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Washington Post:
Senate Democrats plan a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOP — Before ceding full control of Congress to the GOP in January, Senate Democrats are planning to rush a host of critical measures to President Obama's desk, including bills to revive dozens of expired tax breaks and avoid a government shutdown for another year.
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Hot Air and New York Magazine
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Hatch: Reid ‘a pathetic majority leader’ — The Senate's most senior Republican on Thursday bashed current Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), saying with the GOP in charge, there was potential for real accomplishments. — In a phone interview with The Hill, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) …
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Scared Monkeys and Politico
Richard Wolf / Associated Press:
Gay marriage bans in four states upheld on appeal — The same-sex marriage movement lost its first major case in a federal appeals court Thursday after a lengthy string of victories, creating a split among the nation's circuit courts that virtually guarantees Supreme Court review.
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Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
GAY MARRIAGE ON WAY BACK TO US SUPREME COURT
GAY MARRIAGE ON WAY BACK TO US SUPREME COURT
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Liberaland and FOX News Radio
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Marriage Equality Just Got A First Class Ticket To The Supreme Court
BREAKING: Marriage Equality Just Got A First Class Ticket To The Supreme Court
Discussion:
Daily Signal and Addicting Info
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Appeals court upholds bans on same-sex marriage for first time
Appeals court upholds bans on same-sex marriage for first time
Discussion:
Hot Air, SCOTUSblog and DownWithTyranny!
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Court Upholds Marriage Bans in Four States
Court Upholds Marriage Bans in Four States
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Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Jobs Report: U.S. Adds 214,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.8% — Hourly Wages Climb at 2% Annual Pace — WASHINGTON—U.S. payrolls grew modestly in October but the unemployment rate fell and wages edged up, signs the labor market is strengthening.
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Political Wire
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Jobs Data Show Steady Gains Even as Voters Signal Anxiety — Three days after voters expressed their discontent with the state of the economy, the government on Friday reported strong signs of improvement, estimating that employers added 214,000 jobs in October, while the official jobless rate dropped …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine and Outside the Beltway
Javier E. David / CNBC:
Payrolls grow by 214K; jobless rate hits 6-year low — CNBC's Jim Cramer and David Faber share their thoughts on today's jobs data that saw nonfarm payrolls increase by 214,000. — The U.S. economy created 214,000 jobs in October, the Labor Department reported Friday …
Discussion:
Hot Air
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Triumph of the Wrong — The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet midterms to men of understanding. Or as I put it on the eve of another Republican Party sweep, politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
Discussion:
Hot Air, Daily Kos and Bloomberg View
National Journal:
He says he wants to live a normal life. But he can still taste the White House. — Certainly, Ryan has given his suitors some cause for optimism: the visits to early primary states, the discussions with GOP donors, the high-profile blitz to promote his book, The Way Forward, which reads in parts like a presidential manifesto.
Discussion:
CNN and The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lame duck swims to Asia — If President Barack Obama expects to escape the spate of brutal post-election news by traveling 6,000 miles and 12 time zones to Asia, he's in for a surprise. — Regional players are taking stock of whether the U.S. president once seen as a global rock star …
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JustOneMinute, ABC News and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Ben Carson video to air in 22 states — Ben Carson is introducing himself as a potential 2016 presidential candidate in a 40-minute video that will be aired on TV stations in 22 states and Washington, D.C. — Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator who is Carson's business manager …
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The PJ Tatler and American Spectator
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Meet Ben Carson: First Republican to Throw His Hat in 2016 Ring
Meet Ben Carson: First Republican to Throw His Hat in 2016 Ring
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NBC News, Outside the Beltway, American Spectator, Raw Story, LifeNews.com, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, ABC News and Washington Times
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Sen. Mary Landrieu faces runoff alone — NEW ORLEANS — Mary Landrieu is on a solo mission to retain her Senate seat. — Democrats are scrapping a multimillion dollar ad buy, liberal groups aren't jumping in to help her campaign and national political staffers haven't moved down en masse to help get out the vote.
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Senate Democrats dump ads in Louisiana
Senate Democrats dump ads in Louisiana
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and The Moderate Voice
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare — Chase whistle-blower Alayne Fleischmann risked it all.
Discussion:
Business Insider, Bloomberg View, Common Dreams, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
The Hill:
Has the Tea Party been tamed? — Establishment Republicans are crowing that their resounding wins Tuesday night repudiated the Tea Party's insistence that ideological purity is key to electoral success. — But don't tell that to conservatives, who aren't admitting defeat.
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CNSNews
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The Big Sleep — Maybe it's best to close your eyes and fall into a Rip Van Winkle slumber for the next two years. The party that has refused to govern for half a decade and ran a substance-free campaign will now play at governing and not take up anything of substance.
Michelle Tan / USA Today:
Use of word ‘Negro’ removed from new Army regulation — Less than 24 hours after it came to light, the Army has removed the word “negro” from its regulation governing the policies and responsibilities of command. — The term was used in a section of AR 600-20, which covers “Army Command Policy …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress and Mediaite
New York Times:
Decision Time on Immigration — President Obama said on Wednesday that he would act on his own by the end of the year to “improve” the immigration system, presumably by giving many — perhaps millions — of the country's unauthorized immigrants temporary protection from deportation and permission to work.
Discussion:
CNN and ImmigrationProf Blog