memeorandum: Saturday Night Card Game (WaPo plays the Rice card) (William A. Jacobson/Le·gal …)

11:40 AM ET, November 25, 2012

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Justin Sink / The Hill:

McCain: Rice could change my mind on Secretary of State vote — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice should have the opportunity to change his mind about a potential nomination to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, days after the Arizona lawmaker pledged to block her nomination.

Discussion: CNN and Politico

New York Post:

Race rants over Rice — Republicans last week finally began hitting back at the absurd accusation by their Capitol Hill adversaries that criticism of UN Ambassador Susan Rice is racist and sexist. — “When you can't answer the question, you attack the questioner,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham …

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Post and The Gateway Pundit

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Saturday Night Card Game (WaPo plays the Rice card) — I know I sound like a broken record. — Everytime I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile, more deranged, more patronizingly demeaning to blacks, someone manages to defy even my vivid imagination.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, Althouse and Hot Air

Justin Sink / The Hill:

McCain demands administration renounce Morsi statement, warns of Islamist coup — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that the Obama Administration should denounce Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's move to shield himself from judicial oversight, and urged the president to use American foreign aide …

Discussion: Politico

Scott Shane / New York Times:

White House Presses for Drone Rule Book — WASHINGTON — Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones …

Discussion: New York Review of Books

Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
UN Climate Chief Calls Out U.S. For Climate Inaction: Hurricane Sandy Is ‘Yet Another Wake-up Call’

Discussion: Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes'

New York Times:

Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines — THE oceans have risen and fallen throughout Earth's history, following the planet's natural temperature cycles. Twenty thousand years ago, what is now New York City was at the edge of a giant ice sheet, and the sea was roughly 400 feet lower.

Discussion: Right Wing News and Daily Kos

Douglas A. Blackmon / Washington Post:

Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote — OXFORD, Miss. — Late on election night, a small melee erupted at the University of Mississippi here when a group of white students frustrated by the reelection of President Obama marched outside …

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette

Tim Mak / Politico:

McCain on abortion: GOP should ‘leave the issue alone’ — Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Sunday the GOP needs to embrace a bigger tent and immigration reform - and leave abortion “alone” in the wake of the disappointing 2012 presidential elections. — “We have to have a bigger tent.

Brendan Sasso / The Hill:

Retailers pressure Congress to tax next ‘Cyber Monday’ — A coalition of retail groups is pushing Congress to approve an online sales tax before the end of the year to ensure that this year's “Cyber Monday” is the last one that goes untaxed. — “This should be the last holiday shopping season …

N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:

Economic View: A Liberal Obama vs. a Moderate Obama in the Fiscal Debate — THROUGHOUT Washington, policy makers are debating how to avoid hitting a wall on Jan. 1, when large and abrupt tax increases and spending cuts will take effect automatically unless Congress acts.

NY Daily News:

Eric, Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump advised The Donald to cool it on Obama, insider says — Rihanna and Chris Brown back on track in Berlin; Jenny McCarthy's livin' large on Twitter — Donald Trump's kids advised the billionaire to back off on Obama-bashing, say insiders.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Political Carnival and The Hinterland Gazette

Kathy Matheson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

U.S. officials tell state to use same standards to grade charter schools — PHILADELPHIA — Federal education officials have denied Pennsylvania's request to evaluate charter school achievement using more lenient criteria, saying they must be assessed by the same standard as traditional schools.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars