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12:15 PM ET, December 24, 2012

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Crapo charged with drunken driving  —  Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) was arrested and charged with drunken driving in Alexandria, Va., early Sunday morning, according to local police.  —  Jody Donaldson, a spokesperson for the Alexandria Police Department, said in an e-mail that Crapo was arrested at 12:45 a.m. Sunday.
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CBS News:
Sen. Michael Crapo arrested on DUI in Virginia  —  Sen. Michael Crapo, R.-Idaho, was arrested in Virginia early Sunday morning for driving under the influence, Alexandria police say.  —  Police spokesman Craig T. Fifer said an officer was on routine patrol when he saw Sen. Crapo's vehicle run a red light.
Mpoppel / BNO News:
Statements, booking photo following Sen. Crapo's DUI arrest
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Weekly Standard
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Idaho senator accused of DUI in Virginia
Discussion: The Week
Mark McKinnon / The Daily Beast:
All I Want for Christmas Is a New GOP  —  You call that governing?  Amid dismal fiscal-cliff talks and an even worse reaction to the shooting in Newtown, Mark McKinnon throws cold water on his wayward party.  —  What I want for Christmas is a new Republican Party.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Booman Tribune
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Search for Way Through Fiscal Impasse Turns to the Senate  —  WASHINGTON — With little more than a week for lawmakers to avert huge tax increases and spending cuts, attention is turning from the gridlocked House to the Senate, where some Republicans on Sunday endorsed President Obama's call …
Janet Daley / Telegraph:
The truth is that politicians are telling lies  —  Government is simply unaffordable  —  The Chancellor makes much of his determination to cut benefits  —  Was 2012 the year when the democratic world lost its grip on reality?  Must we assume now that no party that speaks the truth …
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Obama is CNN's Most Intriguing Person of 2012  —  Obama: His year in facial expressions  —  Washington (CNN) — A year ago, President Barack Obama was under fire.  Today, he is being feted.  —  In just 12 months, the 51-year-old lawyer and former U.S. senator raised by a single mother went …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
USA Today:
4 firefighters shot, 2 killed at Webster, N.Y., fire  —  Fires allowed to spread while gunman remains at large  —  Police at the scene of the shooting.  A gunman shot and killed at least two firefighters responding to a house fire at a Rochester suburb early Monday.
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
White House Wavers on Hagel, Considers Others for Defense  —  Nebraska Republican's Pentagon nomination appears to be failing because of his blunt advocacy of unpopular positions.  —  Besieged by criticism from right and left, and considerable skepticism from his former Senate colleagues …
Discussion: Power Line, Israel Matzav and Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Gregory Mocks LaPierre for Proposing Armed Guards, but Sends Kids to High-Security School  —  David Gregory mocked the NRA's Wayne LaPierre for proposing that armed guards be at every school in America.  But the NBC host seems to have no problem with armed guards protecting his kids everyday where they attend school in Washington, D.C.
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall  —  GALVESTON, Tex. — Angelica Gonzales marched through high school in Goth armor — black boots, chains and cargo pants — but undermined her pose of alienation with a place on the honor roll.  She nicknamed herself after a metal band …
Peyton Craighill / The Fix:
Poll: Public sours on what 2013 will bring  —  Public expectations about the year ahead are bleaker than they've been in more than a decade, with Republicans leading the way in adopting gloomier outlooks, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.  —  A bare 53 percent majority …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Reuters:
Afghan policewoman kills coalition contractor in Kabul: NATO  —  (Reuters) - An Afghan woman wearing a police uniform shot dead on Monday a civilian contractor working for Western forces in the police chief's compound in Kabul, NATO said.  —  The incident is likely to raise troubling questions about the direction of an unpopular war.
Discussion: The Hill and Jihad Watch
 
 
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Andrew Dalton / The Huffington Post:
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Discussion: The Raw Story
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Anjali Sareen / Mediaite:
Cory Booker Lambasts ‘False’ Gun Debate: 'I Don't Know If Anybody Here Has Seen Someone Shot... I Have'
Discussion: Hot Air
ShortTimer / The Patriot Perspective:
David Gregory Violates DC Gun Law On National TV —  Update: CNN's Don Lemon Admits To Breaking Gun Laws, Too?
CNN:
STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY
New York Times:
The Scourge of Concealed Weapons