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12:20 AM ET, December 12, 2010

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One dead after suicide bombing in Stockholm  —  Double click on a word to get a translation  —  Two nearly simultaneous explosions rocked central Stockholm on Saturday evening, killing one person and injuring two others in what is believed to be a suicide attack.
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Michael C. Moynihan / Hit & Run:
Explosions in Stockholm: Suicide Bomber Threatened Swedes, “Pig” Mohammad Cartoonist  —  Two explosions rocked the downtown shopping district in Stockholm this evening as holiday shoppers crowded the chainstore-clogged area around Drottninggatan.  According to early Swedish media reports …
Discussion: Guardian and Moe Lane
Brad Knickerbocker / Christian Science Monitor:
Westboro picketers outnumbered at Elizabeth Edwards funeral  —  Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards Saturday.  But they were vastly outnumbered by a “human buffer” singing Christmas carols.  —  Members of the controversial Westboro …
Discussion: HotAirPundit
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Kim Severson / New York Times:
Edwards Eulogized as Defender of Her Family  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — In the moments before the funeral for Elizabeth Edwards began here Saturday afternoon, women from the Edenton Street United Methodist Church removed a spray of white lilies and yellow roses from her coffin.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Family, friends mourn Elizabeth Edwards at funeral
Discussion: People.com, ABCNEWS and Politics Daily
NY Daily News:
Mark Madoff, oldest son of Bernie Madoff, hangs himself with dog leash in SoHo apartment  —  Mark Madoff was found dead in his SoHo apartment Saturday morning.  He apparently killed himself with his son in the next room, sources say.  —  The eldest son of disgraced Ponzi schemer Bernard …
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Wall Street Journal:
Life After Madoff's ‘Big Lie’  —  Two years ago, Bernard Madoff told his two sons that his multi-billion-dollar investment business was “one big lie,” according to authorities.  —  That dramatic confession, and Mr. Madoff's arrest the next day, unleashed one of the biggest fraud investigations in history.
New York Times:
Madoff's Elder Son Found Dead in Suicide  —  Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world.
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
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: Firedoglake and The Gateway Pundit
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:   New York: City Removes Nativity Scene From Staten Island's St …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama to Meet With Executives  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will host a roundtable with about 20 corporate chiefs on Wednesday, according to the White House, part of an attempt to ease strained relations with business.  —  Expected for the session at the Blair House …
Discussion: CNN
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
DADT Repeal: Do Not Blame Obama  —  I've had many criticisms of the Obama administration's tardy and milque-toast efforts on civil rights for gays and lesbians.  But at this point, the peril facing repeal of the military's gay ban is not the administration's fault.
Discussion: Balloon Juice, PostPartisan and TPMDC
Cubachi:
This exists: Vladimir Putin sings Fats Domino's “Blueberry Hill”  —  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin not only wants to conquer the elements of mother nature, free speech, and democracy, he also fancies himself as a singer.  —  What's next for the Russian bear?  —  Mickey Rourke also makes a cameo in this video.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Push for Stricter Abortion Limits Is Expected in House  —  WASHINGTON — A leading Congressional opponent of abortion rights, who is in line to take charge of an influential House panel, plans to press for much stricter limits on the procedure.  —  The selection of the lawmaker …
BBC:
UN climate change talks in Cancun agree a deal  —  Under the deal some countries will escape the extension of emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol  —  UN talks in Cancun have reached a deal to curb climate change, including a fund to help developing countries.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Biased BBC
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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Cancun ends with modest climate deal
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Rep.-Elect Kristi Noem Delivers Republican Weekly Address (Video)  —  Republicans chose Representative-Elect Kristi Noem (R-SD) to deliver the Weekly Republican Address on creating jobs, cutting spending, and the Pledge to America.  —  Noem will represent South Dakota in the 112th Congress.
Discussion: American Power and sisu
Christopher Caldwell / Weekly Standard:
Euro Trashed  —  Europe's rendezvous with monetary destiny  —  It has been easy to snicker in recent weeks at the politicians who designed the euro, which appears on the verge of collapse after a decade as the common currency of a dozen countries in the European Union.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Envoy in Critical Condition  —  WASHINGTON — Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for 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
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: National Review and Politics Daily
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Stymies New Jersey High Court
Discussion: RedState and PoliPundit.com
 
 
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