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6:25 PM ET, November 9, 2010

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CBS News:
Mystery Missile Launch Seen off Calif. Coast  —  Military Mum on Nature of “Big Missile” Rising Out of Pacific - a Possible Show of U.S. Military Might  —  (CBS) A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught by CBS affiliate KCBS's cameras Monday night …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wonderful: Military not sure yet who fired “big missile” off California coast; Update: Airplane?  —  I'm at a loss.  Three obvious possibilities:  —  (1) It's one of ours but is being officially denied because it's part of some secret operation.  If that's true, though …
San Diego, California News Station:
Mysterious missile lights up the sky over the Pacific  —  Pacific Ocean (CBS 8)- A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught on video Monday evening by a KCBS news helicopter.  —  The spectacular contrail could easily be seen up in Los Angeles …
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Video Catches Mystery ‘Missile’ Launch Near L.A. [Updated Once More]  —  Someone semingly launched a mysterious missile 35 miles off of the California coast last night — just west of Los Angeles and north of Catalina Island.  But anyone in the military knows who did it, or what the hell the thing was, they haven't told me yet.
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Sarah Palin, Media Critic  —  The former veep candidate (and journalism major) misleads readers on the WSJ with selective quotes  —  Aw, shucks.  —  Sarah Palin is “just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like (her) can read the newspaper.”  —  Reading's one thing.
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Sudeep Reddy / Real Time Economics:
Sarah Palin's QE2 Criticism Includes Inflation Hyperbole
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
For Indonesia and Obama, 4th Time's the Charm  —  JAKARTA, Indonesia — It is the presidential homecoming that wasn't meant to be.  —  Enlarge This Image  —  President Obama during a news conference with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia on Tuesday in Jakarta.
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Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
Obama Visits a Nation That Knew Him as Barry  —  JAKARTA, Indonesia — The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago.  The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchanged.
Matt DeLong / Washington Post:
Obama's Indonesian gay nanny and other things from his past
John / Verum Serum:
Ted Rall Book Excerpt: Let's Kill Some Christians and Tea Partiers  —  Ted Rall has a new book out titled The Anti-American Manifesto.  In it he makes an explicit call for a violent socialist revolution from within.  In case you think this is all a big joke, here's an excerpt from the book:
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Lachlan Markay / NewsBusters.org blogs:   MSNBC Host Dylan Ratigan Hints at Violent Revolution
John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
Racist Cartoonist Ted Rall Calls For Violent ‘Revolt’ …
Discussion: RedState
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Cantor, Republicans signal Obama tax proposal is dead in the water  —  The Obama administration's hopes of reaching a tax deal with Republicans that would decouple rates on the rich from the middle class appear dead.  —  House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) threw cold water on the proposed plan …
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The Hill:
Dems' leadership race turns bitter as Clyburn slams Hoyer's tactics  —  Rep. James Clyburn said Rep. Steny Hoyer's tactics are breaking with tradition and making Democrats uncomfortable.  —  The comments are the first hint of bitterness between Clyburn (S.C.) and Hoyer (Md.) …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dems will work with new GOP majority when possible
Discussion: The Politico
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
A New Bush, a Lot Like the Old One  —  He said he still felt sickened that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq.  Yet former President George W. Bush said that his worst moment in the Oval Office came when the rap star Kanye West claimed that the president didn't care about black people.
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John Feehery / Pundits Blog:
Bush revisited  —  Let's posit right now that George W. Bush loves …
Discussion: The Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans May Yet Have Upper Hand in Senate  —  On paper, the numbers tell you the Democrats held on to a majority in the Senate last week.  —  In reality, things won't be quite that neat.  In fact, on some issues the Republicans actually may have a functional majority …
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The Politico:
Mitch McConnell fights GOP earmark ban
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and msnbc.com
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Alvin Greene mulls presidential bid  —  'Maybe.  I'll have to see,' Alvin Greene said about running for president.  —  Alvin Greene might run for president.  —  Greene, the unlikely Democratic Senate nominee in South Carolina who lost overwhelmingly to Republican Sen. Jim DeMint last week …
NationalJournal.com:
Presidential Power Rankings  —  The Hotline assesses which potential White House contenders are most likely to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.  —  Welcome to The Hotline's inaugural edition of Presidential Power Rankings.  —  Who is best positioned to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination?
Wall Street Journal:
Schools Chancellor Klein to Join News Corp.  —  New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein is resigning to join News Corp., ending an eight-year reign at the helm of the nation's largest school system.  —  In his place, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to announce Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
And the GOP primary numbers...  PPP numbers looking ahead to the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination contest in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania find Mitt Romney looking strong in New England and the West and Mike Huckabee with a slight edge in the Midwest.
Discussion: Hot Air, GOP 12 and Weigel
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The Note:
Newt Gingrich Handicaps 2012 Presidential Race: I'm Probably In Fourth
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
No charges in destruction of CIA videotapes, Justice Department says  —  No one will face criminal charges for the destruction of CIA videotapes depicting harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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New York Times:
No Charges in Destruction of C.I.A. Interrogation Tapes
Discussion: Emptywheel and Cogitamus
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH, THE FAMOUS, AND THE NEW JERSEY GOVERNORS.... New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a media darling and favorite of many Republican activists, has a penchant for complaining about wasteful government spending and public employees who abuse the system and fail to respect the taxpayers footing the bills.
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — November 2010  —  The November 2010 tracking poll was conducted in the days following the mid-term election that resulted in major gains for Republicans, including a shift in control of the House of Representatives.  The survey attempts to gauge …
Jillian Rayfield / TPMMuckraker:
Social Conservative Bryan Fischer: Get Rid Of The ‘Curse’ That Is The Grizzly Bear  —  Bryan Fischer really hates it when animals attack.  Like, hates it so much that he thinks we'd be better off without them.  —  Which is why Fischer, who is the “Director of Issues Analysis” …
 
 
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