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5:30 PM ET, November 13, 2009

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Key 9/11 Suspect to Be Tried in New York  —  WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early on Friday.
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
Holder's Hidden Agenda, cont'd . . . — By: Andy McCarthy  —  This summer, I theorized that Attorney General Eric Holder — and his boss — had a hidden agenda in ordering a re-investigation of the CIA for six-year-old alleged interrogation excesses that had already been scrutinized …
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Be Sent to New York for Trial  —  WASHINGTON — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others accused in the attacks will be put on criminal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce later Friday.
Michelle Malkin:
Bombshell: Obama bringing KSM to NYC for trial; former Bush AG Mukasey to respond at Federalist Society this afternoon  —  It's Friday.  The president is flying off to Asia.  Congress is not in session.  Perfect time to drop a bombshell on the American people:
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:   A Political Decision This Ain't  —  Here's what the Attorney General isn't doing.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pete King says court decision puts U.S. at greater risk of attack
Discussion: The Politico and The Page
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Detainees to get “the-state-always-wins” system of “justice”
Discussion: Firedoglake
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   So Now Khalid Sheikh Mohammad Is A 9/11 “Suspect”
Sarah Palin / Drudge Report:
HER TURN!  —  Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257  —  By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp's decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor's staff all bottled up.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Sarah Palin is dumb.  —  By her own words, Sarah Palin is dumb.  Here's the excerpt of pages 255-257 of “Going Rogue: An American Life”: … Why didn't you have a say?  There's that “really” hedging: You didn't really have a say.  You're pleading passivity and impotence but you want us …
Matthew Continetti / Wall Street Journal:
Can Sarah Palin Make a Comeback?  —  Her poll numbers among independents are strong enough to give her a chance.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  I don't typically watch Oprah.  But I won't miss Monday's interview with Sarah Palin.  The appearance is supposed to be about Ms. Palin's new memoir …
Washington Wire:
Sarah Palin to Visit Fort Hood  —  Peter Wallsten reports on politics.  —  Grieving soldiers and families at Fort Hood, Texas, will get a visit from Sarah Palin next month as part of her national book tour, her publisher told Washington Wire.  —  The former vice presidential candidate …
Discussion: The Hill
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Great Moments In Journalism: Sarah Palin Marginalization Starts Early At MSNBC
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Townhall.com
The Politico:
After spending binge, W.H. says it will focus on deficits  —  President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 - and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning.
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Reconciliation could kill Stupak rider  —  Democrats will almost certainly kill the anti-abortion Stupak amendment in the process if they go to Plan B on passing a health care health care — using a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill — budget experts say.
Discussion: The Confluence
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
KEEPING THE ABORTION-RELATED HEAT ON THE RNC.... Ben Smith reports this afternoon that RedState's Leon H. Wolf wants heads to roll at the Republican National Committee for having a health care policy — for 18 years — that covered abortion services. … But here's the part RedState misses …
Discussion: IntoxiNation, Wonk Room and Moonbattery
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Anti-abortion anger at the RNC
Discussion: RedState and Think Progress
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Free to Lose  —  Consider, for a moment, a tale of two countries.  Both have suffered a severe recession and lost jobs as a result — but not on the same scale.  In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment rate has more than doubled.
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Rep. Steve King: Bauer was hired to ‘erase tracks’ between Obama, ACORN  —  Newly appointed White House counsel Bob Bauer is “perfectly positioned to be tasked with erasing the tracks between Obama and ACORN,” one Republican lawmaker charged Friday.  —  The lawyer's hiring …
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GOP.com:
Who Is Bob Bauer?  —  Obama Is Tapping Anita Dunn's Better Half …
Discussion: The Politico and The Hill
WPCVA.COM:
Danville TEA Party to burn Rep. Perriello in effigy  —  BLAIRS - In a move sure to spark controversy, the Danville TEA Party will close their “Fired Up for Freedom” rally by burning Rep. Tom Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy in response to the passage of landmark healthcare legislation …
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
Explaining Away Mass Murder  —  WASHINGTON — What a surprise — that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives.  It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010  —  The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Anita Dunn: ‘Going rogue’ not her way  —  Was Anita Dunn, the outgoing communications director of the White House, speaking for herself when she called FOX News “an arm of the Republican Party” on a rival cable news network's program, or was this something that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Meet John Thune  —  Some days the Republican Party seems to be going crazy.  Its public image is often shaped by people who appear to have gone into government because they saw it as a steppingstone to talk radio.  —  But deep in the bowels of the G.O.P., there are serious people having quiet conversations.
Seth / Enik Rising:
Does unemployment affect midterm elections?  —  I've seen no small amount of hand-wringing from Democrats worried about the impact of the current double-digit unemployment on next year's midterm elections.  By most estimates, even if there is robust economic growth for the next year …
Jamie Dimon / Washington Post:
No more ‘too big to fail’  —  Our company, J.P. Morgan Chase, employs more than 220,000 people, serves well over 100 million customers, lends hundreds of millions of dollars each day and has operations in nearly 100 countries.  And if some unforeseen circumstance should put this firm at risk of collapse …
Rasmussen Reports:
Klobuchar Bests Franken, Bachmann Among Minnesota Voters  —  Minnesota voters give Senator Amy Klobuchar higher marks for job performance than her fellow senator Al Franken and Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman who has become a conservative lightning rod in the national health care debate.
Jeanne Devon / The Huffington Post:
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Alaska Governor Snubs the President and the Troops  —  No, not that governor.  The new one.  —  In what Alaskans hope is not becoming a longstanding tradition, the governor just dissed the President of the United States.  No, he didn't accuse him of …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's world record  —  It sounds tailor-made for a GOP ad:  —  Unemployment hits 9.4 percent.  President Obama flies to France.  —  Joblessness reaches 9.7 percent.  Obama jets off to Denmark.  —  The rate of those out of work soars to 10.2 percent.  Obama packs his bags for Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea.
Discussion: QandO
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
G. Gordon Liddy Says 'I'm Convinced' That ‘Barack Obama Is A Muslim,’ Gary Bauer Doesn't Disagree  —  On his radio show today, G. Gordon Liddy hosted former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer to discuss his Human Events column on the Fort Hood massacre, in which Bauer …
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
10 Reasons Why Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill Made a Political Mistake  —  Even if you completely ignore how critical it is to reform the broken American health care system, most of the 39 Democrats who voted against health care reform in the House last week made a political mistake.
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Business group unveils $10 million campaign against health reform
Discussion: The New Republic
The Note:
Dick Armey: Palin More ‘Cheerleader’ …
Discussion: Hot Air and ABCNEWS
The Fix:
N.C.'s Etheridge bows out of running for Senate seat
Discussion: Swing State Project
Gary Hewson / Big Government:
ACORN-The LA Story, Part II: ‘We knew we were gonna put in Obama.’
Discussion: Nice Deb
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Surprisingly Easy Medium-Term Budget Fix
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Water Found on Moon, Scientists Say
Discussion: The New Republic
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Why do vampires attract so many readers and viewers?
Discussion: Modeled Behavior
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama on the rise in North Carolina
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
David Alexander / Front Row Washington:
Making peace with the MILF
Discussion: Wonkette and Blue Gal
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Obama ‘risking Suez-like disaster’