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12:55 PM 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 …
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Lisa Leff / Associated Press:
Jerry Brown urges court to void Prop.  8  —  SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Jerry Brown changed course on the state's new same-sex marriage ban Friday and urged the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8.  —  In a dramatic reversal, Brown filed a legal brief saying the measure …
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 …
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
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Brown asks state high court to overturn Prop. 8
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
GERRY: SHE'S NOT READY  —  Geraldine Ferraro gave a thumbs down to Caroline Kennedy's bid for the Senate yesterday - even as the Camelot daughter won her biggest endorsement for the job, The Post has learned.  —  Ferraro, the first woman nominee for vice president, sent a letter …
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The Politico:
Nepotism NY style as clans vie for seat  —  The appointment of the New York Senate seat Hillary Clinton will shortly vacate has become a struggle among political dynasties, with the question being which family ends up on top.  —  It involves no fewer than five intertwined political clans …
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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
If criminal penalties are removed, what will deter lawbreaking by political officials?  —  (updated below)  —  The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus today perfectly expresses the consensus view of establishment Washington regarding the exemption which political elites should and do enjoy from the rule of law …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Deep Throat on Trial  —  Mark Felt's Dilemma on Rights vs. Security  —  He wasn't just Deep Throat.  It was inevitable and understandable that the reaction to Mark Felt's death this week focused on his long-hidden identity as a source for Bob Woodward's Watergate reporting.
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.
Washington Post:
A Chance for Consensus on Iraq  —  After our visit to Iraq this month, it is clear that what was once unthinkable there is now taking place: A stable, safe and free Iraq is emerging.  Violence has fallen to the lowest level since the first months of the war.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Swampland and Daily Kos
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: The Peking Duck and New York Times
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan  —  Recommend  —  “See the USA in your Chevrolet!” trilled Dinah Shore week after week on TV.  —  Can you still see the USA in your Chevrolet?  Through a windscreen darkly.  —  General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed …
Discussion: Power Line
Zaz Hollander / Anchorage Daily News:
Johnston's arrest was oxycontin-related  —  WASILLA — Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston, mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend, faces a Jan. 6 court date for an oxycontin-related arrest at her home by Alaska State Troopers.  —  Little additional information was available Friday on the case …
Heather Mac Donald / Secular Right:
Rick Warren and the Presidency  —  Barack Obama's invitation to evangelical powerhouse Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation has angered abortion and gay rights advocates.  They are overreacting.  The invitation merely confirms Obama's admirable willingness to reach out across a relatively broad ideological spectrum .
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Linda Hirshman / The Huffington Post:
We Call on You Lord: Leaked Rick Warren Invocation
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
 
 
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James Fallows:
First in a series of year end pensees: grand strategy
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
In Private Memo, RNC Chief Concedes That GOP Is Bereft Of Ideas …
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Joel Mowbray / Fox News:
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