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12:45 PM ET, December 15, 2011

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National Review:
Winnowing the Field  —  A hard-fought presidential primary campaign is obscuring the uncharacteristic degree of unity within the Republican party.  It has reached a conservative consensus on most of the pressing issues of the day.  All of the leading candidates, and almost all of the lagging ones, support the right to life.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Iowa: Romney 23%, Gingrich 20%, Paul 18%  —  For the fifth straight survey, the GOP field has a new frontrunner in Iowa.  —  On this first release video, Scott Rasmussen reveals Mitt Romney as the new frontrunner in the Iowa Caucus.  —  Although this video is available to everyone, most of the content on Rasmussen Reports is not.
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Poll: Dramatic drop in Gingrich support in Iowa  —  DES MOINES — A new survey from pollster Scott Rasmussen shows support for Newt Gingrich in Iowa has fallen sharply in recent days.  The poll shows the former House speaker with the support of 20 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Giuliani slams Romney, likens Newt to Reagan  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed Mitt Romney as an unelectable flip-flopper, and said Newt Gingrich, who he compared to Ronald Reagan, offers Republicans the best shot at unseating President Obama.
Discussion: CNN and nation.foxnews.com
ABCNEWS:
Rudy Giuliani Carves Up Mitt Romney on Morning Show  —  Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has some thoughts on the GOP field, and he generously shared them with cable news audiences this morning in appearances so sharp they could be used in anti-Romney ads.  —  “It may be that Newt is appealing …
David Grant / Christian Science Monitor:
Jon Huntsman leapfrogs Ron Paul in New Hampshire, says poll  —  GOP candidate Jon Huntsman has replaced Ron Paul in third place in New Hampshire, behind Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, says a new Suffolk University poll.  —  WASHINGTON  —  The latest poll out of New Hampshire …
New York Times:
In a Tactical Shift, Romney Trains Sights on Gingrich  —  Mitt Romney, his presidential aspirations suddenly endangered by Newt Gingrich's rapid resurgence, is employing aggressive new arguments in an effort to disqualify Mr. Gingrich as a credible choice to Republicans, calling him “zany” …
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
2008 Flashback: Michele Bachmann Gushes Over Newt Gingrich … Here's a partial transcript from Michele Bachmann's three-minute introduction of Newt Gingrich at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota back in 2008.  What happened to this Michele?
Discussion: The Politico
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Rudy Giuliani: Mitt Romney is world-class flip-flopper
Discussion: CNN
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Pretending That Ron Paul Doesn't Matter Won't Make Him Go Away
Discussion: GOP 12, FrumForum and Hit & Run
New York Times:
U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over  —  BAGHDAD — The United States military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday even as violence continues to plague the country and the Muslim world remains distrustful of American power.  —  In a fortified concrete courtyard …
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Washington Post:
Iraq war draws to a quiet close  —  BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta paid solemn tribute on Thursday to an “independent, free and sovereign Iraq” and declared the official end to the Iraq war, formally wrapping up the U.S. military's mission in the country after almost nine years.
Wall Street Journal:
Battle Flag Comes Down in Baghdad
Wall Street Journal:
A Bipartisan Way Forward on Medicare  —  Allowing private plans to compete with traditional Medicare will help lower costs and spur innovation.  —  Few issues draw more heated partisan rhetoric than the future of Medicare.  Seniors are a reliable and powerful voting bloc …
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Lawmakers Offer Bipartisan Proposal for Medicare With Private Option
Wall Street Journal:
The Wyden-Ryan Breakthrough  —  A better, bipartisan Medicare future.
Discussion: Corrente
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Lawmakers Offer Bipartisan Plan to Overhaul Medicare
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Payroll tax cut and spending bill stall in Senate, raising threat of shutdown  —  Negotiations over how to extend a payroll tax holiday for 160 million Americans and avoid a government shutdown this weekend ground to a halt Wednesday after a standoff in the Senate over how to proceed.
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Obama, Dems drop millionaire surtax to pay for payroll tax cut
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
White House backs down from threat to veto Defense bill over detainee language
Discussion: Wonkette
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climbdown  —  Defence funding bill allows American citizens to be arrested as terrorists on home soil and held indefinitely without trial  —  Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military …
Associated Press:
‘Dismal’ prospects: 1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income  —  Juan Morena sits on a Los Angeles, Calif., sidewalk as he waits for the St. Francis Center soup kitchen to open on Sept. 13.  —  By Associated Press  —  WASHINGTON - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans …
Pete Souza / People.com:
Obama Family Portrait Revealed  —  From left: Michelle, Malia, Barack and Sasha Obama  —  President Obama may be gearing up his campaign for reelection soon, but at home with his wife and daughters, he couldn't be happier.  —  The White House is releasing this new family portrait of the Obamas …
Discussion: Washington Wire and ThinkProgress
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
China's epic hangover begins  —  China's credit bubble has finally popped.  The property market is swinging wildly from boom to bust, the cautionary exhibit of a BRIC's dream that is at last coming down to earth with a thud.  —  Chinese stocks are flashing warning signs.  The Shanghai index has fallen 30pc since May.
Jake Silverstein / Texas Monthly:
Why We Chose Rick Perry as Our 2012 Bum Steer of the Year  —  As most readers know, every January TEXAS MONTHLY picks a Bum Steer of the Year, an honor conferred on whatever individual we feel has been responsible for the biggest screw-up, gaffe, fumble, stumble, train wreck, or humiliation of the past twelve months.
Discussion: The Hill and Trail Blazers Blog
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Herman Cain's Cabinet dream: DOD  —  Herman Cain says that if he could be a Cabinet secretary, he wants to be head of the Department of Defense.  —  In an interview with Barbara Walters, who chose Cain as one of the “10 Most Fascinating People” of the year, the former presidential hopeful was asked what Cabinet position he would like.
Tom MacDonald / NewsWorks:
Opponents in Philadelphia say bill on Sharia law unfair to Muslims  —  A bill in Harrisburg that opponents say is targeted against Muslims has followers of that faith upset.  —  House Bill 2029 would ban Pennsylvania courts from considering any foreign legal code or system that isn't identical with the Constitution.
Investor's Business Daily:
Documents Show Justice's Breuer Misled On ‘Furious’  —  Ethics In Government: Attorney General Eric Holder insists “nobody at the Justice Department has lied” about the gun-running scandal Fast and Furious.  That in itself is a lie, as his deputy's emails prove.
 
 
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Josh Lederman / The Hill:
Cantor: Palestinian culture ‘infused with resentment and hatred’
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
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Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Sarkozy plan to prop up sovereigns is worrying
Discussion: EconLog
BBC:
French ex-President Jacques Chirac guilty of corruption
Discussion: News Desk
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace: If Ron Paul Wins In Iowa, It Will Discredit The Iowa Caucuses
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