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5:20 PM ET, January 1, 2012

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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Ron Paul Flips Out Over Accusation That He Believed 9/11 Conspiracy Theories … GOP Candidates , Elections 2012 , Video , Ron Paul 2012 , Ron Paul Iowa , Ron Paul 9/11 , Ron Paul Newsletters , Ron Paul Racist , Ron-Paul-Conspiracy-Theory , Politics News  —  Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul …
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Breaking down the final Iowa poll  —  NBC's Domenico Montanaro reports on the ad race in Iowa, why Santorum's making his move, and how undecided voters might break on Election Night.  —  By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
New Poll Shows Mitt Romney on the Cusp of Iowa Victory  —  The latest Des Moines Register poll shows Mitt leading the Iowa pack.  Patricia Murphy on a candidate finally coming into his own.  —  As the clock ticked toward midnight in Sioux City, Iowa, Mitt Romney burst into a smallish meeting room …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Democrats send ghost from Romney's past  —  (CNN) - Democrats aren't missing a chance to take aim at their favorite target: Republican presidential frontrunner and former Bain Capital executive Mitt Romney.  —  Randy Johnson, a worker laid off when Bain bought American Pad and Paper Company …
Discussion: The Politico
Des Moines Register:
Romney leads Paul in Des Moines Register Iowa Poll; Santorum surges  —  Mitt Romney tops the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll in the closing days before the Iowa caucuses, but Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are poised within striking distance.  —  The poll, conducted Tuesday through Friday …
Des Moines Register:
Romney leads Paul in new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll; Santorum surges
Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
No endorsement yet by Rep. Steve King
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Santorum downplays need to win, wants to beat Bachmann, Perry
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
I Just Got Here, but I Know Trouble When I See It  —  BELIEVE it or not, times are getting better.  —  At least that's what the dry statistics keep telling us.  Industrial production, G.D.P. — the kind of figures that Washington and Wall Street sweat over — suggest that the economy is on the mend.
City Room:
Surging Back Into Zuccotti Park, Protesters Are Cleared by Police  —  Updated More than 500 people associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement gathered in Zuccotti Park on Saturday and, in a return to scenes from earlier in the year, the evening began with the sound of drumming and calls …
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New York Post:
OWS mob in clash with cops  —  Some 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters began the new year by trying to retake Zuccotti Park last night, starting a massive clash with police in which one officer was stabbed in the hand with a pair of scissors.  —  A suspect was arrested in the 11:30 p.m. incident, according to a law enforcement source.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies  —  The benefits of his candidacy are widely ignored, as are the Democrats' own evils  —  As I've written about before, America's election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state.
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John Mauldin / Business Insider:
You Can't Solve A Debt Problem With More Debt  —  “Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”  —  Heraclitus, Fragments  —  Which path will we take?  If we could only grow our way out of our sovereign debt problems.
John H. Cochrane / The Grumpy Economist:
Krugman on stimulus  —  I usually don't respond to Paul Krugman's blog posts.  But last week he wrote about Stimulus and Ricardian Equivalence.  The post gives a revealing view of his ideas, so it's worth making an exception.  —  Paul explains: … So, according to Paul, “Ricardian Equivalence …
Julia Duin / Washington Post:
Adam Bellow hopes to give voice to the tea party with new conservative imprint at HarperCollins  —  NEW YORK — Attention, conservatives: Adam Bellow says this is your moment.  —  The intellectual left, he contends, is in a vacuum.  The right is where there are ideas, variety, excitement.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Online community Reddit driving opposition to piracy bill  —  Members of Congress and their staff have grown used to scouring the Web, Twitter and Facebook to see where voters stand before finalizing their positions.  But the heated debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) …
Discussion: Betabeat
 
 
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Virginia AG to intervene in primary ballot dispute
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Mike Mandel / Mandel on Innovation and Growth:
My chart of the year: The investment drought continues
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Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Obama Signs Military Spending Bill
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

 
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