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8:10 PM ET, December 13, 2009

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Bradley Olson / Houston Chronicle:
Houston makes its choice; Parker makes history  —  Nation watches as city becomes the largest in U.S. to choose an openly gay leader  —  Annise Danette Parker was elected mayor of Houston on Saturday, winning her seventh consecutive city election and becoming both the first contender …
Discussion: Hotline On Call
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Houston picks conservative Annise Parker as mayor, first lesbian …
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Clifford Pugh / CultureMap:
Annise Parker is Houston's next mayor
Michael M. Weinstein / New York Times:
Paul A. Samuelson, Groundbreaking Economist, Dies at 94  —  Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.  —  His death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute …
David Rose / Daily Mail:
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Climate change emails row deepens as Russians admit they DID come from their Siberian server  —  The claim was both simple and terrifying: that temperatures on planet Earth are now ‘likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years’.
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BBC:
Berlusconi is bloodied by attack  —  Mr Berlusconi was whisked away with blood on his face following the incident  —  Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending measure, 57-35  —  The Senate passed a huge end-of-the-year $1.1 trillion omnibus spending measure Sunday afternoon by a vote of 57-35.  —  The chamber was forced to work for the second consecutive weekend after talks broke down late Thursday to move …
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Senate passes omnibus bill; sent to Obma
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David M. Herszenhorn / The Caucus:
Health Care to Keep Democrats From Copenhagen Conference
Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Summers Predicts Job Growth by Spring  —  Lawrence H. Summers, President Obama's top economic advisor, predicted on Sunday that by the spring the ranks of working Americans will start to grow once again.  —  “Most professional forecasters are looking for a return to job growth by the spring …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Summers: ‘No more important issue’ than job growth
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New York Post:
Ask Ashley  —  Spitzer's babe answers all your love-life questions!  —  Sure, she's made some mistakes.  But now Ashley Dupre, the former escort who brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer, is sharing what she's learned in her new sex, love and relationship column — exclusively in the New York Post.
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Lieberman, Nelson: Public-option compromise still not good enough  —  Two key senators criticized the most recent healthcare compromise Sunday, saying the policies replacing the public option are still unacceptable.  —  Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) both said a Medicare …
Discussion: Emptywheel
Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times:
WMD not point of Iraq war, Tony Blair says  —  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the staunchest ally of President Bush, says that absent the WMD claims, he still would have found an argument for invading Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein.  —  Tony Blair, seen here at the United Nations …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MOTIVATION.... Post-election governing tends to feature a familiar pattern.  Presidents take office with high hopes, governing proves difficult, the policymaking process gets bogged down, and supporters get discouraged and start to walk away.  It can be pretty disheartening.
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama  —  Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor.
Discussion: TPMDC
Glenn W. Smith / Firedoglake:
Fail to Inspire Hope and We Fail the Future  —  Those of us who pursue a progressive vision of America's future are disappointed so far in Barack Obama.  We should keep in mind, however, that neither America nor any other nation has achieved anything near our hopes for political equality and economic justice.
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.
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