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Marco Garcia / Associated Press:
President Obama's Hawaii Vacation: Day 6 — How President Barack Obama spent the sixth day of his holiday vacation in Hawaii on Thursday: — GYM: The president woke up early for a morning workout at a gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. After about an hour, Obama returned to his vacation home.
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Weasel Zippers
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The Hill:
Obama signs budget pact — President Obama broke from his vacation in Hawaii on Thursday to sign a stack of legislation that included the bipartisan budget deal and funding legislation for the Pentagon. — His signature on the budget agreement closes the books on a year of bitter fiscal fighting …
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CNN
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Be prepared: Wall Street advisor recommends guns, ammo for protection in collapse — WASHINGTON SECRETS GUN CONTROL OBAMACARE NSA SURVEILLANCE WALL STREET SOCIALISM — A top financial advisor, worried that Obamacare, the NSA spying scandal and spiraling national debt is increasing the chances …
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Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit
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Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Why Gold Would Be Useless in an Economic Apocalypse — Since November, financial advisor David Marotta has been publishing a series of blog posts on how to manage your money in the event of a financial apocalypse—as in a world of hyperinflation, governmental collapse, and anarachic mobs.
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
ObamaCare sales surge — Remember Budowsky's first law of insider punditry: When the media and political herds are tripping over each other's hoofs while stampeding in a certain direction, the herds are almost always wrong. — Take note of the fact that in recent days …
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Liberaland, Connecting.the.Dots and Wall Street Journal
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
With Health Law Cemented, G.O.P. Debates Next Move
With Health Law Cemented, G.O.P. Debates Next Move
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The Daily Caller, Politico and USA Today
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
2016 CNN Poll: Clinton deadlocked with Christie but leads other GOP presidential possibilities — Washington (CNN) - In a potential preview of the next presidential election, a new national poll suggests Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie would be neck and neck if the 2016 contest were held today.
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The Fix, Power Line, Mediaite and Politico
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Sam Kleiner / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's History of Sexist Hillary-Bashing
The GOP's History of Sexist Hillary-Bashing
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Hullabaloo and Associated Press
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Federal authorities charge white ‘knockout’ suspect with hate crime — Federal authorities said Thursday they have arrested and charged a Texas man in connection with the “knockout game,” accusing him of a hate crime for targeting a black man for a vicious street attack.
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americanthinker.com, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller, The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
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Katy / KTRK-TV:
Katy man charged with hate crime for attack
Katy man charged with hate crime for attack
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CNN and The Hinterland Gazette
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Fear Economy — More than a million unemployed Americans are about to get the cruelest of Christmas “gifts.” They're about to have their unemployment benefits cut off. You see, Republicans in Congress insist that if you haven't found a job after months of searching, it must be because you aren't trying hard enough.
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Balloon Juice and Washington Post
Tracy Jan / The Boston Globe:
Mass., Vt. halt payments to firm behind health sites — WASHINGTON — Even as President Obama's health insurance website limps to recovery, at least two states that used the same contractor and are still plagued with malfunctions — Massachusetts and Vermont — are taking preliminary steps to recoup taxpayer dollars.
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americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo
Andy Soltis / New York Post:
Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants — An Iowa State University professor resigned after admitting he falsely claimed rabbit blood could be turned into a vaccine for the AIDS virus. — Dr. Dong-Pyou Han spiked a clinical test sample with healthy human blood …
InSerbia News:
Orthodox Church In Kosovo Turned Into Public Toilet And Garbage Dump — Kurir, Telegraf — Find story with similar tags: — Orthodox church dedicated to the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in the village of Samodreza near Vucitrn, was desecrated and turned into a garbage dump.
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The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Caption time: John Kerry meets Snoop Dogg — Faux shizzle: — That's just begging for a caption. If Kerry's wife Teresa was in that picture I'd suggest “Gin (soaked raisins) & juice.” — The quick meeting was good enough for Kerry to add his initials signifying that he personally wrote this State Department tweet:
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CNN and Post Local
Katherine Skiba / Chicago Tribune:
Michelle Obama at 50 — Trailblazing first lady is ‘American superwoman,’ championing causes, raising a family — First lady Michelle Obama will be the guest of honor at a White House dance party next month when she turns “50 and fabulous,” as she put it recently.
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Politico, Mediaite, TheBlaze.com, Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story
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