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Politico:
De Blasio's nightmare — New York's mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that. — Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can't do the New Politics if you don't pay attention to the old politics.
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Washington Post, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog, The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo
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Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal — The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers — Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans …
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protein wisdom, Weekly Standard, The PJ Tatler and Washington Post
New York Times:
Mr. de Blasio's Call for Harmony
Mr. de Blasio's Call for Harmony
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Townhall.com, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, susiemadrak.com, Daily Kos, CNN, The Intercept, Corey Robin and Slantpoint
New York Post:
Shamed De Blasio begs New Yorkers to report threats on cops
Shamed De Blasio begs New Yorkers to report threats on cops
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Power Line, Hot Air and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Bernard B. Kerik / TIME:
Bernie Kerik: War Is Being Waged on Our Homeland
Bernie Kerik: War Is Being Waged on Our Homeland
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alicublog, Fox News Insider and Slantpoint
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
O'Reilly Tears Into ‘Villain’ de Blasio: He Needs to Resign Immediately
O'Reilly Tears Into ‘Villain’ de Blasio: He Needs to Resign Immediately
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Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post
Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Economy Grows Most Since '03 on U.S. Consumer-Spending Gains — The U.S. economy roared into overdrive in the third quarter as consumer and business spending fueled the biggest expansion in more than a decade. — Gross domestic product grew at a 5 percent annual rate from July through September …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and WGBH News
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Revised Up to 5.0% Growth — WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy posted its strongest growth in more than a decade during the third quarter, supported by robust consumer spending and business investment. — Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods …
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Reuters, Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard, Mediaite, U.S. Bureau … and Gallup
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
GDP grows by 5 percent as US economy picks up strong pace
GDP grows by 5 percent as US economy picks up strong pace
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Prairie Weather
John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: 911 operators made ‘anti-police’ remarks, causing quarrel with FDNY dispatchers as 2 NYPD cops were dying, sources say — The war of words occurred when news broke that NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot Saturday. One dispatcher allegedly said the cops ‘deserved it,’ said a law enforcement source.
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The Gateway Pundit
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Robert Wilonsky / Pop Culture Blog:
Sony Pictures CEO ‘excited’ to release ‘The Interview’ on Christmas Day — Randall Park, center, as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in The Interview, which you could get to see as soon as this week — Update at 11:52 p.m.: Sony has released a statement confirming what we've known all morning …
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Hit & Run, Gawker, Engadget, VentureBeat, Telegraph, The Verge, Re/code and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Groundswell of support for ‘The Interview’
Groundswell of support for ‘The Interview’
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Weekly Standard, FOX31 Denver, FishbowlDC, Politico and Inside Movies, more at Mediagazer »
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Mitch McConnell: Senate 'didn't do squat for years' — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his biggest challenge will be righting the course of Congress, adding — in a swipe at outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid — that his own chamber “basically didn't do squat for years.”
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's New Senate Goal: Turn Republican Dial to Yes
Mitch McConnell's New Senate Goal: Turn Republican Dial to Yes
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Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Pelosi: Boehner must force Grimm to resign — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is turning the heat up on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), urging him to call for Rep. Michael Grimm's (R-N.Y.) resignation. — Grimm is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of tax evasion.
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ABC News, Staten Island Advance, Politico, Talking Points Memo, WGBH News, The Huffington Post, Political Wire and National Review
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
How many crimes can you see being committed in this anti-gun ‘public service’ ad? — I've gotten several e-mails about this ad, and one reader asked: If a child does what the protagonist did — would the filmmakers be criminally punishable or subject to civil liability?
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Liberty Unyielding, Raw Story, Hit & Run and Clayton Cramer
Michael Brown / TMZ.com:
'AND HE'S DEAD, DEAD MICHAEL BROWN' [VIDEO] — The Glendale, CA Elks Lodge is investigating a shocking incident that went down in the club a week ago Monday, when a performer sang a song celebrating the death of Michael Brown ... for an audience that included a number of retired and current cops ... and TMZ has the video.
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Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
Politico:
HHS reports 6 million signups so far for Obamacare next year — Nearly 2 million people have signed up for health insurance for the first time through HealthCare.gov and close to 6.4 million people were enrolled in the federal marketplace one month into the 2015 enrollment season, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Tuesday.
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Campaign for America's Future
Jacob Heilbrunn / New York Times:
The Real Threat to Hillary Clinton: Jim Webb — WASHINGTON — THE conventional wisdom is that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be almost impossible to dislodge from the Democratic presidential nomination and that even if she does encounter some hiccups, they will come from her left flank on economic policy.
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NewsMax.com, Power Line and BuzzFeed
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Giuliani's claim that Obama launched anti-police ‘propaganda’ — “We've had four months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police.” — Giuliani made headlines after his statement on Fox News, which he repeated the next day on CNN.
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Mediaite
Associated Press:
Court rejects 2 ozone regulations — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a victory for environmental groups, a federal appeals court rejected two Environmental Protection Agency regulations that loosened requirements for achieving compliance with more protective ozone standards.
Alyssa Zauderer / New York's PIX11:
Southwest jet gets wing clipped in collision at LaGuardia Airport — The wing of a Southwest Airline was clipped. (Photo by Christiana Peppard) — LAGUARDIA AIRPORT, Queens (PIX11) - Two passenger jets collided at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday morning. — The wing of the Southwest Airlines …
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WTVR-TV and FOX31 Denver
Duane D. Stanford / Bloomberg:
Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquarters — Forget about leaving a voice mail at Coca-Cola Co.'s (KO) Atlanta headquarters. Send a text instead. — Office voice mail at the world's largest soft-drink maker was shut down “to simplify the way we work and increase productivity,” …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Three Pages Of Rand Paul's Book Were Plagiarized From Think Tanks — The worst case yet. Paul's office says the book notes Paul didn't individually report out each case. — Joshua Roberts / Reuters — An entire section of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's 2013 book Government Bullies …