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• Money talks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Cash is the key to unlocking the grand climate bargain between the rich and poor world, as was apparent even before the brokering had got under way in Copenhagen. At the end of the first week of talking, this reality has become even starker, for a whole host of reasons. For one thing, the first world is resisting ...
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• Faith in Human Progress: President Obamas Inspiring Words

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 129
  T o hear the GOP Wingnuts and Tea Party screamers tell it, the president of the United States is an anti-American Communist-Fascist-Nazi-Socialist-Muslim who is secretly trying to turn the nation into a dictatorship headed by Himself, the Great Obama. A lot of these people live right here in Oklahoma , which ...
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• Health Care Reality

  
  World in Motion — Authority: 461
  As the House and Senate race towards an elusive goal of finding a compromise that can get some kind of health care reform in place, I think we need a sense of reality about where this is going. Whatever gets passed will be significantly altered over time.   Right now the goal is to get some kind of structure in ...
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• A Year After the Arrest of Rod Blagojevich

  
  The Stonecipher Report — Authority: 115
  Ah, Blago Memories Light the Corners of My Mind… Posted By: Michael Sweeney Dec. 11, 2009 Not being a parent, I guess I don’t have as much direct, running-around-under-my-nose-everyday evidence of how quickly (and seemingly unnoticed) an entire year can...
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• The constitution and the mandate

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 585
  I wonder, is this issue going to get traction? Cato’s Robert Levy and Michael Cannon argue that the health insurance mandate is unconstitutional. It does seem to cross a commerce-clause line: yet another line, in fact, since so many have been crossed already. The question is whether the government can force you to ...
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• A Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine

  
  The Political Voices of Women — Authority: 106
  As Ben Feller reported for Associated Press, “President Barack Obama evoked the cause of a just war on Thursday, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize just nine days after sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to war in Afghanistan but promising to use the prestigious prize to ‘ reach for the world that ought to be .’” ...
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• Health Care Shocker: Special Democratic Voting Counties Would Get Protected Medicare Benefits

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 759
  
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• Today on EA (11 December)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  Iran: There are reports that Iran’s army will stand with the people . Iranian state TV reports that “thousands” of students have demonstrated in Tehran after Friday prayers to chant against the US and Israel, whilst an IAEA inspection team arrived yesterday for its 3rd visit. We’ve received two Iran-special ...
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• Obama the Conservative

  
  www.AsymptoticLife.com — Authority: 129
  ( Photo source .) In his acceptance speech  for the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, President Obama hit some predictable political points-- points we have heard all too often since the 2000 election.  I wonder, does he actually believe what hes saying, or is he (like his predecessor) spewing verbiage to ...
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• Boehner: Dems’ Overreach With Financial Regulatory Bill ‘Beyond Imagination’

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 759
  
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• Revitalizing the Antiwar Movement

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 435
  from Truthoutby Camillo “Mac” BicaWith Nobel laureate Barack Obama’s announced escalation of the occupation of Afghanistan, even those who believed his rhetoric of hope and change, who supported and voted for him in the last election, have realized at last that his administration represents neither, that the ...
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• The National Journal’s Year-End Blogger’s Poll

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 139
  (Wherein I reveal myself to be a cranky outlier, it would seem.)The results are here addthis_url = http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poliblogger.com%2F%3Fp%3D17394; addthis_title = The+National+Journal%26rsquo%3Bs+Year-End+Blogger%26rsquo%3Bs+Poll; addthis_pub = ;
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• "The Paks"?

  
  Five Rupees — Authority: 469
  I f this Dawn report is to be believed, thats the word U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to describe us. To be fair, it does save the trouble of three additional syllables. By the way, its obviously true that "Paki" is a racially charged term -- especially in Britain -- but what about "Pak"? Ive never even ...
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• Who Could Have Seen that Coming?

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Via ABC News:  Jenny Sanford Files for Divorce from Husband Gov. Mark Sanford After Affair. addthis_url = http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poliblogger.com%2F%3Fp%3D17393; addthis_title = Who+Could+Have+Seen+that+Coming%3F; addthis_pub = ;
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• Krauthammer and Poor Reasoning

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Note:  before proceeding with this post, let me state a couple of things about the science and politics of climate change. My basic position is very similar to the one James Joyner noted in a post last month:  “Climate change, while an important topic, is one that I follow only at the periphery.  Frankly, ...
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• Blackwater Guards Were Involved in CIA Raids in Iraq & Afghanistan

  
  Cleveland Leader - Cleveland News & More! — Authority: 621
  On Thursday, the New York Times reported that private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in secret CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Blackwaters role now points to a much deeper connection between the security company and the spy agency than has previously been ...
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• Senator Byrd joins reality-based community | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Its been brought to my attention that Robert Byrd issued a statement the other day in which he actually acknowledged that there are downsides to mountaintop removal mining. Yes, this is obvious to the overall world. But for a West Virginia politician to utter these words is stunning. Ken Ward of the Charleston ...
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• Mark Fiore On Screwed Credit Card Consumers

  
  You Think What? — Authority: 109
  It’s holiday time gentle readers and we wish to bring to your attention the pending legislation regulating credit card companies and putting the financial screws to you the credit consuming public. One of our favorite political cartoon creators, Mark Fiore, has  a view of the matter with which we agree. Take a ...
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• U.S. President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

  
  You Think What? — Authority: 109
  When United States President Barack Obama presented his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech entitled, “A Just And Lasting Peace” the world was in awe. Many were proud and pleased to see him receive the honor; others were perplexed by the irony that the man who recently determined to escalate the war in ...
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• Women Lead Protest In Afghanistan

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 121
  Via RAWA : Several hundred women, many holding aloft pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, held a loud but nonviolent street protest today, demanding that President Hamid Karzai purge from his government anyone connected to corruption, war crimes or the Taliban. Afghan police, in ...
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