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2:45 PM ET, December 1, 2014

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Rams players enter field with hands up  —  You can read the full statement below:
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Panel: Michael Brown Was A ‘Thug,’ Protests Are Based On ‘Lies’  —  MSNBC's “Morning Joe” panel started the day off on Monday with a segment slamming protestors in Ferguson, shaming the St. Louis Rams football team, and calling slain unarmed teenager Michael Brown a “thug.”
Discussion: Mediaite
Nina Mandell / USA Today:
NFL says it won't discipline Rams players for Ferguson protest  —  The NFL will not adhere to a request from the St. Louis Police Officer's Association to discipline St. Louis Rams players who did the “hands up, don't shoot” pose used by protesters in Ferguson, Mo. during pre-game introductions on Sunday.
Nicole Hensley / NY Daily News:
St. Louis police officers upset over Rams players' 'hands up, don't shoot' gesture before game, demand apology  —  St. Louis Police Officers Association called for a ‘very public apology’ and wants the players involved disciplined by the team or NFL after five Rams players came onto the field …
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
St. Louis Police Want Rams Players Punished For Pre-Game Ferguson Protest
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
St. Louis police officers' group demands Rams players be disciplined for 'hands up, don't shoot'
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Obama gathering civil rights leaders for Ferguson discussions
Frank Rich / Vulture:
What's saving America.  —  The last time Frank Rich had a conversation with Chris Rock was in early 1996, when they and the 1950s teen heartthrob Pat Boone were thrown together in a New York television studio as panelists on Bill Maher's old show Politically Incorrect.
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
GOP staffer resigns over criticism of Obama daughters  —  Washington (CNN) — A senior Republican staffer is resigning after her comments that the Obama daughters should “try showing a little class” caused a firestorm of criticism on social media this weekend.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Bad Memories Down South  —  I've just spent nearly a week back home in exurban Atlanta, and I regret to report that the events in and in reaction to Ferguson have brought back (at least in some of the older white folks I talked with) nasty and openly racist attitudes I haven't heard expressed in so unguarded a manner since the 1970s.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Eschaton
Politico:
Congress on the brink  —  Funding deadline, tax breaks come down to the wire.  —  December was supposed to be a sleepy month for Congress — a chance to finish up a productive lame-duck session and leave the decks clear for the new Republican majority that takes control in January.
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New York Times:
Boehner Uses New Mandate to Muffle Talk of a Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — John A. Boehner does not want to be remembered as the Shutdown Speaker.  —  As Congress returns from recess on Monday facing a Dec. 11 deadline for funding the government, Mr. Boehner and his fellow Republican leaders …
Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
Oil at $40 Possible as Market Transforms Caracas to Iran  —  Oil's decline is proving to be the worst since the collapse of the financial system in 2008 and threatening to have the same global impact of falling prices three decades ago that led to the Mexican debt crisis and the end of the Soviet Union.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Hillary Clinton's rickety bridge to the White House  —  Voters lack a compelling reason to embrace Democrats, as opposed to simply rejecting Republicans  —  The grand view of American politics is that Republicans have a lock on Congress, while Democrats have an inbuilt White House advantage.
Discussion: Washington Center …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:   Warren towers above
Lauren Coleman-Lochner / Bloomberg:
Black Friday Fizzles With Consumers as Sales Tumble 11%: Retail  —  Even after doling out discounts on electronics and clothes, retailers struggled to entice shoppers to Black Friday sales events, putting pressure on the industry as it heads into the final weeks of the holiday season.
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Thanksgiving Weekend Sales, at Stores and Online, Slide 11 Percent
Donal MacIntyre / Daily Express:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda plot to blow up 5 passenger planes in Christmas ‘spectacular’  —  TERRORISTS are plotting to blow up five European passenger jets in a Christmas “spectacular”, security experts say.  —  DAVIDDYSON  —  Armed police patrol Heathrow amid warnings of a serious terror threat to UK airports
Sam Hananel / Associated Press:
Supreme Court To Consider Free-Speech Rights Of Social Media Users  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is weighing the free-speech rights of people who use violent or threatening language on Facebook and other social media.  —  The justices will hear arguments Monday in the case of a man …
Discussion: Liberaland and Booman Tribune
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Conservative leaders gang up to block Jeb Bush, say he opposes Reaganism  —  Conservative leaders who had a hand in key Republican victories including Ronald Reagan's presidency, the Contract with America and the birth of the Tea Party, are ganging up to oppose a Jeb Bush presidential bid …
Discussion: Liberaland
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
With executive action, Obama risks losing Chief Justice John Roberts  —  President Obama always knew his plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation would enrage Republicans on Capitol Hill who oppose most of what he does.  —  But by claiming the power to forge ahead based …
Steve Bousquetherald / miamiherald:
Stung by low turnout, Democrats eye shifting Fla.'s statewide election schedule  —  After yet another defeat blamed on low voter turnout, some Florida Democrats want to change the rules and elect the governor in the same year voters pick the president — when turnout is always much higher.
Discussion: OnPolitics and Political Wire
 
 
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Anita Singh / Telegraph:
Prof Stephen Hawking: make me a Bond villain
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Don Surber:
Do not rebuild in Ferguson
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James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
Obamacare's Inertia Problem
Discussion: Washington Post
ABC News:
ISIS Threat at Home: FBI Warns US Military About Social Media Vulnerabilities
John Edward Terrell / New York Times:
Evolution and the American Myth of the Individual
Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Mahablog and EconLog
Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:
Online Sales for Girl Scout Cookies Are Approved
Discussion: Eater, NPR and New York Magazine
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman still on the bench
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Obama Shafts Hillary With Amnesty and Ferguson
Matti Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Not working for the working class: Column
Discussion: Shot in the Dark and Ed Driscoll
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
David Brooks: White People ‘Need to Acknowledge Legacy of Racism’ in Police Issues
 

 
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