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9:50 AM ET, January 5, 2016

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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Is the Oregon Standoff Evidence of a Racial Double Standard?  —  Not really.  And we are in danger of drawing the wrong lessons from the fact that these armed militiamen are white.  —  In April 2014, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy made headlines when he (and his armed allies) …
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Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
How the Leader of the Oregon Armed Protest Benefited From a Federal Loan Program  —  Ammon Bundy decries federal “tyranny,” but he sought aid from the government to help his company.  —  As one of the leaders of a band of armed, anti-government activists who have taken over a National Park Service building …
Carissa Wolf / Washington Post:
In Oregon, frustration over federal land rights has been building for years  —  BURNS, Ore. — B.J. Soper has seen the frustration building for years in this rural corner of Oregon.  —  The federal government owns more than half the land in the state, as it does across much of the West.
Washington Post:
Armed men, led by Bundy brothers, take over federal building in rural Oregon
Des Moines Register:
Last Slide  —  Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is seeking …
Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Watch: Oregon militants post new video from refuge, plead for help to ‘prevent bloodshed’
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
Wesley Goheen / WGCL-TV:
Woman, children safe after standoff at hotel comes to an end  —  A standoff at an area hotel involving two adults and 11 children has come to an end after the suspect stabbed himself.  —  A SWAT team had been deployed to the standoff inside a room at the Rite4Us Inn & Suites location …
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WXIA-TV:
Woman, 11 kids held hostage in motel standoff  —  DEKALB, Ga. — A woman and 11 children are being held hostage at a motel on Snapfinger Woods Dr.  —  The stand off is underway after a domestic dispute call that came in around the two o'clock hour.  The SWAT team is on the scene negotiating …
Discussion: NBC News and WISH-TV
WSB-TV:
11 kids safe after hostage situation at DeKalb motel  —  DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. —  Police said a SWAT standoff ended at a DeKalb County motel at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.  —  Police said a suspect had held 11 children hostage at Rite4Us Inn and Suites on Snapfinger Woods Drive.
The White House:
FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities  —  Gun violence has taken a heartbreaking toll on too many communities across the country.  Over the past decade in America, more than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama details executive action on gun restrictions
Speaker.gov:
Statement on Potential Executive Action to Restrict 2nd Amendment Rights
Discussion: The Daily Signal and Slantpoint
Will Kraus / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over “our southern border.”  —  The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!  Donald Trump's first TV ad shows migrants ‘at the southern border,’ but they're actually in Morocco  —  In a new television ad — his campaign's first …
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NBC News:
Trump Ad Fact Checked for Border Footage, Campaign Says ‘No Sh—’
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new TV ad: Make America great by keeping the darkies out
Bloomberg Business:
What the 2016 Presidential Candidates Must Do to Win  —  Can a Republican win without succeeding in Iowa or New Hampshire?  Can Clinton avoid a stumble?  —  michaelcbender  —  aritbenie  —  Less than four weeks before Iowans kick off the 2016 presidential contest with their Feb. 1 caucuses …
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NBC News:
Trump Has Highest Support Among White Evangelicals: Poll  —  With the presidential primaries in full swing, Donald Trump maintains his sizable lead over the rest of the Republican field.  Among Republican or Republican-leaning registered voters, Trump has 35% support compared to 18% for Ted Cruz …
Discussion: Politico
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Hillary: Elect me and I'll get to the bottom of UFOs and Area 51  —  Old and busted: Donald Trump actively appeals to the fringies!  New hotness: Media to salute Hillary Clinton's inclusiveness in 4, 3, 2 ...  Ahem.  These two had eight years to pursue any curiosity they had about UFOs and Area 51.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Cruz send shivers down GOP spines  —  With only weeks before GOP primary voters first cast their ballots, the level of alarm among establishment Republicans about the enduring dominance of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is reaching new heights.  —  In private conversations with several former aides …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jeremy Gillula / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Confirms: T-Mobile's Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All Video  —  Back in November, T-Mobile announced a new service for its mobile customers called Binge On, in which video streams from certain websites don't count against customers' data caps.1 …
Esquire:
AMERICAN RAGE: THE ESQUIRE/NBC NEWS SURVEY  —  WE THE PEOPLE ARE PISSED.  THE BODY POLITIC IS BURNING UP.  AND THE ANGER THAT COURSES THROUGH OUR HEADLINES AND NEWS FEEDS—ABOUT INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY, ABOUT MARGINALIZATION AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT, ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO US—SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATING.
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
The Left May Come to Loathe Obama  —  As we glide with trepidation into another presidential election year, the American mood might be best characterized as apprehensive.  The right, which has for nearly seven years eagerly anticipated the last moments of Barack Obama's presidency …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Washington Times
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Yahoo Shutters Video Service Yahoo Screen (Exclusive)  —  Yahoo has shut down Yahoo Screen, the video hub the beleaguered company launched over two years ago to unite its many original and syndicated programming under one roof.  —  Yahoo Screen was home to everything from the recent streaming …
 
 
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Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
The Eight Causes of Trumpism
Tessa Berenson / TIME:
Here Are the Five Most Interesting Anecdotes From Candy Carson's New Book
Discussion: alan.com
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox pundit: Oregon militia are not ‘thugs’ like black protesters because they fight ‘government gone wild’
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush Has “Mistaken And Conflated” Story About Receiving NRA Award, Campaign Admits
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Academics And Politics  —  Via Noah Smith, an interesting …
Discussion: TaxProf Blog
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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