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12:30 PM ET, December 18, 2010

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Amelia Hill / Guardian:
WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting ‘mythical’ healthcare system  —  Authorities feared footage of gleaming hospital in Michael Moore's Oscar-nominated film would provoke a popular backlash  —  Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” …
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Guardian:
US embassy cables: US castigates much-vaunted Cuban health system
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Hit & Run
Michael Moore / The Huffington Post:
¡Viva WikiLeaks! Sicko Was Not Banned in Cuba
Discussion: Hot Air, Guardian and Harry's Place
The Politico:
DREAM Act dies in Senate  —  The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn't pay off for immigration activists.  —  The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning …
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CNN:
DREAM Act fails, DADT vote next  —  Washington (CNN) — A bill that offered a path to citizenship to some illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children failed a procedural vote in the Senate on Saturday.  —  Known formally as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act …
Discussion: Federal Eye and Michelle Malkin
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Immigration Bill Fails in Senate Vote  —  A bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students failed a decisive vote on Saturday in the Senate, 55-41.  The vote came a day after the Obama administration had joined with Latino leaders and immigrant advocates …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP Senator to Dems: If you try to pass DADT, Republicans won't pass START  —  UPDATE, 4:11 p.m.: In an interview with me just now, Senator Bob Corker doubled down on his contention that if Dems move on DADT, Republicans will be less likely to support START.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama aims for second lame-duck victory with START treaty push
Discussion: The Politico
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Lieberman: Votes are There to Repeal “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”
Discussion: Examiner and Indecision Forever
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:   McConnell uncertain GOP can block New START, 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal
New York Times:
Newly Built Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain  —  YEBES, Spain — It is a measure of Spain's giddy construction excesses that 250 row houses carpet a hill near this tiny rural village about an hour by car outside of Madrid.  —  Most of these units have never sold, and though they were finished …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘MCWEASEL’ BLASTS 9/11 HEALTH BILL.... It's not enough for Senate Republicans to block a vote on the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.  Now, members like John McCain (R-Ariz.) are condemning Democratic efforts to even try to pass the bill. … Let's unpack this a bit, because I think it's important.
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Nick Davies / Guardian:
10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange  —  Unseen police documents provide the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder  —  Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DADT Breaks Filibuster  —  The Senate just voted 63-33 to break the filibuster on the DADT repeal bill.  —  Late Update: Just so we're clear.  This is not the passage of the actual DADT repeal bill.  This is the vote that allows a straight majority vote, which will likely come tomorrow.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Explaining the Crisis With Dogma  —  What was that about?  —  I'm talking about that odd 13-page “report” issued on Wednesday by the four Republican members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.  The F.C.I.C., of course, is the 10-member, supposedly bipartisan panel that was created …
CNN:
Richardson presents proposals to North Korea aimed at easing crisis  —  Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN) — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson provided North Korea with a series of proposals Saturday in what he described as a “good meeting” with the country's chief nuclear negotiator …
Discussion: The Hill
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BBC:
US envoy Bill Richardson warns of Korea tinderbox
Discussion: FrumForum
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Lame-duck sessions supposed to be a thing of the past, historians say  —  Here's the funny thing about this month's lame-duck session of Congress, in which frantic lawmakers have pinballed from tax cuts to “don't ask, don't tell” to a nuclear weapons treaty:  —  It's not supposed to exist.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  DREAM Act causes ugly breakup on left  —  Markos Moulitsas, the influential founder of the lefty website DailyKos, used to love Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.  Starting back in December 2004, when Moulitsas first praised Tester, then a farmer-turned-state-legislator …
The Huffington Post:
House Republicans Block Child Marriage Prevention Act  —  What's Your Reaction: … WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the House took up the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010.  The bill would ensure that child marriage is recognized as a human rights violation …
Molly Ball / The Politico:
John Bolton eyes 2012 presidential run  —  No, it's not just an attention-getting stunt.  John Bolton is seriously considering running for president.  —  Bolton, the fiery, archconservative former United Nations ambassador, sees an opening in the 2012 Republican field.
Discussion: Gawker, FrumForum and Balloon Juice
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Continue to Outnumber Moderates in 2010  —  Long term, Republicans growing more conservative, Democrats more liberal  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The political composition of U.S. adults held fairly steady in 2010 compared with 2009.  Conservatives remained the largest group, followed by moderates and then liberals.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Make Julian Assange irrelevant  —  Julian Assange was insufferable as he left a London courthouse Thursday.  —  “During my time in solitary confinement in the bottom of a Victorian prison, I had time to reflect on the conditions of those people around the world also in solitary confinement …
Discussion: Salon, Prairie Weather and Firedoglake
Simon Vozick-Levinson / EW.com:
Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69  —  Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, passed away today at age 69.  A representative of New York City's Michael Werner Gallery, which showed his paintings, confirms the sad news to EW.
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Captain Beefheart dies aged 69
Discussion: First Draft and Boing Boing
 
 
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Wilfred M. McClay / Wall Street Journal:
Rebuilding Noah's Ark, Tax-Free
Discussion: Power Line and Pharyngula
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lieberman says he would likely pursue reelection as an Independent
ABCNEWS:
What The Tax Cut Extension Means for You
Discussion: Right Wing News
Danna Harman / Haaretz:
Bloggers claim WikiLeaks struck deal with Israel over diplomatic cables leaks
Discussion: FrumForum
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Chatting with Joe Manchin on DADT
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Biden surprises birthday boy Chris Matthews
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Alan S. Blinder / Wall Street Journal:
Our Dickensian Economy
Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
House GOP: Bills will have to cite Constitution
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Doug Ross
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
When it comes to politics, Obama's ego keeps getting in the way
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
How Mitch McConnell Convinced Republicans To Derail Dems' Spending Plan