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Public's Views on Human Evolution — According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, six-in-ten Americans (60%) say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third (33%) reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans growing more skeptical about evolution
Republicans growing more skeptical about evolution
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Caleb Howe / The Right Scoop:
Melissa Harris-Perry Panel Mocks Black Romney Grandchild As Token — On MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry on Sunday, the panel was discussing several topics of the “of the year” variety. In the below clip, panelists are shown photos 'of the year" and asked to offer humorous captions.
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BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:
Republicans React to Benghazi News — The article The Times published on Benghazi this weekend infuriated many Republicans, who ran screaming to television studios. — Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who has made a special crusade out of the attack on the American diplomatic …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama, Clinton Continue Reign as Most Admired — Sixth year in a row for Obama, 12th straight year for Clinton — PRINCETON, NJ — For the sixth consecutive year, Barack Obama ranks as the Most Admired Man among Americans, and Hillary Clinton is again the Most Admired Woman. Both won by comfortable margins.
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New York Times:
Cost of Being Mayor? $650 Million, if He's Rich — Michael R. Bloomberg loves tropical fish. So when he was elected mayor, he installed two giant aquariums in City Hall. — The cost to him for having the tanks cleaned out every week for the past 12 years: around $62,400. — The mayor likes to nosh, too.
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FAA:
FAA Selects Six Sites for Unmanned Aircraft Research … After a rigorous 10-month selection process involving 25 proposals from 24 states, the Federal Aviation Administration has chosen six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test site operators across the country.
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Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
U.S. Names Domestic Test Sites for Drone Aircraft
U.S. Names Domestic Test Sites for Drone Aircraft
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Lisa Myers / Investigations:
Workers at auto dealership come face to face with Obamacare trade-offs — Before the new health care law, a Michigan car dealership offered employees a company health insurance plan. Things are different now. Lisa Myers reports. — By Lisa Myers, Senior Investigative Correspondent, NBC News
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Hot Air and Clayton Cramer
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
The Great 2013 Sunday Show Race — The general impression is rooted in fact: the Sunday shows love Republicans. “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” “State of the Union,” and “Fox News Sunday,” hoping to reflect and help shape the conventional wisdom for the political world …
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FishbowlDC, Politico, PoliticusUSA and Gawker
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Republicans to blame for the public's disgust with Congress — As the year ends, Gallup reports that public approval of Congress averaged 14 percent during 2013. This, the polling firm points out, is “the lowest annual average in Gallup's history.” — The pollsters added …
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
2013 wasn't as bad as you might think
2013 wasn't as bad as you might think
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Afghanistan war arguably most unpopular in U.S. history — Washington (CNN) - Support for the war in Afghanistan has dipped below 20%, according to a new national poll, making the country's longest military conflict arguably its most unpopular one as well.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Official Who Oversaw Health Law's Rollout Is Retiring — WASHINGTON — The No. 2 official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who supervised the troubled rollout of President Obama's health care law, is retiring, administration officials said Monday.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Mediaite
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Former General Turned Conservative Activist Calls For Citizen's Arrest Of Obama — Paul Vallely, a former general who now works as a conservative activist and Fox News analyst, suggested in a recent interview that President Obama should face citizen's arrest for his supposedly treasonous crimes.
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Liberaland and The Raw Story
New York Times:
Democrats Turn to Minimum Wage as 2014 Strategy — WASHINGTON — Democratic Party leaders, bruised by months of attacks on the new health care program, have found an issue they believe can lift their fortunes both locally and nationally in 2014: an increase in the minimum wage.
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Jay Michaelson / Forward:
Obamacare ‘Pajama Boy’ Controversy Wrapped in Anti-Semitism — Right Wing Anger at ‘Jewish’ Star of Viral Health Care Ad — Surely the silliest kerfluffle of a political year that contained much silliness was the recent conservative hand-wringing over “Pajama Boy.”
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Reuters:
Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up — (Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men. — He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station …
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ThinkProgress, EcoWatch, The Verge and Boing Boing
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Woman Busted For Attacking Live-In Boyfriend When He Refused To “Cuddle” In Bed — Buster — A Florida woman was arrested early Saturday for battering her live-in boyfriend after he refused to “cuddle” with her when they went to bed, police report. — Shavonna Rumph, 31, and Henry Price …
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James Nye / Daily Mail:
‘Christmas Cop Killer’ suspected of bank heist spree across the country was a former veteran who was arrested for threatening to 'blow President Obama's brains out' in 2010 — Authorities today identified the suspect, who was killed Saturday in a shootout with police outside a Phoenix, Arizona bank, as Mario Edward Garnett, 40
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Americans Against the …, Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's TV Picks: Anything Edgy, With Hints of Reality — WASHINGTON — War, terrorism, economic struggle, mass shootings — such is life in the Oval Office for President Obama. — Yet in his few quiet moments, this president seeks not to escape to the delicious back-stabbing of the …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The Obamacare Obama gets — Who says government health care doesn't work? There is a government health plan that is available to a small number of individuals. The risk pool consists of a few dozen people, all of whom work in one building in downtown Washington.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Here's Why I Don't Sweat The Haters — I've gotten a number of messages in the last few days — from both supporters and opponents of gay rights — expressing sympathy over the rude and hateful messages I've been getting (and publishing) ever since I started writing about Phil Robertson.
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Eschaton and Joe. My. God.
Mike Konczal / The New Republic:
2013 Was a Bad Year for Wall St. Lobbyists — Everyone assumed the banks would beat financial reform. They didn't — 2013 was a not-awful year for financial reform. If you aren't terrified of jinxing even the smallest good news, you might even say it was pretty good.
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Washington Monthly and Paul Krugman