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Keith Hennessey:
A third option changes the negotiation — The conventional wisdom on the fiscal cliff is that there are two options: (1) an Obama-Boehner deal; or (2) no deal, in which case there is no legislation before the end of the year and we “go off the fiscal cliff.”
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The Daily Caller, Greg Mankiw's Blog and Nice Deb
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Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Two-thirds support balanced deficit deal — As the Obama White House and Congress negotiate to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they favor a balanced deal to reduce the deficit — consisting of both higher tax rates and cuts to key entitlement programs.
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Fix, msnbc.com and The Hill
New York Times:
Questions on Whether Boehner Could Sell a Deal to G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — With negotiations quickening on Tuesday to prevent a year-end fiscal crisis, White House officials once again are confronting a vexing question: Can Speaker John A. Boehner deliver enough Republican votes …
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
McConnell: Only thing left on the negotiating table ‘is the varnish’
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Taegan Goddard's …
Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Budget Chief Accuses Boehner Of Stalling Fiscal Cliff Deal To Protect Speakership
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Daily Kos
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell: Obama Wins The Tax Fight — Now On To The Debt Limit
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Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, American Prospect, AMERICAblog, Politico and The Plum Line
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Van Hollen: Boehner May Be Waiting Till After He's Re-Elected Speaker To Cut Budget Deal
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Washington Monthly
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republican Leadership Denies Asking For Permanent Extension Of Lower Tax Rates For Rich
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Daily Kos
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Political Advantages of Not Caring — Near the end of a column on the Michigan “right-to-work” coup, Jonathan Chait offers an important insight on why Republicans are willing and able to pull these sort of stunts: … It's kind of important to understand that this total hostility to the labor movement …
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New York Magazine and Mother Jones
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Politico:
Labor's plan to fight back — Labor unions, stung by an unexpected setback in Michigan, where Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a right-to-work law Tuesday limiting their ability to collect dues, are eyeing a large-scale counteroffensive against the conservative state leaders who have slashed away …
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Hot Air, Washington Post and First Read
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Lansing-Beijing connection — China has a problem: rising inequality.
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Eclectablog, msnbc.com, Ramona's Voices, Daily Kos, The Raw Story, PR Watch, Post Politics, FITSNews and The Fix
The Week:
You have the right to not pay union dues
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Washington Post, New York Times, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, Power Line, National Review, UrbanGrounds and Michigan Capitol Confidential
Karen Bouffard / detroitnews.com:
Battles over right-to-work laws may have just begun
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Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Kevin Robillard / Reuters:
Jimmy Hoffa: ‘Civil war’ looms in Michigan
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CNNMoney.com, Hot Air and The Week
Max Read / Gawker:
Do We Really Have to Condemn the Union Protestor Who Punched Fox News Comedian Steven Crowder? — Good, serious progressives are supposed to condemn violence as a political tactic, because it's wrong and in many cases counterproductive. But do we really need to condemn the union protestor …
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Vodkapundit, The Raw Story and Post Politics
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Will Sommer / City Desk:
Rep. Jim Moran's Son Guilty of Beating Up His Girlfriend in Columbia Heights — Patrick Moran, the son of Democratic Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, is having a bad year. First, undercover video operative James O'Keefe caught him on tape half-heartedly discussing how to commit voter fraud …
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
Lie of the Year: the Romney campaign's ad on Jeeps made in China — It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign — that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood.
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Liberal Values, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, The Week, msnbc.com, The Hill and Business Insider
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in October suggests that economic activity and employment have continued to expand at a moderate pace in recent months, apart from weather-related disruptions. Although the unemployment rate …
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Wonkblog, Business Insider, Hit & Run, The Big Picture, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MarketBeat, BBC and National Review
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Obama Wins Almost 50% Republicans on Tax Mandate in Poll — President Barack Obama won the public argument over taxes so decisively that almost half of Republicans now say he has an election mandate to raise rates on the rich. — Majorities of about 2-to-1 also read the election results …
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CNN, ABCNEWS, The Daily Dish, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, Business Insider, The Hill, Taegan Goddard's …, Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Gallup and First Read
Velvet Hammer / Ironic Surrealism:
Union Thugs Demolish Clint Tarver's Iconic Lansing,Michigan Hot Dog Cart [Photo-Donation Link] Update: Thugs Yelled “N*gger Uncle Tom” Update 2: Revenge For Americans For Prosperity Catering Gig (?) Update 3: A Romney Supporter, All We Need To Know — I support Clint: … Beyond the Cart: The Story of Clint Tarver:
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Nice Deb and The PJ Tatler
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Lorilea Susanne / gofundme.com:
I Support Clint — LANSING, MI Accidents & Personal Crisis
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Michelle Malkin, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and The Dana Show
Jason Koebler / US News:
Scientists May Have Finally Unlocked Puzzle of Why People Are Gay — Lesbians get it from fathers, gay men from mothers? — Scientists may have finally solved the puzzle of what makes a person gay, and how it is passed from parents to their children. — A group of scientists suggested Tuesday …
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Right Wing Watch, Mediaite and Hullabaloo
John Tierney / New York Times:
Time and Punishment: Mandatory Sentences Face Growing Skepticism — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had quite different opinions about the lockbox seized by the police from her home in Pensacola. She insisted she had no idea that a former boyfriend had hidden it in her attic.
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Washington Monthly, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Hit & Run and Ricochet Conversations Feed
norad.mil:
NORAD acknowledges missile launch — PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - North American Aerospace Defense Command officials acknowledged today that U.S. missile warning systems detected and tracked the launch of a North Korean missile at 7:49 p.m. EST. The missile was tracked on a southerly azimuth.
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James Pearson / NK News:
North Korea Launches Rocket, Satellite Successfully ‘in Orbit’
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Wired, The Atlantic Online, WorldViews, Weekly Standard, Guardian, Gawker and The Heritage Foundation
New York Times:
North Koreans Launch Rocket in Defiant Act
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CNN, NK News, The Lede, The Week, Taylor Marsh and The Agonist
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Lindsey Graham Compares Marriage Equality Debate To The Civil War — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) waffled on his same-sex marriage stance Tuesday night, telling CNN's Piers Morgan he thinks states should have the right to decide marriage rights. — This is a departure from Graham's longstanding commitment …
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The National Memo, Towleroad News #gay and Dependable Renegade
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Jonathan Rauch / The New Republic:
How Can the Supreme Court Help Gay Rights? By Keeping Out Entirely
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Hit & Run and The Daily Dish
Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
Key David Cameron aide Craig Oliver threatens Telegraph over Leveson — David Cameron's director of communications warned the Daily Telegraph that Maria Miller was “looking at Leveson” after being asked questions about her expense claims. — In a phone call to the editor of this newspaper …
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Guardian and BBC, more at Mediagazer »
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Jimmy Carter: 'I think it's OK' to legalize marijuana — Former President Jimmy Carter said that he favored legalizing marijuana during a panel discussion broadcast on CNN Tuesday. — “I'm in favor of it. I think it's OK,” Carter said at the forum, which was taped Friday.
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Polling Analysis / Resurgent Republic:
The Hispanic Challenge and Opportunity for Republicans — Resurgent Republic and the Hispanic Leadership Network jointly surveyed Hispanics who voted in the 2012 Presidential election in four critical states: Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico. The results make clear the size …
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Business Insider, PostPartisan and National Review
The Atlantic Online:
The Cliff Hangs on the Fed: Why Ben Bernanke Controls the Economy's Fate — The liberal nightmare about the fiscal cliff is overwrought, since the Fed has the power to avert disaster. If Bernanke acts properly, Congress could cut spending deeply without risking a recession. — Reuters
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