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-- Newest frontier of television news: designated commentator for missing child stories.

 -- Fred Thompson on DSK: “You can be sure of one thing: This never would have happened if Arthur Branch were still running things.”

 -- Rupert Murdoch and the “reverse ferret.

 -- “Easy ways” to balance the budget are not actually so easy.

 -- Good American basketball jobs might flee to Turkey.

 -- The debt ceiling cat.