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7:50 AM ET, December 30, 2013

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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Republicans to blame for the public's disgust with Congress  —  As the year ends, Gallup reports that public approval of Congress averaged 14 percent during 2013.  This, the polling firm points out, is “the lowest annual average in Gallup's history.”  —  The pollsters added …
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New York Times:
Democrats Turn to Minimum Wage as 2014 Strategy  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic Party leaders, bruised by months of attacks on the new health care program, have found an issue they believe can lift their fortunes both locally and nationally in 2014: an increase in the minimum wage.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
David / crooksandliars.com/user/7:
Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson: Girls Should Carry A Bible And Marry ‘when They Are 15’  —  Recently uncovered video indicates that Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson may have fringe views — other than those on homosexuality and civil rights — that most Americans would find far outside the mainstream.
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John Prager / Americans Against the Tea Party:
Watch Phil Robertson's Tips On Finding The Perfect Underage Girl To Marry!  (Video)  —  As we've already established, Chris Hansen might enjoy it very much if Phil Robertson “took a seat over there,” based on some comments made at the Sportsmen's Ministry in Georgia in 2009.
Discussion: Joe. My. God. and The Dish
David / crooksandliars.com/user/7:
Rep. Castro Rips Issa After Benghazi Report: He ‘crusaded For Over A Year On A Fairy Tale’  —  Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) lashed out at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Sunday for spending over a year on what he said was a crusade on a “fairy tale” …
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Sotomayor to Lead Countdown to New Year in Times Square  —  Justice Sonia Sotomayor will return to her hometown for New Year's Eve to help lead one of New York City's best known rituals: the ball drop in Times Square.  She will press the crystal button on Tuesday night to lower the ball …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's TV Picks: Anything Edgy, With Hints of Reality  —  WASHINGTON — War, terrorism, economic struggle, mass shootings — such is life in the Oval Office for President Obama.  —  Yet in his few quiet moments, this president seeks not to escape to the delicious back-stabbing of the …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Mike Huckabee: My adventures in radio  —  Huckabee said he got through the interview on air, but after it wrapped he remembered telling the producer, “Look, I don't mind doing fun stuff, I don't mind doing some stuff that's off the wall, but this is the kind of topic — this isn't going to happen again.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Cost of Being Mayor?  $650 Million, if He's Rich  —  Michael R. Bloomberg loves tropical fish.  So when he was elected mayor, he installed two giant aquariums in City Hall.  —  The cost to him for having the tanks cleaned out every week for the past 12 years: around $62,400.  —  The mayor likes to nosh, too.
Discussion: Associated Press
Spiegel Online:
Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit  —  The insert method and other variants of QUANTUM are closely linked to a shadow network operated by the NSA alongside the Internet, with its own, well-hidden infrastructure comprised of “covert” routers and servers.  It appears the NSA also incorporates routers …
Discussion: The Verge and The Raw Story
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Spiegel Online:
Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox
Discussion: emptywheel and Boing Boing
The Hill:
Regulatory fights loom large in 2014  —  Battles lines are being drawn for a series of upcoming clashes over new regulations on the horizon in 2014.  —  The year promises to be chock full of contentious fights over scores of new rules stemming from ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank and a host of other laws.
Robert Wilde / BREITBART.COM:
NO CHURCH FOR OBAMA FAMILY ON CHRISTMAS DAY  —  The President and his family, enjoying a 17-day vacation in Hawaii, did not attend Church on Christmas Day.  Ironically, President Obama recently asked all Christians to remember the religious aspects of Christmas and not to exaggerate the commercial.
Robert Wilonsky / The Scoop Blog:
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons died Saturday night at 82  —  Harold Simmons and his wife Annette, at right, at the 2008 press conference announcing they were donating an additional $50 million to UT Southwestern Medical Center's “Innovations in Medicine” campaign, raising …
Sergei Karpov / Reuters:
Suicide bomber kills at least 16 at Russian train station  —  (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber detonated explosives in the entrance hall of a Russian train station on Sunday, investigators said, killing at least 16 people in the second deadly attack within three days as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics.
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Jay Michaelson / Forward:
Obamacare ‘Pajama Boy’ Controversy Wrapped in Anti-Semitism
Jerrypournelle / Chaos Manor:
Credentials and a few words for junior officers.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
How political correctness humiliated Navy SEALs who caught Qaeda killer
Rick Rojas / Los Angeles Times:
Claremont church Nativity scene replaces Jesus with Trayvon Martin
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
Robert Mann / Something Like the Truth:
'I can't be gay in northeast Louisiana.' A ULM student's powerful message to Phil Robertson
John Markoff / New York Times:
Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Franklin Graham: The pope is ‘not the judge’
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Mediaite
NY Daily News:
Bernard Kerik, the disgraced former NYPD commissioner, accuses attorney Joe Tacopina of fraud …
Discussion: New York Post and Scared Monkeys
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts, the model for Obamacare, has highest health costs in the United States
Laura Italiano / New York Post:
Call girl tell-all: Eliot Spitzer liked to choke me, was into ‘struggle’
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Red, blue states move in opposite directions in a new era of single-party control
Discussion: Booman Tribune