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10:10 AM ET, January 17, 2010

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap in Mass. Senate race  —  HYANNIS, Mass. - As the two candidates running in the special Senate election here barnstormed across the state Saturday, the enthusiasm gap between the two parties was on vivid display.  —  Democrat Martha Coakley, Massachusetts' attorney general …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Kirk Can't Vote After Tuesday  —  GOP lawyers say Paul Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day.  —  Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday's election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote for Democratic health care legislation, according to Republican attorneys.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Steve Kornacki:
Latest Coakley Internal: Brown +2  —  I've been told reliably that Martha Coakley's internal poll for Friday night showed Republican Scott Brown leading by two points, 47 to 45 percent.  Her campaign's three-night average for Friday, Thursday and Wednesday is the same — a 47 to 45 lead for Brown.
David / Blue Mass. Group:
BMG Exclusive: Scott Brown thought maybe Obama was born out of wedlock  —  Born out of wedlock?  Really??  —  Well, yes.  During (or maybe shortly after) the 2008 Republican convention, Brown was on a panel discussion (aired on the now-defunct CN8 cable news channel) about Sarah Palin.
Dan Roem / Hotline On Call:   MA SEN Shows Similarities To '09 VA GOV
Robert Cruickshank / Firedoglake:   MA-Sen: We've Seen This Movie Before
Times of London:
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown  —  A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.  —  Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
Barack Obama / Newsweek:
Why Haiti Matters  —  In the tragic aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, images of the disaster break our hearts and remind us of the fragility of life.  What America must do now—and why.  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010  —  In the last week, we have been deeply moved …
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Democracy Now:
“Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democracy"-Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts  —  We speak with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.
Discussion: Open Left and Crooks and Liars
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Great Tea Party Rip-Off  —  Even given the low bar set by America's bogus conversations about race, the short-lived Harry Reid fracas was a most peculiar nonevent.  For all the hyperventilation in cable news land, this supposed racial brawl didn't seem to generate any controversy whatsoever in what is known as the real world.
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Dr. Melissa Clouthier:
BREAKING: Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips: “I Want To Make A Million From This Movement”  —  Embattled Tea Party Nation, Inc. owner Judson Phillips has been making the media rounds to defend his up-coming, February 4-6 conference at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Over the top in Mass.  —  Via Sargent, an extremely sweeping charge from Massachusetts Democratic Party.  —  The basis is a provision Brown voted for that would allow religious hospital staffers not to inform victims of the availability of the morning after pill.  —  The NRSC invoked Felix Grucci in response.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dem Mail: Scott Brown Wants Hospitals To Turn Away All Rape Victims
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues  —  In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday of Cass Sunstein's proposal to “cognitively inflitrate extremist groups” by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called “independent” analysts to tout the government line …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Brown's pushback  —  America...only three (3) more days left to the start of the 2nd Revolution in America...the Voter Revolution of 2010!  And this additional attack is why the “real” American people are fed up with these Chicago mafia style politics!  They are dirty, sleazy and so Democratzi!
 
 
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