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10:50 AM ET, January 4, 2010

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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
EXCLUSIVE: Dems ‘Almost Certain’ to Bypass Conference  —  Now that both the House and Senate have passed health care reform bills, all Democrats have to do is work out a compromise between the two versions.  And it appears they're not about to let the Republicans gum up the works again.
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
House-Senate Health Care “Conference” Begins; PhRMA Deal Targeted
Discussion: The Politico
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Inside Obama's War on Terrorism  —  The evening before he was sworn into office, Barack Obama stepped out of Blair House, the government residence where he was staying across from the White House, and climbed into an armored limousine for the ride to a bipartisan dinner.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
White House: No matter what, we're sending Gitmo prisoners back to Yemen  —  As Susan notes below, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Obama White House not to go forward with plans to send a number of Yemeni terrorists now being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their home country.
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Yemeni leadership feared in al Qaeda's sights
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Intensifies Screening for Travelers From 14 Nations  —  WASHINGTON — Citizens of 14 nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, who are flying to the United States will be subjected indefinitely to the intense screening at airports worldwide that was imposed after the Christmas …
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Fox News:
Man Skirts Newark Airport Security; Flights Delayed  —  NEWARK, N.J. — A man walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal at one of the nation's busiest airports on Sunday night, and flights were grounded for hours and passengers had to be re-screened while air safety officials searched for him.
Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
US imposes extra air security checks
Discussion: TSA, Truthdig and Jihad Watch
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Stepped-up screening targets fliers from ‘terror-prone’ lands
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BRIT HUME SAID WHAT?.... As regular readers know, I've made no mention of Tiger Woods on this blog.  I don't care about golf; I don't care about golfers' private lives; I don't care about any aspect of this “story” at any level.  —  But I was taken aback when I saw that Fox News' Brit Hume …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Photo-Smearing Obama  —  Glenn Reynolds finds a photo in the White House Flickr basket and publishes it to, er, point out how bad the White House's p.r. is, or how blind they are to perceptions of Obama or some such thing.  I tried to puzzle this one out and can just about see how an elusive photo …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Damn, Obama looks like James Bond in this picture.”
Adam Fogle / The Palmetto Scoop:
Brown will not seek re-election  —  CONGRESSMAN TO RETIRE AFTER 5TH TERM IN OFFICE  —  Republican Congressman Henry Brown, who has served South Carolina in the U.S. House since 2001, will retire at the end of his term, sources tell The Palmetto Scoop.  —  Brown will announce his intention …
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Henry Brown retiring
Discussion: Swing State Project
CNN:
Former Sen. Chafee to announce gubernatorial bid  —  (CNN) - Lincoln Chafee Monday will formally announce his bid for Rhode Island governor Monday.  —  The former Republican senator-turned-independent will officially jump into the race at an event in Warwick, where he once served as mayor.
Jim Scarantino / New Mexico Watchdog:
Stimulus Funds Went to Nonexistent Zip Code Areas [Updated]  —  First it was phantom Congressional districts.  Now it's phantom zip codes.  —  Last month, we reported on federal stimulus money credited with creating jobs in nonexistent New Mexico Congressional districts.
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
Americans' Role Seen in Uganda's Anti-Gay Push  —  KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda's capital to give a series of talks.
BBC:
Effigy of Obama hanged in US town  —  The US Secret Service says it is investigating after an effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging in the home town of former President Jimmy Carter.  —  TV footage showed the doll hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that reads “Plains, Georgia.
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Wainwright Jeffers / WALB-TV:   Obama's effigy in Pres. Carter's hometown
Guardian:
Peru's mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter  —  For alpaca farmer Ignacio Beneto Huamani and his young family, life in the Peruvian Andes, at almost 4,700m above sea level, has always been a struggle against the elements.  His village of Pichccahuasi, in Peru's Huancavelica region …
Neil Frank / Houston Chronicle:
Climategate: You should be steamed  —  Now that Copenhagen is past history, what is the next step in the man-made global warming controversy?  Without question, there should be an immediate and thorough investigation of the scientific debauchery revealed by “Climategate.”
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Anti-Griffith camp recalls segregationist figures  —  In an unusual press release announcing the resignation of his legislative staff, former aides to party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith, who is now a Republican, wrote that he had “abandoned the legacy of conservative leadership” provided by …
Discussion: msnbc.com
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Lax Oversight Caused Crisis, Bernanke Says  —  ATLANTA — Regulatory failure, not low interest rates, was responsible for the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis of the last decade, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said in a speech on Sunday.
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Washington Post:
Americans accused of plotting attacks return to Pakistan prison
Discussion: Freedom's Lighthouse
Robert Pear / New York Times:
In Health Bill for Everyone, Provisions for a Few
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Daily Mail:
Choudary compares British troops to Nazi stormtroopers as 200,000 …
Discussion: Guardian and Gateway Pundit
Daily Mail:
As Britain told to expect snow for ‘next 10 days’, how is the rest …
Bob Brigham / MyDD:
Barack Obama Poll Numbers and the Midterm Elections
Discussion: Corrente
Willie Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:
Homeland security chief takes responsibility
Discussion: GayPatriot and Don Surber
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
Romney will hit key primary states on book tour
 Earlier Items: 
Bangkokpost.com:
Ex-spy chief says Iran government about to collapse
Discussion: Laura Rozen's Blog and Hot Air
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Jordan emerges as key CIA counterterrorism ally
Discussion: The Page
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Ten campaign themes to watch
Discussion: msnbc.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Reids, Bidens and Pauls to attempt to follow the Bushes and Kennedys
Discussion: The Page
Charles Scanlon / BBC:
US lifts HIV/Aids immigration ban
Discussion: Politics Daily and Truthdig
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
A Black Market Finds a Home in the Web's Back Alleys
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Alabama Democrat Casts His Lot With G.O.P.
Siun / Firedoglake:
Gaza March Blocked But Message Delivered
Discussion: Israel Matzav