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2:25 PM ET, December 22, 2014

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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The NY Police Union's Vile War with Mayor De Blasio  —  To criticize the mayor for telling his black son what every other father of a black youth must say is divisive and fails to see what's wrong in America.  —  I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama's ‘propaganda’ pushed people to ‘hate the police,’ Giuliani says  —  President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two New York City police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car …
Howard Safir / TIME:
Anti-Police Rhetoric Unlike Anything I've Seen in 45 Years  —  Howard Safir is the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1996-2000) and Chairman and CEO of Vigilant Resources International (VRI).  —  We have seen nothing but police bashing from some of the highest offices in the land.
Scott Stump / Today:
NYPD Chief Bill Bratton on police tension: 'We're in a change moment'  —  New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton believes that Mayor Bill de Blasio has lost the trust of “some officers,” telling TODAY's Matt Lauer the city finds itself in a “change moment.”
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Importance of Treating NYPD Officers as Individuals  —  On the outrageous murder of two cops and the faction trying to exploit their deaths for political leverage  —  At 28-years-old, Ismaaiyl Brinsley had been arrested 19 times and served 2 years in prison.
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels
Discussion: Roger's Rules, RedState and Ed Driscoll
Bill Madden / NY Daily News:
Yankees will pay for education of children of NYPD cop Rafael Ramos who was killed while on duty Saturday
New York Times:
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses  —  Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Gabriel Snyder / The New Republic:
A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Senator Blames His Own Constituents For NYC Cop Killing
Discussion: Salon, Daily Kos, BuzzFeed and Slantpoint
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Seizes On NYC Cop Killing To Bash Obama
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Martyn Williams / North Korea Tech:
North Korea's Internet link is flaky today  —  If you've been trying to connect to North Korean Internet sites in the last 24 hours, you might have been unsuccessful.  —  Connectivity between North Korea and the rest of the world has been spotty for much of the time, according to Dyn Research.
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Justin McCurry / Guardian:
South Korean nuclear operator hacked amid cyber-attack fears
Discussion: Business Insider and The Verge
Daily Mail:
North Korea threatens to ‘blow up’ …
Luke Mullins / Washingtonian:
How David Gregory Lost His Job  —  Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of “Meet the Press.”  Here's an inside look at his fall from the top—and what it says about the state of TV news.  —  David Gregory was driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when he got the call …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Stephen Losey / Home I Military Times I Military News …:
AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …
Manu Raju / Politico:
Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment  —  Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head.  —  Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.
Agence France-Presse:
Pakistan to execute 500 terror convicts in coming weeks: officials  —  Masroor Gilani  —  Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Nixon To China a Bad Move in Rubio's Eyes?  —  Part of what I tuned out over the weekend was Sen. Marco Rubio's domination of the Sunday Shows.  The near-omniscient Brother Benen covered them for us: … I know Rubio is trying very hard to re-establish his credibility with the hard-core …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Rubio dismisses the power of American engagement
Discussion: Horizons and Talking Points Memo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Putin, Neocons and the Great Illusion  —  More than a century has passed since Norman Angell, a British journalist and politician, published “The Great Illusion,” a treatise arguing that the age of conquest was or at least should be over.  He didn't predict an end to warfare …
BBC:
Singer Joe Cocker dies aged 70  —  Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70.  —  The singer song-writer from Sheffield had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong.
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back  —  When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism.
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Ariel Kaminer / New York Times:
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Discussion: Slantpoint and Gothamist
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