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FT.com / Columnists / Gideon Rachman - Israel’s self-defeating Gaza offensive

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:10:25 +1900

Ingram Pinn illustration By sending ground troops into the Gaza Strip , Israel has crossed a line that brings it perilously close to strategic failure.

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Sources: CNN's Gupta approached for surgeon general

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:46:23 +1900

The Obama administration approached CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta about becoming U.S. surgeon general.

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines found this 118 minutes ago on www.cnn.com

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Gupta: Saving lives on the front lines

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:31:49 +1900

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- I remember the day well. It was in April of 2003. A 23-year-old Marine, Jesus Vidana, suddenly fell to the ground, his helmet and head bloodied by a sniper's bullet. He was twice pronounced dead in the field -- once immediately at the scene and then again on a follow-up ...

The Corner found this 3 hours ago on www.cnn.com

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Bennett: Send Moseley Braun to Senate, Not Burris

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:15:00 +1900

Sen. Robert Bennett (Utah), the top Republican on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, suggested Tuesday that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) should instead appoint former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D) to the upper chamber instead of Roland Burris. "She's non-controversial, she has ...

Think Progress found this 29 minutes ago on briefingroom.thehill.com

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Coleman Goes To Court

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:10:59 +1900

The epic race for the MN senate seat will have yet another chapter before its finale. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman announced today that he'll take the fight for the seat to the state Supreme Court , less than a day after the state canvassing board certfied Democrat Al Franken 's 225-vote win ...

Sister Toldjah found this 33 minutes ago on hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com

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Editorial: Court review is key in Senate recount

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:31:16 +1900

Power Line found this 12 hours ago on www.startribune.com

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The fat lady hasn't sung in Minnesota

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:10:59 +1900

In "MInnesota Senate Recount, Update XVI," John Hinderaker presents a lucid exposition of the issues still at play in Al Franken's 225-vote victory over Norm Coleman in Minnesota's Senate election. First came the canvas, won by Senator Coleman. Then came the mandatory recount, won by Franken. ...

Sister Toldjah found this 33 minutes ago on www.powerlineblog.com

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Livni: World Must Choose between Israel and Terror - Defense/Middle East - Israel News

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:14:13 +1900

(IsraelNN.com) Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair met with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Monday evening, hoping to find a way to persuade Israel to consider at least a temporary ceasefire in its Operation Cast Lead against the Hamas terrorist organization ruling Gaza. Blair, who represents the ...

Classical Values found this 20 hours ago on www.israelnationalnews.com

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Franken Declared Winner in Minnesota Senate Race

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:42:24 +1900

Two months after Minnesota voters went to the polls, Democrat Al Franken has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate race, but his opponent, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, is ready to challenge the results in court. Franken, the comedian and former radio host, won the razor-close ...

Dean's World found this 26 hours ago on abcnews.go.com

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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:10:00 +1900

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Israel Matzav found this 94 minutes ago on www.liveleak.com

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Carl in Jerusalem's interview with John DeVore

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:00:54 +1900

I know you've all been waiting for this :-) This is my interview with John DeVore of Sirius XM Satellite Radio on Monday night January 5 US time. But first, please vote for this blog, Israel Matzav, as Best Midsize blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards by going here. Now, enjoy the interview:

The Jawa Report found this 43 minutes ago on israelmatzav.blogspot.com

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'I wish I could bite the heads off Jews with my teeth' (video)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:03:00 +1900

That lovely sentiment came from Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya'qub and it was broadcast on Egypt's al-Rahma television on Friday.

Israel Matzav found this 8 hours ago on www.liveleak.com

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Curling Just Like Smoke

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

Some people work so hard they are said to be literally living in their office. So what do you say about someone who has gone to so much trouble to make his office bathroom livable in? If Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is confirmed this month as interior secretary, he’ll have a snappy, scarcely used ...

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed found this 97 minutes ago on www.1115.org

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D.C. Parents Can Use Kids to Score Inaugural Parade Tickets - DCist: Washington DC News, Food, Arts & Events

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

Both the AP and the Post picked up the Presidential Inaugural Committee's decision to hold an essay contest to award parade viewing stand tickets to over 100 D.C. students. The contest, which asks students to write 500-word essays responding to the question, "How can I contribute to my ...

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CNN Edits Kathy Griffin's Blue Moment - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

CNN2_1.1.JPG In the first 15 minutes of CNN's New Year's Eve Special, Kathy Griffin managed to antagonize, provoke and entertain in her own unrivaled way. Early comments included, "Can I get a pap smear from Dr. Sanjay Gupta ?" "Has Ryan Seacrest been shot?" and, about former CNNer Glenn Beck , ...

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Gupta To Be Obama's Surgeon General?

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz is reporting Sanjay Gupta has been offered the job of Surgeon General in the Obama administration, and he "has told administration officials that he wants the job." Gupta declined comment when contacted by Kurtz. At the beginning of CNN's Situation ...

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Sources: Gupta approached for surgeon general's post

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:45:00 +1900

Gupta is a former White House fellow. (CNN) – Chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been approached by the Obama administration about the U.S. surgeon general's post, according to sources inside the transition and at CNN. The transition team is impressed with the combination of Gupta's past government experience, as a White House [...]

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth found this 59 minutes ago on politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

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Burris goes to D.C., his fate remains in question

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:59:05 +1900

Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris is leaving for Washington on Monday afternoon for a high-stakes showdown on Capitol Hill about whether he'll succeed President-elect Barack Obama in Congress.

The Corner found this 45 minutes ago on www.msnbc.msn.com

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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:30:33 +1900

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Perez Hilton over Ann Coulter? NBC's book promo war

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:00:50 +1900

By April MacIntyre Jan 6, 2009, 3:22 GMT Perez Hilton over Ann Coulter? Golden haired lad - Perez Hilton - Perez Hilton Hosts a Labor Day Weekend Bash at Tao Las Vegas on August 29, 2008 - Tao Nightclub at the Venetian Hotel and Casino - Las Vegas, NV, USA © PRN / PR Photos Golden haired lad - ...

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com found this 104 minutes ago on www.monstersandcritics.com

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Specter: Holder Could Be Another Gonzo

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:25:38 +1900

It doesn't get harsher than that. In a floor speech today, Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee, suggested that Eric Holder, Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, might follow in the footsteps of ... Alberto Gonzales! The Washington Indepednent ...

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Franken's Lawyer Ridicules "Former Senator Coleman"

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:36:53 +1900

How is the Franken campaign responding to the lawsuit from Norm Coleman, contesting the results of the Senate recount, which could bottle this up for months? In a briefing just now with reporters, lead Franken lawyer Marc Elias approached it with a very calm and sober demeanor -- and ridiculed ...

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Doing It With Twitter

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

Incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan tries to hold onto his job and explain the future of conservatism : “We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today,” Duncan ventured. “Let me just say that I have ...

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed found this 97 minutes ago on yglesias.thinkprogress.org

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Hugh Hewitt’s ode to President Bush.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

In a new piece for Politico today, right-wing pundit Hugh Hewitt pens a paean to President Bush, saying that he remains in the small minority who approve of the job the President is doing. “Count me among the 30 percent, which will soon be 40 percent — and then more than 50 percent ...

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“CNN-GATE” - why not a PUBLIC apology? and why not equal in exposure to the unfair trashing?

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:05:47 +1900

MORE ON CNN-GATE: (and, yes, I am having some light hearted fun calling it CNN-GATE…this IS Washington, DC!) I just talked to a source who told me that CNN, from its Political Director, through a Wolf Blitzer producer Jill Chappell emailed a PRIVATE apology to the Governor of Alaska for putting ...

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed found this 99 minutes ago on gretawire.foxnews.com

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Bottoming Signs

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:22:00 +1900

Here and there are some small signs that the economy is at least bottoming -- a crucial stepping stone to meaningful recovery. For example, the ISM non-manufacturing services report released today for December came in at 40.6 on the composite index, compared to 37.3 in November. New orders, ...

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS found this 82 minutes ago on corner.nationalreview.com

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240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:49:23 +1900

An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following ...

Moonbattery found this 8 hours ago on www.breitbart.com

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Israel Soldier _Palestine Girl (video)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:50:00 +1900

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The Associated Press: House re-elects Nancy Pelosi as speaker

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:43:51 +1900

4 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) The woman who made history two years ago by becoming the first female speaker of the House has been re-elected to that post. House colleagues today chose Nancy Pelosi to continue as speaker. Her fellow Democrats, with an expanded majority, elected her over Republican ...

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 5 hours ago on www.google.com

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Dead Hamas Terrorists & Missiles Found At UN School In Gaza

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:32:37 +1900

UPDATE: Here is the amazing video of the strikes today on the Hamas strongholds in urban Gaza areas, via the IDF YouTube Channel . It is unclear if these strikes were at the UN School: Weapons and the bodies of two Hamas members were found at the UN School in Gaza after the airstrike ...

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Opinion: An Endgame for Israel

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:03:00 +1900

Maybe this column would get a better reception if it were titled, "No Endgame for Israel." Because the quantity of commentary claiming that Israel cannot possibly achieve any kind of successful outcome in Gaza is already approaching presurge levels of Iraq defeatism. The argument that Israel's ...

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 5 hours ago on online.wsj.com

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It’s all Water under the Board

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:16:00 +1900

Being determined to be bipartisan about some things is bad enough -- being determined to be bipartisan about other things is simply immoral. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Diane Fienstein and Jay Rockefeller : NBC News has learned that Senate Democrats -- including Dianne Feinstein and Jay ...

Hotline On Call found this 2 hours ago on firedoglake.com

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Arlen Specter compares Eric Holder to Alberto Gonzales

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:44:09 +1900

Republicans have made it clear that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder is the most problematic of President-elect Barack Obama cabinet nominees. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave a scathing floor statement on Holder Tuesday, laying out many ...

Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog found this 2 hours ago on washingtonindependent.com

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Michael Moore vs CNN's Sanjay Gupta on Larry King Live (video)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:34:00 +1900

Michael Moore debates Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Larry King Live after Larry shows extracts from Moore on Situation Room the day before and corrected Sanjay Gupta's...

Ben Smith's Blogs found this 3 hours ago on www.youtube.com

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The trouble with Sanjay Gupta

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:30:43 +1900

So apparently Obama plans to appoint CNN's Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General. I don't have a problem with Gupta's qualifications. But I do remember his mugging of Michael Moore over Sicko. You don't have to like Moore or his film; but Gupta specifically claimed that Moore "fudged his facts", when ...

Weekly Standard Blog found this 74 minutes ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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IBM May Cut Thousands of Jobs, Employee Group Says (Update2)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:51:00 +1900

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. , the biggest technology employer, may cut thousands of jobs this month amid the global economic slowdown, according to the employee group Alliance for IBM. Employees have been hearing that layoffs will take place in late January, said ...

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Alcoa to Eliminate 15,000 Positions

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:51:00 +1900

Acknowledging that earlier cost-cutting moves are insufficient due to the sustained economic downturn, aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. announced deeper work-force cuts, more plant closures and a 50% reduction in capital expenditures. By the end of this year, there will be 15,000 fewer positions at ...

Calculated Risk found this 113 minutes ago on online.wsj.com

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Evaluations of the ASUS Netbook.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:18:18 +1900

While I’ve been waiting two months for a new Dell laptop on backorder to arrive at work, I’ve been thinking about getting an ASUS 10-Inch Netbook

Instapundit found this 86 minutes ago on volokh.com

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Feinstein bucks Dems on Burris

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:50:36 +1900

Feinstein broke with her party’s leadership Tuesday, calling for Roland Burris to be seated in the Senate.

Talking Points Memo found this 114 minutes ago on www.politico.com

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Coleman contesting recount

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:15:35 +1900

Coleman is filing a lawsuit to contest the results of the Minn. recount that declared Franken the winner.

Hot Air » Top Picks found this 89 minutes ago on www.politico.com

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Bush starts packing to leave White House

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:00:04 +1900

The White House said Tuesday that President Bush, never one to procrastinate, has started the process of packing his belongings for when he leaves the White House later this month. White House press secretary Dana Perino said the president and the first lady do not have a lot to move to their ...

The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com found this 8 hours ago on thehill.com

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Jeb Bush won't run for Florida Senate seat in 2010 - Los Angeles Times

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:32:00 +1900

REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON -- Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and brother of President Bush, has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate, ending weeks of speculation that he would preserve a Bush family power center in the nation's capital. Unlike his older brother, Jeb Bush left office with ...

Political Machine found this 7 hours ago on www.latimes.com

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The Forgotten Math: Pre-WWII New Deal Saw Biggest Drop In Unemployment Rate in American History

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:30:04 +1900

Open Left - Front Page found this 3 hours ago on www.census.gov

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New Deal gets a raw deal when conservatives rap FDR

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:30:04 +1900

The right blames the short-lived recession in a year straddling 1937 and 1938 on FDR's New Deal policies. But that was four years into Roosevelt's term — four years marked by spectacular economic growth. The fleeting economic decline happened not because of the New Deal's spending programs, ...

Open Left - Front Page found this 3 hours ago on seattletimes.nwsource.com

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Bush will use federal funds to install security gate to protect his Dallas home.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:31:50 +1900

After he leaves office on Jan. 20, President Bush will be giving up his photo-op Crawford ranch and moving to the affluent Dallas neighborhood known as Preston Hollow. Newsweek noted that the Bush family has “ found a friendly pocket ” in a Texas county that went for Obama. But Bush ...

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com found this 2 hours ago on thinkprogress.org

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From Webmaster: Voting for The 2008 Weblog Awards is now open!

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:33:50 +1900

The Weblog Awards are the world's larges blog competition, with nearly 2 million votes cast since its inception in 2003. This year it is expected somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes over the next seven days. This year there are nearly 500 finalists in 48 categories as well as an ...

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Obama vows no earmarks on stimulus

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:00:58 +1900

From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan. "We are going to ban all earmarks -- the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review," he explained. "We will create an economic recovery oversight board made up of key administration officials and independent advisors to identify problems early and make sure we are doing all we can to solve ...

RedState: Conservative News and Community found this 103 minutes ago on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

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Jeb's not running

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:55:01 +1900

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"Although he is a completely fictional character and does not, in fact, exist"

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:00:00 +1900

Despite the bioline, the Huffington Post cites "David Kahane" straight.

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Best Science Blog - The 2008 Weblog Awards

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:27:00 +1900

Return to the The 2008 Weblog Award Poll Navigation Page . Finalists: Add to any feed reader Pharyngula (PZ Myers) Add to any feed reader Improbable Research Add to any feed reader Climate Audit Add to any feed reader Bad Astronomy Add to any feed reader Real Climate Add to any feed reader NASA ...

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