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2:40 PM ET, December 8, 2014

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Emily Clark / The Cavalier Daily:
A letter from a friend: Jackie's story is not a hoax  —  My name is Emily, and I was Jackie's suitemate first year.  I am writing to you in regards to Rolling Stone's recent statement of “misplaced trust” in Jackie.  I feel this statement is backwards, as it seems it was Jackie who misplaced her trust in Rolling Stone.
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Tina Daunt / Hollywood Reporter:
Street Artist Sabo Blasts Lena Dunham, Bill Clinton in Fake Rolling Stone Covers  —  The controversial artist papered L.A. early Monday with posters featuring a photo of Dunham and the headline “Rape Fantasies and Why We Perpetuate Them”  —  Los Angeles' most controversial street artist …
Discussion: Power Line and AMERICAN DIGEST
Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
Reporting on Rape  —  Last month, Rolling Stone ran an article about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, based on interviews with a student identified only as “Jackie.”  It now appears that key details of the story, reported by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, may not be true.
Hanna Rosin / Slate:
Trolls Are Outing UVA's “Jackie.” That's Rolling Stone's Fault Too.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Hanna Rosin / Slate:
Key Player in UVA Rape Story: Rolling Stone Never Talked to Me
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Dems, It's Time to Dump Dixie  —  With Mary Landrieu's ignominious exit, the Democrats will have lost their last senator in the Deep South.  And that's a good thing.  They should write it off—because they don't need it.  —  I don't remember a much sadder sight in domestic politics …
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Greg Giroux / Bloomberg Politics:
By the Numbers: Half of the Senators Who Voted for Obamacare Will be Gone in 2015  —  Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy's double-digit ousting of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu on Saturday was, in the words of the senator-elect, an “exclamation mark” on a 2014 election that saw the Republicans win control of the Senate.
Scott Bland / National Journal:
White Flight From Southern Democrats Doomed Landrieu
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael R. Crittenden / Wall Street Journal:   The South Is Now Almost a Democrat-Free Zone
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
G.O.P. Donors Seek to Narrow Field of Presidential Candidates to One  —  Dozens of the Republican Party's leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party's banner in 2016 …
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Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg Politics:
Clinton Trumps Republican Rivals on Leadership, Vision for 2016
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Los Angeles Times:
Massive downtown L.A. fire burns 3 towers; freeways begin to reopen  —  A massive fire in downtown Los Angeles early Monday engulfed an apartment tower under construction, damaged two other buildings and left freeways and roads closed.  —  The northbound 110 Freeway remained closed as of 5 a.m. …
Politico:
The Kochs eclipse the RNC  —  Meet the guys behind the right's best data shop.  —  The Koch brothers and their allies are pumping tens of millions of dollars into a data company that's developing detailed, state-of-the-art profiles of 250 million Americans, giving the brothers' political operation all the earmarks of a national party.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
CBC Member: Ben Carson Supporters Have “Vein Of Ignorance,” Are “Like A Lynch Mob”  —  “...when we have blacks like that trying to tap into the ignorance of people who have been whipped into a frenzy, like a lynch mob, and you go to try to garner support from those folks …
Discussion: Mediaite
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bush and C.I.A. Ex-Officials Rebut Torture Report  —  WASHINGTON — A long-awaited Senate report condemning torture by the Central Intelligence Agency has not even been made public yet, but former President George W. Bush's team has decided to link arms with former intelligence officials and challenge its conclusions.
Jonathan Tepper / New York Times:
Why I'm Giving Up My Passport  —  LONDON — THE mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who was born in New York and holds both American and British passports, recently said that he would not pay a tax bill from the United States on capital gains from the sale of his home in the London borough of Islington.
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Emily Yoffe / Slate:
The College Rape Overcorrection  —  Sexual assault on campus is a serious problem.  But efforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of men.  —  An Accusation  —  Drew Sterrett couldn't know that when his friend slipped …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Racial politics in plain sight  —  America's racial tensions, hot after the painful non-indictments in Ferguson and New York, bubbled up on Capitol Hill last week.  The occasion was a House Judiciary hearing on President Obama's executive authority to limit deportations of illegal immigrants.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Recovery at Last?  —  Last week we got an actually good employment report — arguably the first truly good report in a long time.  The U.S. economy added well over 300,000 jobs; wages, which have been stagnant for far too long, picked up a bit.  Other indicators, like the rate at which workers are quitting …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
An interview with TNR's Guy Vidra  —  Guy Vidra says he doesn't want to change The New Republic.  —  “It is absolutely absurd to suggest that I would come to this institution to do anything other than leverage what we do here to bring it to a larger and more engaged audience,” Vidra …
Daily Mail:
Killer 'shot his newly-married stepdaughter so he could video himself having sex with her dead body - then buried her behind his shed'  — Gregory Graf recorded himself sexually abusing the body of Jessica Padgett, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli said on Friday
Steve Kraskethe / Kansas City Star:
Democrats secretly backed independent Greg Orman in race for U.S. Senate in Kansas  —  Campaign reports filed late last week revealed that key Democrats funneled money to Greg Orman's campaign for the U.S. Senate in Kansas.  —  A political committee known as the Senate Majority PAC run …
 
 
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Eric Holder believes all cops are racists, targets ‘unconscious bias’
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Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
Democrats Irrelevant? Don't Be So Sure, Pelosi Promises
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sen. Orrin Hatch / Politico:
Don't Change the Filibuster Again
Discussion: National Review
David Rogers / Politico:
House-Senate negotiators near spending deal
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Daily Kos
Marc Bookman / The Atlantic Online:
Does an Innocent Man Have the Right to Be Exonerated?
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Accuses Iran of Secretly Breaching U.N. Nuclear Sanctions
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Weekly Standard
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg View:
Immigration Threatens Republicans From Within
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Linh Ta / Des Moines Register:
Sarah Palin to return to Iowa for summit
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David Nather / Politico:
Will Jonathan Gruber topple Obamacare?
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In Los Angeles, a Nimby Battle Pits Millionaires vs. Billionaires
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Profiling guidelines to be unveiled
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
From Eric Garner and Michael Brown to the Ballot Box
Dallas Morning News:
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Discussion: New York Times
Chris Hughes / Washington Post:
Crafting a sustainable New Republic
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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