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Kurt Andersen / Time:
The Protester — Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons …
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Phyllis Furman / NY Daily News:
Milk Street Cafe, FiDi eatery that lost business due to Occupy Wall Street barricades, to close for good — Thursday is last day for popular Financial District restaurant that opened in June — Milk Street Cafe owner Marc Epstein, on steps of City Hall in November, complained about Occupy Wall Street barricades hurting business.
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americanthinker.com, Datechguy's Blog, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air and Jammie Wearing Fools
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Time's POTY: “The Protester” — Really? The most influential and newsworthy person of the year currently occupies space in urban downtown areas, unless you're on the West Coast, where you can find them hanging out at the docks, blocking traffic and making your cost of goods needlessly increase.
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The Week, Taylor Marsh and Patterico's Pontifications
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Time's Person of the Year: ‘The Protester’
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americanthinker.com and The Daily What
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell: I like Mitt Romney's flip — Talk about a backhanded compliment. — Christine O'Donnell, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, appeared on CNN Wednesday and inadvertently drew attention to one of the charges against the former Massachusetts governor from his critics - flip-flopping.
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The Iowa Republican:
Focus Group Fallout — A participant in a focus group organized by TheIowaRepublican.com and McClatchy newspapers lost his job because of comments he made during the event last week. Shortly after participating in the focus group, Craig Bergman was hired as the Iowa political director for Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign.
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Washington Wire, Iowa Caucuses, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Monthly:
The GOP policy problem
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Washington Post, The New Republic and Eschaton
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Gingrich's Iowa political director leaves campaign after Mormonism ‘cult’ remark
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Publius Forum, Shakesville and The Politico
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich commits a capital crime — Newt Gingrich — the friend of his detractors, to whom he offers serial vindications — provided on Monday redundant evidence for the proposition that he is the least conservative candidate seeking the Republican presidential nomination: He faulted Mitt Romney for committing acts of capitalism.
WISN Milwaukee's Channel 12:
Mickey Mouse, Adolf Hitler Allowed On Wis. Recall Petitions — GAB Rules Address, Date More Important Than Names — MADISON, Wis. — The signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler will be counted on recall petitions targeting Gov. Scott Walker as long as they are properly dated and include …
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Althouse, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, The Daily Caller, The Impolitic, The PJ Tatler and Instapundit
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner gets tough with Senate: Time to act on House payroll tax extension — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday implored the Senate to act on the House-passed payroll-tax bill, making a bid to wrap up Congress's work for the year and head home for the holidays.
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The Politico and CNN
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
House Republicans pass payroll tax bill, gain leverage on Senate Dems
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The Politico, Associated Press, Roll Call, Wake up America, dhorowitz3's blog, The Heritage Foundation, Campaign 2012 and Speaker
Office of the Assistant Secretary …:
2.5 Million Young Adults Gain Health Insurance Due to the Affordable Care Act — This Issue Brief is available on the Internet at: — Printer Friendly version in PDF format (2 pages) — [Free PDF reader ] — How to Obtain a Printed Copy — Results released today [12/14/11] …
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, Booman Tribune and White House.gov Blog
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
More Obamacare News: 2.5M Young Adults Got Insurance
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American Prospect, ThinkProgress and Taegan Goddard's …
Robert Costa / National Review:
Ryan to Gingrich: ‘This Is Not the 1990s’ — Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the influential Budget Committee chairman, has kept his distance from the GOP primary. But after reading Newt Gingrich's latest comments about entitlement reform, he says the contenders must seriously address the debt crisis, not play political games.
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The Hill, Time, Ricochet Conversations Feed, The Enterprise Blog and American Spectator
Matthew Lynn / MarketWatch:
This slump won't end until 2031 — Commentary: Our predicament parallels the Long Depression of 1870s — LONDON (MarketWatch) — In retrospect, it wasn't hard to see that the markets were becoming dangerously unstable. Germany had just adopted a new monetary system, and Europe was being flooded with cheap German money.
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Outside the Beltway, Newshoggers.com and The Agonist
CNBC:
Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years — Data on sales of previously owned U.S. homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought.
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Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com and KVOA-TV
Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back — Something extraordinary has happened in the Chinese village of Wukan. — Thousands of Wukan's residents gathered for a second day in front of a triple-roofed pagoda that serves as the village hall — For the first time on record …
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The Lede, Global Spin, New York Times, americanthinker.com, Vox Popoli and msnbc.com
Keith Koffler / White House Dossier:
Obama Campaign Collecting GOP Emails — The Obama presidential campaign is launching an effort to collect Republican email addresses by inviting its supporters to submit information about their Republican associates to the Obama 2012 website. — The effort could help the Obama campaign build …
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Hot Air, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Sister Toldjah and Daily Pundit
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Holder's Voting Rights Speech Part II: Real Legislation To Fight Real Election Fraud — This post is the second in a three-part series on last night's voting rights speech by Attorney General Eric Holder. Part I is here. — Republicans justify their vote suppressing “voter ID” …
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Eric Holder: Voter ID laws hurt minorities
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The PJ Tatler and News Desk
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A First Iowa Forecast: Race Is Still Wide Open — We're a few days away from releasing the official version of our polling-based forecasts for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. But the statistical work behind the model is done, so I can give you a preview of what the forecasts will look like.
Wall Street / Chicago Tribune:
U.S. Mint halts production of $1 coins — no one wants them — The U.S. government, its vaults stuffed with 1.4 billion one-dollar coins bearing the likenesses of dead presidents, has had enough of them. It is going to curtail production. — “Nobody wants them,” Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
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Outside the Beltway and americanthinker.com
The Jewish Week:
My Tim Tebow Problem — I've got a Tim Tebow problem. — I want to root for the guy, but I'm afraid of what will happen if the hulky Denver Bronco quarterback continues to pull off what is fast becoming the Greatest Gridiron Story Ever Told. Since taking over as starting quarterback earlier this season …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Immigration Crackdown Also Snares Americans — A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect illegal immigrants who are arrested by local police. — In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens …
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Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Balloon Juice
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Important Election News from Across the Pond — Over the last week, there has been a torrent of stories illustrating the extent to which the Obama re-election team is observing the Republican presidential contest and developing their strategy for the general election season.
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
At Fort Bragg, Obama hails the end of the Iraq war — FORT BRAGG, N.C. — As the United States' nine-year war in Iraq draws to a close this month, President Obama on Wednesday hailed the hundreds of thousands of troops who fought to establish the “sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” that America is leaving behind.
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BBC, The Moderate Voice, White House.gov Blog and USA Today
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Democratic balanced budget amendment fails in Senate vote, 21 to 79 — A balanced budget amendment sponsored by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) has failed in the Senate by a vote of 21 to 79. — Just as the Senate started voting on the Democratic version of a balanced budget amendment Wednesday …
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