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Reuters:
Fiscal cliff deal increasingly unlikely — Nearly all the major players in the fiscal cliff negotiations are starting to agree on one thing: A deal is virtually impossible before the New Year. — Unlike the bank bailout in 2008, the tax deal in 2010 and the debt ceiling in 2011 …
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Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid: ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal unlikely — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday said it is likely too late for Congress to pull the nation back from the “fiscal cliff.” — Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid castigated Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for sending members of the House …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Why John Boehner Wants Action to Move to the Senate — The new line from John Boehner is that the onus is now on the Senate to pass a fiscal cliff solution, and then the House will take up and consider whatever the Senate passes. — On the face of it, this is nonsensical. Democrats have a majority in the Senate.
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
HARRY REID: ‘It Looks Like’ We'll Go Over The Cliff Because Of Boehner's ‘Dictatorship’ — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this morning that it “looks like” Congress will fail to come to a deal to avert the year-end fiscal cliff, blaming the failure on House Speaker John Boehner's “dictatorship” running the lower chamber.
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CBS News:
The “fiscal cliff”: What to expect if there's no deal
The “fiscal cliff”: What to expect if there's no deal
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Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:
Fiscal cliff fears jolt consumer confidence
Fiscal cliff fears jolt consumer confidence
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CNN, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, This Just In and Gallup
Wall Street Journal:
Free David Gregory — Moving right along in America's gun control, er, “conversation,” we now have the illuminating debate over the alleged criminality of “Meet the Press” host David Gregory. Somehow this seems appropriate to the quality of the rest of the gun debate.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
WSJ ed board: ‘Free David Gregory’ — The Wall Street Journal editorial board is dismissing right-wing calls for David Gregory's indictment as “entirely nonsensical,” reflecting the widely-held belief that the investigation involving the “Meet The Press” is not a legitimate use of law enforcement's time.
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Howard Kurtz / Daily Download:
Why David Gregory Shouldn't Be Behind Bars
Why David Gregory Shouldn't Be Behind Bars
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Michelle Malkin, The Daily Caller, TVNewser and Ed Driscoll
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Police: Gregory broke law
Police: Gregory broke law
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
E.P.A. Chief to Step Down, With Climate Still Low Priority — Lisa P. Jackson is stepping down as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a four-year tenure that began with high hopes of sweeping action to address climate change and other environmental ills but ended …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Departing Environmental Chief Suggests Obama Has Failed On Climate
Departing Environmental Chief Suggests Obama Has Failed On Climate
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court won't block Obama health law's contraception mandate — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block the Obama administration's contraception mandate from taking effect. — Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected a request for an emergency injunction that would have shielded employers from the mandate.
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Robert Cox / Talk of the Sound:
Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood? — The map indicates the addresses of all Journal News Employees in the New York Tri-State area. Each dot represents an individual Journal News employee — a reporter, editor or staffer. The data does not include freelancers …
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Paper Criticized for Publishing Home Addresses of Gun Owners
Paper Criticized for Publishing Home Addresses of Gun Owners
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Pollsters' Regrets — If you spent a tenth the time I did staring at and trying to understand polls during the 2012 election cycle, then you owe it to yourself to read Steven Shepard's National Journal piece on the post-election debate over polls and poll aggregation.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
As Swing Districts Dwindle, Can a Divided House Stand? — In 1992, there were 103 members of the House of Representatives elected from what might be called swing districts: those in which the margin in the presidential race was within five percentage points of the national result.
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Washington Monthly and The Plum Line
Megan McArdle / Asymmetrical Information:
Should Piers Morgan Be Deported? — Obviously not. Why do you ask? — I hardly even know what to say about the petition to deport Piers Morgan, now at over 80,000 signatures. I mean, yes, it is a little bit funny to picture the President explaining why we're not going to deport Piers Morgan …
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Edward Glaeser / Bloomberg:
2013 Is the Year to Go to Work, Not Go on Disability — The National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. recession ended in June 2009, yet 2012 didn't look like much of a resurgence. — To me, the number that sums up the year's doldrums is the 1.27 million increase in the number …
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Weekly Standard and Eschaton
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Want Stricter Gun Laws, Still Oppose Bans — Support for strengthening gun sale laws has surged 15 percentage points since 2011 — PRINCETON, NJ — In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., Gallup finds 58% of Americans in favor of strengthening …
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ABCNEWS, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Fix and USA Today
New York Times:
Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China — CHENGDU, China — One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back. — At first, Ms. Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake.
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Forbes, The Verge and Marginal Revolution
antarctica.ac.uk:
Press Release - Antarctic lake mission called off — Home » Media Room » Press Releases » Press Release - Antarctic lake mission called off » — Number: — In the early hours of Christmas Day (Tuesday 25 December 2012) Professor Martin Siegert …