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11:50 AM ET, December 7, 2014

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
If You Were An Early Reader Of the WaPo UVA Rape Expose...  Jackie UP, Rolling Stone further DOWN.  If you were an early reader of the Washington Post UVA rape expose exonerating Phi Kappa Psi I am begging you to go back and re-read it; despite the absence of any hints such as"UPDATED" …
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Julia Horowitz / Politico:
Why We Believed Jackie's Rape Story  —  Because it rang true for so many of us on the University of Virginia campus.  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— It was a near-unanimous reaction: shock, but not surprise.  Disgust, but not doubt.  Those were the feelings that characterized the endless conversations …
Discussion: The College Fix
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors  —  For the sake of Rolling Stone's reputation, wrote Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple in a recent column, reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of an explosive piece about a rape that allegedly took place at the University …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Dems' final insult: Landrieu crushed  —  Cassidy trounces incumbent with Republicans set to control 54 Senate seats in the next Congress.  —  AP Photo  —  In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party's last remaining statewide officeholder …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP Senate majority grows as Cassidy crushes Landrieu
Discussion: CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu lost …
Discussion: The Hill, Power Line and Raw Story
Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
Louisiana's Senate Race Down to Runoff Saturday
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP group seizes on Landrieu's ‘I did not vote for Obama’ remark
Discussion: ABC News and WGSO
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
What the Fate of The New Republic Reveals  —  SOMETIMES media events synchronize almost too neatly.  Last weekend, the entity known as Vox Media, whose array of properties includes this year's big liberal-journalism start-up, Vox.com, announced that its latest round of investment had raised …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and National Review
Reuters:
Obama, complaining of sore throat, diagnosed with acid reflux  —  (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who had medical tests on Saturday after complaining of a sore throat, is suffering from acid reflux, the president's physician said.  —  “The president's symptoms are consistent …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General  —  The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.
San Francisco Chronicle:
IMAGE 1 OF 72  —  Demonstrators toss out smoke bombs during a march in Berkeley, California on Saturday, December 6, 2014.  Demonstrators were responding to the grand jury verdicts in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City …
Discussion: Raw Story and Hot Air
Cody C. Delistraty / The Atlantic Online:
Seeing Red  —  How the color of passion, romance, and anger can influence behavior  —  At 5 o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, February 8th, 1587, Mary Stuart lay fully dressed on her four-poster bed in Fotheringhay Castle in eastern England.  Around her were her ladies-in-waiting …
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
GOP Gains Largest House Majority Since Truman Administration  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.
Discussion: Power Line and Outside the Beltway
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
NYTimes Fails to Disclose Clinton Paid for Interviews About Administration  —  In a five year span, the William J Clinton Foundation gave five grants totaling $851,250 to the University of Virginia's Miller Center.  One year in particular, 2007, the Clinton gift was specifically marked: “Oral history project of Clinton presidency.”
Dylan Byers / Politico:
TNR cancels December issue after mass staff resignation  —  The New Republic will not publish the issue that had been slated to hit shelves on December 15, following Friday's mass resignation by top editors and contributors.  —  “As you know, an issue that was in production by recently departed editors …
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
US to keep 1,000 more troops than planned in Afghanistan  —  The U.S. will keep as many as a 1,000 extra troops in Afghanistan early next year, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday.  —  Speaking in Kabul, Hagel said as many as 10,800 troops would be in Afghanistan for the first part of 2015, according to the Associated Press.
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan as violence spikes
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 
 
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