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Frontiers of privacy

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 5:33pm
 Joe McGinniss demands that his image be removed from "Sarah Palin's Alaska."


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Remainders: Next

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 5:08pm
 Link roundup.


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'Don't Ask' to SCOTUS?

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:42pm
 Gerstein thinks it's a long shot:

A gay GOP group is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate a lower court's order banning the mi


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Murdoch: Bloomberg called Obama 'arrogant'

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:38pm
 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was taken aback by President Obama's arrogance, Rupert Murdoch said in an interview with an Australian outlet


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Murdoch: Bloomberg called Obama 'arrogant'

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:38pm
 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was taken aback by President Obama's arrogance, Rupert Murdoch said in an interview with an Australian outlet


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From Palin to ... heaven

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:30pm
 Last year I profiled Palin co-author Lynn Vincent, an Evangelical writer who'd done a bunch of narrative books broadly on politics and current


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From Palin to ... heaven

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:30pm
 Last year I profiled Palin co-author Lynn Vincent, an Evangelical writer who'd done a bunch of narrative books broadly on politics and current


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Tails, he wins

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:25pm
The Minneapolis Star Tribune looks at the implications of a prolonged recount in Minnesota. Tim Pawlenty would stay governor and the legislature fli


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Tails, he wins

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:25pm
The Minneapolis Star Tribune looks at the implications of a prolonged recount in Minnesota. Tim Pawlenty would stay governor and the Legislature fli


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The changing West

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:02pm
 Patrick Coolican:
Sharron Angle, the vanquished Republican challenger to Sen. Harry Reid, depicted herself in her brochures as a conser


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The changing West

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 3:02pm
 Patrick Coolican:
Sharron Angle, the vanquished Republican challenger to Sen. Harry Reid, depicted herself in her brochures as a conser


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Kristol: Save Olbermann!

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 2:56pm
 This is too easy:

MSNBC’s suspension of Keith Olbermann is ludicrous.

First, he donated money to candidate


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Kristol: Save Olbermann!

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 2:56pm
 This is too easy:

MSNBC’s suspension of Keith Olbermann is ludicrous.

First, he donated money to candidate


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Kristol: Save Olbermann!

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 2:56pm
 This is too easy:

MSNBC’s suspension of Keith Olbermann is ludicrous.

First, he donated money to candidate


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Coming down hard on Olbermann

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 2:47pm
 It's hard to see the Olbermann suspension as entirely different from the Juan Williams firing: An excuse to go after a guy who has legendarily


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Olbermann suspended

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 1:55pm
 This is a very dramatic choice on MSNBC's part not to follow the Fox model:

Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely wit


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A backlash backlash in Massachusetts?

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 1:23pm
 Masachusetts, a canary in the coal mine in January, may just have sent an opposite signal, if you believe defeated Republican gubernatorial ca


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Pelosi will fight to stay

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 1:14pm
 Bresnahan on the reaction from House moderates:

For shell-shocked House Democrats who held on in tough districts Tuesday, a new


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A Palin manifesto

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 12:31pm
 My old boss Seth Lipsky, who's been writing for a couple of years now about what the new centrality of the Constitution on the right means, ha


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A Palin manifesto

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 12:31pm
 My old boss Seth Lipsky, who's been writing for a couple of years now about what the new centrality of the Constitution on the right means, ha


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