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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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Al Giordano / The Field on the Narcosphere:
President of the Planet of the Stupid People Opposes Caroline Kennedy — She's baaaaaaack! — Add Geraldine Ferraro to the list of those having public tantrums over the possibility that Caroline Kennedy may become the next US Senator from Nueva York. — Today she told The New York Post:
The Politico:
Kennedy comes out for gay marriage — Caroline Kennedy is finally sharing some of her political opinions with the people she's campaigning to represent — casting herself in the liberal tradition of uncle Ted Kennedy, bucking Barack Obama by supporting same-sex marriage and disavowing Hillary Clinton's 2002 vote for the Iraq invasion.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Q. and A.: Caroline Kennedy's Platform — ALBANY— In just a few days, Caroline Kennedy's bid to take Hillary Rodham Clinton's place in the Senate has acquired nearly all the trappings of a traditional New York statewide campaign: A bevy of consultants, a tour of struggling upstate cities and television cameras tracking her every move.
New York Times:
Kennedy Brand Leaves Cuomo Feeling Stymied — ALBANY — As Caroline Kennedy embarked on a tour of upstate New York this week, camera crews and reporters in tow, the state's attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, was announcing a $2.7 million settlement with the operator of an illegal dump in Lackawanna.
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 …
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Dave Rochelson / Change.gov:
“The search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us” — In the latest weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama took a bold stand for making decisions based on science and facts rather than ideology as he introduced leading members of his science and technology team.
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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 - Update II) — 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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Martina M. Stewart / CNN:Palin's boyfriend's mom arrested on drug charges
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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.
Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
Hedge funds gain access to $200bn Fed aid — Hedge funds will be allowed to borrow from the Federal Reserve for the first time under a landmark $200bn programme intended to support consumer credit. — The Fed said on Friday it would offer low-cost three-year funding to any US company investing …
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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?
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