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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Exclusive: Piers Morgan on Alex Jones — CNN host Piers Morgan just called to discuss his interview last night with Alex Jones, the conservative radio host and gun advocate who went on a tirade against Morgan, gun control legislation, and a litany of government conspiracies.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Alex Jones Fears For Life After Morgan Interview, Blames NYPD Or Bloomberg If 'We're Killed By Crackheads' — Moments after radio host Alex Jones taped an explosive interview with CNN host Piers Morgan, Jones took to YouTube where he expressed his fear that he would be harmed …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
White House responds to ‘Deport Piers Morgan’ petition
White House responds to ‘Deport Piers Morgan’ petition
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Congress somewhere below cockroaches, traffic jams, and Nickelback in Americans' esteem — Our newest national poll finds that Congress only has a 9% favorability rating with 85% of voters viewing it in a negative light. We've seen poll after poll after poll over the last year talking …
USA Today:
Giffords and Kelly: Fighting gun violence — Our new campaign will launch a national dialogue and raise funds to counter influence of the gun lobby. — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — The children of Sandy Hook deserve our efforts to stop gun violence. — In response to a horrific series …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Reid adviser: Senate majority leader ‘in a different place’ on gun control
Reid adviser: Senate majority leader ‘in a different place’ on gun control
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David Dishneau / bigstory.ap.org:
JUDGE: ARMY GI IN WIKILEAKS ILLEGALLY PUNISHED — You are here — Home » Bradley Manning » Judge: Army GI in WikiLeaks illegally punished — FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website …
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning ensured leaks would not harm US, lawyer insists
Bradley Manning ensured leaks would not harm US, lawyer insists
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John Cook / Gawker:
Here Is a List of All the A**holes Handsome Law-Abiding Citizens Who Own Guns Some People in New York City — Last month, the Journal News sparked a firestorm of protest when it published a mappable database of every licensed gun owner in Westchester and Rockland counties, north of New York City.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Why Hagel Was Picked — Americans don't particularly like government, but they do want government to subsidize their health care. They believe that health care spending improves their lives more than any other public good. In a Quinnipiac poll, typical of many others …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The tarring of Chuck Hagel
The tarring of Chuck Hagel
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Mike Clary / Sun-Sentinel:
FAU prof stirs controversy by disputing Newtown massacre — Gabby Giffords launches site to stop gun violence — A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversary at Florida Atlantic University with claims that last month's Newtown, Conn. …
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Claudine Zap / Yahoo! News:
Australia's weather is so hot, new colors added to weather map — The forecast in Australia: Hot, hot, hot—and getting hotter. — As a record-breaking heatwave hovers over many regions and territories (which are in their summer months now), the continent's Bureau of Meteorology has added …
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Carl Franzen / Talking Points Memo:
NOAA: 2012 Warmest Year On Record For U.S., Second Most Extreme Weather
NOAA: 2012 Warmest Year On Record For U.S., Second Most Extreme Weather
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Linda Stasi / New York Post:
Current situation: Staffers talk about first meeting with Al Jazeera — Just call him Al Gorezeera. — Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses.
DealBook:
Rescued by a Bailout, A.I.G. May Sue Its Savior — Fresh from paying back a $182 billion bailout, the American International Group has been running a nationwide advertising campaign with the tagline “Thank you America.” — Behind the scenes, the restored insurance company is weighing whether …
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Why The Fight Over The $1 Trillion Coin Is The Most Important Fiscal Policy Debate You'll Ever See In Your Life — The campaign to circumvent the debt ceiling by having the Treasury mint a trillion dollar platinum coin continues to infiltrate the minds of elite thinkers in Washington.
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Paul Krugman, Firedoglake, JustOneMinute, The Maddow Blog, Quartz, Outside the Beltway, The Big Picture and Eschaton
Michelle Cottle / The Daily Beast:
Mosbacher: I'm Furious at My Own Party — RNC Finance Committee co-chair Georgette Mosbacher tells Michelle Cottle that she's “mad as hell” about what Republicans have done to themselves. — Best not to ask GOP fundraising legend Georgette Mosbacher about the state of her beloved party unless you want an earful.
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Amanda Marcotte / Slate:
This Rape Infographic Is Going Viral. Too Bad It's Wrong. — Yesterday, under the headline, “The saddest graph you'll see today,” Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post published this infographic created by the Enliven Project to put the legal issues around rape, its prosecutions, and concerns about false accusations into perspective.
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Chris Moody / Reuters:
Moderate Republican group to remove ‘Republican’ from name, welcome Democrats — The Republican Main Street Partnership, a Washington-based group that has promoted moderate GOP lawmakers and policies, will remove the word “Republican” from its title and welcome center-right Democrats in 2013, Yahoo News has learned.
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Hot Air, Washington Monthly, The Political Carnival and Post Politics
Scott Wong / Politico:
Sen. Richard Blumenthal floats ammunition bill — Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to introduce a bill to toughen requirements for purchasing ammunition — a response to the mass shooting last month that claimed 26 lives at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network — Beck takes a shot at Fox as he expands his news network with foreign bureaus and a new show. “I consider myself a libertarian... I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel.”
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Center for American Progress:
The Deficit Reduction We Have Achieved So Far — Since the start of fiscal year 2011, President Barack Obama has signed into law approximately $2.4 trillion of deficit reduction for the years 2013 through 2022. Nearly three-quarters of that deficit reduction is in the form of spending cuts …
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Wonkblog, Hullabaloo and Mother Jones
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Column: How home schooling threatens monopoly education — In an era when everything is customizable, why not customize your child's education? — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Americans across the country are voting with their feet and abandoning traditional public schools. — “What about home schooling?
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
MEET THE ‘BULLIES’: BREITBART EDITOR EXPOSES OBAMA'S ARMY OF THUGS IN NEW BOOK — Note from Senior Management: — Andrew Breitbart built the platform that became Breitbart News Network to give young and important voices a chance to reach a broader audience.
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Little Green Footballs
Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
Senator Elizabeth Warren Is Outraged That AIG Is Considering Suing The US Government — Elizabeth Warren, one of the newest members of the Senate Banking Committee, is sending around a statement about the news that AIG's board will consider whether or not to sue the U.S. government tomorrow.
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Eddie Gehman Kohan / Obama Foodorama:
A Bottle Of President Obama's Homebrewed White House Beer Fetches $1,200 At Auction — Beer pro Brad Magerkurth turned his special Presidential gift into a boon for sick children, and gives the brew a big thumbs-up, too... The single bottle of White House Honey Ale that President Obama presented …
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Politico and Washington Examiner
Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Stanley McChrystal: Gun Control Requires ‘Serious Action’ … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Michael Bloomberg, Stanley McChrystal , Stanley McChrystal , Stanley McChrystal , Video, General Mcchrystal Gun Control, Michel Bloomberg Gun Control, Stanley Mcchrystal Gun Control, Politics News
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Reuters:
Insight: In “fiscal cliff” bill, White House was key to corporate tax breaks — (Reuters) - As the Congress rushed last week to approve a “fiscal cliff” tax bill that raised income taxes on the wealthy, Washington lobbyists were fretting over a drama that was playing out within the negotiations …
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Hot Air and Washington Examiner
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Judge Limits a Police Stop-and-Frisk Program in the Bronx — A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the New York Police Department's practice of stopping people suspected of trespassing outside private buildings in the Bronx was unconstitutional. — The decision appears …
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Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Obama's Remade Inner Circle Has an All-Male Look, So Far — WASHINGTON — In an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 29, 11 of President Obama's top advisers stood before him discussing the heated fiscal negotiations. The 10 visible in a White House photo are men.