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6:30 PM ET, November 24, 2009

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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called “a war of necessity” in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
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New York Times:
Obama Says He Intends to ‘Finish the Job’ in Afghanistan
Discussion: The Politico and Truthdig
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Inside the numbers: How Obama has fallen
Discussion: Hot Air
Rowan Scarborough / Fox News:
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist  —  Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004.
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Michelle Malkin:
When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear?  —  Reminder: This was the smear graphic spread on far Left blogs that accuses prominent conservatives of contributing to the death of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman.  Note the caption at the bottom: “He reaped what they sowed.”
Bill Estep / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Census worker in Kentucky killed self, officials conclude
Discussion: Raw Story
Federal Eye:
Officials: Census worker hanged himself
Discussion: Hit & Run
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Failure Option  —  Josh Marshall puzzles over what's changed in American politics to make the 60 vote threshold so difficult to overcome, and argues that “we're also deluding ourselves if we do not figure in a large role for larger structural changes in our politics.
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
How worried should we be about the deficit?
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Free exchange
Ezra Klein:
Obama's liberal predecessor
Discussion: TalkLeft and MoJo Blog Posts
Lynn Sweet:
Obama State Dinner Official Food and Wine Menu  —  Place card at the Obama first state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)  —  Desert plate, Obama first state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)  —  Potato and Eggplant Salad  —  White House Argula with onion seed vinaigrette
Discussion: TPMDC, Clusterstock and Weekly Standard
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Leo Hickman / Guardian:
Professor rubbishes leaked email row  —  Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia denies emails provide evidence of collusion by climatologists to fix data  —  The climatologist at the centre of the leaked emails row said today that he “absolutely” stands by his research and that any suggestion …
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Matthew Dowd / Washington Post:
Yes, she can: Palin has a shot at the presidency  —  How Sarah Palin might win the White House  —  President Sarah Palin.  To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason to leave the country.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Values Question  —  It's easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform.  But, like all great public issues, the health care debate is fundamentally a debate about values.  It's a debate about what kind of country we want America to be.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin to Obama: Acknowledge troops  —  Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday accused President Barack Obama of not acknowledging the sacrifices made by the men and women in the U.S. military.  —  “There's been a lack of acknowledgement by our president in understanding …
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Hoffman concedes, again  —  For the second time this month, Doug Hoffman conceded the New York special election to Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), and said he will not legally challenge the results of the race.  —  “Yesterday, the remaining ballots were counted in the 23rd Congressional District special election.
Discussion: MyDD
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Brian Dwyer / Syracuse:
Hoffman will not file for recount
Discussion: Raw Story and TPMDC
Iain Murray / Pajamas Media:
Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate  —  This could prove to be climate science's Vietnam.  —  They're calling it “Climategate.”  The scandal that the suffix -gate implies is the state of climate science over the past decade or so revealed by a thousand or so emails …
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CNN:
RNC official resigns  —  Washington (CNN) - A senior aide to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has resigned his post less than one month after the GOP scored major victories by winning the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, CNN has learned.
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Wall Street Journal:
1 in 4 Borrowers Under Water  —  The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery.  —  Nearly 10.7 million households had negative equity in their homes in the third quarter …
Elizabeth Williamson / Wall Street Journal:
Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk  —  A Star on the Court, He's Called a Hacker On the Course; Fans Miss the ‘Original Guy’  —  One day last summer, Gene Mulak, observing carnage in the sand trap, decided it was time to rescue the Leader of the Free World.
Ezra Klein:
The small-d democratic case against the filibuster  —  “Are progressives really willing to take their chances with a future GOP-controlled Senate empowered to pass whatever they have 51 votes for?” asks Scott Winship.  “With the Supreme Court nominees who could be seated (to say nothing of other judgeships)?
The State:
Impeachment panel wants detailed answers on Sanford's trip  —  A House panel taking up an impeachment resolution against Gov. Mark Sanford Tuesday said it wants detailed answers about the governor's secret trip to Argentina last June.  —  The committee, in its initial meeting …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Joshua Green / Washington Monthly:
True Lies  —  The best recent memoir from Republican Washington is a hoax.  That should tell you something.  —  I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (Wildly  —  Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans  —  by Martin Eisenstadt Faber & Faber, 366 pp.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Good Morning America Cancels Adam Lambert Concert  —  First on TVNewser: American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert won't be appearing on “Good Morning America” tomorrow.  —  TVNewser has learned ABC News canceled the concert after Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards Sunday night.
Discussion: FishBowlDC
Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Doc Maker, Moore Collaborator, Shopping Film on Bush's Murky Military Service  —  Documentary filmmaker and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Meghan O'Hara is currently working on a feature-length documentary about George W. Bush's military service in the Texas Air National Guard, The Observer has learned.
 
 
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Howard Fineman / msnbc.com:
Is Obama's star dimming as U.S. stock drops?
The Huffington Post:
Mark Halperin's Mary Landrieu Photoshop: Pure Class
Discussion: Mediaite
Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
“Hope Is Fading Fast”: A Devastating Take on The Iconic Obama Poster
CBS News:
Huckabee on Sarah Palin, Other GOP “Rock Stars”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Filibuster is Bad  —  Every couple of weeks some right-winger …
Discussion: Donkeylicious
 Earlier Items: 
Seeing Red AZ:
Want to help J.D. Hayworth? Here's your chance
Discussion: The Hill and The Huffington Post
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Could Wall Street Actually Lose in Congress?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts and Felix Salmon
Zogby:
NY Senator Gillibrand Facing Tough Election Fight
Discussion: TPMDC and 1115.org
Paul Krugman:
Gee, that's De Pressing
Discussion: Clusterstock and The Agonist