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8:40 AM ET, December 5, 2013

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC  —  Just over two weeks ago, MSNBC host Martin Bashir delivered a harsh piece of commentary that culminated in the suggestion that someone should “s-h-i-t” in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's (R-AK) mouth.  Bashir offered an abject apology on his next broadcast …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Martin Bashir Out at MSNBC
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Weasel Zippers
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Economic Mobility  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you, everybody.  Thank you so much.  Please, please have a seat.  Thank you so much.  Well, thank you, Neera, for the wonderful introduction and sharing a story that resonated with me.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: ‘Profoundly unequal’ economy a ‘fundamental threat’  —  President Obama on Wednesday declared that addressing income inequality would be the focus of “all” of the White House's efforts “for the rest of my presidency.”  —  In a sweeping address that touched on raising the minimum wage …
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The best speech Obama has given on the economy  —  The speech President Obama delivered this morning at THEARC in D.C. is perhaps the single best economic speech of his presidency.  That's in part because it exists for no other reason than to lay out Obama's view of the economy.
Washington Post:
NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show  —  The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials …
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Young invincibles spurn O-Care  —  Mounting opposition to ObamaCare among young adults is creating a new crisis for the White House.  —  While the federal enrollment website HealthCare.gov appears to be improving by the day, polls show the “young invincibles” key to making the law work are becoming less likely to enroll.
Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and CNN
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Source: Enrollment surge on HealthCare.gov
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins  —  Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans' biological history.  But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries.  —  In a paper in the journal Nature, scientists reported Wednesday …
Wall Street Journal:
A China Mobile deal would let Apple access a subscriber base seven times that of Verizon  —  China Mobile signed a long-awaited deal with Apple to offer iPhones on its network, an arrangement that would give the U.S. technology giant a big boost in the world's largest mobile market.
Richard Weir / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren pledges she won't run for president in 2016  —  By:  —  U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren pledged today she will not run for president in 2016 and will finish her term.  —  The Bay State senior senator has been mentioned in the preliminary talk about the presidential race, but Hillary Clinton has generated the most buzz.
Politico:
GOP men tutored in running against women  —  Of course, these Democratic women challengers will have to surmount all the hurdles that anyone seeking to knock of an incumbent always face: lack of name ID; challenges in getting press coverage; and most of all — the single biggest issue - a huge fundraising gap.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Brooklyn Politician Blames ‘Jewish Success’ For ‘Knock Out Game’  —  Laurie Cumbo, a councilwoman-elect in Brooklyn, N.Y., believes alleged “Knock Out Game” attacks against Jews in the Crown Heights neighborhood may have been fueled by “resentment” against the Jewish community.
ctvnews.ca:
Ford may have tried to buy crack video: court documents  —  Text:  —  Tamara Cherry, CTV Toronto  —  Mayor Rob Ford may have tried to buy the alleged video of himself smoking crack cocaine two months before news of the video first broke, court documents released today allege.
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Chris Lingebach / CBS DC:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to Appear on ‘The Sports Junkies’
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
FBI executes search warrant, takes computers from Kent Sorenson's home  —  FBI officials executed a search warrant at former state Sen. Kent Sorenson's home two weeks ago and confiscated computers and other materials connected to presidential campaign politics, his lawyer told The Des Moines Register today.
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Cotton campaign rips ‘offensive’ NRSC attack on Mark Pryor's Bible ad  —  Rep. Tom Cotton's (R-Ark.) Senate campaign on Wednesday denounced a “bizarre and offensive” attack on Sen. Mark Pryor's faith by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).  —  Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat …
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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Rubio PAC Jumps In Big to Aid Tom Cotton in Arkansas
Discussion: Politico
Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:
2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack  —  Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this week.  —  The massive data breach was a result …
Ana Marie Cox / Guardian:
Remember all those Obamacare horror stories?  Not looking so bad now  —  Inflammatory personal testimony has been a staple of bad debating since humans first started arguing with each other  —  Statisticians dismiss the practice of using personal stories to argue about an objective reality as …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Says U.S. Should Use Nuclear Weapons If It Attacks Iran  —  A Republican congressman said on Wednesday that if the United States ends up using military force against Iran's nuclear program, it should do so with nuclear weapons.  —  GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson made headlines …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep.: Nuke Iran If War Is Necessary (VIDEO)
 
 
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Reity O'Brien / The Center for Public Integrity …:
State supreme court judges reveal scant financial information
NY Daily News:
Anthony Weiner is in talks to host an NYC radio show, sources say
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
Keith Humphreys / The Reality-Based Community:
Eating the Seed Corn in the Health Research World
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Secret Life of Grief
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Third Way's Response To Sen. Warren: Banks Should Disclose Donations
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Reuters:
Newtown 911 calls: Shooting heard in background
Discussion: Politico and The Immoral Minority
Gawker:
Revealed: A PayPal Mafioso Is Behind “Tips For Jesus” Giving Spree
Discussion: SiliconBeat, Most Recent and LAist
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Britain to tackle “Islamist extremism” after soldier's murder
Brian Beutler / Salon:
The right's core dishonesty: How Obamacare became its own culture war
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