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12:35 PM ET, December 19, 2011

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Paul leads in Iowa  —  Newt Gingrich's campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa.  He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.
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Washington Examiner:
GOP will take off the gloves if Ron Paul wins Iowa  —  The Republican presidential primary has become a bit feisty, but it will get downright ugly if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses.  —  The principled, antiwar, Constitution-obeying, Fed-hating, libertarian Republican congressman …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Paul Moves Into Lead in Iowa Forecast  —  Our Iowa forecasts, which are designed to be quite aggressive, have had a big reaction to the new Public Policy Polling survey published late Sunday evening.  The poll showed Newt Gingrich's support slipping badly in Iowa and Ron Paul moving into the lead.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Mahablog
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich wins Tea Party Patriots straw poll  —  While a new spate of polls show troubling signs for Newt Gingrich - a PPP poll released Monday showed him running third in Iowa - the former House Speaker earned a big victory among social conservatives Sunday night, edging out Michele Bachmann to take the Tea Party Patriots straw poll.
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Ron Paul leads in new Iowa poll
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:   Paul's Raw Milk Freedom Pitch Reflects Offbeat Campaign on Rise
Neil Stevens / Unlikely Voter:   Debunking PPP in Iowa
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Evangelicals divided on whom to support in GOP presidential race
Reuters:
Christian group struggles over Gingrich endorsement
Associated Press:
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died.  He was 69.  —  Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Playbook: Granite State
Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN, Campaign 2012 and Firedoglake
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Here we go again
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
NY lawmaker: GOP taking ‘principled’ stance on payroll tax bill  —  Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.) responded to criticism that House Republicans were playing politics with the payroll tax cut, saying the GOP was “principled,” trying to “do what's right,” and suggesting that her party's stance …
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Dems, White House blame Tea Party, say GOP shifted on tax cut
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
One president, please, with a side of Rice
Discussion: GOP 12 and LewRockwell.com Blog
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Payroll tax cut extension in doubt amid House Republican uproar
Discussion: Hot Air, msnbc.com and New York Times
Jeb Bush / Wall Street Journal:
Capitalism and the Right to Rise  —  In freedom lies the risk of failure.  But in statism lies the certainty of stagnation.  —  Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: “The right to rise.”  —  Think about it.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
14-Year-Old Challenges Perry's Anti-Gay Views  —  A 14-year-old bisexual high school student challenged Rick Perry on his support for reinstating Don't Ask, Don't Tell during an event in Decorah, Iowa, asking the Texas governor why he is “so opposed to gays serving openly in the military …
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ABCNEWS:   Rick Perry Confronted by Teenager Over Gays Serving Openly in Military
Michael Stone / Examiner:
California politician advocates assassination of Obama and family  —  Like this?  Subscribe to get instant updates.  —  Facebook faux pas: California libertarian and Tea Party darling Jules Manson is caught calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama and his children.
New York Times:
Retirement Deal Keeps Bain Money Flowing to Romney  —  Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Will China Break?  —  Consider the following picture: Recent growth has relied on a huge construction boom fueled by surging real estate prices, and exhibiting all the classic signs of a bubble.  There was rapid growth in credit — with much of that growth taking place not through traditional banking …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning point  —  (Reuters) - After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Bye-bye, Keynes?  —  “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”  —  The eclipse of Keynesian economics proceeds.  When Keynes wrote “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
CNN:
TRENDING: Bachmann pauses in Iowa tour to talk ‘myth’ of Kinsey Report  —  Clarion, Iowa (CNN) - Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann continued her super-charged bus tour across Iowa Sunday, attending several more events to shake hands and sign autographs.
Robert Cruickshank:
Occupy the Progressive Movement  —  It was during the fifth or sixth major argument within the netroots in 2011 about the Obama Administration that the first protestors attempted to Occupy Wall Street in mid-September.  Within days the talk of primary challenges, donor strikes …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Texas Cities Won the Recession, and They're Winning the Recovery  —  Lone Star metros have dominated every phase of the Great Recession, but there's trouble on the horizon for some of Texas' strongest cities  —  Welcome to the third phase of the Great Recession.
 
 
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Hitchens And The War
Rasmussen Reports:
New High: 50% Worry Government Won't Do Enough To Counter Bad Economy
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Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich's Worthy Brain Pulse
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Year ahead: Health law under attack on all fronts
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Chris Casteel / Daily Oklahoman:
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Reuters:
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Unemployment Insurance is an Expensive Free Lunch
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