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2:00 PM ET, January 3, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Time Warner Cable Drops Current TV Upon Sale To Al Jazeera … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Al Jazeera, Current TV, Al Jazeera Buys Current, Al Jazeera Current, Al Jazeera Current Tv, Calderone: The Backstory, Time Warner Al Jazeera, Time Warner Cable Current TV, Time Warner Cable Drops Al Jazeera …
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Wall Street Journal:
Al-Jazeera to Buy Current TV  —  News network al-Jazeera agreed to purchase Current TV, the current affairs channel partly owned by Al Gore, seeking to boost its presence in American television.  —  Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but a person familiar with the matter …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Gore Failed
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Leftist Jihadist Media Nexus: Terror TV, Al Jazeera Acquires Gore's Current TV “Al Jazeera America”
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Walter Shapiro / Associated Press:
The courage of Boehner and McConnell: No, they're not Lincolns.  But they did something good.  —  If John Kennedy had not written “Profiles in Courage,” today we might have a more realistic understanding of political valor.  But JFK's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book so raised the bar …
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First Read:
First Thoughts: Boehner boxed in  —  As 113th Congress begins, Boehner finds himself boxed in like never before... But he will still likely win re-election as speaker... The 113th Congress, by the numbers... Assessing the aftermath of the fiscal-cliff deal: Obama emerges as a winner …
Discussion: Roll Call, The Week and Politico
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner tells GOP he's through negotiating one-on-one with Obama
Washington Post:
How McConnell and Biden pulled Congress away from the fiscal cliff
New York Times:
Leave It Alone; It's Irrelevant to the Deficit  —  Dean Baker, an economist and the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, is the author of “The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive.”  —  Millions of people are rightly outraged to hear that Social Security …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Agonist
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Politico:
Obama's debt problem  —  President Barack Obama won't be able to enjoy much of a victory lap from his win over congressional Republicans on the fiscal cliff fight.  —  There are about 16.4 trillion reasons why.  —  The staggering national debt — up about 60 percent from the $10 trillion Obama inherited …
Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
Good Riddance to Rottenest Congress in History  —  On January 3rd, the 112th Congress of the United States of America finally ends.  Thank God.  —  To properly evaluate the 112th, consider the record of its predecessor, the 111th Congress, which ran from January 2009 to January 2011.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Andrew Sullivan's Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours  —  When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his intended business model.
Sunlen Miller / ABCNEWS:
Meet the New Class: The Senate Swears in a Historic 20 Female Senators  —  Today the Senate will make history, swearing in a record-breaking 20 female senators - 4 Republicans and 16 Democrats - in office.  —  As the 113th Congress is sworn in today on Capitol Hill, ABC “World News” …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House GOP's rules package calls for another reading of the Constitution  —  The House rules package for the 113th Congress that is expected to be approved on Thursday calls for another reading of the U.S. Constitution from the chamber floor.  —  The rules package for the the 112th Congress …
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton ‘will testify about Benghazi consulate security shambles’ despite concussion and blood clot  —  Hillary Clinton will testify in front of Congress about the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya - despite receiving a concussion and being hospitalized for a blood clot, it was revealed on Thursday.
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Reuters:
Senate panel to examine CIA contacts with “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After the Senate Intelligence Committee's chairwoman expressed outrage over scenes that imply “enhanced interrogations” of CIA detainees produced a breakthrough in the hunt for Osama bin Laden …
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
House GOP Lets Violence Against Women Act Passed By Senate Die Without A Vote … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Eric Cantor, Patty Murray, GOP, Video, Women's Rights, Eric Cantor Vawa, Patty Murray Vawa, The Violence Against Women Act, Vawa, Vawa 2012, Vawa Reauthorization, Vawa Reauthorization 2012 …
ThinkProgress:
Ten People We Are Grateful Are No Longer Members Of Congress  —  Under the Twentieth Amendment, “[t]he terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January.”
Wall Street Journal:
Crony Capitalist Blowout  —  A tax increase for everyone but the favored wealthy few.  —  In praising Congress's huge new tax increase, President Obama said Tuesday that “millionaires and billionaires” will finally “pay their fair share.”  That is, unless you are a Nascar track owner …
Discussion: Right Turn
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Open New Congress Slamming “Lapdog” Democrats With Corgis  —  “Nancy Pelosi's Obedience School.”  —  Image by Joshua Roberts / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans Thursday are rolling partisan welcome mat for newly elected Democrats, circulating a tongue-in-cheek guide …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats ready gun-control legislation that would ban high-capacity magazines  —  House Democrats will waste no time in the new Congress pushing legislation to tighten the nation's gun laws.  —  Reps. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) will introduce a proposal Thursday …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama signs ‘fiscal cliff’ bill using autopen  —  President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation that raises taxes on the wealthiest Americans and avoids the so-called “fiscal cliff,” which threatened to send the economy into decline.  —  The White House said late Wednesday that Obama reviewed …
Skip Navigation / ACLU:
NDAA Prevents Closing Guantanamo, Could Protect Right to Discriminate  —  Obama Jeopardizes Ability to Close Guantanamo While Raising Discrimination Concerns in the Military  —  CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org  —  WASHINGTON - President Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act …
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Illinois Dems advance gun control bills, firearms group warns of ‘no exemptions’  —  FILE: March 7, 2012: Gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.AP  —  Illinois Senate Democrats advanced legislation late Wednesday …
Discussion: UrbanGrounds and The PJ Tatler
 
 
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The Week:
The culture war is over, and conservatives lost
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Gas Drilling Is Called Safe in New York
Discussion: The Raw Story and Hit & Run
Keith Humphreys / The Reality-Based Community:
The Strangely Underreported Decline in the Incarceration Rate
Discussion: Hit & Run and Marginal Revolution
Simon Johnson / Economix:
The Supreme Court and the Next Fiscal Cliff
Discussion: Forbes, Econbrowser and PERRspectives
Washington Post:
Congress gives out end-of-year perks to interest groups
Discussion: Power Line
Rob Wiliams / The Independent:
Hand back the Falkland Islands, says Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner …
Discussion: Hot Air, BBC, Guardian and The Week
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Moody's: Credit Rating At Risk If U.S. Doesn't Address Deficit
Discussion: Moody's and Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Two systems of justice  —  David Gregory walks free while Iraq vet was jailed
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Dems to run against ‘chaos’ in '14
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Tim Carney: How corporate tax credits got in the ‘cliff’ deal
Discussion: Firedoglake and OpenSecrets.org
The Atlantic Online:
What's Inside America's Banks?
Discussion: The Big Picture
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid will postpone filibuster reform
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab:
Milky Way Contains At Least 100 Billion Planets, New Analysis Finds
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager
 
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