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2:35 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
Discussion: Houston Chronicle and Open Left
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.
Matt Taibbi / Taibblog:
On Obama's Sellout … When we went to print with the latest Rolling Stone piece about Obama's economic hires, a couple of my sources advised me to expect some nastiness in the way of a response from Obama apologists.  One jokingly suggested that there would be a waiting period to see if anyone …
New York Post:
Times Sq. gunman held weapon like rapper  —  A Times Square bloodbath was narrowly avoided because the machine-pistol-toting thug who fired at a cop flipped the gun on its side like a character out of a rap video, causing the weapon to jam after two shots, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Michael Sheridan / NY Daily News:
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spars with William Shatner on 'Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'  —  Sarah Palin traded comedic jabs with William Shatner on 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.'  —  “Going Rogue” author and former GOP VP hopeful Sarah Palin has a sense of humor after all - maybe.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Surprising Sarah Palin shows up on Conan O'Brien's show …
Discussion: ArtsBeat and Power Line
New York Times:
Senate Hits New Roadblocks on Health Care Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders hit a rough patch Friday in their push for sweeping health care legislation, as they tried to fend off criticism of their proposals from a top Medicare official, Republicans and even members of their own party.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Doubts grow over Senate's Christmas deadline for healthcare reform
Discussion: The Politico and AmSpecBlog
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).
Discussion: True North and RedState
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
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Interest Rates Are Low, but Banks Balk at Refinancing  —  Mortgage rates in the United States have dropped to their lowest levels since the 1940s, thanks to a trillion-dollar intervention by the federal government.  Yet the banks that once handed out home loans freely are imposing …
Discussion: Calculated Risk
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Emptywheel
Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics  —  New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance.
Discussion: The Confluence
Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
White House Condemns Antigay Uganda Bill  —  In its strongest statement yet, the Obama Administration condemned a homophobic Ugandan bill that would carry a death sentence for acts of homosexuality in some cases.  —  “The President strongly opposes efforts, such as the draft law pending in Uganda …
 
 
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Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Nations' mounting debts worry global bond investors
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John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
REVIEW: Cameron's ‘Avatar’ Is a Big, Dull, America-Hating, PC Revenge Fantasy
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Clears Way for the Approval of a Spending Measure
Discussion: TalkLeft
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Looming population crisis forces China to revisit one-child policy
Discussion: Beat the Press
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Child hunger an increasingly complex problem
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BBC:
Mass arrests at Copenhagen rally
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Business Roundtable edges away from health reform plan
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Dan Collins / POWIP:
The Department of Cablinasian Studies [& Call for Submissions]
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Do Nothing, Majority Says  —  ObamaCare is now almost as unpopular as it is monstrous.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
 

 
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