memeorandum: Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos (Barbara Starr/CNN)

2:45 AM ET, January 3, 2011

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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

TRENDING: GOPer calls Obama administration ‘corrupt’ — (CNN) - The incoming House Oversight and Government Reform chairman on Sunday tried to clarify his recent remarks to Rush Limbaugh where he called President Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.”

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Stop The ACLU, Maggie's Notebook, Cubachi and skippy the bush kangaroo

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Issa says Obama administration is ‘one of most corrupt’ — The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Politico, American Perspective and American Power

Alan Colmes' Liberaland: Incoming Oversight Chair Calls Obama Administration “One Of The Most Corrupt”

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Issa says he won't investigate White House job offer to Sestak

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Politico

Kendra Marr / The Politico: House GOP plans two-pronged assault on health law

Cubachi:

NYC sanitation workers caught boozing instead of working during blizzard — Forget New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. — For those of us following the disastrous clean-up, or lack of it, in New York City, the public sector workers of sanitation are having the worst week.

Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog

New York Post:

Topics — Ahhh more hard taxpayer money at work. — bloombergwantsavictorymosque — Q: Why was Obama so disappointed when he went to a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats? — A: Being a Muslim, he thought there would be more romance. — Uncommon Sense — Business as usual in the rotten Big Apple.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Gothamist, Patterico's Pontifications, Outside the Beltway and JammieWearingFool

New York Post:
Topics — 11-12% no show, what a joke! 10% of them should be laid off this week.

Discussion: BizzyBlog

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:

New GOP lawmaker gets first taste of clash with House Dems — An incoming Republican freshman got a taste of his Democratic opposition in the House before the 112th Congress even convened. — Rep.-elect Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) appeared on “Face the Nation” Sunday with Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann …

Discussion: The Politico and The Gateway Pundit

Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS:
Goolsbee to Tea Party: ‘Playing Chicken’ With Debt Ceiling Vote is ‘Insanity’

Discussion: Capital Gains and Games blogs, USA Today, Outside the Beltway and CBS News

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama adviser: Critics of raising debt ceiling ruled by ‘insanity’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool

ABCNEWS:
Transcript: White House Adviser Austan Goolsbee

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Swampland and Pajamas Media

Dave Barry / Washington Post:

Dave Barry's Year in Review: Why 2010 Made Us Sick — Let's put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet.

Washington Post:

With Air Force's new drone, ‘we can see everything’ — In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them. In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military's most valuable new tools. — This winter, the Air Force is set …

Discussion: NO QUARTER, Firedoglake, Yglesias, Raw Story and Attackerman

New York Times:

Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons — ATLANTA — A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital “friends.” Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.

DealBook:

Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation — Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.

Discussion: Felix Salmon, more at Techmeme »

Emptywheel:

Peter “Material Support for Terrorism” King — The NYT has an editorial rightly condemning ascending Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Peter King's upcoming hearing to attack Muslims. … But the interesting bit of the editorial is the last paragraph.

Discussion: New York Times and TalkLeft

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Gentry Collins drops RNC bid — Former Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins dropped his bid to become chairman of the RNC Sunday night, explaining in an interview that members of the committee preferred to have one of their own lead the party.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, The Page, TPMDC and National Review

WorldNetDaily:

Ground Zero imam kicks off tour at Hamas conspirator banquet — Appeals to ‘one of the chief conduits’ for bringing Saudi-style Islam into U.S. — Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric behind a plan to build an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Barbara Starr / CNN:

Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos — Washington (CNN) — The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos, full of sexual innuendo and anti-gay remarks, were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Discussion: Swampland, msnbc.com, Gawker, AOL News, This ain't Hell …, Raw Story, Advocate and Mediaite

Steve Bartin / Newsalert:

A Recipe for the Next Great Depression

Discussion: protein wisdom

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS ON REPEAL.... At least we know what one of the first bills to receive a vote will be in the new House. … Maybe so. But there's almost certainly a realization on everyone's part that House Republicans are doing this for show. If passed, their repeal measure …

Discussion: Agence France Presse, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Politico, The Moderate Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog and Prairie Weather

Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: House Will Take Up Repeal Of ObamaCare Before State Of The Union

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Healthcare repeal bill coming before Obama's annual address

Discussion: Right Pundits and Weasel Zippers

George F. Will / Washington Post:

Needed: A science stimulus — New Republican legislators should come down Capitol Hill to the National Museum of American History, which displays a device that in 1849 was granted U.S. patent 6469. It enabled a boat's “draught of water to be readily lessened” so it could “pass over bars, or through shallow water.”

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly

Bridget Johnson / The Hill:

‘Nostradamus’ of Middle East predicts unprecedented crisis for Obama in 2011 — The Middle East's answer to Nostradamus said that President Obama will be confronted with situations “never faced by previous presidents” in 2011. — Michel Hayek, who delivered his predictions live on New Year's Eve …