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Politico:
Vivek Murthy confirmed as surgeon general  —  The Senate on Monday narrowly confirmed Vivek Murthy to be the nation's surgeon general, making him one of the highest-profile beneficiaries of the Senate's nuclear option.  —  The nomination was strongly opposed by the National Rifle Association …
Discussion: Hot Air
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The Hill:
Manchin sides with NRA against Obama's surgeon general nominee  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday bucked Democratic leadership to vote against the controversial surgeon general nominee whom conservatives have bashed for calling gun violence a public health concern.
Charles Hoskinson / Washington Examiner:
Unqualified nominees get their jobs — thanks, Harry
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Weekly Standard
Jim Malewitz / Politico:   Ted Cruz trolled over surgeon general vote
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid plays hardball in lame duck
Salman Masood / New York Times:
Taliban Attack on School in Pakistan Kills More Than 100  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Taliban gunmen stormed a school in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people, most of them children, in the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan in years.  Hundreds of students were trapped inside …
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BBC:
Pakistan Taliban ‘kill 100’ in assault on Peshawar school  —  At least 100 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.  —  Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said.
Saad Khan / Agence France-Presse:
Carnage as Taliban storm Pakistan school, kill 130  —  12 hrs ago  —  Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in Pakistan on Tuesday in one of the country's bloodiest attacks in recent years.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Slantpoint
Jibran Ahmad / Reuters:
Over 120 Pakistanis, mostly children, killed in Taliban high school attack  —  (Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.
Discussion: Gawker and Mediaite
Daily Mail:
'Our classmates were shot in front of us... I felt bullets flying past my head': Boy aged 10 recounts horror of seeing friends gunned down in Pakistani school slaughter as Taliban fighters massacred more than 100 children  —  A 10-year-old boy caught up in the Peshawar school massacre that saw …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet  —  Remember when pundits loved the president?  The conditions are right for that old feeling to return.  —  Remember when pundits loved Barack Obama?  It's been quite a few years now.  But I suspect some of the adoration is about to come back.  —  There are three reasons.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Trevor Eischen / Politico:
David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren has chance of being nominated  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks says Elizabeth Warren has a “significant and growing chance of being nominated” as the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election.  —  In an op-ed titled “Warren Can Win,” …
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
Warren says (4 times) she's not running for president
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up  —  In an exclusive Observer interview, Mohammed Islam, said to have investment returns of $72 million as a hs senior, admits he invented the whole story  —  Damir Tulemaganbetov and Mohammed Islam (r) in the office of 5WPR …
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
David Garth, 84, Dies; Consultant Was an Innovator of Political TV Ads  —  David Garth, a pugnacious and indefatigable pioneer of the political commercial, who helped elect governors, senators and four New York City mayors, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan.  He was 84.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The world according to Garth
Discussion: ABC News
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Eric Garner 'didn't deserve to die'  —  Bill Clinton urged people to move beyond hard-wire racial perceptions and said that the unarmed black man killed after an apparent chokehold by police in New York City “didn't deserve to die.”  —  Clinton made the comments in an interview with Fusion …
Discussion: Washington Times
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Govt urges dismissal of lawsuit over immigration  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is urging dismissal of a lawsuit that would dismantle the president's immigration program, an initiative designed to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
Politico:
Ted Cruz reignites GOP civil war  —  Republican senators pounded Ted Cruz over the weekend, lashing him for his procedural tactics and ultimately voting in large numbers against his immigration gambit.  —  Now, Cruz's allies off Capitol Hill are looking for revenge.  —  Story Continued Below
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
The Irony and the Ecstasy  —  Every serious G.O.P. presidential aspirant invokes the glorious era of Ronald Reagan, to which the country must return.  Ignore the fact that, for the likes of Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, Reagan's actual record—from increased bureaucracy to higher deficits—should be seen as a complete failure.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Insurers ease ‘Obamacare’ deadline  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to head off a new round of consumer headaches with President Barack Obama's health care law, the insurance industry says it will give customers more time to pay their premiums for January.
Discussion: Associated Press
Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
Survey: E-cigs surpass regular cigs in teen use  —  Associated Press 1 hr ago  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government's annual drug use survey finds.  —  Even as tobacco smoking by teens dropped to new lows …
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg View:
Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street  —  It's a wonderful life on Wall Street, yet here is a holiday wish list to make it even better.  —  1. The financial sector rids itself of anyone with even the faintest reason to believe that he or she is unusually clever.
Paul Kendrick / Talking Points Memo:
C'mon, Stop Blaming Obama For Failing To Cure America Of Racism  —  A few days ago in a Fox News segment called “Post-Racial President Keeps Dividing America,” Judge Jeanine said “Americans, once hopeful that after electing the first African-American president the issue of race would be a thing of the past …
Discussion: Raw Story
PolitiFact:
2014 Lie of the Year: Exaggerations about Ebola  —  Thomas Eric Duncan left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19, for Dallas.  Eleven days later, doctors diagnosed Duncan with Ebola.  —  Eight days after that, he was dead.  —  Duncan's case is just one of two Ebola-related fatalities in the United States …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Nothing Succeeds Like Liberal Secession: Blue America Without Red America Would Be A Basket Case  —  The July 4, 2019, ceremony marking the final dissolution of the United States of America was quite amicable compared to the anger and bitterness of the preceding five years.
Dick Cheney / Salon:
Dick Cheney's grotesque legacy: Why the record is so much worse than reported  —  But this is Dick Cheney's real contribution to America  —  As many of us wade through the horror of the Senate torture report, it's hard not to think back to a time when the man who ran the country explained to us in plain language what he was doing.
Matthew M. Burke / Stars & Stripes:
DOD wants bullet that can change direction after being fired  —  New .50-caliber bullets that can change direction after they have been fired could soon make U.S. military snipers more deadly.  —  The EXACTO program — or Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance — is being developed …
 
 
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
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Matt Phillips / Quartz:
Bitcoin is the worst investment of 2014
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Over 1,000 Gun Owners Violate Washington's I-594 - In Front Of Police!
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Newtown victims' families sue maker of gun used in 2012 attack
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Agence France-Presse:
Pope Francis offers US help in closing Guantanamo
Tony Romm / Politico:
Uber answers Al Franken, takes aim at privacy questions
Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Branstad seeks to end Iowa GOP straw poll
John Paul Rollert / The Atlantic Online:
Meeting Ayn Rand on the Las Vegas Strip
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Frumin / The Week:
Why TheWeek.com is closing the comments section
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Fox's Hasselbeck Uses Sydney Siege to Defend CIA Torture Program
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Huffington Post