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New York Post:
Jewish man attacked by two women after trying to film anti-Semitic tirade — Two female attackers yelled “F— you Jew” and “I will kill you Jews” at a Brooklyn man before shoving him to the ground when he tried to film their anti-Semitic screed, law enforcement sources and witnesses said Wednesday.
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Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
Victim of Anti-Semitic Rampage Is Unlikely to Awake From Coma, Family Says
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Algemeiner.com, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Reason
Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now. — Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant who is working with a political action committee that backs Bill Weld for president. — Here's a question: Does anybody have any idea what the Republican Party stands for in 2020?
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Raw Story
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Bet He Could Isolate Iran and Charm North Korea. It's Not That Easy. — The president assumed economic levers would guide the countries' national interests. Now, he confronts twin challenges in an election year. — President Trump entered the new year facing flare-ups …
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The National Interest, The Mahablog, DNyuz, HuffPost, Raw Story and Washington Post
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Embassy Attack Revealed Trump's Weakness — Over the past 18 months, Donald Trump has picked a fight with Iran that he won't end and can't win. That fight has had horrifying consequences for the Iranian people, led Tehran to restart its nuclear program, and now left parts of the American embassy compound in Baghdad in flames.
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BBC, New York Times, Quartz and DNyuz
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Pelosi has McConnell over a a barrel as she delays impeachment trial: ‘This is working beautifully for her’ — In a column for the Daily Beast, longtime political analyst Eleanor Clift stated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has the upper hand as she deals with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
How Long Can Nancy Pelosi Can Hold Back These Articles of Impeachment? Longer Than You Think — The conventional wisdom is going to say that Pelosi needs to send the articles asap. But there are four words to live by: Don't doubt Pelosi's instincts. — BEAST INSIDE
Rod Blagojevich / Newsmax:
House Democrats Would Have Impeached Lincoln — I, like most people from my home state of Illinois, am a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln. — Recently I've wondered what would have happened had Nancy Pelosi been the Speaker of the House when Abraham Lincoln was president.
Discussion:
Fox News
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Pompeo Cancels Ukraine Trip Amid Protests at Embassy in Iraq — A meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine would have been the first for a top Trump official since the impeachment inquiry began. — WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday canceled a weeklong trip …
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DNyuz
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Emerging from the shadows: the U.S. chief justice who will preside over Trump's trial — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts will be a central figure in the ongoing drama of the Donald Trump presidency in coming months. He is due to preside over a Senate impeachment trial …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Voter suppression, Iowa style — Here's a safe prediction for 2020. The Iowa Democratic caucuses will dominate the news at the end of January and beginning of February. My conservative cousin formerly from New York sees the caucuses as a “glaring example of voter suppression totally ignored …
Valerie Edwards / Daily Mail:
Survival of the richest! Luxurious doomsday-proof bunkers are becoming more alluring to the ultra-wealthy as they fight to get their hands on the $4.5million post-apocalyptic homes fitted with swimming pools, shooting ranges and dog parks — The rich and famous are preparing for the worst …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Tulsi Gabbard makes a splash — surfing in freezing New Hampshire — “History is being made!” someone in the group yelled. — Rep. Tulsi Gabbard tried to make a splash for her presidential campaign on New Year's Day by hitting the waves in freezing New Hampshire.
Julia Zappei / Agence France-Presse:
Austria's conservatives, Greens agree to form government — Vienna (AFP) - Austria's conservatives led by Sebastian Kurz on Wednesday agreed to form an unprecedented coalition government with the Greens, capping almost three months of negotiations. — “We have succeeded to unite the best …
Elvia Díaz / USA Today:
Armed, even in church: Texas shooting is about a lot more than Jack Wilson's heroism — Jack Wilson is a hero. But why were so many other parishioners armed? And how did the shooter get his gun, given his criminal history? — Jack Wilson is a hero alright.
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Mediaite, NB Blog, PJ Media Home, Instapundit, Townhall, DNyuz and Breitbart
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ghislaine Maxwell's powerful contacts protecting her in safe houses — Ghislaine Maxwell — the British socialite who's long been accused of serving as Jeffrey Epstein's madam — is hiding in a series of safe houses and is being “protected because of the information she has on the world's most powerful people.”
Bill Bowden / Arkansas Online:
Judge abruptly exits Biden paternity case — The judge in Hunter Biden's Arkansas paternity case recused without explanation Tuesday, after men in Florida and Israel tried to intervene in the case in apparent attempts to get financial information on the former vice president's son.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Assemblyman Brian Kolb charged with drunken driving in Victor on New Year's Eve — Assemblyman Brian Kolb was arrested and charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated following an Ontario County crash on New Year's Eve. — Deputies responded to a crash at 7980 County Route 41 …
Discussion:
Raw Story, New York Times and New York Post
Barbara Rodriguez / Des Moines Register:
‘I am one of the undecided’: With a month to go, many likely caucusgoers still unsure about their choice — The venue was packed with more than a thousand people waiting to see Pete Buttigieg, and a chant had broken out for the Democratic presidential candidate a few minutes before he took the stage.
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Only You Can Prevent Dystopia — How to survive the internet in 2020. (It's not going to be easy.) — The new year is here, and online, the forecast calls for several seasons of hell. Tech giants and the media have scarcely figured out all that went wrong during the last presidential election …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
What libertarianism has become and will become — State Capacity Libertarianism — Having tracked the libertarian “movement” for much of my life, I believe it is now pretty much hollowed out, at least in terms of flow. One branch split off into Ron Paul-ism and less savory alt right directions …
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