memeorandum: Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch Centrist Civility Group (The Huffington Post)

1:15 AM ET, December 1, 2010

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WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.

Discussion: Threat Level, YID With LID, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Agonist, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scared Monkeys, NPR and The Nation, more at Mediagazer »

Howard Chua-Eoan / Time:

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Tells TIME: Hillary Clinton ‘Should Resign’ — Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, “should resign.” Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel …

Discussion: NewsReal Blog, Washington Post, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Politics Daily, The Page, FrumForum, Gawker and Guardian

Christopher R. W. Dietrich / The Politico:
A Kissinger-style lesson on leaks

Discussion: CNN

zunguzungu:
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government”

Discussion: The Duck of Minerva, Making Light, Telegraph and Hullabaloo

Associated Press:
Interpol Seeks WikiLeaks Founder Assange as U.S. Cuts Access to Files

Discussion: CBS New York, msnbc.com and Babalú Blog

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Whack WikiLeaks — And there's a role for Congress.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Associated Press, Mediaite, Agence France Presse, Mother Jones, The Enterprise Blog, Christian Science Monitor, Crooks and Liars, Hit & Run, Newshoggers.com, Rumproast and American Power

The Huffington Post:

Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch Centrist Civility Group — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — TV's Joe Scarborough, who today dismissed Sarah Palin as a symbol of “anti-intellectualism” with a “dopey dream” of being president, will help headline the launch next month …

Discussion: Donklephant, Salon, The Daily Caller and The Moderate Voice

Joe Scarborough / The Politico:
GOP should take on Palin

The Jewish Week:
Sarah Palin Gaining in Support from ‘Educated Jews’

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Cubachi:
Palin Derangement at MSNBC, or shall we call it MSPDS?

Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog, The Politico, NewsBusters.org blogs and Right Wing Nut House

Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Palin Hauls in Nearly $500k In Just Over a Month

Discussion: CNN, The Note, Conservatives4Palin.com and The Page

Julian Pecquet / The Hill:

Judge upholds healthcare reform law — A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to the healthcare reform law, the second time the law's mandate that people buy insurance has been ruled constitutional. — The lawsuit was brought by Liberty University …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:

Cantor Urges ‘Open Mind’ On VA Legislature Plan To Blow Up The Constitution — Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is part of a class of Republicans who say they want to change the country fundamentally — and to that end, Cantor isn't dismissing a plan by legislators in his home state …

Discussion: Zandar Versus The Stupid and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Cantor: Popular parts of health law will be tackled in GOP repeal plan

Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and protein wisdom

Stephanie Cutter / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Another Health Care Court Victory

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Swampland

The Official Home of the Department of Defense:

Mullen Endorses Working Group's Report — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today fully endorsed the report of the working group that assessed the impact of a possible repeal of the law that bans gay men and women from serving openly in the military. ...

Bruce Kesler / Maggie's Farm:

I'm A Gay Guy And A Veteran — I'm a gay guy, meaning I'm pretty carefree and happy, pretty tolerant, and not a homosexual. At the same time, I'm pretty focused and results-oriented, but not to an excess unfair to others. So, how do I react to the Pentagon's study of the effects of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell?

Discussion: Power Line and The Other McCain

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Pentagon report will leave opponents of DADT repeal little to work with — Okay, I've got some more detail for you on the findings in that forthcoming Pentagon report on the impact repeal of Don't Ask Don't tell will have on the military. The upshot: It will leave GOP moderates with no reasons left to oppose repeal.

Discussion: Federal Eye, Associated Press, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Teddy Partridge's myFDL diary, AMERICAblog Gay, PostPartisan, Salon, Crooks and Liars, Balloon Juice, The Daily Dish, Wonk Room and National Review

Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Little Impact Seen if Military Gay Ban Is Repealed

Discussion: The Official Home …, The Moderate Voice, FiveThirtyEight, TPMDC, American Forces Press Service, Outside the Beltway, The Politico, Mother Jones and Hot Air

Todd Starnes / Fox News:

GOP Reps Blast Smithsonian Exhibit Featuring Ant-Covered Jesus on Cross — An image with Jesus covered in ants from the video “A Fire in My Belly,” part of the ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. — UPDATE: In a statement released on Tuesday, Martin Sullivan …

Discussion: New York Post, Scared Monkeys, ThinkProgress, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Jawa Report, CNSNews, Pajamas Media, Don Surber, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Rumproast and Althouse

Terry / CNSNews:
Boehner and Cantor to Smithsonian: Pull Exhibit Featuring Ant-Covered Jesus or Else

Discussion: Gawker, Big Hollywood, Weasel Zippers and alicublog

David Dayen / Firedoglake:

OFA Asks Supporters to Write a “Letter to the Editor” Praising Federal Worker Pay Freeze — We've officially gone around the bend. — OFA, the organizing arm of the DNC, originally began its life as an organization trying to get someone elected on the platform of hope, change, and progressive policies.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Open Left, Swampland, Outside the Beltway, TalkLeft, Crooked Timber, Gawker, The Politico, Hot Air and The Impolitic

Ezra Klein:
‘These people are living in a dream world’

Discussion: The Enterprise Blog, Free exchange, Gothamist and The Reality-Based Community

Jason Nark / Philly.com:

Family: New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally — EVERYTHING Brian Aitken was or had worked for was wiped away one winter afternoon after his mother called the police on him. — Separated from his wife, the entrepreneur and media consultant, now 27 …

Discussion: TigerHawk

Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:

Hot mic picks up discussion on Senate floor: 'It's all rigged' — A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.” — “It's all rigged.

Discussion: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, YID With LID, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, Babalú Blog, Wake up America, Pajamas Media, Gretawire and Instapundit

Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Michael Bennet: Lame duck is ‘rigged’

Discussion: The Note

The Huffington Post:

Senate Dems Plan Dramatic Tax Cut Vote, Followed By ‘Grab Bag’ Negotiations — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … Read More: Bag Of Goodies Tax Cuts, Democrats Tax Cut Deal, Middle Class Tax Cuts. Dick Durbin Tax Cuts, Senate Democrats, Senate Democrats Middle Class, Tax Cut Single Vote, Politics News

Discussion: Salon, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, AMERICAblog News, The Hill, The Hill, Open Congress and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*

John P. Avlon / CNN:
For Obama, Boehner, how about cigarette summit?

Discussion: FrumForum

The Huffington Post:
Obama, Republicans Agree To Hold More Meetings On Bush Tax Cuts

Discussion: Reuters, Writes Like She Talks, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Hullabaloo, Ezra Klein, TPMDC, Washington Post and FrumForum

Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:

Patriotic ‘Hacktivist’ Claims He Took Down Wikileaks Site — Hacker-Activist ‘The Jester’ Says He Attacks Jihadist Websites Trying to Recruit Young Muslims — A computer hacker is claiming he temporarily disabled the Wikileaks site Sunday afternoon, right as the latest dump …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
WikiLeaks Using Amazon Servers After Attack

Discussion: Larry Sanger

blogs.abcnews.com:

Retiring Congressman Loses Cool on House Floor — ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: — Rep. Steve Buyer, a retiring nine-term lawmaker Republican from Indiana, became a little heated on the House floor today as the chamber prepared to consider a bill out of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Discussion: The Note and American Power

Ann Althouse / Althouse:

Here I am listening — for the first time — to Rush Limbaugh talking about me. — I've got the podcast of today's show, where he's reading from this blog post of mine: — And let me invite Rush to go on Bloggingheads.tv and diavlog with me about the so-called chickification problems that plague our world today.

Discussion: RushLimbaugh.com

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

Going deep on the Republicans — Our monthly look at the 2012 Republican Presidential field for November finds the same thing it it does every month- a very close four way race. This time around it's Sarah Palin at 21%, Newt Gingrich at 19%, Mitt Romney at 18%, and Mike Huckabee at 16%.

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, GOP 12, Ballot Box and Conservatives4Palin.com

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:

Stuff White People Like — The departure of the only black senator prompts a revealingly clueless commentary. — The U.S. Senate now has no black members. Illinois's Roland Burris, appointed to replace Barack Obama when the latter moved on to bigger if not necessarily better things …

Discussion: Fox Nation, Althouse, Questions and Observations and NBC Chicago

Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:

Steve King: Black Farmers' Settlement Is ‘Slavery Reparations’ (VIDEO) — The Senate last week finally approved the multi-billion-dollar funding for the Pigford II and Cobell settlements, which will allow the government to pay out claims to African-American farmers and American Indians …

Discussion: Breitbart.tv, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, Mediaite, National Review, The Moderate Voice, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Wonkette and Oliver Willis

Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:

Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children — Perhaps you have to be familiar with New York politics to understand how truly bizarre this story is: 1199 is dropping its health care coverage for children. 1199 is the extraordinarily powerful local health care workers' union which has pushed …

Discussion: Pajamas Media and Daily Pundit

Cooper Levey-Baker / Florida Independent:

Huckabee calls for execution of person who leaked diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks — Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday called for the execution of the person responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice and Right Wing Watch

Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:

‘Nicolas Sarkozy is thin-skinned and authoritarian’ — US embassy cables detail how staff and ministers fear ire of French president and warn of impact of personal lifestyle — Nicolas Sarkozy's advisers were so afraid of sparking his anger that they reportedly diverted his plane to avoid …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers