memeorandum: Thieves steal 5-foot crucifix from church during service (New York Post)

1:45 PM ET, December 7, 2014

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

If You Were An Early Reader Of the WaPo UVA Rape Expose... Jackie UP, Rolling Stone further DOWN. If you were an early reader of the Washington Post UVA rape expose exonerating Phi Kappa Psi I am begging you to go back and re-read it; despite the absence of any hints such as “UPDATED” …

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Julia Horowitz / Politico:

Why we believed Jackie's rape story — Because it rang true for so many of us on the University of Virginia campus. — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— It was a near-unanimous reaction: shock, but not surprise. Disgust, but not doubt. Those were the feelings that characterized the endless conversations …

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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:

The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors — For the sake of Rolling Stone's reputation, wrote Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple in a recent column, reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of an explosive piece about a rape that allegedly took place at the University …

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James Hohmann / Politico:

Dems' final insult: Landrieu crushed — Cassidy trounces incumbent with Republicans set to control 54 Senate seats in the next Congress. — AP Photo — In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party's last remaining statewide officeholder …

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Associated Press:

LAST OF SENATE'S DEEP SOUTH DEMOCRATS DEFEATED — BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy has denied Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana a fourth term, calling his Senate victory “the exclamation point” on midterm elections that put Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill …

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP Senate majority grows as Cassidy crushes Landrieu

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Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu lost …

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Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
Louisiana's Senate Race Down to Runoff Saturday

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:

What the Fate of The New Republic Reveals — SOMETIMES media events synchronize almost too neatly. Last weekend, the entity known as Vox Media, whose array of properties includes this year's big liberal-journalism start-up, Vox.com, announced that its latest round of investment had raised …

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Eric Lipton / New York Times:

Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General — The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.

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San Francisco Chronicle:

IMAGE 1 OF 72 — Demonstrators toss out smoke bombs during a march in Berkeley, California on Saturday, December 6, 2014. Demonstrators were responding to the grand jury verdicts in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City …

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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:

Acid reflux causing Obama's sore throat — 2 photos — BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Acid reflux is responsible for the sore throat President Barack Obama has complained about for the past couple of weeks, the White House said Saturday, shortly after the president returned from undergoing diagnostic tests at a nearby military hospital.

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Reuters:
Obama, complaining of sore throat, diagnosed with acid reflux

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Cody C. Delistraty / The Atlantic Online:

Seeing Red — How the color of passion, romance, and anger can influence behavior — At 5 o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, February 8th, 1587, Mary Stuart lay fully dressed on her four-poster bed in Fotheringhay Castle in eastern England. Around her were her ladies-in-waiting …

New York Post:

Thieves steal 5-foot crucifix from church during service — So much for the seventh commandment. — Unholy crooks better pray the big man upstairs wasn't watching when they swiped a 5-by-3 foot crucifix from a Bronx church during services on Wednesday. — The $5,000 German-made wooden cross …

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Donna Cassata / Associated Press:

GOP Gains Largest House Majority Since Truman Administration — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

TNR cancels December issue after mass staff resignation — The New Republic will not publish the issue that had been slated to hit shelves on December 15, following Friday's mass resignation by top editors and contributors. — “As you know, an issue that was in production by recently departed editors …

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