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8:10 PM ET, November 15, 2010

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James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:
'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Breaks TLC Ratings Record  —  Sarah Palin's documentary / travelogue / reality / biopic shattered TLC ratings records Sunday night.  —  The debut of Sarah Palin's Alaska delivered a whopping 5 million viewers.  —  The first episode of the eight-part series was the most-watched program launch in TLC's history.
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The Note:
Congratulations, Sarah Palin: “Refudiate” Named Word of the Year  —  ABC News' Mary Bruce reports:  —  Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time.  While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska governor's favorite verb …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
The rest of the 2012 polls...  PPP's final six state level 2012 GOP primary surveys, conducted right before this month's election, find Mitt Romney strong in another key early state, Sarah Palin weak at home, and Newt Gingrich's only first place finish out of the 18 states we polled.
The Note:
“Sarah Palin's Alaska”: Mama Bears, Glaciers and Nosey Neighbors, Oh My!
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Awl
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Big Ratings for Sarah Palin Premiere
Discussion: The Wire
The Politico:
Mitch McConnell reverses; backs earmark ban  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Monday that he now supports a GOP ban on earmarks, a stunning reversal that puts the Kentucky Republican in line with the tea-party wing of his party and conservative senators who have long sought to kill off pet projects.
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Ezra Klein:
Jim DeMint 1, Mitch McConnell 0
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
2012 Republicans virtually united behind earmarks ban
Discussion: CNN, NewsMax.com and The Hill
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Virginia Thomas stepping down as head of Liberty Central  —  Virginia Thomas, political activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has decided to relinquish control of Liberty Central, the conservative group she founded less than a year ago, so that the organization can escape the …
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Ethics trial ends, Charlie Rangel awaits fate  —  After his dramatic walkout from a high stake ethics trial, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) now awaits judgment from the ethics panel that has heard the evidence against him and has ended the public portion of the trial.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Burris says Reid apologized over ethics admonishment  —  Outgoing Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had apologized to him for the ethics proceedings against Burris in 2009.  —  Burris said that the Senate's top Democrat had expressed regrets …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Harry Reid creates special leadership job for Chuck Schumer
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Junior Democrats in Senate seek to change the way chamber does business
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Page
Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Tea party groups push GOP to quit culture wars, focus on deficit  —  In a letter to Republican leaders, tea party members advise the GOP to avoid culture-war social issues such as gay rights and abortion and to focus on reducing deficit and role of government.
Discussion: Biased BBC and protein wisdom
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The Politico:
GOP is urged to avoid social issues
Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
Tea Party Newbees: ‘No Compromise’
Discussion: Tea Party Nexus
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Murkowski receives warm welcome from fellow senators as lame-duck begins  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski received a warm welcome from fellow Senators on the Senate floor Monday and congratulations from National Republican Senate Campaign Chairman John Cornyn.  —  Ballots are still being counted …
Discussion: The Politico, The Note and CNN
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Cornyn to make bid to remain head of NRSC
Discussion: TPMDC
Peter Orszag / New York Times:
Safer Social Security  —  Social Security is not the key fiscal problem facing the nation.  Payments to its beneficiaries amount to 5 percent of the economy now; by 2050, they're projected to rise to about 6 percent.  Over the same period, federal health care costs will increase six times as much.
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Manny Gamallo / Tulsa World:
Westboro protesters face jeers and slashed tires  —  Related Story: McAlester soldier mourned  —  McALESTER - Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.  —  Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army …
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Vicious Infighting at NBC News  —  MSNBC's president vowed to fire Keith Olbermann after he threatened to take his case to other networks.  Howard Kurtz on the civil war that has NBC brass—and his own staff—fuming.  —  Keith Olbermann was having dinner with his manager at an Upper East Side restaurant …
Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN Poll: Election not a mandate for GOP  —  Washington (CNN) - Americans approve of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the midterms, but only one in six say the election results were a mandate for the GOP, according to a new national poll.
The Note:
Kalpen Modi Returns To White House Job After Leaving To Film ‘Harold & Kumar’ Sequel  —  ABC's Michael Falcone reports:  —  After a brief hiatus to film a sequel to the popular “Harold & Kumar” movie, the actor, Kalpen Modi (also known as Kal Penn), is returning to a job in the White House
Discussion: Washington Post
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow!  HUNDREDS OF RIDERS WITH US FLAGS Escort Cody Alicea to School Today (Video)  —  Hundreds of American Legion Riders and fellow patriots escorted Cody Alicea to Denair Middle School this morning.  They all had American Flags on their bikes.  —  A veteran brings Cody to tears when he gives …
Discussion: Moonbattery and Values Voter News
Lexington / Lexington's notebook:
Is America bribing Bibi or blackmailing him?  —  THE way the New York Times reports it, you might think that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are treating Israel's prime minister with more solicitude than he deserves.  If he will only agree to freeze Israeli settlement building in the West Bank …
Bob Minzesheimer / USA Today:
Obama shares dreams for his kids in book on 13 Americans  —  President Obama's picture book for kids, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf, $17.99), pays tribute to 13 Americans whose traits he sees in his own children.  —  The 31-page book, for kids ages 3 and up …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The best campaign of the 2010 election  —  The Fix spends an inordinate amount of time thinking and talking about campaign politics.  —  Given that, we like to think of ourselves as connoisseurs of the political game — we know what's good, what's bad and what's just plain odd.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Althouse
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Blames Himself for Tone in Washington  —  Just 20 days after his inauguration, with Republicans trying to block his stimulus bill, President Obama refused to acknowledge that he had underestimated how hard it would be to change the way Washington works.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Top Republican: Hoyer is ‘the only one we really talk to’  —  Outgoing House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is the GOP's primary source of contact within the Democratic leadership, a top Republican said Monday.  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee …
Art Carden / The Economic Imagination:
Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA  —  The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President's health care proposal.  In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block …
Niall Ferguson / Real Time Economics:
Open Letter to Ben Bernanke  —  The following is the text of an open letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signed by several economists, along with investors and political strategists, most of them close to Republicans:  —  We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan …
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Amidst National Islamophobic Upheaval, Arizonans Protest Mosque That's Actually A Church  —  In an era saturated with absurd moments of anti-Muslim fear-mongering, mosques have become a touchstone for Islamophobia.  Even unbuilt mosques have set off a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in Tennessee …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The World as He Finds It  —  On Wednesday David Axelrod, President Obama's top political adviser, appeared to signal that the White House was ready to cave on tax cuts — to give in to Republican demands that tax cuts be extended for the wealthy as well as the middle class.
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Palin Finds Comfort as a Crowd-Sourced Candidate  —  The premiere of “Sarah Palin's Alaska” on cable television this week felt more like a formality than a new career direction.  In any meaningful sense, Ms. Palin has starred in her own reality show since she left the governor's office last year …
 
 
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Josh Marshall on TPM's first 10 years (and its next 10)
Discussion: Mediaite
Michael M. Grynbaum / City Room:
Finally, a Passing Grade for the F Train
Discussion: Gothamist and Runnin' Scared
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Silver Lining: Why Dems' Big Loss Could Pave The Way For Obama Nominees
Discussion: Yglesias
CNN:
TSA: Despite objections, all passengers must be screened
Discussion: Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Jill Dougherty / CNN:
Source: $4 billion more offered in effort to ratify START reaty
 Earlier Items: 
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Please stop asking Newt Gingrich if he'll run for president
Discussion: USA Today
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Foreclosure King Defaults on Rent, $15 Million Loan
Discussion: Emptywheel
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Gov-elect Andrew Cuomo taps former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to keep New Yorkers safe
Discussion: Gothamist
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Europe stumbles blindly towards its 1931 moment
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A lame and spineless duck?