memeorandum: Muslim Brotherhood took ‘billions’ from Obama: Egypt lawyers (Al Arabiya/Alarabiya.net English)

William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

Hagel: War for Oil — In a post yesterday waxing enthusiastic about Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, Michael Moore called attention to a statement of Hagel that I don't believe had been previously much noted. Here it is, from September 2007: … This rounds out a Hagelian worldview …

Discussion: Associated Press, The PJ Tatler and Washington Free Beacon

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 …

Los Angeles Times:
Obama likely to nominate Chuck Hagel for Defense secretary

Discussion: The Back Channel

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

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

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

WSB-TV:

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

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

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: Guardian, BBC News and Telegraph

Scott Shane / New York Times:

Former C.I.A. Officer Is the First to Face Prison for a Classified Leak — WASHINGTON — Looking back, John C. Kiriakou admits he should have known better. But when the F.B.I. called him a year ago and invited him to stop by and “help us with a case,” he did not hesitate.

Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:

More Guns = More Killing — IN the wake of the tragic shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last month, the National Rifle Association proposed that the best way to protect schoolchildren was to place a guard — a “good guy with a gun” — in every school …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and No More Mister Nice Blog

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: americanthinker.com and Vodkapundit

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

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!

Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:

Lamborn votes against $9.7 billion Sandy relief package — DENVER — Under strong pressure from New York and New Jersey elected officials, the House of Representatives Friday passed a $9.7 billion federal aid package for victims of Hurricane Sandy. — In a rare bipartisan vote …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

Terry Eastland / Weekly Standard:

The Constitutionalist — Robert H. Bork, we all know, didn't sit on the Supreme Court. His legacy thus cannot lie in votes cast and opinions written. You have to look elsewhere, and you certainly could begin with his earliest work at Yale Law School, which was in antitrust.

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

Tom Bawden / The Independent:

New twist in stricken rig saga: Shell was moving it to avoid tax — The oil giant will instead suffer a multi-million dollar loss on the exercise after the rig ran aground off the Alaskan coast — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.

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

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