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The Pit Bull in the China Shop

New York Times - 40 minutes ago

Sarah Palin is far and away the most important brand in American politics after Barack Obama. Her 15 minutes is far from up.

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Closed Florida Bank Makes 124 This Year
CBS News - Sat Nov 21, 4:00 pm ET
FDIC Expects Cost of Bank Failures to Hit $100 Billion in 4 Years
Art of the spin, unemployment-rate style
Las Vegas Sun - Sun Nov 22, 5:11 am ET
No sooner were the latest unemployment numbers released Friday morning than politicians offered their takes, illustrating that no fact will go un-spun this campaign season.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ideclared the drop in statewide unemployment from 13.3 percent to 13 percent a “positive development.” Gov. Jim Gibbons, however, had a different, more somber, take.
Harry Reid’s hopes hitched to health care reform bill
Las Vegas Sun - Sun Nov 22, 5:10 am ET
You would have thought they were rock stars, not graying politicians, the way Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants were welcomed at a Senate reception the day after Reid’s health care bill was introduced.
The Senate’s Duty on Climate
New York Times - Sat Nov 21, 10:24 pm ET
A climate change treaty in Copenhagen has been tabled, in part, because the United States Senate has failed to make the reduction of emissions a priority.
Dateline Pittsburgh: 11/22/2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sun Nov 22, 12:25 am ET
Michael R. Ruck, tax manager, joined Malin Bergquist. Kline, Keppel & Koryak P.C. hired Aaron M. Powell as a staff accountant. Elias/Savion Advertising Inc.
Morris activates Medical Reserve Corps
Daily Record - Sun Nov 22, 4:20 am ET
Their faces go by in a blur, mostly because the children receiving H1N1 flu shots are more focused on the needles than who's injecting them. But for Morris County Medical Reserve Corps members, it's fine. The volunteers don't lend their time for personal recognition.
US lawmakers press on Taiwan arms sales
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 10:12 pm ET
Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would likely set back warming US ties with China.
PoliTex: Bush library architect believes that center will draw people from afar
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Sat Nov 21, 11:34 pm ET
It might even draw Fort Worth students, Robert A.M. Stern says.
Seven Tarrant County cities hope to improve emergency communication
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Sat Nov 21, 11:34 pm ET
Fire and police departments need to be able to talk with one another.
U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit
Los Angeles Times - Sat Nov 21, 3:14 am ET
Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan. As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war.
U.S. to tighten control of Afghan contracts: Gates
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 3:56 pm ET
The United States must tighten control of Afghan aid contracts as a first step toward stemming rampant corruption, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
The Buzz | C notes
The Kansas City Star - Sat Nov 21, 10:53 pm ET
C notes The famous row house on C Street Southeast where South Carolina’s disgraced governor, Mark Sanford, sought counseling after his affair — as did Sen. John Ensign of Nevada after his affair — has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes.
Mitt Romney, Ronnie Milsap coming to business conference
KGET 17 Bakersfield - Sun Nov 22, 3:15 am ET
Organizers of the Bakersfield Business Conference announce that 2008 Republican Primary Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and Legendary Entertainer Ronnie Milsap will address the Business Conference on October 9, 2010.
Voice of the People for Nov. 22, 2009
New York Daily News - Sat Nov 21, 6:19 pm ET
The Republicans have finally gone off the deep end. They are so crazed over President Obama's election, they're beside themselves with vehemence.
Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel - 1 hour 19 minutes ago
It is not too late for President Barack Obama to follow the example of Harry Truman, who fired the famous Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for insubordination. Then, as now, the stakes were high. Then it was Korea; now it is Afghanistan.
Gates: US to do its part to slow Afghan corruption
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 3:38 pm ET
The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
Zakaria: In AfPak, India Is the Real Prize
Newsweek - Sat Nov 21, 1:29 pm ET
A relationship Obama should nurture.
In Defense of Elizabeth Lambert
Newsweek - Sat Nov 21, 12:50 pm ET
The soft bigotry of high expectations.
Tanker talk's back, bases get bolstered, sending soldiers home
Pensacola News Journal - Sun Nov 22, 2:06 am ET
Troubled Air Force tanker, construction cash headed to Panhandle, and plane tickets home for the holidays.
Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care
The Mercury - 2 hours 27 minutes ago
Associated Press Writer CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.