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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC — Just over two weeks ago, MSNBC host Martin Bashir delivered a harsh piece of commentary that culminated in the suggestion that someone should “s-h-i-t” in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's (R-AK) mouth. Bashir offered an abject apology on his next broadcast …

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC Following Sarah Palin Comments

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Martin Bashir Out at MSNBC

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Geoffrey Dickens / Author Feed:
Networks That Skipped Bashir's Gross Attack on Palin Were Outraged By Limbaugh Fluke Joke

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Washington Post:

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show — The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials …

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Washington Post:
How the NSA is tracking people right now

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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:

Source: Enrollment surge on HealthCare.gov — About 29,000 people signed up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov on Sunday and Monday — a figure that surpasses the total for the whole month of October, an official familiar with the program told POLITICO.

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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:

Young invincibles spurn O-Care — Mounting opposition to ObamaCare among young adults is creating a new crisis for the White House. — While the federal enrollment website HealthCare.gov appears to be improving by the day, polls show the “young invincibles” key to making the law work are becoming less likely to enroll.

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Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
NOT A JOKE: Video called ‘Forget About The Price Tag’ wins HHS grand prize for promoting Obamacare

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The White House:

Remarks by the President on Economic Mobility — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much. Please, please have a seat. Thank you so much. Well, thank you, Neera, for the wonderful introduction and sharing a story that resonated with me.

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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time’ — The speech on inequality that President Obama delivered just now will mostly pass unnoticed by the political world, with Republicans dismissing it as “class warfare” and an effort to distract from Obamacare, and pundits describing it more judiciously …

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The best speech Obama has given on the economy

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Richard Weir / Boston Herald:

Elizabeth Warren pledges she won't run for president in 2016 — By: — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren pledged today she will not run for president in 2016 and will finish her term. — The Bay State senior senator has been mentioned in the preliminary talk about the presidential race, but Hillary Clinton has generated the most buzz.

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JDellaVolpe / Harvard University blogs:

IOP Releases New Fall Poll, 5 Key Findings And Trends in Millennial Viewpoints — Conceived by two Harvard undergraduate students during the winter of 1999, Harvard University's Institute of Politics Survey of Young Americans' Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service began in 2000 …

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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Millennials Abandon Obama and Obamacare

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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:

Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins — Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans' biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries. — In a paper in the journal Nature, scientists reported Wednesday …

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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:

Congressman Says U.S. Should Use Nuclear Weapons If It Attacks Iran — A Republican congressman said on Wednesday that if the United States ends up using military force against Iran's nuclear program, it should do so with nuclear weapons. — GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson made headlines …

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep.: Nuke Iran If War Is Necessary (VIDEO)

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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:

Brooklyn Politician Blames ‘Jewish Success’ For ‘Knock Out Game’ — Laurie Cumbo, a councilwoman-elect in Brooklyn, N.Y., believes alleged “Knock Out Game” attacks against Jews in the Crown Heights neighborhood may have been fueled by “resentment” against the Jewish community.

Discussion: DNAinfo.com New York, The Daily Caller and Liberaland

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Cotton campaign rips ‘offensive’ NRSC attack on Mark Pryor's Bible ad — Rep. Tom Cotton's (R-Ark.) Senate campaign on Wednesday denounced a “bizarre and offensive” attack on Sen. Mark Pryor's faith by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). — Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat …

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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Rubio PAC Jumps In Big to Aid Tom Cotton in Arkansas

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ctvnews.ca:

Ford may have tried to buy crack video: court documents — Text: — Tamara Cherry, CTV Toronto — Mayor Rob Ford may have tried to buy the alleged video of himself smoking crack cocaine two months before news of the video first broke, court documents released today allege.

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Chris Lingebach / CBS DC:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to Appear on ‘The Sports Junkies’

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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:

FBI executes search warrant, takes computers from Kent Sorenson's home — FBI officials executed a search warrant at former state Sen. Kent Sorenson's home two weeks ago and confiscated computers and other materials connected to presidential campaign politics, his lawyer told The Des Moines Register today.

Discussion: Liberaland and Talking Points Memo

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Republicans see one remedy for Obama: impeachment — History will record that on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary met to consider the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama. — They didn't use that word, of course.

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Liberal law prof: Obama's unconstitutional power grabs are creating a “very dangerous and unstable system”

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Brian Beutler / Salon:

The right's core dishonesty: How Obamacare became its own culture war — Hostilities to the law have become detached from the ideological and partisan antipathies that gave rise to them — Many people think of the right's Obamacare hatred as an outgrowth of straightforward partisan and ideological truths.

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Reity O'Brien / The Center for Public Integrity …:

State supreme court judges reveal scant financial information — Investigation reveals conflicts despite limited disclosure — Last December, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal filed by a couple who had accused financial giant Wells Fargo & Co. of predatory lending.

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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:

Obama: I Want to Host ESPN's ‘SportsCenter’ When I Retire — The president put in his ask to Disney CEO Bob Iger at a private meeting with entertainment moguls during his Nov. 26 visit to Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation. — A version of this story first appeared in the Dec. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

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