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2:50 PM ET, December 11, 2010

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Lights, camera, Clinton  —  If not a transfer of power, the whole show seemed at least a temporary handoff.  An embattled president, fresh off an electoral shellacking and struggling to sell a controversial tax deal to members of his own party, turned to a former president who, exactly 16 years ago …
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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
President Obama Brings Bill Clinton In To Talk Tax Plan...And Then Leaves To Go To A Christmas Party!  —  “I've never seen anything like that,” said MSNBC's Cenk Uygur after cutting back following a press conference on the tax plan.  It had begun with a surprise appearance by President Obama …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Bill Clinton Holds Forth on Tax Plan, for Starters  —  WASHINGTON — They have been foes and they have been, kind of, friends.  And on Friday afternoon, President Obama and former President Bill Clinton walked unexpectedly into the White House briefing room for a news conference …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser, Bill Clinton Takes Control
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
The Surprise Trip to the Briefing Room
CNN:
Obama enlists Clinton to sell tax cut deal
Discussion: Say Anything and Parker Spitzer
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks  —  YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Richard M. Nixon made disparaging remarks about Jews, blacks, Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans in a series of extended conversations with top aides and his personal secretary, recorded in the Oval Office 16 months before he resigned as president.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Henry Kissinger to Soviet Jewry: Drop Dead  —  Okay, I don't usually blog on the Sabbath day (the Torah says Tweeting is okay, because it's so short), but I can't resist posting what I think might become Henry Kissinger's epitaph.  This statement was captured on Richard's Nixon secret White …
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Palin-Hating Columbia Professor, Huffington Post Blogger, Busted for Incest  —  Let's begin with a flashback, shall we?  In July 2009, when Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska, Columbia University professor David Epstein wrote at his Huffington Post blog: … Got that?
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Columbia Daily Spectator:
Professor David Epstein charged with incest with his daughter
The Huffington Post:   Palin Proves Voters Were Right in 2008
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Huffington Post Blogger Charged With Incest
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Holbrooke in Critical Condition Following Surgery  —  WASHINGTON — Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is in critical condition at a Washington hospital after emergency surgery to repair a tear in his aorta, the State Department said in a statement on Saturday.
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Arshad Mohammed / Reuters:
Diplomat Holbrooke in critical condition  —  (Reuters) - Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was in critical condition on Saturday after doctors performed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta, the State Department said.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Appointment Fight Divides Judges  —  Here is one for the “only in New Jersey” file: A state Supreme Court justice refuses to participate in any rulings because he objects to another jurist's serving temporarily on the court.  —  The dispute, aired in opinions released on Friday …
Discussion: Politics Daily and National Review
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Stymies New Jersey High Court
Discussion: RedState
Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:
Invaders from Mars  —  “Voting doesn't change anything — the politicians always win.”  'Twas not always so, but I'm hearing variations on that theme a lot these days, and not just in the UK.  —  Why do we feel so politically powerless?  Why is the world so obviously going to hell in a handbasket?
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Paul Krugman:
Hive-minds and Kleptocrats  —  It's not often that I get a chance …
Tom Wrobleski / Staten Island Advance:
Baby Jesus ousted from St. George Ferry Terminal  —  STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Christ is out of Christmas at the St. George Ferry Terminal.  —  In what Catholics see as political correctness run amok, the city Department of Transportation (DOT) has removed a Nativity scene from the terminal …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Chicago Sun Times:
Emanuel's wife may have to fly to Chicago to testify in residency battle  —  Rahm Emanuel's wife may have to fly in from Washington, D.C., to testify Tuesday in the Election Board case about whether or not her husband is eligible to run for mayor of Chicago.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
New York Times:
Madoff's Elder Son Found Dead in Suicide  —  Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, in an apparent suicide on the second anniversary of the day his father was arrested for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.
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DealBook:
Madoff Trustee Seeks $19.6 Billion From Austrian Banker
Discussion: Law Blog
Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:
Bernie Sanders: In 2007, “the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income,” which is “more than the entire bottom 50 percent.”  —  Bernie Sanders, in viral speech, says top 1 percent earn more than 23 percent of U.S. income
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
With Filibuster, C-SPAN Has A Hit On Its Hands  —  Mr. Sanders has gone to C-SPAN.  —  Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, started speaking against the Obama administration's tax cut deal on Friday morning, in full view of C-SPAN2's cameras, and by lunchtime his old-fashioned filibuster …
 
 
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Chris Matthews Slams ‘300 Plus’ Pounds Chris Christie, Too Fat to be President
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Political class, Middle America headed …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Chicago Boyz
The Huffington Post:
Petraeus Aide Marvin Hill: If Troops Can't Deal With DADT Repeal …
Aaron Gould Sheinin / Georgia Elections News:
Updated: Two black Democrats bolt party for GOP
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Judge rules against Miller in Senate suit
Heather Brooke / Guardian:
WikiLeaks cables: Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Bennett: GOP might pass own version of DREAM Act next year
Discussion: SENATUS, Weasel Zippers and Wonk Room
Jessica Silver-Greenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hidden Medical Debt Trips Up Homeowners
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Guardian:
WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU
Daily Mail:
Cenotaph hooligan is son of Pink Floyd star: Cambridge history student …
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Katharine Russ / LA Weekly:
Jeremy Marks “Attempted Lynching” Case
Discussion: THEROOT.COM and Vox Popoli
Democratic Strategist:
TDS Contributor Mike Lux: An Open Letter to the President
John R. Quain / Fox News:
Navy Sets World Record With Incredible, Sci-Fi Weapon
Discussion: Mashable!, TPM LiveWire and Hot Air
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
The Strategic Mistake of a Decade.
Discussion: Yglesias
 

 
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