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11:50 AM ET, December 17, 2010

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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The new comeback kid  —  If Barack Obama wins reelection in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of 2010.  —  Obama had a bad November.  Self-confessedly shellacked in the midterm election …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Congress Sends $801 Billion Tax Cut Bill to Obama  —  WASHINGTON — Congress at midnight Thursday approved an $801 billion package of tax cuts and $57 billion for extended unemployment insurance.  The vote sealed the first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans …
David Rogers / The Politico:
Democrats concede budget fight to Republicans  —  Senate Democrats abruptly abandoned an omnibus budget bill for the coming year, pushing major spending decisions into the next Congress and giving Republicans immense new leverage to confront President Barack Obama priorities.
The Hill:
House passes temporary extension of Bush-era tax cuts, 277-148
Discussion: protein wisdom, The Hill and The Nation
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
$1.1 trillion spending bill collapses as GOP senators yank support  —  Senate Democrats have given up on their plan to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill in the face of unified Republican opposition.  —  The bill's collapse will take with it more than 6,000 earmarks …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems are earmark junkies but GOP goes straight  —  Press coverage of the budget frenzy on Capitol Hill has suggested that pork-barrel earmark spending is still a bipartisan problem, that after months of self-righteous rhetoric about fiscal discipline, Republicans and Democrats remain equal-opportunity earmarkers.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The GOP's Secret Senate Plan  —  One of the oddities of the debate over repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell is that Republican moderates seem far more interested in procedure than substance.  They favor repeal, but they oddly seem to care more that the Senate hew to Mitch McConnell's run …
Discussion: Balkinization and The Hill
PolitiFact:
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’  —  In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system.
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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Sarah Palin on 2012 Plans, Double Standards for Women  —  Palin Says Thinking About Presidential Run Is a ‘Prayerful Consideration’  —  Sarah Palin is surveying the lay of the land to consider whether to make a presidential run in 2012, she told “Good Morning America” …
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Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin: Tax Cut Deal is ‘Lousy,’ New Congress Should Take up Issue  —  In Exclusive Interview With ABC's Robin Roberts, Palin Discusses Economy, New Book  —  In an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts, Sarah Palin said she doesn't support the “lousy” …
Discussion: CNN, Online NewsHour and The Page
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Revolution Next Time?  —  It has been 15 years since the Rehnquist court began applying the constitutional brakes to assertions of federal power that had seemed unassailable since the New Deal.  Its first target was modest, a five-year-old federal statute called the Gun-Free School Zones Act …
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Judge Hints He May Rule Against Health Law
Discussion: JustOneMinute, ACS Blog and Wonk Room
Peggy O'Hare / Houston Chronicle:
Retailer praised after killing 3 robbers in Houston  —  In the back room of a humble jewelry store and pawn shop in Houston's East End Thursday afternoon, a gunman tied Eva Castillo's wrists tightly — too tightly.  She complained of the pain, so he loosened the bindings.
Fay Schlesinger / Daily Mail:
Snub for Obamas as Royal sources reveal they will not be invited to Prince William's wedding  —  President Obama and his wife Michelle will not be invited to Prince William's wedding next year.  —  Because Prince William is not yet heir to the throne, his wedding to Kate Middleton is not classed …
Discussion: Fox Nation, Gothamist and Gawker
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:   Royal snub for the Obamas: No wedding invite from Prince William and Kate Middleton
Sam Graham-Felsen / Washington Post:
Why is Obama leaving the grass roots on the sidelines?  —  In the wake of President Obama's deal to extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, pundits have focused on how Obama has alienated the left.  But the issue isn't the left - it's the list.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Limits of the Taxing Power  —  An interesting question emerges from one of my comment threads on whether or not congress should be able to use the taxing power to get over limits on its enumerated powers.  —  1) Can Congress enact a $50,000 tax on second term abortions?
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture  —  With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities.
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sciencemag.org:
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
Discussion: Hit & Run and Guardian
Jack Healy / New York Times:
In Seconds Before Blast, the Making of a Hero  —  BALAD RUZ, Iraq — As the suicide bomber clutched the detonator to his explosive belt, preparing to spray fire and shrapnel into a religious procession here, an Iraqi police officer named Bilal Ali Muhammad faced a choice between his own life and something larger.
Discussion: FrumForum
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Breaking?  Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed  —  To perhaps nobody's surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers.  —  The University of Maryland study, called “Misinformation and the 2010 Election,” …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Tax Cut Bill Moves to the President  —  Just to mop this up, last night around midnight, the House of Representatives gave final passage to the tax cut bill.  The final roll call vote on the “Airport and Airway Extension Act,” the name of the shell bill used as a vehicle to move the legislation, was 277-148.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Columbia U. vs. the little guy  —  Tweet  —  We often hear politicians and pundits denounce property rights.  Property rights, we're told, protect the fat cats against the needs of the public.  They're a tool for keeping the little guy down.  —  Like a lot of what we hear from politicians and pundits …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Muslim ‘Radicalization’ Is Focus of Planned Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican who will head the House committee that oversees domestic security is planning to open a Congressional inquiry into what he calls “the radicalization” of the Muslim community when his party takes over the House next year.
Abdon Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Boxes found — and mystery solved at Emanuel's home  —  The mayoral-race mystery of where candidate Rahm Emanuel stored boxes of personal items has been solved.  —  Attorneys for Emanuel visited the house he owns in Ravenswood at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, located the much-discussed “crawl space …
Discussion: Lynn Sweet
Kimberly Schwandt / Fox News:
Hollywood's Growing Chorus of Obama Criticism  —  Hollywood's adoration for President Obama has never really been all that shocking, but what may be surprising is how famous singers and actors are increasingly saying they aren't so happy with the commander-in-chief.
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
NOW goes after Hooters for catering to kids  —  (12-16) 17:51 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The National Organization for Women filed complaints against local Hooters restaurants Thursday, but not for exploiting its scantily clad waitresses by subjecting them to leering and groping customers.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wall Street Whitewash  —  When the financial crisis struck, many people — myself included — considered it a teachable moment.  Above all, we expected the crisis to remind everyone why banks need to be effectively regulated.  —  How naïve we were.  We should have realized …
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Paul Krugman
David Frum / FrumForum:
How Would President Romney Govern?  —  “Sincerity is everything - once you can fake that, you've got it made.”  —  There's Mitt Romney's problem in 1 sentence.  He cannot fake sincerity.  His insincerity is blatant, inescapable, clumsy and off-putting.  Ross Douthat phrased the indictment …
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Tax and Spend  —  I'm a tax enthusiast, in part thanks to the work of Lane Kenworthy.  But taxes are unpopular.  So unpopular, in fact, that a combination of political opportunism and psychic revulsion from advocating for tax hikes leads progressives to spend a lot of time dreaming up ways …
 
 
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Washington Post:
Revamping of airport checkpoint system urged
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Telegraph:
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange says he expects US to charge him with spying
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
Putin Speaks His Mind, and Then Some, on Television
Discussion: Truthdig and FP Passport
Irina Aleksander / New York Times:
Fashion Triumph: Deflecting the Male Gaze
Discussion: Gawker and Feministe
Mark McDonald / New York Times:
As Richardson Visits, North Korea Assails South
Discussion: Yglesias, Reuters and Online NewsHour
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Appropriators Buckle  —  Tonight may indeed may be a “seminal moment,” as McCain said.
Discussion: Power Line and GayPatriot
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP considers constitutional test for all new legislation
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
David Brooks / New York Times:
Bigger Is Easier  —  President Obama faces an enormously …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Modeled Behavior
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Steverman / Business Week:
It's a Great Time to Be Rich
Discussion: The Awl and The Atlantic Online
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Flirty Models Were Hired in Bid to Find Bone Marrow
Discussion: Raw Story and Gawker
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
With a star-studded guest list, ‘Larry King Live’ signs off for the last time
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Page
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Olbermann Refuses To Correct Treatment Of Assange Rape Allegations …
John / Power Line:
100,000,000  —  Some time tonight, this site will receive …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
It Also Was Called The Soviet Union
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT and Left Coast Rebel