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9:05 AM ET, December 16, 2014

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Politico:
Vivek Murthy confirmed as surgeon general  —  The Senate on Monday narrowly confirmed Vivek Murthy to be the nation's surgeon general, making him one of the highest-profile beneficiaries of the Senate's nuclear option.  —  The nomination was strongly opposed by the National Rifle Association …
Discussion: Hot Air
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The Hill:
Manchin sides with NRA against Obama's surgeon general nominee  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday bucked Democratic leadership to vote against the controversial surgeon general nominee whom conservatives have bashed for calling gun violence a public health concern.
Jim Malewitz / Politico:   Ted Cruz trolled over surgeon general vote
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid plays hardball in lame duck
Salman Masood / New York Times:
Taliban Kill Scores in Attack on Pakistani School  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In one of Pakistan's bloodiest attacks in recent years, scores of people were killed after a group of Taliban gunmen stormed a school in northern Pakistan, officials and rescue workers said on Tuesday.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and NPR
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Jibran Ahmad / Reuters:
Over 120 Pakistanis, mostly children, killed in Taliban high school attack  —  (Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.
Discussion: Gawker and Mediaite
BBC:
Pakistan Taliban ‘kill 100’ in assault on Peshawar school  —  At least 100 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.  —  Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said.
Saad Khan / Agence France-Presse:
Carnage as Taliban storm Pakistan school, kill 130  —  12 hrs ago  —  Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in Pakistan on Tuesday in one of the country's bloodiest attacks in recent years.
Discussion: Slantpoint
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet  —  Remember when pundits loved the president?  The conditions are right for that old feeling to return.  —  Remember when pundits loved Barack Obama?  It's been quite a few years now.  But I suspect some of the adoration is about to come back.  —  There are three reasons.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Trevor Eischen / Politico:
David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren has chance of being nominated  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks says Elizabeth Warren has a “significant and growing chance of being nominated” as the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election.  —  In an op-ed titled “Warren Can Win,” …
Fox News:
Warren's present-tense denial adds to speculation she will run in 2016
Discussion: Shark Tank
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
Warren says (4 times) she's not running for president
Discussion: National Review, New York Post and NPR
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Eric Garner 'didn't deserve to die'  —  Bill Clinton urged people to move beyond hard-wire racial perceptions and said that the unarmed black man killed after an apparent chokehold by police in New York City “didn't deserve to die.”  —  Clinton made the comments in an interview with Fusion …
Discussion: Washington Times
Plain Dealer:
Cleveland Browns receiver Andrew Hawkins delivers emotional response to Cleveland police union's reaction to ‘Justice for Tamir Rice’ shirt  —  Adam Ferrise, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Adam Ferrise, Northeast Ohio Media Group  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins defended …
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Politico:
Ted Cruz reignites GOP civil war  —  Republican senators pounded Ted Cruz over the weekend, lashing him for his procedural tactics and ultimately voting in large numbers against his immigration gambit.  —  Now, Cruz's allies off Capitol Hill are looking for revenge.  —  Story Continued Below
Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
The Irony and the Ecstasy  —  Every serious G.O.P. presidential aspirant invokes the glorious era of Ronald Reagan, to which the country must return.  Ignore the fact that, for the likes of Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, Reagan's actual record—from increased bureaucracy to higher deficits—should be seen as a complete failure.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Insurers ease ‘Obamacare’ deadline  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to head off a new round of consumer headaches with President Barack Obama's health care law, the insurance industry says it will give customers more time to pay their premiums for January.
Discussion: Associated Press
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg View:
Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street  —  It's a wonderful life on Wall Street, yet here is a holiday wish list to make it even better.  —  1. The financial sector rids itself of anyone with even the faintest reason to believe that he or she is unusually clever.
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Govt urges dismissal of lawsuit over immigration  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is urging dismissal of a lawsuit that would dismantle the president's immigration program, an initiative designed to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
Survey: E-cigs surpass regular cigs in teen use  —  Associated Press 1 hr ago  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government's annual drug use survey finds.  —  Even as tobacco smoking by teens dropped to new lows …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Nothing Succeeds Like Liberal Secession: Blue America Without Red America Would Be A Basket Case  —  The July 4, 2019, ceremony marking the final dissolution of the United States of America was quite amicable compared to the anger and bitterness of the preceding five years.
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The world according to Garth  —  Remembering the pioneer of the modern political ad.  —  He cut his teeth producing high school sports for local television, and his first political crusade was Adlai Stevenson's sentimental presidential campaign in 1960.  He made the on-air advertisements …
Discussion: ABC News
Tony Romm / Politico:
Uber answers Al Franken, takes aim at privacy questions  —  Uber on Monday strongly defended its privacy practices, telling Sen. Al Franken in a letter that the company “prohibits employees from accessing rider personal information except for business purposes” — but the Democratic senator said he still isn't convinced.
John Paul Rollert / The Atlantic Online:
Meeting Ayn Rand on the Las Vegas Strip  —  For eight days last summer, a new generation of Randians was indoctrinated in the auditoriums of The Venetian.  Where better to absorb Atlas Shrugged 's teachings than in a city of extremes?  —  111-degree heat is confounding …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Matt Phillips / Quartz:
Bitcoin is the worst investment of 2014
Discussion: Washington Post and The Verge
Matthew M. Burke / Stars & Stripes:
DOD wants bullet that can change direction after being fired
Dick Cheney / Salon:
Dick Cheney's grotesque legacy: Why the record is so much worse than reported
David Chazan / Telegraph:
Men who like spicier food are ‘alpha males’ with higher levels of testosterone, French report claims
Rachel Alexander / Townhall.com:
Over 1,000 Gun Owners Violate Washington's I-594 - In Front Of Police!
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Newtown victims' families sue maker of gun used in 2012 attack
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
New Budget Committee chief: time for a new debt-ceiling standoff
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Agence France-Presse:
Pope Francis offers US help in closing Guantanamo
Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Branstad seeks to end Iowa GOP straw poll
Ben Frumin / The Week:
Why TheWeek.com is closing the comments section
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Fox's Hasselbeck Uses Sydney Siege to Defend CIA Torture Program
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Huffington Post
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Shooter, His Victim and Race
Discussion: Guns.com and Joanne Jacobs
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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