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9:00 AM ET, December 23, 2012

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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
News Analysis: Still Bitter About Election, Republican Opposition Unwilling to Compromise with President  —  WASHINGTON — If Friday's memorial service for one of this country's long-serving senators was a somber recollection of a bipartisan era that once was, the rest of the day was a frenetic reminder …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Tax fight sends GOP into chaos
Emily Yoffe / Slate:
Today We Are Gathered ... To Hear More About Me  —  President Obama was supposed to eulogize the memory of Sen. Daniel Inouye.  Instead he told us about his favorite summer vacation.  —  Someone needs to tell Barack Obama—it must get particularly confusing this time of year …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Uses Funeral Service to Talk About Himself
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and protein wisdom
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama to attend Inouye funeral in Hawaii
Discussion: ABCNEWS and CNN
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Hospital apologises to 38 families for appalling care that saw a patient starve to death  —  An NHS hospital has apologised to 38 families after a patient starved to death and it left other dying people screaming in pain.  —  From left: Patricia Bridle, Laurence Hodges, Lois Smith and Chris Grande
Discussion: BBC, Power Line and ParaPundit
Wall Street Journal:
How ‘Cliff’ Talks Hit the Wall  —  Behind Scenes, Boehner Failed to Sell Republicans on Taxes, While Obama's Spending Plans Rankled  —  WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama called Friday for a return to negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Jerry Brown's California revival  —  He's no kid at age 74, but California Gov. Jerry Brown has staged a comeback this year that Bill Clinton could appreciate.  —  It looked as though Brown's second go-round in the governor's job might well end after a single term.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
How Party of Budget Restraint Shifted to ‘No New Taxes,’ Ever  —  WASHINGTON — On a Saturday afternoon in October 1990, Senator Pete Domenici turned from a conversation on the Senate floor, caught the eye of a clerk by raising his right hand, and voted in favor of a huge and contentious bill to reduce federal deficits.
ABCNEWS:
Coming Up on ‘This Week’: Asa Hutchinson, Sen. Johnny Isakson and Sen. Amy Klobuchar  —  This Sunday, “This Week” covers the renewed debate over gun violence, the latest setback in the fiscal cliff stalemate, and Sen. John Kerry's nomination as secretary of state.
Discussion: Firedoglake and State of the Union
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Michael Steele: NRA Press Conference ‘Very Haunting And Very Disturbing’ (VIDEO)  —  Former Republican National Committee chairman and MSNBC commentator Michael Steele on Friday said he found the press conference led by National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre “very haunting and very disturbing.”
New York Times:
The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hidey Hole  —  Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, would have been better advised to remain wherever he had been hiding after the Newtown, Conn., massacre, rather than appear at a news conference on Friday.
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Energy Department's nuclear weapons chief stepping down  —  The head of the Department of Energy division responsible for overseeing and maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal is stepping down, according to a statement issued on Saturday.  —  “The ability to serve our nation is a privilege …
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Toledo Blade:
Mayan skulls say to forget apocalypse  —  Ritual predicts new era, not end of times  —  Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss  —  MERIDA, Mexico — The crystal skulls have spoken: The world is not going to end.  —  American seer Star Johnsen-Moser led a whooping, dancing …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Postal workers continue hunger strike against proposed delivery cuts  —  Despite most of Congress leaving town for the holidays, postal workers are continuing a hunger strike protesting legislation to save the United States Postal Service (USPS) through budget cuts.
 
 
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Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Egypt constitutional vote: ‘Things are definitely worse than under the old regime’
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Top House Democrat: Hagel has an ‘endemic hostility towards Israel’
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D.C. house inspires 168 bids in red-hot real estate market
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Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Christie: No to armed school guards
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Formal Reprimand Issued To Flatulent Federal Worker
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Talk radio host Dana Loesch files suit in St. Louis against Breitbart.com
 

 
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