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Welcome to edition #78 of the Carnival of Politics - a recap of the best from the past week. This edition is available at our website here

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Brown, Coakley Battle in Western Massachusetts
4 Votes, submitted in Other
Martha Coakley and Scott Brown crossed swords in in their third debate as Coakley holds a nine-point lead in the polls.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

From The 1990s To 2010
5 Votes, submitted in Other
Hillary Mann Leverett responds to Goldblog and explains the progression of her views on Iran: During my experience actually negotiating with senior counterparts from the Islamic Republic, I saw first-hand how my Iranian interlocutors were able to negotiate productively, deliver...

Friday, January 8, 2010

White House, Giuliani Spar Over Terrorism Policies
4 Votes, submitted in National
The former mayor's latest criticisms draw a sharp retort from the president's spokesman.

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New Day?
4 Votes, submitted in Left
From TPM Reader JY ... I haven't seen any mention of how quickly the administration tried to release as much info as it could to the public vs. Bush's endless stonewalling when it came to releasing any info that could...

Josh Marshall
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Beware of the Trolls
5 Votes, submitted in National
All of this points to what I have been saying for some time now; that the left doesn’t have facts, nor do they care about reality. They care about the acquisition of power, and if they have to lie, cheat, or deceive to achieve that power, so be it. ...

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Ralph Peters: Lying to Ourselves
5 Votes, submitted in National
We can not change the doctrines of Islam. Nobody can, they are fixed. So how do we combat it? We must find a way to cause Muslims to lose their faith and become disbelievers or convert to a benign belief system. To do that, we must accept the fact that Islam is the enemy and we must launch a massive, intensive ideological attack against it on a global scale. ...

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A Chinagate/Clinton crony returns
5 Votes, submitted in Right
Culture of Corruption.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
5 Votes, submitted in Left
Monday, and the holidays are over (But winter weather isn't.) The roads have been sanded - get back to work. Bob Graham and Jim Talent: For generations, the United States has neglected to nurture the technologies and systems needed to respond to emergencies related to disease. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the response to H1N1...