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In the aftermath of the merger of AOL News and the Huffington Post, Huffington Post CEO Arianna Huffington sat down with Charlie Rose on Thursday to talk about the website’s new editorial vision and goals, which include increasing the number of monthly unique visitors and incorporating storytelling into reporting. (more)

Last Valentine’s Day, South Dakota businessman Ted Hustead fell in love, politically speaking. (more)

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants. (more)

Two New York Times journalists have been arrested in Egypt, according to a tweet from Associated Press Middle East  correspondent Hadeel Al-Shalchi. (more)

Not everyone can pick up on satire and apparently that includes MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. (more)

Just a year after The Daily Caller’s launch, the Columbia Journalism Review says TheDC deserves as much recognition as anyone online for publishing original Washington reporting. (more)

So much for that new tone of civility. (more)

UPDATE (5:30pm): The Center for Public Integrity responds to inquires made by TheDC. (more)

There has been a lot of finger-pointing from the left, particularly at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accusing conservatives of intensifying of the political discourse. (more)

As I write (early this evening), Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is fighting for her life after being shot in the head during a constituency event outside a grocery store in Tucson. (more)

Did anyone see that coming? (more)

Stephen Baldwin can’t take a joke, at least when it revolves around brother and potential political candidate Alec Baldwin. (more)

Editor’s Note: Have a question for Matt Labash? Submit it here (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is considering canceling the results of the November elections by changing the Senate rules when senators conduct their opening day procedures on January 5th. Democrats want to reduce the number of senators needed to invoke cloture (limit debate). (more)

1.) Inouye and other Senate dinosaurs make one last mad hobble for cash register — “In the waning days of the lame duck congressional session, Democrats controlling the Senate — in collaboration with a handful of old school Republicans — are pushing to wrap $1.27 trillion worth of unfinished budget work into a single ‘omnibus’ appropriations bill,” reports the AP. Sen. Jim DeMint hates this bill so much that he has threatened to read all 1,900 pages aloud if his colleagues do not make it smaller. To that end, a small contingent of fiscal guerillas are hoping to address the federal budget in the new year, when reinforcements will have arrived from Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Utah, and Kentucky. Until then, it’s DeMint, McCain, and Coburn attempting to hold back a red sea of pork. Their efforts are not completely futile. After requesting an earmark for the Kentucky National Guard to eradicate the most valuable cash crop in the United States, Sen. Mitch McConnell suddenly realized that he is not supposed to be spending other people’s money willy-nilly anymore, and had the earmark removed. “This is exactly what the American people said Nov. 2 they didn’t want us to do,” a chastened McConnell said. (more)

As I reported earlier today at FrumForum, Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died. (more)

America-hating Michael Moore is at it again by helping to bail out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and making his internet resources available to WikiLeaks. He has even called PFC Bradley Manning, the soldier allegedly behind downloading the classified files, a patriot. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — both of whom are hardly political hacks — have said Assange puts American troops’ lives at risk as well as those of our allies in the War on Terror. Michael Moore has made a fortune by undermining America in the War on Terrorism and is using that money now to aid and abet the enemy. (more)

President Barack Obama’s decision to call Republicans “hostage-takers” in the Bush tax cut extension debate caused the liberal group Coalition on Human Needs to launch the “Hostage Prevention Initiative.” (more)

With the Election Day “shellacking” now in the rearview mirror, pundit after pundit is pointing to Bill Clinton and his centrist actions post 1994 as the ideal model for jumpstarting an Obama presidency stuck in the mud.  When the comparison is made, the broader point is this: Obama needs to get to the center. (more)

The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim is accusing former President George W. Bush of “lifting” anecdotes and quotes in his recently released memoir, “Decision Points.” (more)