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Politico:
No cliff deal as final hour approaches — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell still haven't struck a deal to prevent taxes from rising on wage earners in the new year, sources say, as eleventh-hour negotiations to avert historic tax hikes approach a make-or-break moment Sunday.
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ABCNEWS, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway and Reuters
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New York Times:
Negotiations Break Down on Debt Agreement — WASHINGTON — Negotiations to reach a last-ditch agreement to head off large tax increases and sweeping spending cuts in the new year broke down, at least temporarily, on Sunday after Republicans requested that a deal include a new way of calculating inflation …
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The Gateway Pundit, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and First Read
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
GOP senators backing away from Social Security demand — GOP senators on Sunday backed away from demanding that cuts to Social Security benefits be included in any “fiscal cliff” deal. — The call to include a measure of inflation known as the chained consumer price index, or “chained CPI …
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Washington Examiner
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama: ‘Pressure’ on Congress, blames GOP as deadline nears
Obama: ‘Pressure’ on Congress, blames GOP as deadline nears
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Crooks and Liars and CNN
Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:
My Views on Spending Cuts and Entitlements
My Views on Spending Cuts and Entitlements
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Eschaton, Business Insider, skippy the bush kangaroo, Angry Bear and Corrente
msnbc.com:
December 30: President Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, Jon Meacham, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Brooks, and Chuck Todd — December 30: President Obama, Brokaw, Meacham, Kearns Goodwin, Brooks, Todd — Below: — updated 2012-12-30T14:17:37 — DAVID GREGORY: — Mr. President, welcome back to Meet the Press.
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Althouse, Wizbang, The Moderate Voice, Twitchy and First Read
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Howard Kurtz / Daily Download:
Meet the President: David Gregory's Low-Intensity Interview — Well, this time David Gregory didn't brandish any weapons or show much firepower. — He pressed Barack Obama on a few points in the president's appearance this morning, designed to seize control of the media narrative one day before the fiscal cliff deadline.
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NewsBusters.org and Mediaite
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Lindsay Graham: I Will Destroy America's Solvency Unless The Social Security Retirement Age Is Raised — Although official Washington is currently fixated on the so-called “Fiscal Cliff,” the biggest threat to American prosperity is the debt ceiling, which must be raised in February to prevent economic catastrophe.
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Paul Krugman, The Impolitic, CANNONFIRE and Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes'
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Newtown Task Force Returns Biden to Gun Control Arena — WASHINGTON — Never much known for restraint, Joseph R. Biden Jr. did not hold back during a presidential primary debate in 2007 when a voter asking about gun rights in a recorded video displayed a fearsome-looking semiautomatic rifle and declared, “This is my baby.”
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Politico, Right Wing News and JustOneMinute
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama hopes to enact new gun-control measures in 2013 — President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his “full weight” behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013. — “I'm going to be putting forward a package …
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The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Moonbattery
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Some Thoughts About The Kingdom of Thailand — With Former Prime Minister Abhisit. — On Christmas Eve, ThaiPBS television interviewed me in Bangkok. The interview is scheduled to air on 31 December at 9:40PM Thailand time. Our interview will be online here.
Washington Post:
Worst year in Washington: The tea party — The Gadsden flag, which flew proudly over the 2010 midterm elections, now lies in tatters — rent by internal disagreements, losses among its most visible standard-bearers and a growing sense that the tea party movement, which once looked …
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Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
Why the War Party Fears Hagel — In the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst. — Who is Chuck Hagel? — Born in North Platte, Neb., he was a squad leader in Vietnam, twice wounded, who came home to work …
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Power Line, Israel Matzav and PJ Media
Victor Davis Hanson / PJ Media:
An Anatomy of a Most Peculiar Institution — A Campus-full of Contradictions — Almost everything about the modern university is a paradox. It has become a sort of industry gone rogue that embraces practices that a Wal-Mart or Halliburton would never get away with.
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Joanne Jacobs