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2:05 PM ET, December 15, 2014

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CNN:
Sydney gunman reportedly demands ISIS flag as some hostages escape  —  Sydney (CNN) — Australia, and the world, looked on with dread Monday as a gunman holding hostages inside a darkened Sydney cafe demanded an ISIS flag and a phone call with Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
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Michelle Innis / New York Times:
Sydney Hostage Siege Ends as Police Storm Cafe  —  SYDNEY, Australia — Heavily armed police officers ended a hostage siege in Sydney early Tuesday, storming a downtown cafe where an armed man who was said to be a self-proclaimed sheikh had held employees and customers for more than 16 hours.
ABC News:
Gunman Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis, Standoff Comes to an End
Discussion: UPROXX, Washington Post and Hot Air
9news.com.au:
Hostage-taker named as radical Muslim cleric Man Haron Monis
Discussion: JustOneMinute and ABC News
Steve Inskeep / WBUR:
Sen. Warren Warns That Spending Bill Sets Dangerous Precedent  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (right), a member of the Senate banking committee, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the House financial services committee, express their outrage to reporters …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dodd-Frank Damaged in the Budget Bill  —  On Wall Street, 2010 was the year of “Obama rage,” in which financial tycoons went ballistic over the president's suggestion that some bankers helped cause the financial crisis.  They were also, of course, angry about the Dodd-Frank financial reform …
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
‘Warning Shot’: Sen. Warren On Fighting Banks, And Her Political Future
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Elizabeth Warren poses a challenge to Hillary in 2016
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
The Huffington Post:
The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:   What does Warren want?  —  She has a spot in Democratic leadership …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:   It's (Still) a TARP!
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Cleveland Cops Demand Apology For Browns Player's Tamir Rice Protest Shirt  —  A Cleveland police union has demanded that the Cleveland Browns football team apologize for a player who wore a T-shirt before Sunday's game protesting the police shootings of two black people.
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Aaron Sorkin / New York Times:
Journalists Shouldn't Help the Sony Hackers  —  “Jolie a ‘Spoiled Brat’ From ‘Crazyland,’ ” says The New York Post.  —  “Shocking New Reveals From Sony Hack,” says The Daily Beast.  —  “Sony's Hacked Emails Highlight Hollywood's Problems With Diversity,” says The Huffington Post.
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New York Times:
Sony Pictures Demands That News Agencies Delete ‘Stolen’ Data
John Bacon / Associated Press:
Report: Shooting spree leaves up to 5 dead in Philly suburbs  —  WPVI-TV reports that a gunman is barricaded in a house in Souderton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.  Police were called after two people were found dead in a home.  Three others were found shot to death in two other locations.
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Is It Bad Enough Yet?  —  THE police killing unarmed civilians.  Horrifying income inequality.  Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe “safety net.”  An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats.  A food system that causes disease.  An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and The PJ Tatler
CBS News:
Most Americans consider waterboarding to be torture: poll  —  A barbed wire fence surrounds a military area is in the forest near Stare Kiejkuty village, close to Szczytno in Northeastern Poland, in this January 24, 2014 file photo.  Poland threatened to halt the transfer of al Qaeda suspects …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
NBC's Brian Williams stays true to news, with a new contract expected  —  Riding an Amtrak train from Washington, D.C., to New York last week, Brian Williams gets the greetings and nods of recognition from passengers expected for someone who has spent 10 years in the anchor chair at “NBC Nightly News.”
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Torture and the Truth  —  It's hard to describe it as a positive development when a branch of the federal government releases a four-hundred-and-ninety-nine- page report that explains, in meticulous detail, how unthinkable cruelty became official U.S. policy.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Dick Cheney Defends the Torture of Innocents  —  When I was growing up, Americans thought of torture as a tactic used by history's villains.  A brutal dictator might keep a depraved regime in power with torture.  People in foreign countries might suffer inside torture chambers.
Marquis Moore.jpg / PennLive.com:
Harrisburg man insulted by racial slur found on Zembie's receipt  —  Marquis Moore displays a Zembie's receipt containing a racial slur a bartender used to identify him with after he placed a to-go order at the Harrisburg bar Saturday night. … Marquis Moore was about to eat an order …
Discussion: Liberaland and Raw Story
 
 
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New York Times:
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
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Sarah Palin Boasts On Social Media About Hunting Feral Hog In Texas While Filming Reality Show
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Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Politics
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Rove: CIA's Waterboarding Not Torture Like Japanese War Crimes Because We Raised Detainee's Legs
Discussion: Booman Tribune and FOX News Radio
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Texas Cop Tasers 76-year-old Driver Over Expired Inspection: ‘Goddamned Nazi Stormtrooper’
Discussion: FOX News Radio