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11:15 AM ET, November 22, 2010

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
There Will Be Blood  —  Former Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person.  He must be — after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special commission on deficit reduction.  —  So here's what the very serious Mr. Simpson said on Friday: “I can't wait for the blood bath in April. ...
Ben Smith / The Politico:
View from Mideast: Obama's a problem  —  JERUSALEM — Vowing to change a region that has resisted the best efforts of presidents and prime ministers past, Barack Obama dove head first into the Middle East peace process on his second day in office.  —  He was supposed to be different.
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Obama's foreign policy needs an update  —  For help understanding the foreign policy headlines of the past week, let's return, briefly, to the spring of 1983, when Barack Obama was a student at Columbia University.  What were the burning international issues of that time?
Scott / Power Line:
Obama's foreign policy time warp  —  The Washington Post's Jackson Diehl notes that Obama's foreign policy is in crucial respects stuck in the 1980's, when Obama was a Columbia undergraduate faithfully peddling the Soviet Union's line on the nuclear freeze (my words, not Diehl's).
Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Response to “Young Boy Strip Searched by TSA”  —  A video is being widely circulated showing a shirtless boy receiving secondary screening from a Transportation Security Officer (TSO).  A passenger filmed the screening with their cell phone and posted the video on the web.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
Obama Politically Tone Deaf On TSA Outrage  —  President Obama spoke yesterday about the outrage that has swept the country over new TSA screening procedures, and his response strikes me as being incredibly non-responsive to the concerns that people have raised about procedures that many consider to be incredibly invasive:
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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Jindal blasts Obama administration, calls TSA searches excessive
David Lerman / Bloomberg:
Hillary Clinton Says She Won't Run Again for Elective Office  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today she won't run again for elective office, ruling out a future presidential bid.  —  “I am very happy doing what I'm doing and I am not in any way interested in or pursuing anything …
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Fox News:
Secretary Hillary Clinton, Gov. Rick Perry on ‘Fox News Sunday’ |
Discussion: Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Some States Weigh Unthinkable Option: Ending Medicaid
Discussion: Hit & Run
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
'Don't ask, don't tell' study to be released day earlier than planned  —  Signaling the growing seriousness of the Obama administration's commitment this year to ending the military's ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces, the Defense Department said Sunday that it will release …
Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Sarah Palin drops 2012 presidency hint with staff visit to Iowa  —  Palin scouts for office space in early voting state, suggesting next week's visit will be ‘more than just a book signing’  —  Sarah Palin has dropped another hint of her intention to run for the White House in 2012 …
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Felix Salmon:
The underwhelming Irish bailout  —  Color me underwhelmed by the Irish bailout.  By all accounts it's going to be less than €100 billion — probably in the €80 billion to €90 billion range — and that sum has to cover the country's entire borrowing needs for the next three years.
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Wall Street Journal:   Ailing Ireland Accepts Bailout
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Special Underwear Makes Your Privates Invisible to TSA Scanners  —  Citizens, take heart: Even as our country falls under the total domination of our new TSA overlords, capitalism continues unabated.  A Colorado man has developed undergarments with special body scanner-blocking fig leafs to hide your privates.
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Anti-earmark amendment cedes lawmakers' powers to White House  —  Even if the full Senate doesn't pass an earmark moratorium, a refusal by lawmakers to direct funding to their congressional districts will likely give more spending-priority power to the Obama administration and won't do much to chip away at the federal deficit.
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Joshua Miller / ABCNEWS:
Warren Buffett: Read My Lips, Raise My Taxes  —  Billionaire Buffett tells Amanpour Bush-era Tax Cuts for Rich Should Expire  —  In an exclusive interview on “This Week,” Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told Christiane Amanpour that the rich should be paying more taxes …
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Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
The Answer Is No  —  New Jersey governor Chris Christie is denying money to teachers and tunnels, oxygen to Democrats, and intentions to run for president in 2012.  Which is only making him more popular.  —  C  —  hris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, was trolling for clicks.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Reince Priebus weighs RNC bid  —  1. Wisconsin Republican party chairman Reince Priebus is actively mulling a bid for the Republican National Committee chairmanship and is receiving encouragement from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) among others.  —  “I've been asked to seriously consider …
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Steve Ranson / Fallon Nevada:
Angle keeps her future options open for 2012
Discussion: Politics Daily and Ballot Box
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
WHAT GOOD IS WALL STREET?  —  Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless.  —  A few months ago, I came across an announcement that Citigroup, the parent company of Citibank, was to be honored, along with its chief executive, Vikram Pandit, for “Advancing the Field of Asset Building in America.”
Discussion: DealBook
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Poll finds Obama, Romney deadlocked in 2012 matchup  —  A new poll shows President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a statistical dead heat for the White House.  —  The GOP's Romney edges Obama by one percentage point, 45-44 percent, in a Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters released Monday.
Neil Macdonald / CBC News:
CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon's Rafik Hariri?  —  It wasn't until late 2007 that the awkwardly titled UN International Independent Investigation Commission actually got around to some serious investigating.  —  By then, nearly three years had passed since the spectacular public murder …
Discussion: Backspin, Power Line and Israel Matzav
 
 
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Gerard Wynn / Reuters:
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Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Nations That Debate Coal Use Export It to Feed China's Need
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The Daily Caller:
Arizona school district sends letters home about overweight kids
Discussion: OpenMarket.org and Overlawyered
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
U.S. allies in Europe concerned about a possible failure of New START
NY Daily News:
Local jihadist website tied to terror thugs returns under new name, IslamPolicy.com
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Gingrich: No debates moderated by Olbermann or Matthews
Discussion: CNN