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4:50 PM ET, January 13, 2009

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Kate Beckinsale / Esquire:
The Governor Strikes Back: Five New Quotes from Sarah Palin  —  Last week, the former vice-presidential candidate lashed out at the media's coverage of her campaign.  In a brand-new “What I've Learned” interview with Esquire, excerpted here in advance of the March issue, Palin goes even further.
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CNN:
Palin slams ‘bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie’  —  (CNN) — Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.”  —  The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream …
Discussion: The Debate Link
Anchorage Daily News:
Full text of the Palin-ADN email exchange  —  Gov. Palin's press office claims that she has pointed out errors in Daily News coverage that we have refused to correct.  The only such complaints of which I'm aware are below, in an email from Gov. Palin to the publisher and me.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Olmert Says He Made Rice Change Vote  —  WASHINGTON — In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Olmert Claims to Control US Foreign Policy
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
AP: Clinton acted on concerns of husband's donors  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State appointee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband's foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Senators Raise Questions About Geithner's Nomination at Treasury  —  Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions about a housekeeper who worked briefly for Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner without proper immigration papers …
Ed Rollins / CNN:
Rollins: Bush still doesn't get it  —  Editor's Note: Ed Rollins, who served as political director for President Ronald Reagan, is a Republican strategist who was national chairman of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — One week from today …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Live from the Clinton Confirmation Hearing  —  Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, a Republican who is retiring, just now love-bombed Clinton and Obama.  He notes that a couple of years ago he got to know retired Marine Gen. James Jones and wondered, “Why can't we get this guy in the administration?”
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C. Brian Smith / Vanity Fair:
My Dinners with Dubya  —  When a college drinking buddy invited C. Brian Smith to hang out with her parents, he tried not to sweat the fact that they lived in the White House.  He even had fun—until 9/11 made watching bad movies with the president feel like a guilty pleasure America couldn't afford.
Discussion: Wonkette
Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Cheney: NYT Pulitzers for Spying Stories ‘Aggravating’  —  Vice President Dick Cheney said that the prizes won by the New York Times for uncovering the Bush administration were “aggravating” to him, and cautioned the incoming administration on the lessons he's learned in office.
Discussion: Think Progress and White House
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Emanuel to Bolten: 'I'll Miss You'
Discussion: TIME.com
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
White House and Transition Officials Conduct Joint Disaster Exercise
Discussion: TIME.com
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Sam Dillon / The Caucus:
Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever  —  Arne Duncan, the Chicago schools chief, told the Senate on Tuesday that he would work for “real and meaningful change” in the nation's schools if confirmed as education secretary, and he said he hoped president-elect Barack Obama's own example as a model student …
Discussion: TIME.com
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Frank James / The Swamp:   Arne Duncan inspires Republican lovefest
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Report Cites Politics at Justice Dept.  —  WASHINGTON — A former senior official at the Justice Department routinely hired conservatives, Republicans and so-called RTA's — “Right-Thinking Americans — for what were supposed to be apolitical posts and gave them plum assignments …
Discussion: CBS News
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
Does “Black Hawk Down” Portray an American War Crime?  —  At least nine hundred people, maybe half of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza so far, the overwhelming majority presumably killed by Israel (some people, more than we probably know right now, have been killed by Hamas, mainly Fatah activists in revenge killings).
Matthew L. Wald / The Caucus:
Steven Chu Eases Up on the Gas Price Pedal  —  Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate scientist who is President-elect Obama's choice to be energy secretary, said in testimony prepared for his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that high oil prices were a threat to the economy …
Discussion: The New Republic and MSNBC
Paul J. Gough / Hollywood Reporter:
Obama inauguration to air in theaters  —  MSNBC pact puts coverage in 27 U.S. locations  —  NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama is on his way to the big screen, thanks to a deal between MSNBC and Screenvision that will put the news channel's inaugural coverage in 27 theaters around the country.
Discussion: Show Tracker and TVNewser
A.J. Jacobs / Esquire:
Mike Huckabee: The Laughing Man  —  It's funny, the nicest guy in a political party of not-very-nice guys is also its most unbending cultural samurai.  —  Early on in the 2008 presidential race, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee received the endorsement of conservative pundit Stephen Baldwin.
The New Republic:
The Truthiest New Show on Television  —  The strongest case against the Department of Homeland Security is that it's not really about homeland security at all.  Rather than catch terrorists, DHS officers at the border spend most of their time arresting people for drug and immigration offenses instead.
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
UK: BLOOD LIBEL HORROR: JEWS EATING DEAD BABIES  —  This is horrible.  I ask men of reason, civilized men to see what is happening.  Look at what is happening.  We are on a terrible course, a collision course of the worst order.  This is beyond the pale.  And the media is ignoring it.
Discussion: YID With LID and Jihad Watch
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dem blasts Obama econ team's ‘mumbo jumbo’  —  A Democratic senator on Tuesday accused President-elect Obama's incoming director of the Office of Management and Budget of talking “mumbo jumbo” instead of offering hard details on the economy.  —  “I would think that in this era of freshness …
Discussion: RedState and TIME.com
 
 
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Stephen Labaton / The Caucus:
Obama to Select Genachowski to Lead F.C.C.
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Wall Street Journal:
Estates of Pain  —  The first tax increase of the Obama era.
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Washington Wire:
Inauguration Watch: One Giant Cheesecake, Coming Up
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First sketch of history  —  The campaign books, which on the whole …
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade
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Marc Ambinder:
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