin, 384 pp., $27.95  —  Anyone still interested in the sorry state of mainstream journalism should have a good, long look at Barton Gellman's blistering portrait of Dick Cheney.
Discussion: Power Line
Scott / Power Line:
THE MEANING OF IRAN'S RHETORIC  —  Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and other officials of the Iranian regime regularly direct blood-curdling rhetoric of hate and extermination toward the state of Israel.  Is this rhetoric to be taken seriously?  Bar-Ilan University senior lecturer Ze'ev Maghen thinks that it is.
Discussion: Townhall.com
Michelle Malkin:
Document drop: The story behind Change.gov  —  I've obtained documents sent to a reader in response to his FOIA request regarding the creation of Barack Obama's Change.gov website.  It gives you the rest of the story.  You'll recall last month that I blogged several questions about the propriety …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
New York Times:
24 Officers to Be Freed, Iraqi Says  —  BAGHDAD — Iraq's interior minister said all 24 of his officers who had been arrested in a security crackdown this week would be released.  And in a bold gesture of defiance, he publicly condemned his own government's investigation, calling the accusations false and motivated purely by politics.
Joel Mowbray / Fox News:
Jihadist Group Trying to ‘Invade’ Facebook Gets Shut Down  —  A quickly growing jihadist group that used Facebook to spread its radical message has been shut down by the popular Web networking site after FOXNews.com alerted the company to the group's activities.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and AmSpecBlog
James Fallows:
Tech followups on NYTimes.com blockage in China (updated)  —  On December 19, the NYTimes.com site was apparently blocked all across China.  For the sake of completeness, these followups.  —  1) Could the problem be related to a recent physical break in three of the four main internet cables connecting Asia to North America?
Discussion: New York Times and The Peking Duck
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Blair Is Steeped in the Ways Intelligence Works  —  After Dennis Blair's assignment as military liaison to the CIA 13 years ago, he groused about all the cloak-and-dagger politics at Langley headquarters.  “You'd go to a meeting and think everyone had agreed” to a particular course of action …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Obama short on Southerners in Cabinet appointments  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The South may have inched toward Democrats in November, but that progress isn't showing in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet selections.  Obama hasn't nominated a single Southerner among his 15 Cabinet secretaries.
 
 
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
In Private Memo, RNC Chief Concedes That GOP Is Bereft Of Ideas …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Open Left
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Cox “Worked to Dismantle The SEC,” Says Commission Vet
Megan McArdle:
Big Three get a deal to save the day —but not the year
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Japan Offers a Possible Road Map for U.S. Economy
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Alaska 2010 poll cornucopia
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William Grimes / New York Times:
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Diplomat, Is Dead at 91
Discussion: The New Republic
Nour Akkad / The Huffington Post:
Iraqis Respond To House Of Saddam
Discussion: Guardian
Catrina Stewart / Associated Press:
World Bank: Russia may need help if oil falls more
Associated Press:
Portrait shows Bush relaxed and smiling