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8:50 AM ET, January 5, 2010

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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Democrats Considering Health Care-Immigration Deal To Overcome Key Sticking Point  —  Lawmakers who want to extend health coverage to illegal immigrants will not block the passage of the final health care reform bill so long as the White House offers a substantive promise to start pushing comprehensive immigration legislation this year.
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
White House Spokeswoman Says Different Bertha Lewis on Visitor's Log  —  UPDATE: According to Politico's Ben Smith, the Bertha Lewis who went to the White House is not ACORN's CEO but another woman named “Bertha Lewis.”  I contacted Smith to tell him that Big Government would offer a correction if the …
New York Post:
O ‘campaigns’ vs. Dave - even with Rudy out
Discussion: The Daily Politics
Telegraph:
MI5 told US about Detroit bomber's terror links ‘a year ago’  —  Britain told American intelligence agents more than a year ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists, according to Downing Street.  —  The prime minister's spokesman indicated that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was named …
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
Remarks With Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin …
Discussion: Commentary
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Poll: Republican Scott Brown Trails by 11 in Mass. Senate Race  —  There has been a notable absence of public polling in the January 19 special election in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.  That will begin to change tomorrow, when Scott Rasmussen releases the results of a poll that he's conducting tonight.
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Alan Travis / Guardian:
New scanners break child porn laws  —  The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.  —  Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines …
Discussion: Raw Story and LewRockwell.com Blog
Andrew Martin / New York Times:
How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market  —  Every day, millions of Americans stand at store checkout counters and make a seemingly random decision: after swiping their debit card, they choose whether to punch in a code, or to sign their name.  —  It is a pointless distinction to most consumers …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work  —  Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.  —  There were other important death penalty developments last year …
msnbc.com:
Al-Qaida double-agent killed CIA officers  —  Officials: Perpetrator of Afghan attack was supposed to infiltrate al-Qaida  —  The suicide bombing on a CIA base in Afghanistan last week was carried out by a Jordanian doctor who was an al-Qaida double-agent, Western intelligence officials told NBC News.
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
‘N-Word’ Sign Dogs Would-Be Tea Party Leader  —  Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo — taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston — in which he holds a sign reading “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.”
Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
Quist: Defeating liberals a bigger battle than defeating terrorism  —  Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota's First Congressional District, told attendees of the Wabasha County Republicans Christmas Party in mid-December that beating the …
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Agence France Presse:
New US flight checks ‘discriminate against Nigeria’  —  Buzz up!  —  ABUJA (AFP) - Nigeria, home of the failed US plane bomber, Monday branded new security measures for passengers flying to the United States unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against its 150 million people.
Discussion: The Reaction, Hot Air and Don Surber
Jessica Kutch / SEIU:
Hell Freezes Over: Rush Limbaugh Loves Union Hospitals and Socialized Medicine  —  Over the past year of Obama's presidency, conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh has routinely mocked, distorted and even invented various health insurance reform proposals before Congress.
Tom Coghlan / Times of London:
Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight  —  At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of the country's Government to accept almost 100 more former inmates from the detention centre.
Discussion: RBO and PrairiePundit
Mariah Blake / Washington Monthly:
Revisionaries  —  How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks.  —  Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick home in a suburb near Bryan, Texas.  When he greeted me at the door one evening last October …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Grayson: Satan should write foreword to Cheney book  —  The Prince of Darkness himself might be best-suited to write the foreword to former Vice President Dick Cheney's forthcoming book, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) suggested Monday.  —  Grayson, during an appearance on MSNBC …
Washington Post:
Secret Service confirms third crasher at White House state dinner  —  Another uninvited guest made it into the White House state dinner made famous by gate-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Secret Service announced Monday — exposing more holes in the security perimeter around President Obama.
BBC:
BeautifulPeople.com axes holiday weight gain members  —  Dating and social network site BeautifulPeople.com has axed some 5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight.  —  The members were singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period.
Wall Street Journal:
Personal Bankruptcy Filings Rising Fast  —  The number of Americans filing for personal bankruptcy rose by nearly a third in 2009, a surge largely driven by foreclosures and job losses.  —  And more people are filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which liquidates assets to pay off some debts and absolves the filers of others.
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
The man behind RedState.com shakes up the Republican Party  —  Erick Erickson, 34, has emerged as one of the leading new voices for Republican activists through his blog, RedState.com.  —  Times]  —  MACON, Ga. — Between pecks at his laptop, Macon City Council member Erick Erickson ticked off some of his goals for the new year:
Discussion: TBogg, The Caucus and The Hill
Republican Governors Association:
RGA Smashes Fundraising Records  —  The Republican Governors Association announced today that it raised a record $30 million dollars in 2009 and carried forward more than $25 million into 2010.  —  “We raised more, saved more, and won more than DGA in 2009 and that's a good forecast of what's …
Discussion: TRAIL BLAZERS and Politics Daily
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Even in G.O.P., Lazio's Bid for Governor Is Hard Sell  —  CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Rick A. Lazio is on a tear: ripping into corruption and cowardice in Albany, blasting state leaders' addiction to spending and taxes, warning that New York is on the verge of losing a generation of job seekers to economic decline.
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Times of London:
Bankruptcy hanging like a cloud over Labour's election campaign  —  An impoverished Labour Party will be unable to return fire against the Conservatives' pre-election advertising blitz for months, amid fears that it could emerge from the campaign bankrupt.  —  David Blunkett …
Jonathan Lis / Haaretz:
Are IDF dogs trained to pounce all who say ‘God is great’ in Arabic?  —  The Israel Defense Forces has denied allegations that it trains its canines to attack anybody heard saying Allah Hu Akbar, Arabic for ‘God is great.’  —  Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi on Monday told the Knesset plenum …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Health debate resumes with WH meet  —  The health care debate resumes in earnest on Tuesday after more than a week of quiet following Senate passage of its landmark bill on Christmas Eve.  —  The four relevant House chairmen will meet with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner on National …:
Who Is the Enemy?  — By: Victor Davis Hanson  —  I don't think anyone knows quite what this administration's anti-terrorism policy is.  Last August, Obama's counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, lambasted the Bush administration, citing “the inflammatory rhetoric, hyperbole and intellectual narrowness …
Discussion: GayPatriot
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Top House Liberal Rips Dem Plan To Skip Conference To Pass Health Care  —  Uh oh.  Looks like the Dem leadership's plan to quickly pass health care reform by skipping House-Senate conference negotiations has further alienated House liberals — a potential problem, since liberal support …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists  —  The nation's top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government's intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change.
Discussion: Politics Daily
The Huffington Post:
Dems' Only Hope For 2010: Make The Race About The Other Guy  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Democratic incumbents face the most threatening political environment since the Republican landslide of 1994 — and they know it.  —  The trends are all moving in the wrong direction.
 
 
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Clive Crook / Financial Times:
Beware the crisis around the corner
Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's nuclear-free vision mired in debate
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Majority of Americans Optimistic About U.S. in the Future
Discussion: The Plum Line, The Swamp and D.C. Now
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law
Umar Lee:
Thoughts on the Underwear Bomber and the Aftermath
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Jawa Report
Wayne Slater / TRAIL BLAZERS:
Hutchison will air TV ad during UT-Alabama championship game
Discussion: The Hill
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Appeals court upholds Moussaoui's conviction, life prison term
Discussion: Main Justice, Power Line and The Page
Anthony Wright / The New Republic:
Limbaugh Hearts Health Reform
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Face the Voters  —  On Face the Nation, there was some serious talk …
Discussion: Hot Air
 

 
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