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Eric R / Breitbart.tv:
WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS GRILL GIBBS OVER ‘PREPACKAGED’ QUESTIONS FOR OBAMA  —  “The point is the control from here.  We have never had that in the White House.  And we have had some control but not this control.  I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency …
John_Merritt / CBS News:
Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff  —  Exclusive: Spat Over Todd Palin's Membership In Secessionist Party Was Major Distraction On Critical Day In '08 Campaign … Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Franken's New Capitol Hill Office Seals Final Victory Over Coleman
Discussion: City Pages
John Feehery / CNN:   Commentary: Franken victory is not funny
Robert Berkvist / New York Times:
Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97  —  Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning character actor who for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television, from “A Streetcar Named Desire” to …
Discussion: normblog and The New Republic
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The Politico:
S.C. GOP: Sanford must go  —  Gov. Mark Sanford's long and emotional interview with The Associated Press Tuesday appears to have been the final straw for South Carolina's Republican establishment, much of which is now actively seeking his resignation.  —  While Sanford seemed to have weathered …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
In affair, Sanford loses closest ally: his wife
Discussion: Hot Air
Megan McArdle:
Wal-Mart and Health Insurance: The Theories of the Case  —  I find it hard to believe that none of the liberal commentators breathlessly celebrating Wal-Mart's “capitulation” on national health care have even entertained the most parsimonious explanation: that Wal-Mart is in favor …
Discussion: Ezra Klein, D-Day and Guardian
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Matt Walker / BBC:
Ant mega-colony takes over world  —  A queen and worker Argentine ant have many, many relatives  —  A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.  —  Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony …
Discussion: Pharyngula
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
U.S. Marines Launch Major Operation in Afghanistan  —  Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early Thursday morning, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military's new counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
Fox News:
Romney Urges Republicans to ‘Stand Up’ to Obama's Policies  —  At a time when Republicans desperately are searching for a unifying leader and message, and Democrats add to their ranks in Congress, the former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential candidate is taking a no-excuses attitude toward his party.
Discussion: MyDD, Don Surber and GOP 12
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Michael Barone / AMERICAN.COM:
The GOP's Real Problems for 2012
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Let the Usurpers Writhe  —  TEHRAN — Think of normalized relations with the United States as the big prize.  Who gets to deliver it?  One thing is certain: Iran's ruthless usurpers are determined to ensure reformists are never in a position to claim the breakthrough.
Discussion: Washington Post and normblog
Daily Mail:
Rigged?  ‘Suspicious’ Iranian ballot papers show name Ahmadinejad scrawled in same handwriting  —  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called off a trip to Libya today as his regime continued to face heavy criticism over the disputed Iranian elections.  —  In the latest development, images have emerged …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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CNN:
Taliban capture U.S. soldier  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — A U.S. soldier has been captured by militants in Afghanistan, the U.S. military and the Taliban said Thursday.  —  The unidentified soldier has been missing since Tuesday.  U.S. forces are exhausting all resources to find the soldier, the military said.
Discussion: CBS News, BBC and Mudville Gazette
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Just Go Be With Her!  —  In part two of his leave-no-rock-unturned interview with the Associated Press, Mark Sanford says that at least he will “be able to die knowing I had met my soul mate,” as David noted below.  And if that's not enough, he says that for all the grief his affair has caused …
Discussion: Comments from Left Field and D-Day
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Michelle Malkin Reports on IG-Gate  —  Michelle Malkin's syndicated column today moves the story forward substantially with this: … Read the whole thing.  She gives me credit for pushing the story last week.  I had mentioned this at The American Spectator blog:
Discussion: Swampland
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Bush's ‘Town Halls’ vs. Obama's Town Halls  —  The New York Times is covering President Obama's health care town hall-style meeting today in Northern Virginia rather credulously.  This is the orchestrated political event that will feature a hand-picked audience and pre-screened questions about Obama's health care plan for the nation.
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John / Power Line:
Health Care Stagecraft  —  President Obama held an “online town hall” health care meeting in Annandale, Virginia today.  It was televised and, coincidentally, I happened to catch the emotional centerpiece of the production on CNN.  Obama gave a long introductory pitch in support of his health care plan …
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
A few victory laughs for Sen.-elect Franken  —  Al Franken is funny again.  —  The senator-elect alternated between jokes and emotion Wednesday in a victory rally that was, as he acknowledged, more than two years in the making.  —  “It was close,” Franken began, garnering a big laugh for his even bigger understatement.
Discussion: SEIU
DealBook:
Another View: In Praise of Law Firm Layoffs  —  Dan Slater, the former writer of The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, argues that layoffs at law firms are the best thing to happen to the legal industry in years.  —  Last July, I received a call from a public relations executive at Cadwalader …
Discussion: Law Blog
Robert Zubrin / Roll Call:
The Costs of the Cap-and-Trade Bill  —  On June 25, the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate stabilization act, which would institute a cap-and-trade system to restrict Americans' carbon emissions.  While proponents of the bill have sought to argue that the costs of such a system would be negligible …
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
We're Getting A Bad Feeling About Our Food  —  Editor's Note: Gut Check is a new biweekly column on the politics of food.  —  “Does for the supermarket what ‘Jaws’ did for the beach,” says Variety's John Anderson.  “Everyone should see ‘Food, Inc.,’ ” enthuses this newspaper.
Discussion: D-Day, pandagon.net and Ezra Klein
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Israel will say ‘yes’ to settlement freeze, Wexler tells ‘Post’  —  Article's topics: Binyamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, James Cunningham, Iran, Iranian Nuclear Threat  —  Israel would lose nothing, and potentially gain everything, by agreeing to a temporary moratorium on construction …
Los Angeles Times:
State IOUs loom as foes' battle lines harden  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waves to tourists as he walks to a news conference with his chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, and Finance Director Mike Genest at the Capitol in Sacramento.  The governor declared a fiscal emergency for California.
 
 
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Daily Mail:
CoE school bans girl from wearing crucifix - but allows Sikh pupils to wear bangles
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“Deficits are Worrisome, but Not as Worrisome as an Economy …
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