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12:15 PM ET, December 3, 2010

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Freezing Out Hope  —  After the Democratic “shellacking” in the midterm elections, everyone wondered how President Obama would respond.  Would he show what he was made of?  Would he stand firm for the values he believes in, even in the face of political adversity?
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Frank: White House ‘gravely mistaken’ in tax cut strategy  —  The White House is “gravely mistaken” to deal on tax cuts while congressional Democrats seek tax cut legislation that let the breaks expire for the highest earners, a top Democrat said.  —  Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Republicans attack over new job numbers
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Disappointing Job Growth in U.S. as Jobless Rate Hits 9.8%  —  In a significant setback to the recovery and market expectations, the United States economy added just 39,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AWFUL MONTHLY JOBS REPORT SHOULD WAKE UP WASHINGTON.... I noticed McClatchy ran a story overnight with a headline that read, “Friday's November jobs report expected to be rosy.”  The headline was wrong — the report is genuinely awful.  —  After seeing an encouraging trend through the fall …
Ezra Klein:
An ugly jobs report  —  The November jobs report is ugly.  Last month, the jobs report showed the economy added 150,000 jobs, sparking hopes that recovery was underway.  And the recent economic data had been good: Black Friday saw a lot of shoppers, and initial unemployment claims had been going down.
Wall Street Journal:
Economy Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected in November
Bristol Palin / Facebook:
Mr. Olbermann—Sorry We Can't All Be As Perfect As You  —  Recently, a left wing commentator named Keith Olbermann attacked me for being a spokesperson for abstinence education and for being an Ambassador for the Candies Foundation, which promotes teen pregnancy awareness and prevention education.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Rangel: I don't deal in average American citizens  —  One might have thought, given all of the handwringing from Capitol Hill last night over the horrors of censuring, that Charlie Rangel would have learned a little humility from the process.  For instance, on CNN moments after Nancy Pelosi read aloud …
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Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
Rangel to TWT: I don't deal in average American citizens (VIDEO)
Washington Post:
House censures Rep. Charles Rangel in 333-79 vote
Washington Times:
Wave goodbye to Internet freedom  —  FCC crosses the Rubicon into online regulation  —  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries.  The agency's chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
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Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:   Time to Shut Down the FCC  —  More transistors exist today …
ABCNEWS:
President Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Afghanistan, Sources Tell ABC News  —  Visit Comes Amid Backdrop of Wikileaks Report Highlighting Afghan Corruption  —  President Obama is in Afghanistan on a surprise visit, sources told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.  —  Obama's surprise trip comes …
James K. Galbraith / The Huffington Post:
Casting Light on “The Moment of Truth”  —  What's Your Reaction:  —  The report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, issued on December 1, 2010 by Chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, is entitled “The Moment of Truth.”  The words appear in block caps on the second page, weighty and portentous.
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Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:
McCain Exudes Grumpiness At DADT Hearing  —  Since President Obama announced his intent to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell in this year's State of the Union Address, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who had previously said that he was open to considering repeal if the military carefully studied …
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Guardian:
Julian Assange answers your questions  —  The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers' questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables  —  Fwoggie … Julian Assange:  —  I am an Australian citizen and I miss my country a great deal.
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Guardian:
WikiLeaks cables: Live Q&A with Julian Assange
New York Times:
WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online After Cyberattacks  —  LONDON — An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site after a barrage of attacks by hackers that threatened to destabilize its entire system, according to the provider and WikiLeaks itself on Friday.
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Wikileaks' Domain Gets ‘Killed’
Discussion: New York Magazine
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Mind in Motion  —  Going through one of Martin Luther King's assessments of Black Power, and I came across this quote: … King doesn't retreat from his ultimate belief that Black Power is a “nihilistic philosophy.”  But what I love here is that there's actual movement in King's writing …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real Time  —  Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows.
Lbentzterp / CNN:
An Unscripted Moment on Palin's book tour  —  Spirit Lake, Iowa (CNN) - It was an unscripted moment on Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new book, “America by Heart.”  As hundreds of Palin's fans filed inside a cordoned off area of a northern Iowa Walmart today, this CNN crew popped …
Jeff Dunetz / YID With LID:
Helen Thomas is At it Again-Says Those Rich Jews Control America  —  Proving once again that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, former White House Correspondent Helen Thomas told an anti-Arab-Bias workshop in Dearboran Michigan that she absolutely stands by her ugly comments about Jews …
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Tax Reform Vision  —  I have a vision.  —  Sometime over the next couple of weeks, President Obama issues a statement that reads: “Over the past several months, Republicans and Democrats have been fighting over what to do with the Bush tax cuts.  I have my own views …
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients  —  PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.
Discussion: Gawker
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: A bad jobs report  —  A bad jobs report: Economy adds just 39,000 jobs in November and unemployment rate jumps to 9.8%... Also a bad 24 hours for political pragmatism... The deficit doesn't hold with the deficit commission, as it won't get the supermajority today to move …
Washington Post:
House ethics probe to investigate whether Finance committee withheld records  —  House ethics investigators have begun a probe into why the powerful House Financial Services Committee did not fully comply with its promise to turn over all documents pertinent to an investigation …
 
 
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Gordon Lubold / The Politico:
Marines, Air Force don't endorse 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal
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Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Paul Ryan, Arthur Brooks, and David Brooks Debate Big Government
The Huffington Post:
Swing And A Miss: McCain's Misguided Attack On 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Survey
Roger Highfield / Telegraph:
Are we freezing because of global warming?
Discussion: YID With LID and Right Wing News
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Hillary Clinton: State is ‘last’ public post
Discussion: CNN
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
You Thought Passing Health Reform Was Hard? Try Repealing It.
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Fiscal Time Bomb
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Business Week:
Monetary Policy: Fed Critic Ron Paul's Power Play
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Washington is why the economy is not growing
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Justice Unbound  —  Watching the post-retirement emergence …
Discussion: Althouse
Tom Scheck / Minnesota Public Radio:
Soros and Clinton to hold a fundraiser for Dayton
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Inside the Ring: Counterspies hunt Russian mole inside National Security Agency