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4:15 PM ET, December 12, 2014

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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
The Week Elizabeth Warren Decided to Run for President  —  Or may have decided.  We won't know for a few months whether the Massachusetts senator will challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, but if she chooses to run, we're going to look back at this week as a pivotal moment in Warren's decision-making.
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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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Democrats who voted for the CRomnibus have received twice as much money from the finance industry as the ‘no’ voters
Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
‘Crominbus’ Passes, But Did Anyone Win?
Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg Politics:
Welcome to the Democrats' Post-Obama Family Feud
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Congressional Democrats take a stand with spending bill
inSourceCode / Committee on Oversight & …:
Issa Subpoenas ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber  —  Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., subpoenaed ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber for all documents and communications with federal, state, or local government employees related …
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Natalie Villacorta / Politico:
Darrell Issa subpoenas Jonathan Gruber
Discussion: Daily Kos
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Gruber subpoenaed over ObamaCare contracts
Discussion: Political Wire
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic  —  Last Friday morning, Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and Guy Vidra, the magazine's C.E.O., presided over a meeting at the publication's Penn Quarter offices in Washington, D.C. It had been a busy twenty-four hours: a day earlier …
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.”  Update: Dowd says she didn't send an advance copy of the column.
Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Cop Shows Up At Penn Student's Room To Question Her About Activist Facebook Post  —  If only they were this diligent about investigating right-wing domestic terrorists.  —  Activists also report that the day after the town hall was held at Calvary United Methodist Church …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director defends rectal rehydration  —  Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Thursday defended revelations from Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats that the agency used rectal rehydration on detainees.  —  “These were medical procedures,” Hayden said during a tense interview on CNN's “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
Discussion: Liberaland
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report
Discussion: Guardian
William McGurn / New York Post:   Tortured tantrums: Feinstein's fake fury
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The full demise of Rolling Stone's rape story  —  Even as Rolling Stone's Nov. 19 story “A Rape on Campus” unraveled last week, the magazine claimed that writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely did her due diligence in investigating an alleged gang rape on Sept. 28, 2012, at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house …
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ABC News:
New Questions Raised About Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story
Discussion: The Federalist, Vox Popoli and Hot Air
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Blow Me Domain Registered To Republican Congressman  —  The website could have been registered by Farenthold, or possibly as a prank by someone not associated with the Texas conservative.  —  Whoisology.com / Via whoisology.com  —  The website Blow-me.org is registered to Republican Texas …
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Dogs in Heaven?  Pope Francis 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 …
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 …
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.”
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Geraldo's Latest Slogan Idea For Black Protesters: 'We're The Problem'  —  Fox News senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera advised black protestors on Friday to abandon the popularized “I can't breathe” slogan in favor of a new one: “We're the problem.”  —  Geraldo's comments were made during …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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.
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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Matt Bai / Yahoo! News:
The ‘24’ Effect  —  I have three vivid memories of watching television …
Discussion: Guardian
Julie Beck / The Atlantic Online:
‘Do No Harm’: When Doctors Torture
Discussion: The Dish
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama opens fraud-ridden benefits programs to illegal immigrants
Brian Mahoney / Politico:
NLRB boosts unions' organizing leverage
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mike Pence lays out vision for a presidential campaign. But will he be a candidate?
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Rand Paul And Apple Have The Same Strategy
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
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Jessica Sooknanan / WSB-TV:
Families to pose with Santa, firearms at local gun range
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty
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Conservatives rage against the machine
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Women flood ranks of GOP
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Financial Times:
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