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1:05 PM ET, December 22, 2014

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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 …
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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.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Senator Blames His Own Constituents For NYC Cop Killing  —  A Republican senator attributed the assassination-style killing of two NYC police officers to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri following the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.  —  Appearing on KMBZ in Kansas City on Monday …
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels  —  Any conversation about the murders of two New York City Police officers this weekend must start by acknowledging the ordinary heroism of law enforcement personnel that puts them in harm's way every day.  We should then acknowledge …
Discussion: Roger's Rules, RedState and Ed Driscoll
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Seizes On NYC Cop Killing To Bash Obama
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Hullabaloo
Tom Hays / Associated Press:   Police departments on alert after cop killings
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 …
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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Bill Madden / NY Daily News:
Yankees will pay for education of children of NYPD cop Rafael Ramos who was killed while on duty Saturday
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
Justin McCurry / Guardian:
South Korean nuclear operator hacked amid cyber-attack fears  —  Operator begins two-day exercise after suspected hacker tweets information on KHNP plants and its staff … South Korea's nuclear plant operator has said its computer systems have been breached, raising fears that hackers …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Verge
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Martyn Williams / North Korea Tech:
North Korea's Internet link is flaky today
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg, The Verge and Balloon Juice
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.
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and National Review
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: Talking Points Memo
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 …
Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Cards, gifts cross religious lines  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Christmastime is here and a new poll reveals the cards and gifts that are part of celebrating the holiday are ubiquitous, even among those who don't share the Christian beliefs behind the story of the Magi who gave the first Christmas gifts.
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
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 …
Kimberly Redmond / New Jersey Online:
Man dressed as elf charged with DWI  —  RIVERDALE - A man dressed as one of Santa's little helpers found himself in trouble Friday morning when Riverdale police allegedly discovered him drunkenly passed out in a car.  —  Around 3:30 a.m., Sgt. Pat Harden was dispatched to the parking lot …
 
 
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Ariel Kaminer / New York Times:
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James Hohmann / Politico:
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Rebecca Riffkin / Gallup:
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
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Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:
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Janet Daley / Telegraph:
If we don't stand up to our enemies, they've already won
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