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12:35 PM ET, January 1, 2012

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Des Moines Register:
Romney leads Paul in new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll; Santorum surges  —  The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll shows a surprise three-way match-up in contention to win the Iowa Republican caucuses: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.  —  Santorum, who has been largely invisible …
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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 …
Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
No endorsement yet by Rep. Steve King  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — With only two full days of campaigning left before the Iowa caucuses, one of the state's most influential conservative figures claims he still does not know whom he will support.  —  Rep. Steve King, who represents …
Discussion: The Politico, ABCNEWS and CNN
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Breaking down the final Iowa poll  —  By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  Breaking down the Des Moines Register poll... How Santorum and Romney could end up winning Tuesday's caucuses... Santorum's appearance on “Meet the Press”... Paul's appearance on CNN …
Niall Stanage / Ballot Box:
A new problem for Santorum in Iowa: Overcrowding
Discussion: CNN
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Iowa's GOP caucuses may see some Democratic defectors
Discussion: Daily Kos
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Afternoon Score: More reporters
Discussion: Daily Kos, ABCNEWS and CNN
Kevinliptak / CNN:
Santorum's closing argument on Iowa TV
Associated Press:
Obama Signs Military Spending Bill  —  President Obama signed a broad military spending bill into law on Saturday despite “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.  —  The bill also applies penalties …
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Obama Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can Be Indefinitely Detained Without a Trial
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama signs defense bill, pledges to maintain legal rights of U.S. citizens
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Obama signs defense funding bill, objects to terror detainee provisions
Discussion: The Politico
Sara Sorcher / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill
Discussion: Reuters and Firedoglake
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
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.
Discussion: Brad DeLong and EconLog
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.
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
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
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Chief Justice Defends Peers on Health Law  —  In the face of a growing controversy over whether two Supreme Court justices should disqualify themselves from the challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Saturday defended the court's ethical standards.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Christopher Jensen / Wheels:
Fisker Recalling 239 Karma Plug-In Hybrids for Fire Hazard  —  Fisker Automotive is recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrid cars because of a fire hazard, according to a report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  Prices on the 2012 model start at $103,000, including the destination charge.
Discussion: Don Surber and Watts Up With That?
 
 
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