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Fiscal cliff: House will come back on Sunday — House Republican leaders are bringing the House back into session on Sunday, lawmakers were told in a Thursday conference call. — one day before the nation reaches the fiscal cliff.
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TRENDING: Hoyer compares GOP debt limit tactics to hostage taker threatening to shoot child — Washington (CNN) - Less than two weeks after one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, the No.2 Democrat in the U.S. House, Steny Hoyer, compared Republican tactics for dealing …
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
Triumph of the Tea Party mindset — Don't be fooled by those who say it's dying: The fiscal cliff impasse proves its spirit dominates the GOP — Two stories that might seem to contradict each other ran in the New York Times this week. One declared the Tea Party movement “significantly weakened” …
Reuters:
Fiscal cliff deal increasingly unlikely
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Washington Post:
Obama reaches out to congressional leaders on ‘fiscal cliff’ talks
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Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Mitch McConnell lies low as ‘fiscal cliff’ nears
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
HARRY REID: ‘It Looks Like’ We'll Go Over The Cliff Because Of Boehner's ‘Dictatorship’
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
New Fiscal Crisis Talks Set, but Hopes Are Low
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CBS News:
The “fiscal cliff”: What to expect if there's no deal
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AP SOURCE: RETIRED GEN. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF DIES — You are here — Home » Norman Schwarzkopf » AP source: Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies — WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding …
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‘Die painfully’: 50 soulless degenerates who can't wait for George H.W. Bush to die — Former President George H.W. Bush is surrounded by family in the ICU of Houston's Methodist Hospital as he fights a “stubborn fever.” Doctors are “cautiously optimistic,” but the 88-year-old “remains in guarded condition.”
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Norman Schwarzkopf / Associated Press:
Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78 — An Associated Press source says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. — U.S. Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, seen in September 1990, died Thursday at age 78.
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Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
US Rep. Markey to run in Senate special election — US Representative Edward Markey, dean of the state's Washington delegation, will run in 2013 for the US Senate seat expected to open with the nomination of US Senator John Kerry to head the State Department.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Media disdain for the David Gregory story — Some political and media types weren't impressed by headlines this week reporting that D.C. police are investigating the alleged display of a gun magazine on NBC's Meet the Press. They took to the Internet with their disdain for the story.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Changing History — Some fascinating findings from Pew's on-going number crunching of the 2012 election. African-Americans, for the first time ever, may have voted at higher rates than American whites. — From Pew ... Pew goes on to note that while participation rates for Hispanics …
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New York Post:
Folks freak at size of tax hikes if fiscal cliff isn't averted in the coming days — They're ready to jump off a real cliff. — New Yorkers of all income levels got a rude awakening yesterday when they saw in The Post how much more they will pay in taxes next year without a fiscal-cliff deal by Jan. 1.
Pew Internet:
E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines — Findings — The population of e-book readers is growing. In the past year, the number of those who read e-books increased from 16% of all Americans ages 16 and older to 23%. At the same time, the number of those who read printed books …
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Federal Court Won't Rescue the Senate From Its Own Incapacity — Senators must tame the filibuster or it will destroy them — and the Congress they serve in. — Joshua Roberts/Reuters — Federal Judges rarely play Santa Claus, and U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan declined to brighten the holiday for Senate Democrats.
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Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed:
Scott Brown Breaks News Of Nonexistent Fiscal Cliff Offer — The senator's scoop falls flat. “Not true,” an aide to Harry Reid responds. — Image by Charles Krupa, File / AP — WASHINGTON — With a post to his Facebook page Thursday, Sen. Scott Brown sent Washington scurrying …
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Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
Google ‘Make Me Asian’ App Faces Protests From Asian-American Groups — A Google app, “Make Me Asian,” that allows users to change their appearance by reshaping eyes or fashioning portraits with rice paddy hats and Fu Manchu mustaches is facing protests from Asian-American groups.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
NRA Has 54% Favorable Image in U.S. — Republicans most positive about NRA; Democrats most negative — PRINCETON, NJ — Fifty-four percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the National Rifle Association, while 38% have an unfavorable opinion. The public's ratings of the NRA …
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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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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Matthews raises profile during campaign — NEW YORK (AP) — To his boss, Chris Matthews has become a statesman. His critics probably have other words. — The veteran MSNBC host raised his profile as much as any member of the television commentariat during the presidential campaign.
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