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10:50 AM ET, December 13, 2009

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James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Houston Is Largest City to Elect Openly Gay Mayor  —  HOUSTON — Houston became the largest city in the country to elect an openly gay mayor Saturday night, as voters gave a solid victory to the city controller, Annise Parker.  —  Cheers erupted at Ms. Parker's campaign party as her opponent …
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Clifford Pugh / CultureMap:
Annise Parker is Houston's next mayor  —  In a close run-off race of historic proportions, Houston voters chose City Controller Annise Parker as Houston's next mayor.  Parker defeated attorney Gene Locke Saturday with over 53 percent of the vote.  When sworn in in early January …
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and MyDD
Michael Hurta / Burnt Orange Report:
Houston Election Results Thread  —  Houston has elected someone to succeed Bill White to succeed as its next Mayor.  They just need to count the votes to learn which Democrat will serve next as mayor. … If you want the absolute most up-to-the-minute results along with 140-character commentary …
Discussion: Houston Chronicle and Open Left
iowahawk:
Fables of the Reconstruction  —  (Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick)  —  Please pardon the departure from the usual Iowahawk bill of fare.  —  What follows started as a comment I made over at Ace's last week which he graciously decided to feature on a separate post (thanks Ace).
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Hollywood's Brilliant Coda to America's Dark Year  —  ON Christmas Day, Hollywood will blanket America with a most unlikely holiday entertainment.  That's when “Up in the Air,” the acclaimed new movie starring George Clooney, will spread from its big-city engagements to more than 2,000 screens.
Rajeev Syal / Guardian:
Drug money ‘saved banks from crisis’  —  Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions  —  Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Fight.  —  “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.
John / Power Line:
What Astroturf Looks Like  —  Earlier today, thousands of protesters turned out in Copenhagen to demonstrate in favor of an economy-wrecking climate deal.  This is how they looked:  —  Note the identical, professionally printed, color-coordinated yellow and black signs.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Maggie's Farm
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats end GOP filibuster of spending bill  —  Vote set for Sunday on package that funds half of federal government  —  The Senate cleared a key parliamentary hurdle Saturday on a spending bill that finances almost half the federal government and increases funding for the agencies it covers by an average of 10 percent.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Legislator Sees Echoes of Vietnam in Afghan War  —  WASHINGTON — David R. Obey has served in Congress since Barack Obama was in grade school.  He does not waste time with pleasantries, and he does not mince words.  So when President Obama called Representative Obey recently to talk about Afghanistan …
Discussion: Politics Daily
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
CNN idiotically imagines: “Al Qaeda offers ‘condolences’ for innocent victims.”  —  That is a CNN headline purporting to summarize an English-language apology that is phrased thusly: … In the body of the article, outside of the quotes, CNN says things like: … Is this willful misreading or crashing idiocy?
Discussion: CNN and Wizbang
Nomaan Merchant / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Blocks U.S. Ban on Funding for Acorn  —  A federal judge blocked U.S. officials from enforcing a funding ban on Acorn, the beleaguered community organizer.  —  Congress cut off funding for Acorn — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — in September after Web sites …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Big Government
 
 
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Jason Hancock / Iowa Independent:
Grassley finally condemns anti-homosexuality law
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Goldman Fueled AIG Gambles
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Nations' mounting debts worry global bond investors
Discussion: Beat the Press
Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Ahmadinejad to get U.N. podium
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Interest Rates Are Low, but Banks Balk at Refinancing
Discussion: Calculated Risk
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Looming population crisis forces China to revisit one-child policy
Discussion: Beat the Press
Matt Taibbi / Taibblog:
On Obama's Sellout … When we went to print with the latest …