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8:20 AM ET, December 10, 2014

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Howard Dean / Politico:
I'm Ready for Hillary  —  Hillary Clinton is by far the most qualified person in the United States to serve as President.  If she runs, I will support her.  I have known Hillary for almost twenty-five years.  We first met when I was the governor of Vermont and she was the First Lady …
Discussion: Washington Times
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox melts down after torture report: ‘The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome!’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Fox News analysts, hosts and reporters on Tuesday wasted no time in blasting Democrats after Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein …
Discussion: Jezebel and rubber hose
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH Fox Host Lose It Over Senate Torture Report: ‘We Are Awesome!’  —  After the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the torture techniques used by the CIA, the hosts of Fox News' “Outnumbered” lashed out at Senate Democrats' for publicizing CIA interrogation methods.
Michael Hirsh / Politico:
Michael Hayden Is Not Sorry  —  The Senate report rakes Bush's former CIA director over the coals.  He fires back in an exclusive interview.  —  Though the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program long predated his takeover of the agency in 2006, former Director Michael Hayden has found himself …
Discussion: Newsmax and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
CIA Interrogations Saved Lives  —  The Senate Intelligence investigators never spoke to us—the leaders of the agency whose policies they are now assailing for partisan reasons.  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its majority report on Central Intelligence Agency detention and interrogation in the wake of 9/11.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Remind Me Who It Is the CIA Works For?
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Panel Faults C.I.A. Over Brutality and Deceit in Terrorism Interrogations
New York Times:
7 Key Points From the C.I.A. Torture Report
Hilary Sargent / Boston Globe:
Harvard Business School Professor Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food  —  Ben Edelman (left) and Ran Duan (right)  —  Ben Edelman is an associate professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
What will Cruz do?  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) faces a tough decision on whether to follow through on his pledge to block any legislation he deemed nonessential in the lame-duck session.  —  With his colleagues scrambling to finish a $1 trillion government-funding measure and get out of town, Cruz is a wild card.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Deal reached on $1.01 trillion spending bill
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Harry Reid makes push for nominees
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Jonathan Gruber's Weak New Excuse for His Obamacare Exchange Subsidies “Speak-O”  —  At a hearing in front of the House Oversight Committee this morning, MIT economist and Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber attempted to explain away recently unearthed comments about the Affordable Care Act's subsidies …
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Noah Rothman / Hot Air:   Gruber won't deny the White House wanted to trick Congress into passing the ACA
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Still cooking the ObamaCare books
Politico:
Mitch McConnell's Obamacare gambit
Fox News:
Gruber apologizes for ‘mean and insulting’ ObamaCare comments
Washington Post:
Congressional budget poised to partially block pot legalization in D.C.  —  An emerging deal to keep the federal government funded into next year would block the D.C. government from allowing legal sales of marijuana in the nation's capital, according to multiple congressional aides with knowledge of the negotiations.
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BuzzFeed:
Lena Dunham: Why I Chose To Speak Out  —  The ways I've been attacked for sharing my story show how far we have to go when discussing sexual assault.  —  Mike Marsland / WireImage / BuzzFeed  —  It has been almost a decade since I was sexually assaulted.
Discussion: Fox News, Mediaite and The Daily Banter
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Social Injustice Ate My Homework  —  Harvard law students have been taught to think like spoiled children.  —  If there were a First Rule of our present penchant for victimhood, it would presumably be that everything unpleasant that happens in the world must, in some way, eventually be about you.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Jonathan Gruber hearing was a zany coda to Darrell Issa's tumultuous tenure  —  A gaffe, under the oft-cited Michael Kinsley rule, is when somebody in Washington accidentally speaks the truth.  But what happens when frankness leads you to say something so monumentally stupid …
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Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Source: Rolling Stone Deputy Editor Tendered Resignation; Wenner Declines  —  Deputy managing editor offered to resign in wake of UVA reporting brouhaha  —  Rolling Stone Managing Editor at Will Dana speaks onstage at the New York Public Library on October 17, 2013.
New York Times:
Congressional Leaders Reach Deal on Spending  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders reached a deal Tuesday on a more than $1 trillion spending package that would fund most of the federal government through the current fiscal year.  —  But because negotiations on the package dragged over policy details …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Magazine
 
 
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Rick Perry, hungry for redemption, says he's a ‘substantially different’ candidate
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Kerry: New Flexible War Powers Needed to Fight IS
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
National Journal:
In late October, he campaigned in Colorado, by chance, on the same day as Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Politico:
Don't call it a shutdown  —  The budget deal hits a speed bump.
Discussion: New York Times
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Asoleycerro / KTLA:
Woman Gives Birth in Airplane Shortly After Take Off; Plane Diverted to LAX
Discussion: Mashable
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
FBI Files Charges Against President Of Company Behind West Virginia Chemical Spill
Discussion: DeSmogBlog
Lauren French / Politico:
Conservatives, Democrats tussle over contraceptives in spending bill
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
 

 
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