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8 People Who Thought Hillary Clinton Was Faking Her Concussion — The Secretary of State was hospitalized Sunday night with a blood clot. — Former U.S. U.N. spokesman Richard Grenell — Via: @RichardGrenell — The New York Post — Via: nypost.com
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Most Admired in 2012 — Clinton has been Most Admired more than any other woman in Gallup's history — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans again this year name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man living in any part of the world.
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Weekly Standard, Politico, The Fix, msnbc.com, Washington Examiner and First Read
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
What's Happening to Hillary? Only a clod would say the clot is a plot! — Here are Senators Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein, interviewed by Chris Wallace (yesterday, on “Fox News Sunday"): … With all that assurance that Hillary Clinton would testify, later that day …
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Washington Wire, Daily Mail, The Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Matthew Lee / bigstory.ap.org:
HILLARY CLINTON HOSPITALIZED WITH BLOOD CLOT — You are here — Home » United States government » Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot — WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors monitoring her recovery from a concussion discovered a blood clot, according to a statement from her office. — The statement said that …
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover blood clot
Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover blood clot
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The Jawa Report
Politico:
Fiscal cliff: Major progress toward deal — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Vice President Joe Biden engaged in furious overnight negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff and made major progress toward a year-end tax deal, giving sudden hope to high-stakes talks …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Grover Norquist: Tax rates won't increase — Grover Norquist on Monday expressed confidence that any last-minute fiscal cliff deal would not hike tax rates. — “I'm working with all the folks who are trying to defend taxpayers here in Congress,” he said on CNN's “Starting Point.”
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The Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
With no deal in hand, lawmakers spend New Year's Eve on the cliff
With no deal in hand, lawmakers spend New Year's Eve on the cliff
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The Strata-Sphere, Hot Air and Fox News Insider
Lisa Desjardins / CNN:
Sticking points in fiscal cliff talks
Sticking points in fiscal cliff talks
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ABCNEWS, Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
Biden, McConnell continue ‘cliff’ talks as clock winds down
Biden, McConnell continue ‘cliff’ talks as clock winds down
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CNN, The Plum Line, Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Wonkblog, Post Politics, The New Republic, The Maddow Blog, Calculated Risk and The Fix
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Fiscal Cliff Talks Resume After GOP Caves On Social Security Cut
Fiscal Cliff Talks Resume After GOP Caves On Social Security Cut
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff: GOP Gives In On Social Security Cuts In Stalled Talks (UPDATE)
Fiscal Cliff: GOP Gives In On Social Security Cuts In Stalled Talks (UPDATE)
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Hullabaloo, Roll Call and The Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Congress Meets Cliff's Edge
Congress Meets Cliff's Edge
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Roll Call, Washington Examiner and New York Times
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
GOP senators backing away from Social Security demand
GOP senators backing away from Social Security demand
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Washington Examiner
Louis Michael Seidman / New York Times:
Let's Give Up on the Constitution — AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.
New York Post:
Greenwich Village couple busted with cache of weapons, bombmaking explosives: sources — The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Village apartment.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The Republican Party in one tweet — This is pretty much the Republican Party in one tweet: — Today's Republican Party thinks the key problem America faces is out-of-control entitlement spending. But cutting entitlement spending is unpopular and the GOP's coalition relies heavily on seniors.
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The Maddow Blog, Hullabaloo, Business Insider, Brad DeLong and Post Politics
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is Obama Caving on Taxes? — The discouraging thing about the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is not that they have gone into the eleventh hour, or that they may go into the new year, or even that they won't resolve the long-term budget deficit. It's that President Obama has retreated on his hard line on taxes.
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Slate, Wonkblog, theGrio, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Fix and Prairie Weather
Joshua Green / Business Week:
On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Are Blowing a Great Deal
On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Are Blowing a Great Deal
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The Maddow Blog and The Mahablog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Brewing Up Confusion — Howard Schultz, the C.E.O. of Starbucks, has a reputation as a good guy, a man who supports worthy causes. And he presumably thought he would add to that reputation when he posted an open letter urging his employees to promote fiscal bipartisanship by writing “Come together” on coffee cups.
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Business Insider, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos
presstv.ir:
Militants can marry Syrian women: Wahhabi cleric in Saudi Arabia — A hard-line Wahhabi cleric in Saudi Arabia has recently issued a special religious decree that permits the militants in Syria to engage in short-term marriages with Syrian women. — Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch