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4:25 PM ET, December 3, 2014

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New York Times:
Grand Jury Said to Bring No Charges in Staten Island Chokehold Death of Eric Garner  —  A Staten Island grand jury has voted not to bring criminal charges against the white New York City police officer at the center of the Eric Garner case, a person briefed on the matter said Wednesday.
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New York Post:
Cop cleared in chokehold death of Eric Garner  —  Eric Garner seen during his arrest last August.  —  A Staten Island grand jury cleared an NYPD cop Wednesday in the chokehold death of Eric Garner during his caught-on-video arrest for peddling loose cigarettes, The Post has learned.
CNN:
N.Y. cop not indicted in chokehold death  —  A grand jury decided against an indictment Wednesday in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, who died after white police officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold, according to two law enforcement officials.
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Grand Jury Won't Charge Cop Who Killed Eric Garner With Illegal Chokehold  —  Eric Garner in the final moments of his life.  —  CREDIT: Screenshot/ New York Daily News  —  A grand jury voted not to file any charges against David Pantaleo, the New York Police Department cop …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
ObamaCare author: Health law is ‘really complicated’  —  Sen. Tom Harkin, one of the coauthors of the Affordable Care Act, now thinks Democrats may have been better off not passing it at all and holding out for a better bill.  —  The Iowa Democrat who chairs the Senate Health, Education …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Is Obamacare Destroying the Democratic Party?  —  Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, has forced a debate over fundamental party priorities out into the open.  Should Democrats focus primarily on the problems of the poor or should they first address the economic struggles of the working and middle classes?
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Return of Focus Hocus Pocus
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Eschaton
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mike Huckabee: Brown Could Have Avoided Death “If He Behaved Like Something Other Than A Thug”  —  “I'm gonna tell you something â” what gets you shot is when you grab a police officer's gun, and you lunge at him, and you try to hit him in the face.  View Video ›
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Politico:
Conservatives scoff at Boehner deal  —  Hardliners are again ready to cause leaders problems.  —  The “Hell No” caucus is once again causing headaches for Republican leadership.  —  A cadre of the House's most conservative members will meet Wednesday morning at the Capitol Hill Club …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:   Paul targets Bush: GOP is ‘conservative’
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
2014 Headed Toward Hottest Year On Record — Here's Why That's Remarkable  —  2014 is currently on track to be hottest year on record, according to new reports from both the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the U.K.'s Met Office Wednesday.  Similarly, NOAA reported two weeks ago …
Discussion: Met Office
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Dear Media: This Elizabeth Lauten Nonsense Is Why Everybody Hates You  —  Last week, President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey prior to Thanksgiving Day, as is tradition.  And as in previous years, his teenage daughters Malia and Sasha stood by his side.  The daughters are cute as can be …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
The right's ‘State of the Union plan’ continues to percolate  —  Last week, shortly before Thanksgiving, the idea that congressional Republicans might block President Obama from delivering a State of the Union address first crossed the political world's radar.
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Washington Post:
GOP readies Obama immigration response: No shutdown, but a nod to conservatives
Alan S. Blinder / New York Review of Books:
What's the Matter with Economics?  —  Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World  —  The Queen of England famously asked British economists why nobody saw the financial crisis coming.  Lots of nonroyal people also have a feeling that there's something wrong with economics.
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Hagel refused to hold off resignation announcement in spite of White House wishes  —  Washington (CNN) — CNN has learned the White House wanted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to wait until this week to resign, so it would have a new nominee in place by then.
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Blake Ross / Medium:
Uber.gov  —  It's Time to Let the Government Drive  —  Flying to Vegas?  Look to your left.  Now look to your right.  Statistically speaking, one of you is about to get ripped off by a cabbie.  And it'll probably be you, the imbecile who chose the middle seat and paid $15 for plane wifi.
Discussion: EconLog
Dan Froomkin / The Intercept:
12 Things to Keep in Mind When You Read the Torture Report  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report will be released “in a matter of days,” a committee staffer tells The Intercept.  The report, a review of brutal CIA interrogation methods during the presidency of George W. Bush …
Discussion: The Dish and Prairie Weather
Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Former Democratic congressional aide pleads guilty to sexual assault  —  A former Democratic congressional aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting two women in 2010.  —  Donny Ray Williams Jr., 37, who served as a staff director for the Senate Homeland Security …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Roy H. Beck Quietly Leads a Grass-Roots Army  —  He keeps grade cards for every member of Congress, deploys three million activists to blast lawmakers with anti-immigration-reform telephone calls, faxes and emails, and runs a website where his followers have called undocumented immigrants “criminal invaders” and “wolves at the door.”
 
 
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
GOP Opposition to Obama Pick for Immigration Post
Discussion: Politico
Rob Barry And / Wall Street Journal:
Hundreds of Police Killings Are Uncounted in Federal Stats
Discussion: Hit & Run
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Carson Gets Ready
Discussion: Rothenblog
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scalia? Set His Dissents to Music
Discussion: The Verge and National Review
Maureen Hayden / News and Tribune:
Former Congressman Hill mulls run for governor
Discussion: OnPolitics
 Earlier Items: 
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Landrieu ‘extremely disappointed’ with DSCC
Discussion: ABC News and NOLA River
Peter Hamby / CNN:
The plight of the Southern Democrat
Newsroom | AGU Newsroom:
WEST ANTARCTIC MELT RATE HAS TRIPLED
Discussion: Slate, ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Mary Childs / Bloomberg:
Fall of the Bond King: How Gross Lost Empire as Pimco Cracked
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Anthony McCartney / Associated Press:
Woman sues Bill Cosby, claiming underage abuse
Discussion: Shakesville and FOX News Radio
Roger Simon / Politico:
Hillary should stop dithering
Richard Sisk / Military.com:
US Army Plans to Send Abrams Tanks and Bradleys to Eastern Europe
Discussion: Vox Popoli, Shakesville and Hot Air