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8:55 AM ET, December 1, 2014

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KSDK-TV:
Rams players enter field with hands up  —  You can read the full statement below:
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Obama gathering civil rights leaders for Ferguson discussions  —  President Obama on Monday will focus on the relationship between local police and the communities they protect and serve in the wake of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson, Mo.  —  Obama will meet with Cabinet members …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Obama Shafts Hillary With Amnesty and Ferguson  —  SHARES  —  As Barack Obama invites in five million illegals to scoop up American jobs, and as those normal Americans lucky enough to still have jobs wait in traffic while morons block the freeway because some Swisher Sweets-puffing felon got himself killed …
Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
CNN is lying when they say Ferguson protests were ‘peaceful’
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rudy Giuliani Finds A Way To Blame African Americans For Police Killings
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Warren towers above  —  The 2014 winner of my annual award for “Member of Congress of the Year” goes to the politician who had such a good year she now defines her party's future — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).  —  Warren faced some serious competition.
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
Poll: Americans predict more gridlock in full GOP control of Congress  —  Washington (CNN) — Half of Americans believe Republican control of both chambers of Congress will be bad for the country, and a majority say it will in fact cause more gridlock in Washington, according to a new CNN/ORC nationwide poll.
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Not working for the working class: Column  —  The key to Obama's struggle with white working class voters is not ‘white,’ but ‘working.’  —  Working class white people don't like President Obama much.  According to the latest Gallup poll, only 27% approve of him.
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
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 …
Matti Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel  —  The news tells us less about Israel than about the people writing the news, a former AP reporter says.  —  During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs …
Sean B. Carroll / The Daily Beast:
Heed the Warnings: Why We're on the Brink of Mass Extinction  —  Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll, executive producer of the doc Mass Extinction: Life At the Brink, on why mankind's days are numbered.  —  “How strange it is that the past is so little understood and so quickly forgotten …
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
David Brooks: White People ‘Need to Acknowledge Legacy of Racism’ in Police Issues  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks told Meet the Press Sunday morning that the legacy of racism had to be confronted when discussing matters of white police forces and black communities …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Heather / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
NRO's Rich Lowry Explains What Lessons He Thinks We Should Learn From Ferguson  —  Bloody Bill's finest does his best to attempt to absolve Darren Wilson from any responsibility for the death of Michael Brown.  —  From one of Bloody Bill Kristol's finest over at the National Review Online …
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Associated Press:
Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson Won't Get Severance Package
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The European Outlier  —  I'm doing some work on matters European …
Washington Post:
Benghazi debunked  —  THE FOG of war is no fiction.
Discussion: Power Line
William Voegeli / New York Post:
Obama is killing us with ‘kindness’
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Ariel Ben Solomon / Jerusalem Post:
Sisi regime shows confidence as ‘deep state’ returns to Egypt's political landscape
Discussion: naked capitalism and Power Line
Josef Federman / The State:
Israel edges closer to early election
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Pope says it is wrong to equate Islam with violence
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Democrats assail Wall Street ties in Obama administration
Will Hobson / Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa homeless program uses unpaid, destitute residents as steady labor force, revenue source
Discussion: Raw Story
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Retreat to Identity  —  LAST summer, around the anniversary …
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Obama calls Chuck Todd ‘sad’
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