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11:00 AM ET, December 17, 2010

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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.
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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 …
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
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 …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Bid to Repeal 'Don't Ask' Law Draws Support in Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Embattled and left for near dead last week, the effort to allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military gained significant momentum on Thursday with three more Republican Senators agreeing to vote to end the “don't ask, don't tell” policy.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The GOP's Secret Senate Plan
Discussion: Balkinization and The Hill
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Democrats abruptly drop spending fight
Discussion: Left in the West
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Tax cut plan clears House, goes to Barack Obama
Discussion: FrumForum
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” …
Discussion: Politics Daily and CNN
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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
Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Sarah Palin lags Obama in theoretical 2012 presidential election  —  Sarah Palin has played a prominent role in defining Republican Party politics this year but still faces sizable obstacles if she decides to run for president in 2012, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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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 …
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
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Flirty Models Were Hired in Bid to Find Bone Marrow  —  BOSTON — On its face, it seemed reasonable enough: a bone marrow registry sending recruiters to malls, ballparks and other busy sites to enlist potential donors.  —  But the recruiters were actually flirtatious models in heels …
Discussion: Raw Story and Gawker
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
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.
Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun Times:
Meeks says minority contracts should only go to blacks  —  Mayoral challenger James Meeks scrambled Thursday to put out a political fire touched off by his suggestion that only African-Americans should be eligible for city contracts set aside for minorities and women.
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Mike Flannery / Chicago News and Weather:
James Meeks Tries to ‘Clarify’ …
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.
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.
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
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.
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
With a star-studded guest list, ‘Larry King Live’ signs off for the last time  —  Lurching awkwardly between classy gestures and underwhelming torpor, “Larry King Live” breathed its last on CNN Thursday night, even if its star and founding father kept reminding viewers that though his program was ending …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … 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 …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Bigger Is Easier  —  President Obama faces an enormously difficult challenge over the next few weeks.  —  On the one hand, this moment is ripe for fundamental change.  There is a pervasive sense that the nation is at a Sputnik moment when it either rises to face the international competition or it does not.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Modeled Behavior
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Olbermann Refuses To Correct Treatment Of Assange Rape Allegations On Twitter - Update  —  Update: Keith Olbermann has announced that he is suspending his Twitter account “until this frenzy is stopped.”  —  Update 2: This is serious.  He has even taken down his profile picture.
 
 
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WikiLeaks: Julian Assange says he expects US to charge him with spying
Discussion: AOL News and FrumForum
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
Abdon Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Boxes found — and mystery solved at Emanuel's home
Discussion: Lynn Sweet
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Ruling on Senate race may be today
Discussion: Ballot Box and Wonkette
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP considers constitutional test for all new legislation
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Steverman / Business Week:
It's a Great Time to Be Rich
Discussion: The Awl and The Atlantic Online
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Barack Obama makes the sale
Discussion: Hot Air and Reuters
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
Jason Millman / The Hill:
Tea Party organization outlines strategy for healthcare repeal
Discussion: Wonk Room and TPMDC