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9:10 PM ET, December 7, 2014

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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Rolling Stone Publishes Updated Apology over UVA Rape Story  —  Last Friday Rolling Stone published a brief and, to many, unsatisfactory Readers Note retracting a large part of its story on a UVA gang rape, which was falling apart in the face of the Washington Post's re-reporting.
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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” …
Yvonne AbrahamGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Rolling Stone's UVA story a disaster for all
Julia Horowitz / Politico:
Why We Believed Jackie's Rape Story
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors
Discussion: Mashable, Althouse and Washington Post
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Limbaugh on Eric Garner: The Left Wanted a Powerful State, ‘Here It Is’  —  Rush Limbaugh appeared on Fox News Sunday to bemoan the “grievance industry” that is “literally ripping our fabric apart.”  —  Limbaugh said that the aftermath of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases called …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and Liberaland
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Not a parody  —  Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.  Here is the text of a message from interim dean Robert Scott to the law school community:
Chicago Tribune:
19 hospitalized, thousands evacuated in ‘intentional’ gas leak at Rosemont hotel  —  Several thousand people, some dressed as animal characters, were evacuated from a Hyatt hotel in suburban Rosemont when an “intentional” chlorine gas incident at the Midwest FurFest convention led to 19 people being hospitalized early Sunday morning.
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and UPROXX
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Don Babwin / Associated Press:
Chlorine gas sickens 19 at furries convention  —  5 photos  —  ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention …
Sean Kelly / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
12-Year-Old Girl Discovers She's Eight Months Pregnant By 54-Year-Old Man  —  A 54-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged for impregnating a 12-year-old girl, according to WickedLocal.com.  —  Elbert Richardson, of Brockton, MA, pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated rape …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and FOX News Radio
Redditt Hudson / Washington Post:
Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are.  There's only one fix.  —  Redditt Hudson, a former cop, works for the NAACP and chairs the board of the Ethics Project.  The views expressed here are his own.  —  Police officers drag away a protester to take him into custody during …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Unfogged
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP pins hopes of dismantling ObamaCare on the courts  —  The GOP is refocusing its attention on the courts as it searches for any way to weaken President Obama's signature healthcare law while he continues to wield a veto pen.  —  Twenty-five Republicans asked the Supreme Court …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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.
Henry C. Jackson / Associated Press:
Bachmann Ready to Leave Congress, but Not Politics  —  An audacious conservative, Rep. Michele Bachmann stood out from the moment she was first elected to Congress in 2006.  Democrats were ascendant and Bachmann was a stridently Republican new arrival with a homespun Minnesota twang.
Discussion: Hot Air
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Tucker Carlson: Ban Satanists Displays; Only ‘Legitimate Religions’ Are ‘Reality’ At Christmas  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued over the weekend that a Satanist holiday display should be banned from the Florida state Capitol where a Christian nativity had been erected because they did not practice a “legitimate religion.”
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Oliver Holmes / Reuters:
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New York Post:
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Michael Specter / New Yorker:
The Trouble With Cheap Oil
Discussion: Power Line
Dylan Byers / Politico:
TNR cancels December issue after mass staff resignation
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