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Jon Huntsman nabbed the endorsement of a top newspaper in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney‘s back yard Thursday evening. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times Co. is in advanced talks to sell all of its small, regional publications. (more)

Senator John Kerry spent a good deal of time over the weekend being diplomatic even as his staff played down his interest in being the country’s top diplomat. (more)

1.) America bids adieu to ‘Meltdown’ with Keith Olbermann — On Friday, January 21, Anno Domini 2011, Keith Olbermann left MSNBC. Since then, the same people who accused Sarah Palin of controlling Jared Loughner’s mind have circulated the theory that the merger of NBC and Comcast led to Keith’s departure. The New York Times, a right-wing agitprop machine, has reported otherwise: “Underlying the decision, which one executive involved said was not a termination but a ‘negotiated separation,’ were years of behind-the-scenes tension, conflicts and near terminations.” For instance, in addition to working pro bono for the Democratic Party, donating money to candidates on the same day he had them on his show, engaging in–and giving voice to–blatant misogyny, treating his staffers with the disdain and disrespect due none but the most hardened of convicted sex offenders…Keith often just didn’t bother doing anything. “Some days,” reports the NYT, “Mr. Olbermann threatened not to come to work at all and a substitute anchor had to be notified to be on standby.” Incidentally, even liberals are happy with his ouster. Read what conservatives have to say here. (more)

1.) Desperate Dems attempt to rebrand the Obamacare repeal effort — House Republicans politely declined to remove the word “killing” from the “Repealing the Job Killing Health Health Care Law Act,” so Democrats decided to come up with a phrase of their own. “The Patient’s Rights Repeal Act” is what they settled on. Incidentally, the GOP’s name is pretty accurate: In June, the Boston Globe reported that “a 2.3 percent excise tax on companies that supply medical devices like heart defibrillators and surgical tools to hospitals, health centers and ambulance services will cost medical device manufacturers an estimated $20 billion in new taxes over the next decade. And they say that will force them to lay off workers and curb the research and development of new medical tools.” A report released by Senators Coburn and Barasso in October found that the outlook was equally bad in other industries. Meanwhile, “patient’s rights” is pure hogwash–as any depressed owner of a now useless health savings account will tell you. (more)

Cutting federal spending is the politically fashionable thing of the moment, but as Congressional Republicans and Democrats sharpen their pencils, many will be surprised that cutting spending sometimes costs more money than it saves. I’m talking about spending on audits, or in softer-sounding bureaucrat-speak, “program integrity efforts.” (more)

In the midst of chaos, a choppy game the Celtics didn’t deserve to win, the controversy caused by close friend and teammate Kevin Garnett, and his own offensive malaise through three quarters, Paul Pierce stepped to the forefront in overtime last night, reaching a milestone that many never believed possible. (more)

FOXBOROUGH — Before this season, Patriots coach Bill Belichick removed all the pictures of New England’s past triumphs and big moments from the walls inside the football offices at Gillette Stadium. (more)

1.) Joe Miller’s private security guards take ‘libruhl’ media antipathy too far — The bearded David to Sen. Murkowski’s pinch-faced Goliath may have just provided a boon to everyone else running for Alaska’s Senate seat. On Sunday, Miller’s private security team put an Alaskan journalist in an arm-bar and then handcuffs during an event at a public middle school because the reporter, Tony Hopfinger of Alaska Dispatch, would not stop asking inconvenient questions about Miller’s past. According to Hopfinger’s own account and photographs, Miller’s team restrained the camera-wielding journalist, then told him he was under arrest and made him sit handcuffed in a corner for 30 mins until the police arrived, at which time it was revealed that Miller is not Wyatt Earp and Alaska circa 2010 is not a Cormac McCarthy novel, where might makes right, etc., etc. Miller, a decorated military veteran and Harvard Law graduate, made light of such violence during his speech when he said of securing America’s southern border, “If the East Germans could do it, we can do it.” (more)

The official reasoning behind the release of “True Prep,’’ the sequel to 1980’s “The Preppy Handbook,’’ may be to update the preppies of the world about fashion (J. Crew didn’t exist in 1980), technology (no texting during dinner, Muffy), and plastic surgery (in a word, don’t). But chat with Lisa Birnbach, author of the original and the sequel, and a secondary motive emerges. (more)

Independent gubernatorial candidate Timothy Cahill, who has seen top aides defect from his campaign, is now losing his running mate. (more)

The games over the weekend didn’t have the buildup of those on Sept. 11. (more)

NORTON — When Stewart Cink, Tiger Woods, and Zach Johnson signed their scorecards following the fourth round of the Deutsche Bank Championship, they emerged from the scoring trailer as though they were supressing a secret. (more)

NORTON — Good weather and a Labor Day finish haven’t been the only constants in the eight-year history of the Deutsche Bank Championship. Big-name winners and final-round drama seem to be this tournament’s calling card, and with the bunched pack at the top owning plenty of victories, today dawns at TPC Boston dripping with possibility. (more)

Blood will be spilled and brains rattled. Body parts will be wrenched and battered, some damaged. (more)

All Johnny Damon needed to hear from Tigers manager Jim Leyland and/or general manager Dave Dombrowski was reassurance that the team still wanted him and would continue to play him. (more)

In the end, we want to be entertained, don’t we? (more)

There was no doubt in Kenny Doyle’s mind about what should happen to Roger Clemens. (more)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, one of nearly three dozen freshman Democrats elected on the coattails of President Obama, has been true to her campaign vows. She supported virtually every component of the Obama agenda, and she recently stood beside House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank of Newton to declare her pride in backing a financial regulatory bill. (more)

Even in Israel, the Daily Caller’s “Journolist” exposé has received its share of attention.  The Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin email threads were less interesting to Israelis than the Journolist discussion of whether to report on the Islamist background of the Ft. Hood Texas shooter. (more)