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2:50 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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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.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Gingrich lead gone, dead even with Romney  —  Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich's lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination has evaporated, according to a new national survey.  —  A CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday indicates that 28% of Republicans and independents …
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: Indecision Forever and Daily Kos
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney dominating New Hampshire  —  Mitt Romney has a significant lead in New Hampshire, getting 35% there to 19% for Ron Paul, 17% for Newt Gingrich, 13% for Jon Huntsman, 5% for Michele Bachmann, 3% for Rick Santorum, 2% for Rick Perry, and 1% for Gary Johnson.
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 …
Neil Stevens / Unlikely Voter:
Debunking PPP in Iowa
Discussion: RedState and Iowa Caucuses
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gingrich wins Tea Party Patriots straw poll
Discussion: The Politico
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Here we go again  —  Here we go again: Boehner and House Republicans walk away from payroll tax cut compromise... Boehner's move either represents a miscommunication with McConnell and Senate GOP leaders, or a reversal... Two weeks to go until Iowa, and the race looks like it did on Friday …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
NY lawmaker: GOP taking ‘principled’ stance on payroll tax bill
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Two-Month Payroll Tax Holiday Passed By Senate, Pushed By President, Cannot Be Implemented Properly, Experts Say
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Payroll tax cut extension in doubt amid House Republican uproar
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Dems, White House blame Tea Party, say GOP shifted on tax cut
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner predicts House will reject Senate's payroll-tax-cut extension
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and The Politico
New York Times:
Kim Jong-il, North Korean Dictator, Dies Suddenly  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family's dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack …
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Associated Press:
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Playbook: Granite State
Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS, Campaign 2012 and Firedoglake
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.
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
Katha Pollitt / thenation.com/blogs/164:
Regarding Christopher  —  Christopher Hitchens, my colleague for twenty years, was clever, hilarious, generous to his friends, combative, prodigiously energetic and fantastically productive.  He could write with equal ease about Philip Larkin, capital punishment, Henry Kissinger and having his balls waxed.
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.
Paul Singer / Roll Call:
Pelosi's Expert Was Also Business Partner  —  Former Speaker Brought Family Friend to the Hill  —  In May 2010, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to a podium in the Capitol to introduce a half-dozen economic experts she had convened for a meeting on how to jump-start the economy.
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” …
New York Post:
Professor claims NYU fired him after he gave James Franco a ‘D’  —  James Franco's tired James Dean act got an NYU professor booted from the school last year — after the teacher dared to give the overhyped Hollywood hunk a “D” for blowing off class, a lawsuit charges.
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 …
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 …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Election Year, MTV Drops ‘Choose or Lose’ Slogan  —  After nearly 20 years of “Choose or Lose,” MTV is changing the name of its election season campaign.  —  The youth cable channel's coverage will be labeled “Power of 12,” a nod to both the election year and the notion that 18 …
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 …
 
 
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Donna Leinwand Leger / USA Today:
Study: Nearly 1 in 3 will be arrested by age 23
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Pro-Adultery Website Endorses Gingrich
The Politico:
New Hampshire voters should draft Hillary
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Outside the Beltway
George Russell / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of ‘Sustainable Development’
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Justice Dept silent as Holder charges critics with racism
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Affordable Care Act, still working
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Hitchens And The War
Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich's Worthy Brain Pulse
John Bresnahanand Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Darrell Issa: Four lawmakers got VIP loans
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
CNN:
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
One president, please, with a side of Rice
Discussion: GOP 12 and LewRockwell.com Blog