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ABC News:
FBI Warns Ferguson Decision ‘Will Likely’ Lead to Violence By Extremists Protesters … As the nation waits to hear whether a Missouri police officer will face charges for killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the FBI is warning law enforcement agencies across the country that the decision …
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson correctional officer faces sex charges, rape lawsuit  —  • By Robert Patrick rpatrick@post-dispatch.com > 314-621-5154  —  FERGUSON  • Prosecutors have accused a Ferguson correctional officer of allowing an inmate to escape in 2013 in exchange for sex, but a civil suit calls it rape.
KSDK-TV:
Ferguson corrections officer accused of sex with inmate
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:   Supporters Of Ferguson Cop Plan 'Pants Up, Don't Loot' Billboard
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Ferguson Cop Supporters Crowdfunded a “Pants Up, Don't Loot” Billboard
Discussion: CBS St. Louis, Raw Story and Mediaite
David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama in Winter  —  They say failure can be a good teacher, but, so far, the Obama administration is opting out of the course.  The post-midterm period has been one of the most bizarre of the Obama presidency.  President Obama has racked up some impressive foreign-policy accomplishments …
Discussion: Althouse and ParaPundit
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Resistance to Obama order on immigration  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's plan to sign an executive order on immigration, expected as early as this week, will meet more resistance than support, a new USA TODAY Poll finds.  Close to half of those surveyed, 46%, say he should wait …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
For Obama, Executive Order on Immigration Would Be a Turnabout
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Bloomberg View
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is This Bush Official Flip-Flopping on Obamacare?  —  Smellin' of Troy.  —  Shares  —  Jonathan Gruber's candid video commentaries have unleashed the latest in a never-ending round of conservative denunciations of Obamacare, the evilest, sneakiest, failing-est, and most unconstitutional assault of freedom ever.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for revealing Obamacare deception
David Klein / Wall Street Journal:   Another ObamaCare Deception
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists  —  Senior vice president Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game.  Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.  —  Emil Michael, senior vice president of business for Uber, in July.  —  David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
History Shows That Hillary Clinton Is Unlikely to Win in 2016  —  Republicans did well in the midterm elections, but there is widespread agreement that they face a demographic disadvantage in the 2016 presidential election, when many of the predominately Democratic younger and minority voters …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Why Hillary 2016 Thinks She Can Expand Obama's Electoral Map
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats press Obama to wait on immigration executive action  —  President Obama has a tough decision to make on the timing of an executive order to freeze deportations of illegal immigrants.  —  Senate Democrats want him to wait to give them time to pass an omnibus spending bill …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Washington Post:
In Mr. Obama's own words, acting alone is ‘not how our democracy functions’  —  DEMOCRATS URGING President Obama to “go big” in his executive order on immigration might pause to consider the following scenario:  —  It is 2017.  Newly elected President Ted Cruz (R) insists he has won a mandate to repeal Obamacare.
Discussion: Hot Air, Betsy's Page and Newsalert
Katie Pavlich / The Hill:
Why is Obama ignoring the experts on illegal immigration?  —  There are some important voices that have been starkly absent as President Obama gets ready to issue an executive order that would usurp federal immigration law in the coming days.  —  “We're all pretty much ticked,” …
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Keystone at Senate tipping point  —  Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and other supporters of the Keystone XL oil pipeline are stuck at 59 votes — one vote shy of the supermajority they need to move their bill forward on Tuesday.  —  Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) …
Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Obama Orders Hostage Policy Review  —  The Obama administration is finally looking to fix its disjointed efforts to handle U.S. hostages.  But that comes too late for the family of an American aid worker killed by ISIS.  —  President Obama has ordered a top-to-bottom review …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
In GOP, a new voice of immigration dissent  —  He hasn't even taken his first vote in Congress, but incoming freshman Rep. Carlos Curbelo is already breaking with his party on immigration.  —  The Florida Republican is a vocal supporter of actions on immigration reform that many in the GOP have rejected …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
King aims to extend footprint as kingmaker  —  Iowa's Steve King is expanding his footprint as a presidential kingmaker.  —  The conservative congressman with the fitting last name is launching his own annual multicandidate forum for presidential hopefuls.
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Fight the Power Grab  —  In our more frustrated moments, those of us who still hope to forestall the constitutional crisis that President Obama's executive action is almost certainly going to provoke will resign ourselves to showing rather than telling.  Thwarted by the considerable difficulty …
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Charles Manson gets marriage license  —  2 photos  —  CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.  —  Afton Elaine Burton, the raven-haired bride-to-be …
Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
Vincent Gray rejects plea offer; federal prosecutors appear on track for indictment  —  D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray rejected an offer by federal prosecutors in September that he plead guilty to a single felony count in connection with their long-running investigation of his 2010 campaign, a person with knowledge of the talks said.
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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The White House:
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Adam Serwer / BuzzFeed:
California's Attorney General Thinks Legal Weed Is Inevitable
Discussion: Political Wire
Katie Nguyen / Yahoo! News:
Nearly 36 million people are slaves, Qatar in focus: global index
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Rick Santorum Wishes Obama Would Be A Racial Uniter Like Segregationists Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
California Tells Court It Can't Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor
Discussion: Booman Tribune
The Marshall Project:
Eric Holder on His Legacy, His Regrets, and His Feelings About the Death Penalty
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare repeal is more likely, and now GOP needs an alternative
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Newsalert