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• GOProud Might Be Sponsoring CPAC. But They Will Not Be Able to Even Open Their Mouths

  
  Queerty — Authority: 692
  Weve already shrugged off GOProuds sponsorship of the annual conservative-fest CPAC — something anti-gay conservative groups also parcicipating in the conference refuse to do . But heres one way Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber can sleep at night: CPAC wont be letting anyone from GOProud speak at the conference. ...
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• The Rise of the Filibuster

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 794
  Something that I don’t really understand about the filibuster is how it is that the perception is so widespread that constant filibustering is a longstanding tradition. I used to think that was the case, but that’s because filibustermania has existed throughout the entirety of my relatively brief political ...
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• Obama Administration Gives Carte Blanche Bailout to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 535
  Barack has just stiffed the American taxpayers again, this time giving unlimited amounts of our money to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, unleashing the the two government-created mortgage companies for an imminent repeat of the mortgage crisis. Related: Heres The Secret Reason We Eliminated The Bailout Caps On ...
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• Well, This Is Certainly a Surprise!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 697
  So on Christmas Day I open a box that I think is some large and unknown present from a relative--and it turns out to be 25 real physical copies of Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong (2010), The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (New York: Basic Books: 0465018769). It is a ...
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• Police use tear gas to disperse protests in Tehran

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Tehran, Dec 26 (DPA) There were renewed political protests on Saturday in Tehran and police fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowds, an Iranian opposition website reported.The Jaras website, which is close to the Green Movement led by former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi, said clashes between an unspecified ...
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• Progressives are nursing their hurt feeling…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 125
  As viewed by Chris Bowers, in an Alternet piece: Marginalized, and impotent, it is slowly beginning to dawn on progressives that they are irrelevant to the Messiah:Overall, this leaves progressives on the short-end of an ideological divide within the American center-left, with relatively little organizational ability ...
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• Turncoat

  
  Internet Scofflaw — Authority: 138
  When Arlen Specter switched parties, he said he would “not be an automatic 60th vote” for the Democratic agenda, but that’s pretty much what he has been:In nearly 30 years as a Senate Republican, Arlen Specter was tough to pin down, frequently breaking ranks with his party and giving its leadership fits. Yet in ...
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• Snakes on a Plane

  
  From Pine View Farm — Authority: 144
  John Cole said this so I didn’t have to. I stumbled on some of the coverage of yesterday’s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane (you could tell it was “Northwest” because of the word, “Delta,” on the tail) on CNN (” C oddling N evous N ellies”). I was channel hopping. None of the ...
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• Best-Selling Political Books

  
  Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Authority: 729
  Sarah Palin hangs onto the top spot on the New York Times list of best selling political books: 1. Going Rogue , by Sarah Palin 2. Stones Into Schools , by Greg Mortenson 3. Arguing With Idiots , by Glenn Beck 4. True Compass , by Edward M. Kennedy 5. Half The Sky , by Nicholas D. Kristof and ...
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• Captain Obvious Wins Magic Decoder Ring

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 135
  "Since his arrival on the national stage, Obama has been blessed with adversaries who overplay their hand claiming he is a Manchurian candidate out to destroy America from inside. Obama won last years historic election by rising above that nonsense. His casting aspersions on the very genius of the American ...
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• Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

  
  Pro-Pakistan — Authority: 429
  The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the supreme law of Pakistan. It is also known as the Constitution of 1973, and is the successor to two earlier documents, the Constitution of 1956 and the Constitution of 1962.The current constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan was formulated by Zulfiqar Ali ...
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• Commerce Department’s NTIA Awards 15 Grants for Broadband Mapping and Planning

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 633
  Commerce Department’s NTIA Awards 15 Grants for Broadband Mapping and Planning The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced that it has awarded 15 grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, ...
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• Pay caps are for the unconnected

  
  Internet Scofflaw — Authority: 138
  The Washington Post reports:The Obama administration pledged Thursday to provide unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. . . But even as the administration was making this open-ended financial commitment, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed that they had received approval from ...
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• The Senate Postmortem

  
  The Saloon dot net — Authority: 124
  In the post-dawn hours on Thursday the Senate passed ObamaCare 60 to 39, in the first vote on Christmas Eve since 1895 and after the longest consecutive session in Congress since World War I. We are thus heading toward the first U.S. entitlement program dragged across the finish line on a straight partisan majority, a ...
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• IANS top stories at 10

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  IANS top stories at 10NATIONALAndhra Governor N.D. Tiwari quits over ’sex scandal’ - Second Lead Moved at 1745 Shibu Soren stakes claim to form Jharkhand government - Second Lead Moved at 2144 Tiwari’s resignation victory of moral values, says channel - Moved at 1816 Inglorious end to Tiwari’s five-decade ...
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• Singapore extradites businessman to US over LTTE links

  
  Sinhale Hot News — Authority: 151
  Courtesy: DailyMirrorBalldev Naidu, a founding member of the Reform Party in Singapore, has been extradited to the United States on charges of terrorism. The 48-year-old businessman is believed to have been moved to the US sometime last Friday. There, he will face two charges of conspiring to provide arms and ...
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• Of War, Peace and the Distant Memory of a Christmas Truce

  
  Chrisy58's Weblog — Authority: 437
  Published on Saturday, December 26, 2009 by The Nation Of War, Peace and the Distant Memory of a Christmas Truce by John Nichols This has been a year of war, not peace, when a president elected to end conflicts instead expanded the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. So as it closes we would do well to recall an old ...
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• More Guns Less Crime: It was true before, and it is still true

  
  Conservative Libertarian Outpost — Authority: 431
  The sales boom in firearms and ammunition, largely due to the Gun Salesman of the year / Ammunition Salesman of the year, Barack H. Obama and his merry band of misfits. Has yet again caused anti liberty and freedom types to shake their heads. After all, the Brady Bunch et al would have you believe that guns are ...
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• Soren stakes claim to form Jharkhand government (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Ranchi, Dec 26 (IANS) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibu Soren Saturday staked claim to form the government in Jharkhand with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). The Janata Dal-United also said it would support him.Soren, accompanied by his son Hemant, AJSU ...
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• بلاغ من وزارة الشؤون الإجتماعية

  
  news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs — Authority: 160
  وصلنا من وزارة الشؤون الإجتماعية البلاغ التالي: "تبين للوزارة أن المواطنين عموماً والجيل الشاب "الكلاس" خصوصاً، يشعلون عيدان البخور في كل المناسبات العائلية والإجتماعية ...
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