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5:20 PM ET, December 20, 2008

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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 …
Discussion: The New Republic
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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:
Discussion: TalkLeft
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.
The Politico:   Nepotism NY style as clans vie for seat
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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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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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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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 …
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.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Court Overturns Air Pollution Exemption for Industrial Plants  —  Court Strikes Rule That Let Plants Sometimes Exceed Limits  —  In a 2 to 1 decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down an exemption that for nearly 15 years has allowed refineries …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and Althouse
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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
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Stirling Newberry / Firedoglake:
The Cost of Conservatism, in Trillions  —  Let's engage in a back of the envelope exercise for a moment: the cost of conservatism to America.  Right wingers want to de-emphasize the costs, and pump up the virtues.  They want to account for every penny of liberal projects but declare that conservative projects have no price.
Discussion: The Mahablog
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: NewsBusters.org and Power Line
Akron Beacon Journal:
Pilot killed as plane crashes in Lake Twp.  —  LAKE TWP.: A single-prop, private airplane crashed next to a vacant house on Charolais Street Northwest Friday evening, exploding into flames and killing the pilot.  —  Michael Connell, 45, of Bath Township, was alone in the plane, according to State Highway Patrol Lt. Eric Sheppard.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Blocks Access to The Times's Web Site  —  HONG KONG — Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets.
Discussion: Nicholas D. Kristof and Reuters
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James Fallows:
Tech followups on NYTimes.com blockage in China (updated)
Discussion: The Peking Duck
 
 
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