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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Attorney general collapses — Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed Thursday night while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, according to three senior administration officials. — Details about Mukasey's condition were not immediately available.
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Associated Press:
Atty. Gen. Mukasey collapses during speech — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense ally in President Bush's war on terror, was hospitalized Thursday after he collapsed during a late-night speech and lost consciousness.
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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
Mukasey Collapses During Speech — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech on national security to a prominent conservative lawyers' organization. — Mr. Mukasey, 67 years old, appeared to slur his words about 20 minutes into his speech …
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Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Recount, Day 2: Coleman, Franken trade gains, losses — Today is Day 2 in the Minnesota recount of ballots in the overtime election struggle between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic rival Al Franken. The candidates traded modest gains and losses throughout the day.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
U.S. Senate recount results by county — Figures represent a compilation of recount data reported to the Minnesota secretary of state or gathered by the Star Tribune. Vote totals use pre-recount results for precincts that have not yet been recounted. Ballots challenged by the campaigns are not included in candidates' vote totals.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Judge Declares Five Detainees Held Illegally — A federal judge issued the Bush administration a sharp setback on Thursday, ruling that five Algerian men have been held unlawfully at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp for nearly seven years and ordering their release.
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Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Guantanamo Detainees
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:More Boumediene Fall-out: Judge Orders Release of Five Alleged Combatants
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:Five detainees ordered released “forthwith” after seven years at Guantanamo
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Aides: Obama plans to nominate Clinton — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for a former first lady and a convergence …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama plans to name Clinton to State — President-elect Barack Obama is “on track” to name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of state shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides said. — Financial disclosure issues have been worked out, aides said.
Marin Cogan / The New Republic:
Bum Rush — Obama's secret plan to muzzle talk radio. Very, very secret. — Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other friends have spent the past year screaming about the horrors of Barack Obama. And, while it's true that they talked ad nauseam about socialism and the Weathermen and Jeremiah Wright …
CNN:
Obama's cell phone records breached — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said Thursday. — Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the team was notified Wednesday …
IBDeditorials.com:
The Bank Terrorist — Housing: For years, a self-described “bank terrorist” blackmailed banks into making bad home loans in our inner cities. Now those loans are defaulting by the millions, and he's blaming banks. — Bruce Marks, founder of the leftist Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Waxman dethrones Dingell as chairman — California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades. — In a secret ballot vote in the Cannon Caucus Room …
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:WAXMAN WINS. — Secret Twitter sources say that Henry Waxman …
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The Trail / Washington Post:
Obama Raised Half a Billion Online — Barack Obama raised half a billion dollars online in his 21-month campaign for the White House, dramatically ushering in a new digital era in presidential fundraising. — In an exclusive interview with The Post, members of the vaunted Triple O …
Megan McArdle:
Goolsbee out at CEA? — I'm flabbergasted. If true, this is a bloody embarassment: … I take nothing away from Professor Rouse. But she's a labor economist with a heavy, heavy specialty in returns to education. Goolsbee, by contrast, focuses on taxation and capital formation.
Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:
Director's checks on ‘Joe’ called unfounded — Job and Family Services head suspended for a month — Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is standing by an agency director who OK'd improper computer checks for confidential information on “Joe the Plumber” and used state e-mails for political fundraising.
The Daily Beast:
Consultant Roger Stone, the notorious political hitman who helped George W. Bush prevail in the 2000 Florida recount, tells The Daily Beast that he wishes he hadn't. — Roger Stone is one of the last guys on Earth one would expect to feel guilty over an episode of rough and tumble politicking.
Chris Smith / Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:
Why Woodward and Bernstein came to town — Iced tea accompanied a historic moment in Santa Rosa this past weekend when famed Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein came by to see and thank their secret source, 95-year-old Mark “Deep Throat” Felt.
The New Republic:
Why Arizona Dems Don't Want Napolitano at DHS — Arizona governor Janet Napolitano looks likely to be secretary of Homeland Security (thank you, leaky transition team). Though many are applauding her candidacy, her pending appointment is raising anxiety among Arizona Democrats.
Wall Street Journal:
Mad Max and the Meltdown — How we went from Christmas to crisis. — Notwithstanding the cardboard Santas who seem to have arrived in stores this year near Halloween, the holiday season starts in seven days with Thanksgiving. And so it will come to pass once again that many people …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
GOP Takes Another Image Hit Post-Election — Republicans favor tacking right; independents offer mixed guidance — USA - Democrats - Favorability - Government and Politics - Political Parties - Republicans - Americas - Northern America — PRINCETON, NJ — The Republican Party's image …
Matthew Rothschild / The Progressive Magazine Feed:
Obama Throws No Bones to Progressive Base — When is Obama going to appoint someone who reflects the progressive base that brought him to the White House? — He won the crucial Iowa caucuses on the strength of his anti-Iraq War stance, and many progressive peace and justice activists worked hard for him against John McCain.
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:20 minutes ago
Eric Holder on firearms policy: Earlier this year, Eric Holder—along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice—co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in support of DC's ban on all handguns …
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Joe the Plumber Lands Book Deal — Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the presidential campaign fixture and John McCain advocate better known as Joe the Plumber, won't have to open his own plumbing business just yet: he has signed a deal to write “Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream.”
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq — WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations …
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Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet — Activists note that most of the candidates for top security posts voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq or otherwise supported launching the war. — Reporting from Washington …