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10:05 AM ET, November 21, 2012

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Daniel Engber / Slate:
Who Said It: Marco Rubio or Barack Obama?  —  Willful ignorance of science is a bipartisan value.  —  By now you've heard the outrageous quote from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on his doubts about the origins of planet Earth.  When asked to give its age, he replied: “I'm not a scientist, man. ...
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
I Believe and Am Thankful  —  Marco Rubio is getting beaten up by the press for not decisively and convincingly saying he thinks the world is billions of years old.  It has become the new litmus test in the media.  Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty.
Jerusalem Post:
Terror attack on Tel Aviv bus injures 21 people  —  Bus explodes on Tel Aviv's Shaul Hamelech Street, of 21 injured, one seriously, one moderately wounded; police confirm explosion was a terror attack, are searching for additional suspects, explosives.  —  Terrorists detonated an explosive device …
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Washington Post:
Gaza fighting rages as Clinton pursues durable cease-fire
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Reelected Obama Shows No “Daylight” With Israel
Discussion: Guardian and The Maddow Blog
Hamed Aleaziz / ThinkProgress:
McCain Backs Away From Benghazi Conspiracies  —  Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's talking points on Benghazi for political purposes.  —  Former CIA Director David …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CBS: “Office of the DNI” cut al-Qaeda and terrorism references from Benghazi talking points
CBS News:
Sources: DNI cut “al Qaeda” reference from Benghazi talking points, and CIA, FBI signed off
Jed Graham / Investor's Business Daily:
U.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before Fiscal Cliff  —  Believe it or not, the federal deficit has fallen faster over the past three years than it has in any such stretch since demobilization from World War II.  —  In fact, outside of that post-WWII era …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and FT Alphaville
Jessica Testa / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Went To Disneyland  —  Earlier: Mitt Romney fills up his gas tank.
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Dylan Stableford / Reuters:
Mitt Romney seen pumping gas in La Jolla
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Iowa's GOP Governor: Time to End the Straw Poll  —  Is one of the quirkiest rituals of the Republican presidential election calendar heading for the grave?  —  It is, if Iowa's Republican Gov. Terry Branstad has his say.  —  Eyeing the wreckage of the 2011 Ames Straw Poll …
David Weigel / Slate:
From the Maker of Unskewed Polling Comes: The Obama Voter Fraud Map  —  In the last weeks of the election, Dean Chambers became famous for putting into numbers what other conservative put into words.  The polls that showed Mitt Romney losing must, said Chambers, have been skewed.
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Paul Krugman:
The New Republicans  —  There has been a lot of talk since the election about the possible emergence of a new faction within the Republican party, or at least among the conservative intelligentsia.  These new Republicans, we're told, are willing to be more open-minded on cultural issues …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Poetic justice: Romney likely to finish at 47 percent  —  When all the votes are counted, could Mitt Romney really end up achieving perfect poetic justice by finishing with 47 percent of the national vote?  Yup.  Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says new votes in from Maryland put Romney at 47.56 percent.
John Schnatter / The Huffington Post:
The Real Scoop on Papa John's and Obamacare … Affordable Care Act , Obamacare , Papa Johns , Papa Johns Health Care , Papa Johns Obama , Papa Johns Obamacare , Papa Johns Pizza , Pizza Health Care , Business News  —  Reading what has been written about statements I made on the effect …
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Democrats preparing candidates in case Kerry moves to Cabinet  —  Democrats in Massachusetts are culling a list of candidates for a 2013 special election should Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) be appointed to President Obama's cabinet.  —  Recently-defeated Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) …
Discussion: Associated Press
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
The best tax deduction to chop  —  What's the least defensible special break in the U.S. tax code?  With so many distortions to choose from, it's hard to name just one.  If forced to pick, I might say the deduction for state and local taxes, which cost $67 billion in fiscal 2011 …
Politico:
Messina: Huntsman would have been ‘tough’ candidate  —  Obama campaign manager Jim Messina spoke with Mike Allen at POLITICO's Playbook Breakfast spoke about the campaign's concerns about Huntsman being the Republican nominee.  11/20/2012 12:09 PM EDT
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Peter Nicholas / Washington Wire:
Obama Campaign Viewed Huntsman as ‘Very Tough Candidate’
Neal J. Riley / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. barely passes public-nudity ban  —  Protester Gypsy Taub speaks out against the Board of Supervisors decision to ban public nakedness while naked at City Hall in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012.  San Francisco lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly approved a proposal to ban public nakedness …
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Report: French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy's computers  —  The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l'Express.
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Nate Silver on ‘Morning Joe’: Why pollsters got it wrong  —  New York Times statistician Nate Silver stopped by MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Tuesday to discuss how he got it right this election when so many others didn't.  —  Host Joe Scarborough — who during the campaign questioned Silver …
Discussion: Brad DeLong
 
 
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Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?
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Norma Love / Associated Press:
Former Sen. Warren Rudman of NH dies at 82
Discussion: American Spectator
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Matheson wins in closest victory of his career, by 768 votes
Associated Press:
Church of England governing body blocks move to approve female bishops
Discussion: Corrente
Wall Street Journal:
Sea Tensions Erupt at Asian Summit
Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida lawmakers sworn in, face daunting work
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation, BuzzFeed and Advocate
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Erin Lindsay / White House.gov Blog:
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Frank J. Gaffney Jr / Washington Times:
GAFFNEY: Middle East melting down into ‘Obamawar’
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Cole Stangler / American Prospect:
Wal-Mart: Always Low Wages
Richard H. Pildes / The Atlantic Online:
The Real Reasons You Waited Hours in Line to Vote
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Andrew Roberts / Bloomberg:
Bionic Mannequins Spy on Shoppers to Boost Luxury Sales
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Betabeat
Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
Can the Senate Be Saved?
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Truthdig
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Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
 

 
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