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The Anarchist Soccer Mom:
Thinking the Unthinkable — In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns. But it's time to talk about mental illness. — Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners …
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Crooks and Liars, Business Insider, The Agonist and FIRST DRAFT
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Senator Will Introduce New Assault Weapons Ban In January — Feinstein says she believes Obama will support it. — Source: youtube.com — WASHINGTON — Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein said Sunday that she will introduce a new ban on assault weapons when the new Congress convenes next year …
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
After Connecticut school shooting, Washington silent on gun control — They've watched mass shootings of college kids and schoolchildren, issued countless statements of sympathy, and lived through a colleague taking a bullet to the brain, but Friday's rampage in Newtown, Conn. …
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Garry Wills / New York Review of Books:
Our Moloch — Few crimes are more harshly forbidden in the Old Testament than sacrifice to the god Moloch (for which see Leviticus 18.21, 20.1-5). The sacrifice referred to was of living children consumed in the fires of offering to Moloch. Ever since then, worship of Moloch has been the sign of a deeply degraded culture.
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New York Times, Wonkblog, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, News Desk, WorldViews and Balloon Juice
Politico:
Fiscal cliff talks: Speaker John Boehner pitches millionaire tax hike — Speaker John Boehner has proposed allowing tax rates to rise for the wealthiest Americans if President Barack Obama agrees to major entitlement cuts, according to several sources close to the talks.
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Outside the Beltway, The PJ Tatler, Business Insider, CNN, This Just In and Reuters
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
AP SOURCE: BOEHNER OFFERS MILLIONAIRE TAX HIKE … WASHINGTON (AP) — Signaling new movement in “fiscal cliff” talks, House Speaker John Boehner has proposed raising the top rate for earners making more than $1 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said.
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americanthinker.com and The Hill
New York Times:
Killer's Mother, His First Victim, Was a Gun Enthusiast, Friends Say — NEWTOWN, Conn. — She was “a big, big gun fan” who went target shooting with her children, according to friends. She enjoyed craft beers, jazz and landscaping. She was generous to strangers, but also high-strung, as if she were holding herself together.
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James Barron / New York Times:
Children at School Were All Shot Multiple Times — All of the children killed by the gunman during a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school were shot multiple times, the state chief medical examiner said Saturday, who called it the worst scene he had witnessed in three decades examining crime scenes.
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IHT Rendezvous, Xinhua News Agency, U.S. News, Daily Kos, The Reaction, The Caucus, Balloon Juice, Weasel Zippers and Associated Press
Hartford Courant:
Mourners Flood Sandy Hook; Obama To Meet With Victims' Families — Stunned Newtown Residents Struggle To Deal With Killings — The nation Sunday continued to mourn the killings of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School as people came from around Connecticut and out of state …
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Daily Mail, The Week, WUTC, BuzzFeed, Poynter and TheBlaze.com, more at Mediagazer »
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Sandy Hook Murders: What To Do?
The Sandy Hook Murders: What To Do?
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TBogg, Little Green Footballs, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Lonely Conservative
Mike Huckabee / CNN:
Huckabee: Lack of religion in classroom leads to violence in schools
Huckabee: Lack of religion in classroom leads to violence in schools
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ABCNEWS, The Agonist, The Hill, Balloon Juice, Roger Ailes and The Moderate Voice
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Studied and Shelved Ideas to Bolster Gun Database — WASHINGTON — After the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and others in early 2011, the Justice Department drew up a detailed list of steps the government could take to expand the background-check system …
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Washington Monthly, emptywheel and BuzzFeed
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Susan Heavey / Reuters:
Users should not be targeted in states that legalized pot: Obama — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says federal authorities should not target recreational marijuana use in two Western states that voted to make it legal, given limited government resources and growing public acceptance of the controlled substance.
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Main Justice and The PJ Tatler
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Hagel Thesis — As we go to press on Friday, December 14, former Republican senator Chuck Hagel appears to be the leading candidate to become the next secretary of defense. Anti-Israel propagandists are thrilled. Stephen Walt, junior partner of the better-known Israel-hater John Mearsheimer …
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Booman Tribune and Power Line
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Chuck Hagel's record on Israel draws scrutiny
Chuck Hagel's record on Israel draws scrutiny
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Power Line, Israpundit, Weekly Standard and Chicago Sun Times
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Source: Obama to tap Kerry to be next secretary of state — Washington (CNN) - President Obama has decided to nominate Sen. John Kerry to be the next secretary of state and could make a formal announcement as early as next week, a Democrat who spoke to Kerry told CNN Saturday.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
John Kerry to Be Nominated to Be Secretary of State, Sources Say
John Kerry to Be Nominated to Be Secretary of State, Sources Say
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CNN, Gawker, The Hill and Taegan Goddard's …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton faints, suffers concussion
Hillary Clinton faints, suffers concussion
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americanthinker.com, Politico, This Just In and The Hill
Reuters:
Egyptians narrowly back constitution, say rival camps — (Reuters) - Egyptians voted narrowly in favor of a constitution shaped by Islamists but opposed by other groups who fear it will divide the Arab world's biggest nation, officials in rival camps said on Sunday after the first round of a two-stage referendum.
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Weasel Zippers, Via Meadia, Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
True Stories in Gun Control — After Operation Desert Shield and Storm, I was stationed at Camp Blackhorse in Doha Kuwait with the 11th ACR. We were an Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR), which basically means we were a self contained unit. For each squdron, we had 3 Cav troops- Alpha …