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12:45 AM ET, December 16, 2014

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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 …
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Jim Malewitz / Politico:
Ted Cruz trolled over surgeon general vote  —  The Senate's confirmation of Vivek Murthy to surgeon general on Monday gave Democrats a chance to troll GOP firebrand Ted Cruz on twitter.  —  Implying the Republican senator paved the way for a vote after over 500 days without a surgeon general …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid plays hardball in lame duck  —  Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid pulled out one of his most familiar threats during perhaps his last week as majority leader, pledging to keep the Senate in session through the weekend to get 23 of President Barack Obama's nominations confirmed …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic Online:
Finally, a New Surgeon General
Discussion: Daily Kos and Capital New York
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
Discussion: New York Post, NPR and National Review
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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 …
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.
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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.
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 …
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Fake sheik fanatic accused of 40 sex offences, harassing the families of dead soldiers and being an accessory to the murder of his ex wife.  So why WAS he on bail and where did he get a gun?  —  Man Haron Monis was on bail on a charge of colluding with his girlfriend to murder his ex-wife …
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Nick Ralston / Sydney Morning Herald:
Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Haron Monis
John Paul Rollert / The Atlantic Online:
Meeting Ayn Rand on the Las Vegas Strip  —  For eight days last summer, a new generation of Randians was indoctrinated in the auditoriums of The Venetian.  Where better to absorb Atlas Shrugged 's teachings than in a city of extremes?  —  111-degree heat is confounding …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ben Frumin / The Week:
Why TheWeek.com is closing the comments section  —  In the age of social media, the smartest and most vibrant reader conversations have moved off of news sites and onto Facebook and Twitter  —  Here at The Week, we have a deep respect for the intelligence and opinions of our readers …
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: Raw Story, Mediaite, Jezebel and Liberaland
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
Don't run for president, Jeb  —  The party and the country need different blood  —  J  —  eb Bush looks like he's in.  —  That's the real import of a well-reported Politico article on Mitt Romney considering another presidential run in 2016.  The case for Jeb goes something like this …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Carolina on Jeb's mind
Tony Romm / Politico:
Uber answers Al Franken, takes aim at privacy questions  —  Uber on Monday strongly defended its privacy practices, telling Sen. Al Franken in a letter that the company “prohibits employees from accessing rider personal information except for business purposes” — but the Democratic senator said he still isn't convinced.
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.
Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Branstad seeks to end Iowa GOP straw poll  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is pushing to end the state's Republican straw poll, but the state party chairman says the event may still go on next year.  —  Branstad said Monday that the poll — traditionally held in Ames …
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The world according to Garth  —  Remembering the pioneer of the modern political ad.  —  He cut his teeth producing high school sports for local television, and his first political crusade was Adlai Stevenson's sentimental presidential campaign in 1960.  He made the on-air advertisements …
Agence France-Presse:
Pope Francis offers US help in closing Guantanamo  —  Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican on Monday offered to help the United States in its efforts to close Guantanamo prison, a goal fervently supported by Pope Francis.  —  The offer came during talks between the pontiff's Secretary of State …
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Newtown victims' families sue maker of gun used in 2012 attack  —  (Reuters) - The families of nine people killed in a 2012 massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school sued the maker of the gun used in the attack on Monday, saying the weapon should not have been sold because it had no reasonable civilian purpose.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
David Chazan / Telegraph:
Men who like spicier food are ‘alpha males’ with higher levels of testosterone, French report claims  —  French researchers say men with a taste for spicy food have higher testosterone and eating hot peppers may raise levels of the “alpha male” hormone  —  French gourmets have traditionally shunned hot …
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Fox's Hasselbeck Uses Sydney Siege to Defend CIA Torture Program  —  Fox & Friends made a smooth transition from breaking news coverage of the Sydney hostage crisis this morning to Vice President Dick Cheney's defense of the CIA torture program on Meet the Press.
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
New Budget Committee chief: time for a new debt-ceiling standoff  —  Almost immediately after the 2014 elections, the conventional wisdom among much of the Beltway media was that power would change Republicans for the better.  By taking control of both chambers of Congress, the argument went …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
 
 
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Erik Telford / Washington Examiner:
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Bill would require data on police killings
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Colorlines
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
About Half See CIA Interrogation Methods as Justified
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 Earlier Items: 
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Discussion: Bloomberg View and New York Times
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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Discussion: ACS Blog
Randi Weingarten / Jezebel:
Rape Is Part of My Truth, and the Truth of Many Other Women
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Scalia and Cruel and Unusual Interrogation
Discussion: msnbc.com
New York Times:
Sony Pictures Demands That News Agencies Delete ‘Stolen’ Data