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11:10 AM ET, December 30, 2010

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ABCNEWS:
O'Donnell Denies Money Misuse: ‘I Expect More Things to Come’  —  Former Tea Party Senate Candidate Denies She Used Campaign Funds for Personal Use  —  Former Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell defended herself today against a report that the federal government was investigating …
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
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Associated Press:
Feds investigate Christine O'Donnell spending
Suzi Parker / Politics Daily:
Christine O'Donnell Denies Misusing Campaign Funds, Cites …
Discussion: NY Daily News and Guardian
David Catanese / The Politico:
O'Donnell faces federal investigation
Discussion: The Reaction, The Wire and AmSpecBlog
Associated Press:
Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending
Discussion: USA Today
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Rep. King: Obama recess appointment ‘absolutely shocking’  —  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, has angrily denounced President Obama's recess appointment of James Cole as deputy attorney general.  —  King called Cole's appointment …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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The White House:
President Obama Announces Recess Appointments to Key Administration Posts
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama uses recess appointment to seat Justice Dept. official
New York Post:
Topics  —  When PUBLIC UNION workers decide to “screw” those that are actually paying their salaries it's time for a change.  —  BOMBASTIC  —  People died.  The union officials should all be charged with manslaughter.  —  Either that.  Or the citizenry needs to take their own retaliation against the “workers”.
Colman McCarthy / Washington Post:
'Don't ask, don't tell' has been repealed.  ROTC still shouldn't be on campus.  —  Now that asking and telling has ceased to be problematic in military circles, ROTC has resurfaced as a national issue: Will universities such as Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools be opened …
Discussion: Moe Lane and Daily Kos
Matt Bai / New York Times:
For G.O.P., End of the Preordained Candidate  —  WASHINGTON — A year ago, Republicans here were shut out of governing but could console themselves with having retained their hold on the party apparatus.  This week, they will celebrate the new year having come roaring back to regain the House …
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Palin's Donation Strategy and Romney's: The Tea Party Surge versus the 2012 Surge
Discussion: Right Wing News
David S. Bernstein / thephoenix.com:
The Road to 2012: The New New Hampshire
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Geraldine Doyle, 86, dies; one-time factory worker inspired Rosie the Riveter and ‘We Can Do It!’ poster  —  Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan …
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Fox Utterly Destroys Cable News Ratings Competition in 2010  —  The Nielsen numbers are in for 2010, and in the battle for cable news ratings supremacy, Fox News took the title for the ninth year in a row — bludgeoning the competition for another year.  —  The blowout comes on the heels …
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick ‘should have been executed’  —  Tucker Carlson, filling in for Sean Hannity on Fox News last night, picked up the issue of President Barack Obama's call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, during which the president thanked Lurie for giving Michael Vick a second chance.
The Huffington Post:
The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … An employee of Associated Charities, a private organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in the District of Columbia, met an old black woman carrying a basket of cinders near the dump …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
Sheera Frenkel / NPR:
In Israel, No Welcome Mat For African Migrants … Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt last week.  Construction has begun on a $270 million, 87-mile fence along the porous border.  It's one of four measures proposed to try to stem the flow of African migrants into Israel.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
GOP pals could be 2012 rivals  —  Should both Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels seek the White House in 2012, Americans would glimpse a rare sight in the annals of presidential campaigns: actual friends competing against one another for the nomination.  —  Not “friends” in the political sense …
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas  —  PARSONS, Kan. — An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne's Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful and still the most beloved color film.
Discussion: Power Line and Crooked Timber
PewResearch.org:
PewResearchCenter Interactive  —  Pew Research News IQ Quiz  —  What's Your Political News IQ?  —  To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short 12-question quiz.  Then see how you did in comparison with 1,001 randomly sampled adults asked …
Discussion: Corrente
Secular Coalition for America:
Atheists Excluded from Mayoral Prayer Service (Press Release)  —  Atheists Excluded from Mayor-Elect Gray's Inauguration  —  Washington, D.C.) - Atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheistic Washington, D.C. residents will have no representation at Mayor-Elect Vincent Gray's …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A MISGUIDED SENSE OF VICTIMHOOD, CONT'D.... Maybe it's the season that brings out the worst in far-right Christians feeling sorry for themselves.  —  A couple of weeks ago, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson whined that in American society, it's Christianity that “always seems” to “take the boot.”
Discussion: Liberal Values and Firedoglake
The Business Insider:
GARY SHILLING: And Now House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20%  —  In October, Gary Shilling of A. Gary Shilling & Co., predicted that house prices would fall another 20%.  —  In the two months since, house prices have resumed their decline.  Below, Gary outlines why he thinks the recent drops are just the beginning.
 
 
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama approval rating steady at 47 percent
Discussion: Gallup and The Page
Haya El Nasser / USA Today:
More U.S. cities dimming the lights
Discussion: Right Wing News
John Koblin / WWD:
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The Local:
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Barbara Surk / Associated Press:
3 suicide bombers used to kill tenacious Iraqi cop
Jamila Trindle / Wall Street Journal:
Bank Failures at Highest Level Since 1992
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Washington Post:
Two new rules will give Constitution a starring role in GOP-controlled House
Joe Holley / Houston Chronicle:
Garcia faces uncertain future as court term ends
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Greg's Opinion
Steven Hoffer / AOL News:
It's Not Really Sarah Palin's Alaska Anymore, Poll Finds
Dave Cohen / Decline of the Empire:
The Afghan War, Terrorism And Media Propaganda
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Wall Street Journal:
Death Panels Revisited
Discussion: TPMDC, Blue Gal and Conservatives4Palin
Judy Battista / New York Times:
Favre Is Fined $50,000 but Not Suspended
Discussion: Gothamist and Bleacher Report
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Megyn Kelly: Calling Aliens ‘Undocumented’ …