memeorandum: Inside #FireBoehner — It all started, as things tend to these days, on Twitter. (Robert Costa/National Review)

1:30 PM ET, January 5, 2013

Top Items:

Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder — Police investigate a home invasion in Walton County — LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday. — The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane …

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, UrbanGrounds and Cold Fury

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:

GUNS: Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder. … See, this is where one of those “assault weapons” might have come in handy. — UPDATE: A reader emails: “When some politician starts pontificating that no one needs more than a 10 round clip capacity (or 5, or 3) this is the story that should be shoved in their faces.

Discussion: JustOneMinute

Fox News:

Inmates using newspaper's gun owner map to threaten guards, sheriff says — Law enforcement officials from a New York region where a local paper published a map identifying gun owners say prisoners are using the information to intimidate guards. — Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The PJ Tatler and Power Line

Sarah Armaghan / Newsday:

Journal News gun permit map endangers officers, officials say — Criticism of The Journal News, which published a gun permit database last month, broadened Friday with Rockland law enforcement officials saying the map listing the names and addresses of those with gun permits is endangering lives.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Jana Winter / Fox News:
Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper's Gun Map Would've Made the Job Easier, Safer

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, NewsBusters.org blogs and Weasel Zippers

Michael Moore / The Huffington Post:

Six Years Ago, Chuck Hagel Told the Truth About Iraq — War Wire , Iraq , Michael Moore , Gas & Oil , Chuck Hagel , Chuck Hagel Iraq , Chuck Hagel Iraq Oil , Chuck Hagel Iraq War , Chuck Hagel Secretary Of Defense , Politics News — You might have seen that on Monday President Obama …

Discussion: Weekly Standard and Washington Free Beacon

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Obama expected to pick Hagel as opponents prepare for a fight

Discussion: Power Line, Guardian, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, First Read, Weekly Standard, The Daily Beast, National Review, Algemeiner.com, The PJ Tatler, Washington Free Beacon, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Israpundit, Right Turn and Gestetner Updates

Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Obama Poised to Name New Defense, Treasury Chiefs

Discussion: americanthinker.com, ABCNEWS, This Just In and CNN

Juliet Macur / New York Times:

In Reversal, Armstrong Is Said to Weigh Admitting Drug Use — Lance Armstrong, who this fall was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping and barred for life from competing in all Olympic sports, has told associates and antidoping officials that he is considering publicly admitting …

Discussion: BBC News and Telegraph

Russell Berman / The Hill:

Boehner absolves GOP defectors, seeks to reassert his command — Battered by division and defections, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is setting out to re-unify his conference and prove to Democrats in the White House and the Senate that he can command a governing majority of the House.

Discussion: The Hill, The Atlantic Online and DownWithTyranny!

Wall Street Journal:
The Outrageous Sandy Outrage

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, Politicker, Hot Air, Right Turn, Capital New York and Betsy's Page

John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:

The state of macroeconomics: it all went wrong in 1958 — Much of the recent discussion in the “state of macroeconomics” has concerned the question — Is macroeconomics making progress? — If not, when did it stop? — I'm not going to survey the whole debate …

Discussion: Mother Jones

Mark Landler / New York Times:

Scare Amplifies Fears That Clinton's Work Has Taken Heavy Toll — WASHINGTON — When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow after slipping in a State Department garage in June 2009, she returned to work in just a few days. Her arm in a sling …

United States Senator John Cornyn, Texas:

Cornyn: Partial Government Shutdown May Be Needed to Restore Fiscal Sanity — WASHINGTON - The following article, authored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees, was published today in the Houston Chronicle: — Obama Must Engage Congress

Discussion: Economist, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, Business Insider, The New Republic, American Prospect, Washington Wire and The Huffington Post

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn / Houston Chronicle:
Obama must engage Congress

Discussion: Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', msnbc.com, Trail Blazers Blog, Politico and Post Politics

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Schumer: Dems Won't Negotiate With GOP On Debt Ceiling

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Daily Beast, americanthinker.com, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Politico, Hullabaloo, Slate, Forbes, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, The Plum Line and Booman Tribune

Yahoo! News:

Whoops—'Cash for Clunkers' Actually Hurt the Environment — Back in 2009, President Obama's “Cash for Clunkers” program was supposed to be a boon for the environment and the economy. During a limited time, consumers could trade in an old gas-guzzling used car for up to $4,500 cash …

Discussion: Vodkapundit and americanthinker.com

Robert Costa / National Review:

Inside #FireBoehner — It all started, as things tend to these days, on Twitter. Ron Meyer Jr., a 23-year-old conservative activist, started using a catchy hashtag — #FireBoehner — as he railed against Speaker John Boehner. The hashtag quickly became a pet project.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

BBC:

Honduras investigates Bogota embassy Christmas party — Honduras has said it is setting up a commission to investigate reports that a wild Christmas party was held at its embassy in the Colombian capital. — Reports suggest that two prostitutes attended the party, which began on the evening …

Discussion: PoliBlog

Annie Lowrey / New York Times:

Tax Code May Be the Most Progressive Since 1979 — WASHINGTON — With 2013 bringing tax increases on the incomes of a small sliver of the richest Americans, the country's top earners now face a heavier tax burden than at any time since Jimmy Carter was president.

Discussion: Middle Earth Journal and Prairie Weather

Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:

What a Car Bomb in Iraq Means for the Civil War in Syria — A car bomb ripped through a procession of Shia pilgrims today in Musayyib, Iraq, almost 40 miles south of Baghdad, killing 27 people. The bombers were most likely Sunnis trying to reignite Iraq's civil war.

Discussion: Financial Times and Ricochet Conversations Feed

Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:

Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak—Read Them Here — FreedomWorks bills itself as a grassroots outfit, but it's bankrolled mostly by big-money donors. — FreedomWorks, the national conservative group that helped launch the tea party movement, sells itself as a genuine grassroots operation …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Slate, The National Memo and The Raw Story