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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters. — Dimon's involvement came amidst progressives enraged …
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Conservatives rage against the machine — Opponents of Obama's immigration action hoped the GOP would use budget to push back harder on issue — Conservatives began the lame-duck session enraged over President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration and hell-bent on unraveling …
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BREITBART.COM and Bloomberg View
The Hill:
House approves $1.1T bill to fund government despite Dem uprising
House approves $1.1T bill to fund government despite Dem uprising
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
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Washington Post and Hot Air
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama
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Fox News, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, Ed Driscoll, Hinterland Gazette and Politico
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
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Horizons, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and Hot Air
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
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The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Politico and Daily Kos
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Torture Is Who We Are — A country, like a person, is what it does. — Torture, declared President Obama this week, in response to the newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation, is “contrary to who we are.” Maine Senator Angus King added that, “This is not America. This is not who we are.”
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.” — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of Meet the Press at the NBC studios.
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Will Carr / Fox News:
Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale dead at 43 — Dominic Di-Natale, a globetrotting journalist whose work at Fox News Channel and other news organizations took him to Usama bin Laden's compound, demonstrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square and, more recently, to the scene of racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., has died.
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Dogs in Heaven? Pope Leaves Pearly Gate Open — Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory. Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal-rights activists and vegans. — Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died …
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CBS News:
ISIS issues guidelines for sex slavery — Shares - — Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq. — Many of the captives are believed to be sold …
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“The Lid” and Liberty Unyielding
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty — (CNN) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Gov. Chris Christie's unapologetic love for the Dallas Cowboys is “pathetic,” adding that it's rooted in a “basic inferiority complex.” — “If you are a Jerseyite …
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Nonemployed: The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind — The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind — Many men aged 25 to 54 have decided that low-wage jobs will not improve their lives. Their absence from the work force has consequences for the nation.
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Hot Air and Clayton Cramer
Anthony Weiner / Business Insider:
Rand Paul And Apple Have The Same Strategy — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Apple both seem to understand the marketplace. — Apple is betting bipartisan concern about intrusive government snooping will help sell phones, and Paul is creating a pretty impressive presidential campaign based on the same play.
ABC News:
New Questions Raised About Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story … The college students described as friends of the alleged rape victim Jackie in an explosive Rolling Stone article revealed their identities to ABC News today, and said that some of the magazine's story is false.
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The Federalist and Vox Popoli
William McGurn / New York Post:
Tortured tantrums: Feinstein's fake fury — Angus King raises an excellent point about torture. It's just not the point he probably intended. — This week on CNN, Maine's Independent senator was asked about the Senate Democrats' release of a scathing report saying the CIA interrogation program …
Politico:
Backers: Romney more open to 2016 run — He has sounded unimpressed with the emerging GOP field, associates say. — For most of the past year, Mitt Romney supporters have publicly said he should consider running again. And for most of the past year, Romney has seemed uninterested. — Until recently.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report — The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality. Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mike Pence lays out vision for a presidential campaign. But will he be a candidate? — INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has strong ideas about what the next Republican presidential nominee should be like. — A “solutions conservative” with a record of policy reform originating in the states.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and Politico
Daniel Wiser / Washington Free Beacon:
Bachmann to Obama at White House Christmas Party: Bomb Iran — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) knew the White House Christmas party this week would be her last chance as a member of Congress to speak directly to President Obama. She didn't waste the opportunity.
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