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12:00 PM ET, January 4, 2009

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John Harlow / Times of London:
Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble  —  RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.  —  Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers …
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Michelle Malkin:
Jimmy Carter & Habitat for Humanity: Celebrity slum lords?  —  The road to hell is paved with good intentions — and, apparently, the homes in the neighborhoods along that hellish path are built by Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity.  The Times of London reports on one of the celebrity …
Discussion: Don Surber
Jerusalem Post:
Two senior Hamas terrorists killed in IAF strike  —  Senior Hamas terrorist Hussam Hamdan, who was in charge of Grad-type rocket launches into Beersheba and Ofakim, was killed in an IAF strike on Khan Yunis on Sunday afternoon.  —  Another senior Hamas terrorist, Muhammad Hilo, was also killed in the same airstrike.
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Ynetnews:
IDF deep in Strip: 50 terrorists killed
Reuters:
Europe backs IDF incursion
Discussion: Commentary and Daled Amos
Chicago Tribune:
State government grinds to standstill  —  The governor was arrested by the FBI and faces impeachment proceedings, his appointee to a U.S. Senate seat is in limbo and the state treasury is in shambles—a combination that has turned Illinois into a national punch line.  —  But who's laughing around here?
Discussion: TIME.com and On Deadline
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Roland Burris, Harry Reid: D.C. face-off
The Politico:
Burris puts Senate Dems in tough spot
Discussion: Associated Press and Commentary
New York Times:
The End of the Financial World as We Know It  —  AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics.  We've been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our harshest critics have been inclined to believe that we knew what we were doing.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SURVEILLANCE STATE RUN AMOK.... In July, the Washington Post reported on undercover Maryland State Police officers conducting surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents.  Today, we learn that the monitoring was worse, and more pervasive, than first believed.
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Washington Post:
More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Aaron David Miller / Newsweek:
He should get tough with Israel.  —  In Search of the High Ground: In July, Obama got a bird's-eye view of the Holy Land with Livni (right) and Defense Minister Ehud Barak  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 12, 2009  —  Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so.
Discussion: War in Context, Daled Amos and Redhot
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Attacks Further Split Arab Rulers, People
Discussion: TIME.com and Soccer Dad
Frank Rich / New York Times:
A President Forgotten but Not Gone  —  WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella.  So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down.  Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza  —  (updated below)  —  Former McCain-Palin campaign spokesman and current Weekly Standard editor Michael Goldfarb notes that Israel, a couple of days ago, dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a Gazan home which killed a top Hamas leader …
Peterr / Firedoglake:
Violence is the Tool of the Incompetent  —  The apartheid wall in East Jerusalem, Nov 2006  —  My denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has long-standing ties with Lutherans in the Middle East that have focused mainly on education (building schools) and both short-term …
Discussion: QandO
Michael Sheridan / Times of London:
China rattled by Sun King attack  —  An elite dissident has split party leaders with criticism of their ‘sham’ reforms  —  THE most prominent dissident still living in China has attacked the Communist party's economic reforms and compared Deng Xiaoping, its late leader, to Louis XIV.
Discussion: Fresh Bilge
Times of London:
Fears over earthquake ‘swarm’ at Yellowstone National Park  —  Hundreds of earthquakes have hit Yellowstone National Park, raising fears of a more powerful volcanic eruption.  —  The earthquake swarm, the biggest in more than 20 years, is being closely monitored by scientists and emergency authorities.
Discussion: Townhall.com and Capital Commerce
Yossi Klein Halevi / Washington Post:
As My Son Goes to War, I Am Fully Israeli At Last  —  “I just heard on the news that Gavriel's base has been shelled,” my wife, Sarah, said to me last Tuesday, referring to our 19-year-old son, a member of an Israeli army tank unit waiting on the Gaza border for the order to enter.
Discussion: abu muqawama and My Right Word
 
 
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New York Times:
Obama Considers Major Expansion in Jobless Aid
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New York Times:
How to Repair a Broken Financial World
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
16 days till Inauguration …
Abe Greenwald / Commentary:
Trading Likability for Security
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Robert H. Frank / New York Times:
Should Congress Put a Cap on Executive Pay?
Discussion: Economist's View
Agence France Presse:
Obama keeps silent on explosive Gaza conflict
Discussion: RBO and Patterico's Pontifications
 Earlier Items: 
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Says U.S. Must Act Swiftly to Address Economy
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and RedState
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A Donor's Gift Soon Followed Clinton's Help
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate race certification set for Monday with Franken up 225 votes